Carolin Emcke studied Philosophy in London, Frankfurt/M. 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. Since 2014, she has been working as a freelance publicist. In her books, essays, columns as well as artistic interventions, she addresses the issues of violence and trauma, hostility to democracy and racism, sexuality and desire. Her books have been published worldwide in over 10 languages. Most recently, she published »Für den Zweifel. Gespräche mit Thomas Strässle« (2022). At the Berlin Schaubühne, Carolin Emcke has curated and moderated the »Streitraum« for 15 years. 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, and several others.