Dietmar Dath
Author · 49 books
Dietmar Dath (born 1970) is a German author, journalist, and translator. From 1998 to 2000, he served as editor-in-chief of the pop-culture magazine Spex; his career also included work as an editor and film critic for the features section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. He has published novels, plays, nonfiction, essays, and poetry on scientific, political, and aesthetic subjects. His notable works include The Abolition of Species, Maschinenwinter, Niegeschichte, and Gentzen oder: Betrunken aufräumen. He received the Kurd-Laßwitz Prize in 2009 for The Abolition of Species and again in 2013 for Pulsarnacht. In 2018, he was awarded the Günther Anders Prize for Critical Thinking.