Florian Illies

Florian Illies (born 1971) studied art history and modern history in Bonn and Oxford. He became an editor at the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in 1996 and headed its Berlin pages from 1999 to 2001. He later served as feuilleton editor of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, founded the art magazine Monopol, and headed the Grisebach auction house. He subsequently became an editor and publisher at Die Zeit. As an author, Illies became known for Generation Golf (2000), 1913: The Summer of the Century, Love in a Time of Hate, and The Magic of Silence: Caspar David Friedrich’s Journey Through Time. He received the Ernst Robert Curtius Prize for Essays in 1999 and the Ludwig Börne Prize in 2014.