Julia Voss

Born in 1974, Julia Voss studied modern German literature or German studies, art history and philosophy in Freiburg, Berlin and London. She earned her doctorate on visual representations in Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution and received the Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society for this work. From 2007 to 2017, she worked as an editor at the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, ultimately heading its arts section and serving as deputy head of the feuilleton. She received the Sigmund Freud Prize for Scholarly Prose. Her books include Darwin’s Pictures (2007), Darwin’s Jim Knopf (2010) and the biography Hilma af Klint: Making Humanity Marvel (2020).