Ijoma Mangold

Ijoma Mangold, born in Heidelberg in 1971, studied literature and philosophy in Munich and Bologna. After working for the newspapers Berliner Zeitung and Süddeutsche Zeitung, he joined the weekly newspaper DIE ZEIT in 2009, serving as its head of literature from 2013 to 2018. He is now the paper’s cultural affairs correspondent and host of the podcast Die sogenannte Gegenwart. His publications include the memoir Das deutsche Krokodil (2017), the political diary Der innere Stammtisch (2020), and Die orange Pille: Warum Bitcoin weit mehr als nur ein neues Geld ist (2023), all of which became Spiegel bestsellers. Mangold has received the Berlin Prize for Literary Criticism and lives in Berlin and the Uckermark.