About Carolin Emcke
Journalist Carolin Emcke studied philosophy in London and Frankfurt and at Harvard and obtained her doctorate with a thesis on “collective identities”. From 1999 until 2014, she worked as a reporter covering human rights and crisis regions, including from Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Gaza, Colombia and Haiti. Since 2014, she has been a freelance journalist reporting on topics such as violence and trauma, anti-democracy and racism, sexuality and desire. Her books (including “Against Hate”, “Weil es sagbar ist” and “How We Desire”) have been translated into more than 10 languages. Emcke has led the monthly discussion series “Streitraum” at the theater Schaubühne Berlin for 20 years and has hosted the podcast “In aller Ruhe” since 2023. Her many honors include the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the Johann Heinrich Merck Award for essay-writing and the Carl von Ossietzky Award for Contemporary History and Politics.
