Mesut Özil: Auf dem Weg zum Weltstar (2012) with Andreas Spohr and Heiko Buschmann.111 unglaubliche Fußballgeschichten (2008) Flutlicht und Schatten: Die Geschichte des Europapokals (2005).Tor! The Story of German Football (2005) Japanese hardcover edition.Tor! The Story of German Football (2003) Extended paperback edition.Tor! The Story of German Football (2002) Hardcover edition.In October 2009 he went back to his birth name and now usually publishes as Uli Hesse. For more than a decade he published as 'Hesse-Lichtenberger', a name acquired through marriage. He has listed the novelty song 'Jilted John' by Jilted John as his all-time favourite 7' A-side and the punk rock classic 'Born to Lose' by the Heartbreakers as the greatest-ever 7' B-side. Hesse is a Borussia Dortmund season ticket holder. His English-language book about Borussia Dortmund and their support, Building the Yellow Wall, won the 2019 British Sports Book Award for Best Football Book. Two of his German-language books were nominated for the Football Book of the Year Award. It was named the sixth best football book of all time by FourFourTwo magazine in 2016.

Tor! The Story of German Football (2002) was the first extensive English-language history of German football and has since been translated into Japanese, Danish and Polish. In September 2016, he joined the editorial staff of 11 Freunde magazine, Germany's biggest football monthly. Between 20, he was a regular columnist for ESPN FC (formerly ESPNsoccernet), which has been called the world's most popular football website. Hesse has published articles in newspapers and magazines in a variety of countries, including England, United States, Sweden, Japan and Israel, and was the editor of the German-language edition of Champions, the official UEFA Champions League magazine, for which he worked as a contributing editor until the publication's demise in 2015. He has covered popular music for fanzines and magazines, such as the German edition of Rolling Stone, but primarily writes about sports, predominantly (association) football. He graduated from Bochum University in 1994, having written his M.A.

Ulrich ' Uli' Hesse, also ~ Hesse-Lichtenberger, (born 1966 in Dortmund) is a German author, journalist and editor.

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