Wolfram Eilenberger

Wolfram Eilenberger, born 1972, is an internationally bestselling, award-winning writer and philosopher.

In 2018, he published Time of the Magicians (Zeit der Zauberer) in Germany. The book instantly became a bestseller there, as well as in countries such as Italy, and Spain. It has been translated into thirty languages.

In November 2018 it won the prestigious Bayerischer Buchpreis, in 2019 the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger in France. It was also shortlisted for several other awards, both nationally and internationally. The book also received wide critical acclaim in the US and UK.

Eilenberger has been a prolific contributor of essays and articles to many publications, among them Die Zeit, Der Spiegel, and El País. He has taught at the University of Toronto, Indiana University Bloomington, the ETH Zürich and Berlin University of the Arts.

His new book The Visionaries (Feuer der Freiheit) will be published in the US by Penguin Random House in August 2023 and describes the legendary lives of the four most influential female philosophers of the 20th century during World War II - Simone de Beauvoir, Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil and Ayn Rand.

Eilenberger is one of the program directors of the phil.cologne, Germany's biggest philosophy festival, and moderator of the TV program Sternstunde Philosophie (Swiss Television). He also holds a DFB football trainer’s licence and appears regularly as a soccer expert on German TV and radio.

He is married to the linguist and former Finnish national basketball player Pia Päiviö, and he lives with his family in Berlin.