Jakob Augstein

Jakob Augstein (born 1967) is a German journalist, author, publisher and publicist. He studied German, theatre studies and political science in Berlin and Paris. He subsequently worked, among others, for the Süddeutsche Zeitung and Die Zeit. In 2008, he took over the weekly newspaper Der Freitag as its publisher. From 2011 to 2019, he wrote the column “Im Zweifel links” for SPIEGEL and S.P.O.N. He received the Bert Donnepp Prize in 2011 for his work in journalism and publishing. His publications include Die Tage des Gärtners (2012), nonfiction books co-written with Nikolaus Blome, and the novel Strömung (2022).