About Ulf Poschardt
Ulf Poschardt is an author and the editor-in-chief of the Die Welt newspaper. Born in 1967 in Nuremberg, he began studying journalism at the Ludwig Maximilian University and the German Journalism School in Munich and then studied philosophy at the Jesuit-funded Munich School of Philosophy. He attained his PhD on “DJ Culture” in 1995 under the supervision of Friedrich Kittler at the Humboldt University of Berlin. He then held multiple positions as a journalist, including as editor-in-chief of the Süddeutsche Zeitung’s magazine, as creative director of Welt am Sonntag, editor-in-chief of German Vanity Fair – and since 2016 as editor-in-chief of Die Welt. Poschardt has written several books, including “DJ Culture” (1995), in which he recounts the history of pop culture through the story of a disc jockey, “911” (2013), about the Porsche 911 as a phenomenon of contemporary, cultural, technical and design history, and “Mündig” [“Right to Decide”] (2020), a polemic about the autonomy of the individual. Ulf Poschardt lives and works in Berlin.
