Cordt Schnibben

Cordt Schnibben (born 1952) was born in Bremen. He studied economics, graduated from the Hamburg School of Journalism, and began his career at the weekly newspaper Die Zeit. He later worked as a reporter and editor at Der Spiegel, where he headed the Society department from 2001 to 2013. Schnibben developed new digital and multimedia forms of storytelling. He is the author of the novel “Lila Eule” and has written and edited numerous nonfiction books. He also wrote screenplays and worked on television documentaries. His journalism has received, among other honors, the Theodor Wolff Prize, the Egon Erwin Kisch Prize, the Henri Nannen Prize, and the Adolf Grimme Award twice.