Carolin Emcke

Carolin Emcke (born 1967) is a German philosopher, publicist and author. She studied philosophy in London, Frankfurt and at Harvard, and earned her doctorate on the concept of “collective identities.” From the late 1990s to the mid-2010s, she worked as an international reporter covering crisis regions. In 2003–04, she was a Visiting Lecturer in political theory at Yale University. Her books include *Von den Kriegen. Briefe an Freunde*, *Wie wir begehren*, *Weil es sagbar ist*, *Gegen den Hass*, *Ja heißt ja und …* and *Journal: Tagebuch in Zeiten der Pandemie*. Emcke has received numerous awards, including the Merck Prize of the German Academy for Language and Literature, the Lessing Prize of the Free State of Saxony, and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade in 2016.