About the Author

Steven Thomsen

Steven Thomsen is a freelance journalist and author. Born in Darmstadt in 1969, the German-American has been publishing articles across various departments in newspapers and magazines such as "Computerwoche", "Die Welt", "Management und Training", "Stuttgarter Zeitung", "Rheinische Post", "Publik-Forum" and "Journalistik" since the 1990s. As a managing editor and proofreader for a Bavarian publishing house, he spent several years intensively engaged with pop culture. The trained literary scholar is also an expert in German and North American literature of the 19th and 20th centuries.