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Roger Willemsen

Roger Willemsen was a German author, journalist, TV presenter, and public intellectual.

He studied German philology (Germanistik), philosophy and history of art in Bonn, Munich and Vienna and was awarded a scholarship by the Evangelisches Studienwerk. He did his postgraduate studies on Robert Musil and received his PhD.

Willemsen started his TV career in 1991 as head interviewer at "0137", a daily talkshow and signature programme at newly founded German pay-TV Premiere. He performed about 1.000 interviews, including some with imprisoned members of the Red Army Faction, a fugitive bank robber, a leftover cosmonaut in space station MIR and a cannibal. He also interviewed Audrey Hepburn, Jesse Jackson, Yasser Arafat, Lech Wałęsa, Dame Edna Evera

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Jean-Paul Sartre

Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic, considered a leading figure in 20th-century French philosophy and Marxism. Sartre was one of the key figures in the philosophy of existentialism (and phenomenology). His work has influenced sociology, critical theory, post-colonial theory, and literary studies. He was awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature despite attempting to refuse it, saying that he always declined official honors and that "a writer should not allow himself to be turned into an institution."
Sartre held an open relationship with prominent feminist and fellow existentialist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir. Together, Sartre

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Eva Illouz

Eva Illouz (Hebrew: אווה אילוז‎‎) (born April 30, 1961 in Fes, Morocco) is a professor of sociology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Since October 2012 she has been President of Bezalel Academy of Art and Design. She is Bezalel's first woman president. Since 2015, Illouz has been a professor at Paris's School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (École des hautes études en sciences sociales).

The research developed by Illouz from her dissertation onward focuses on a number of themes at the junction of the study of emotions, culture and communication:

The ways in which capitalism has transformed emotional patterns
One dominant theme concerns the ways in which capitalism has transformed emotional patterns, in the realms of both cons

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Bertolt Brecht

Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht was a German poet, playwright, and theatre director. A seminal theatre practitioner of the twentieth century, Brecht made equally significant contributions to dramaturgy and theatrical production, the latter particularly through the seismic impact of the tours undertaken by the Berliner Ensemble—the post-war theatre company operated by Brecht and his wife and long-time collaborator, the actress Helene Weigel—with its internationally acclaimed productions.

From his late twenties Brecht remained a life-long committed Marxist who, in developing the combined theory and practice of his 'epic theatre', synthesized and extended the experiments of Piscator and Meyerhold to explore the theatre as a forum for political

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Christian Kracht

Christian Kracht is a Swiss writer and journalist.
Kracht was born in Saanen. His father, Christian Kracht Sr., was chief representative for the Axel Springer publishing company in the 1960s. Kracht attended Schule Schloss Salem in Baden and Lakefield College School in Ontario, Canada. He graduated from Sarah Lawrence College, New York, in 1989.

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Wolf Haas

Wolf Haas is the author of nine books in the bestselling Detective Brenner mystery series, three volumes of which have been made into popular German-language films. Among other prizes, the Brenner books have been awarded the German thriller prize and the 2004 Literature Prize from the City of Vienna.

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Michael Wolff

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Michael Wolff is an American author, essayist, and journalist, and a regular columnist and contributor to USA Today, The Hollywood Reporter, and the UK edition of GQ. He has received two National Magazine Awards, a Mirror Award, and has authored seven books, including Burn Rate (1998) about his own dot-com company, and The Man Who Owns the News (2008), a biography of Rupert Murdoch. He co-founded the news aggregation website Newser and is a former editor of Adweek.

In January 2018, Wolff's book Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House was published, containing unflattering descriptions of behavior by U.S. President Donald Trump, chaotic interactions among

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Roger Willemsen

Roger Willemsen was a German author, journalist, TV presenter, and public intellectual.

He studied German philology (Germanistik), philosophy and history of art in Bonn, Munich and Vienna and was awarded a scholarship by the Evangelisches Studienwerk. He did his postgraduate studies on Robert Musil and received his PhD.

Willemsen started his TV career in 1991 as head interviewer at "0137", a daily talkshow and signature programme at newly founded German pay-TV Premiere. He performed about 1.000 interviews, including some with imprisoned members of the Red Army Faction, a fugitive bank robber, a leftover cosmonaut in space station MIR and a cannibal. He also interviewed Audrey Hepburn, Jesse Jackson, Yasser Arafat, Lech Wałęsa, Dame Edna Evera

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Robin Alexander

Born in 1965, Robin Alexander grew up in Baton Rouge, Louisiana where she still resides. An avid reader of Lesbian fiction, Robin decided to take the leap and try her hand at writing. It didn't take long for her favorite hobby to become a full-time author.
Since her heritage is Scottish and Irish and she’s allergic to seafood, she’s considered an honorary Cajun. When she’s not writing, she’s exploring her state with the top off her Jeep in search of the small towns on the water that inspire her.
Robin is awkward, sometimes shy, loaded with anxieties, accident prone, dangerous with power tools, and has been known to make idiotic decisions. She has been fortunate enough to turn her shortcomings into the hilarious characters you’ll find in her

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Robert Habeck

Robert Habeck is a German politician (MdB, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen) and writer. Since January 27, 2018, he has been the federal chairman of the Bündnis 90/Die Grünen party, together with Annalena Baerbock. For the 2021 federal election, Baerbock and he were the top duo of the Greens, with Baerbock being the candidate for chancellor.

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Carlo Masala

Carlo Masala is a German political scientist, lecturer and researcher. He is currently professor of international politics at the Bundeswehr University Munich, lecturer at the University of Munich, and lecturer as well as member of the senate of the Munich School of Political Science. He has become known to a wider audience through frequent appearances on German television as an expert on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, publishing predictions and hypotheticals on future military operations, like the Narva scenario.

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Steffen Mau

Steffen Mau is a German sociologist and Professor at the institute of social sciences at Humboldt University Berlin.

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Rutger Bregman

Rutger Bregman (born April 26, 1988) is a Dutch historian and author. His books Humankind: A Hopeful History (2020) and Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World (2017) were both Sunday Times and New York Times Best Sellers and have been translated in 46 languages.

In 2024, he co-founded The School for Moral Ambition, a non-profit organization inspired by his latest book Moral Ambition (2025) that wants to help as many people as possible to take the step towards a job with a positive impact.

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Sebastian Hotz

Sebastian Hotz, geboren 1996, aufgewachsen in Franken, absolvierte ein duales Studium in Wirtschaftswissenschaften in Erlangen/Nürnberg, bevor ihn die Windungen des Internets erst nach Bielefeld und schließlich nach Berlin führten. Seine gesellschaftskritischen und treffsicheren Postings auf Instagram und Twitter werden täglich von 1,5 Millionen Menschen gelesen. Außerdem ist er Autor beim ZDF Magazin Royale, Podcaster und gefragter Gesprächspartner in zahlreichen Medien.

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Luisa Neubauer

Luisa-Marie Neubauer is a German climate change activist and publicist. In Germany, she is one of the main organizers of the Greta Thunberg-inspired school strike Fridays for Future.

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Caroline Wahl

Caroline Wahl (born 1995 in Mainz) is a German author. Her debut novel, 22 Bahnen, was published in April 2023 by DuMont Buchverlag. After her school days, she studied German studies and German literature in Tübingen and Berlin. After that and among other things, she worked as a publishing assistant of the Diogenes Verlag in Zürich. Her love of the sea led her to Northern Germany in 2022 where she worked for a communications agency in Rostock. Since the success of her debut novel, she lives as an independent author in the Hansestadt.

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Ole Nymoen

Ole Nymoen studiert Soziologie und Wirtschaftswissenschaften in Jena und arbeitet als freier Journalist. Mit Wolfgang M. Schmitt spricht er in ihrem gemeinsamen Podcast Wohlstand für alle über Geld sowie ökonomische Ideengeschichte und politische Ökonomie.

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Wolfgang M. Schmitt

Wolfgang M. Schmitt betreibt unter dem Motto »Kino anders gedacht!« seit 2011 Die Filmanalyse auf YouTube. Mit Ole Nymoen spricht er in ihrem gemeinsamen Podcast Wohlstand für Alle über Geld sowie ökonomische Ideengeschichte und politische Ökonomie.

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