Svenja Flaßpöhler
Svenja Flaßpöhler was born in 1975 and holds a PhD in Philosophy. She was a literary critic on the television program Buchzeit on 3Sat and senior editor at Deutschlandfunk Kultur, where she hosted the philosophical programme Sein und Streit
. She is responsible for the program of the annual Phil.cologne event in Cologne. Her pamphlet Die potente Frau has been discussed and reviewed many times, as have her non-fiction books Forgiveness and My Death is mine. She was awarded the Arthur-Koestler-Prize in 2007. Svenja Flaßpöhler is chief editor of Philosophie Magazin and lives with her family in Berlin.