Moritz von Uslar

Moritz von Uslar was born in Cologne in 1970. He began his career as a trainee at the magazine Tempo and later worked as an editor for Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin and Der Spiegel. Over more than three decades, he wrote for publications including Süddeutsche Zeitung, Der Spiegel and Die Zeit, and worked as a reporter and interviewer. His books include the interview collections »100 Fragen an …« (2004) and »99 Fragen an …« (2014), the plays »Freunde« (2000), »Freunde 2« (2002) and »Lulu« (2004), the novel »Waldstein oder Der Tod des Walter Gieseking am 6. Juni 2005« (2006), and the reportage novel »Deutschboden. Eine teilnehmende Beobachtung« (2010). »Deutschboden« received the Fontane Literature Prize of the city of Neuruppin and was adapted into a film in 2014. Its follow-up, »Nochmal Deutschboden« (2020), became a Spiegel bestseller.