Florian Illies Editor & Author

Florian Illies was born in 1971 and studied art history in Bonn and Oxford. He later worked in publishing at Rowohlt, headed up the Grisebach auction house, and was culture editor at the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung and Die Zeit. His international hit 1913: The Year Before the Storm topped the German bestseller list for months. He lives in Berlin.