Nikolai Vogel (born 10 January 1971 in Munich) is a German writer.
Nikolai Vogel was born in 1971 in Munich. He attended school in Landsberg am Lech. He studied German literature, philosophy and computer science at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Subsequently, he worked as a Web developer and writer. In 1993 he founded the start-up publishing house Black Ink Verlag together with Kilian Fitzpatrick. From 1996 to 2000 Vogel and Fitzpatrick organized the See-Lesungen (Readings on the Lake) at the Kleinhesseloher See in the Englischer Garten of Munich. In 2004, Vogel participated at the Open Mike of Berlin and the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in Klagenfurt, Austria.
In 1997 Nikolai Vogel was awarded the Kulturförderpreis des Landkreises Landsberg/Lech and in 2007 he received the literary prize Bayerischer Kunstförderpreis.