Franziska Augstein

Franziska Augstein (born 1964 in Hamburg) is a German journalist and author. She studied history, political science and philosophy in Berlin, Bielefeld and at the University of Sussex, and earned her doctorate from University College London in 1996 with a dissertation on early theories of race. In the late 1980s, she worked for the magazine of the weekly newspaper Die Zeit; from 1997 to 2001, she was an editor and cultural correspondent for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. She subsequently worked for the Süddeutsche Zeitung until 2020. In 2000, she received the Theodor Wolff Prize for an essay on Martin Walser. Her books include the portrait of writer and resistance fighter Jorge Semprún, Von Treue und Verrat (2008), and Von Wagemut, Irrtum und Verblendung (2021), a collection of her economic columns.