Harald Jähner was born in 1953. He joined the Berliner Zeitung’s arts and reviews section in 1997, later becoming its editor until 2015. He had previously worked as a freelancer for the literary section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. In 2011 he was made honorary professor of cultural journalism at Berlin’s University of the Arts. His book Time of Wolves. Germany and the Germans 1945–1955 was published in 2019 and it won the Leipzig Book Prize. It was on the Spiegel bestseller list for months, and has been published in several languages including in the USA and in the UK, where it was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize. Time of Wolves is due to be made into a film series.
(Updated: 2023)
