German Self-Deception
Philipp Peyman Engel, born in Herdecke in 1983, grew up in the Ruhr region as the son of a Persian-Jewish mother and a German father. He studied philosophy, education, and literature and media studies in Bochum and Essen. The journalist is the editor-in-chief of the weekly newspaper Jüdische Allgemeine. In 2023, he was awarded the title 'Editor-in-Chief of the Year.' Texts by Engel on Jewish life, anti-semitism, and Israel are published regularly in SPIEGEL, FAZ, and Deutschlandfunk.
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Helmut Kuhn, born in Munich in 1962, studied History and Journalism at the Free University of Berlin and the Sorbonne in Paris. He has worked as a reporter, editor and freelance writer in New York and Berlin, including for Aufbau, mare, Stern, Focus, DIE ZEIT, NZZ and the Jüdische Allgemeine.
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