Carolin Emcke is a journalist who studied philosophy in London, Frankfurt am Main and Harvard, and wrote her doctoral thesis on the concept of ‘collective identities’. She worked for several years as a foreign editor and reporter focusing on crisis regions, reporting from Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Gaza, Colombia and Haiti, among other places. She has been working as a freelance journalist since 2014. In her books, essays, columns and artistic interventions, she addresses topics such as violence and trauma, hostility towards democracy and racism, sexuality and desire. Her books have been published worldwide in over 10 languages. Her most recent publication is Für den Zweifel. Gespräche mit Thomas Strässle (For Doubt: Conversations with Thomas Strässle) in 2022. For over 15 years, Carolin Emcke has curated and moderated the Streitraum (Dispute Room) at the Schaubühne Berlin. She has been awarded the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the Johann Heinrich Merck Prize for Essay Writing and the Carl von Ossietzky Prize for Contemporary History and Politics, among others. Carolin Emcke lives in Berlin.