Julia Voss , born in 1974, studied modern German literature, art history and philosophy in Freiburg, London and Berlin. She was managing editor of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung until 2017. Among other honours, she received the Sigmund Freud Prize for academic prose from the German Academy for Language and Poetry. Her books "Darwin's Pictures" (2007), "Darwin's Jim Knopf" (2010) and the biography "Hilma af Klint - 'To astonish humanity'" (2020) were published by S. FISCHER. Today, she teaches as an honorary professor at Leuphana University in Lüneburg and is a member of the board of the German Historical Museum. Julia Voss lives in Berlin.
