Stefanie Hirsbrunner is a political scientist.

She is the author of several non-fiction books, including “Sorry about Colonialism” and “Hotel Fünf Sterne” (Engl: “Hotel Five Stars”). Her most recent publication, the anthologoy “Afrika: Radikal neu denken?” (Engl: Africa: rethinking radically?) which she co-edited was published in 2016. She moderates and teaches. Since 2018

she runs the book store InterKontinental in Berlin, which was honoured with the German award for bookstores (Deutscher Buchhandlungspreis) in 2021. Furthermore she is a board member of the InterKontinental association which seeks to promote African literature in Germany and functions as the director of the African Book Festival in Berlin.