Simone de Beauvoir was a French existentialist philosopher, novelist, essayist, memoirist, and feminist whose writings profoundly shaped twentieth-century philosophy, literature, and modern feminist t…
The author of some twenty works of fiction and memoir, Annie Ernaux is considered by many to be France’s most important writer. In 2022, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She has also won…
Anne Elizabeth Applebaum is an American journalist at The Atlantic and a Pulitzer Prize-winning author. She has written extensively about Marxism–Leninism and the development of civil society in Centr…
Hans Fallada, born Rudolf Wilhelm Adolf Ditzen in Greifswald, was one of the most famous German writers of the 20th century. His novel, Little Man, What Now? is generally considered his most famous wo…
Carlo Masala is a German political scientist, lecturer and researcher. He is currently professor of international politics at the Bundeswehr University Munich, lecturer at the University of Munich, an…
Wolfgang Hirn, geboren 1954, studierte Volkswirtschaftslehre und Politische Wissenschaften in Tübingen. Danach arbeitete er als Wirtschaftsredakteur für den Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger und die Wirtschaftswo…
Many works, including Siddhartha (1922) and Steppenwolf (1927), of German-born Swiss writer Hermann Hesse concern the struggle of the individual to find wholeness and meaning in life; he won t…
Benedict Wells was born in Munich in 1984. At the age of six he was sent to a state boarding school due to family and other problems at home. Following his graduation from high school in 2003, he deci…
Lea Ypi is professor of political theory at London School of Economics, and adjunct associate professor of philosophy at the Australian National University, with expertise in Marxism and critical theo…
Kurt Krömer, alias Alexander Bojcan, wurde 1974 geboren und ist Komiker und Schauspieler. Er ist vielfach ausgezeichnet, u.a. mit dem Deutschen Fernsehpreis und dem Grimme-Preis. Seine Sendung »Chez K…
Omar El Akkad is an author and journalist. He was born in Egypt, grew up in Qatar, moved to Canada as a teenager and now lives in the United States. The start of his journalism career coincided with t…
Hannah Lühmann, geboren 1987, hat Philosophie in Berlin und Paris studiert. Sie schrieb unter anderem für die "Süddeutsche Zeitung", die "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" und "Die Zeit". Von 2014 bis 2…
1988 in Hamburg geboren, 2008-2009 Ausbildung zur Werbetexterin an der Texterschmiede Hamburg, 2012-2015 Studium deutsche Literatur und germanistische Linguistik an der Humboldt Universität zu Berlin,…
Ruth-Maria Thomas, born in 1993 and raised in Cottbus, worked as a social worker in youth services. She studied at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig and is a co-founder of the erotic literatu…
Toxische Pommes heißt im wahren Leben Irina und arbeitet als Juristin in Wien. Sie hat Hunderttausende Follower auf TikTok und Instagram und spielt ihr Kabarettprogramm "Ketchup, Mayo & Ajvar - Die si…
