Ariadne Von Schirach (DE)
Ariadne von Schirach is a German philosopher, writer, journalist and critic. She is known as a literary critic for Deutschlandradio Kultur, and as an essayist and columnist for newspapers such as Die Welt and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
She studied philosophy, psychology and sociology at LMU, the Free University of Berlin and the Humboldt University of Berlin. She has been teaching Philosophy and Chinese thinking at the Berlin University of the Arts, the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg and the Donau-Universität Krems since 2012. In 2007, she published the book Der Tanz um die Lust, about the consequences of an increasingly sexualised society, which became a bestseller. She published her second book, Du sollst nicht funktionieren: Für eine neue Lebenskunst, in 2014, and her third, Ich und du und Müllers Kuh. Kleine Charakterkunde für alle, die sich selbst und andere besser verstehen wollen, two years after. In 2019 she published Die psychotische Gesellschaft. Wie wir Angst und Ohnacht überwinden, the final book of her Trilogy of Modern Life.