Malte Herwig,born in 1972, studied German, history and politics in Mainz, Harvard and Oxford, where he did his PhD in 2002 with a thesis on Thomas Mann. He was an editor for cultural affairs with Spiegel for several years and now freelances as a journalist. His reports and essays appear in Die Zeit, Weltwoche, and the New York Times. For his book on Thomas Mann, Bildungsbürger auf Abwegen, he was awarded the first-ever Thomas Mann Promotion Prize in 2004.

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