I have been wondering what this life is all about ever since I can remember. Even during the time of my training as a florist. A few years later, when I was already working in a flower store, I was strolling through the pedestrian zone during my lunch break. A bookstore had placed special offers in front of the door. Amidst thin paperbacks, there was also a thick orange encyclopedia, titled: "The History of the Great Philosophers." I opened it and was electrified. Although I didn't really understand what was written there, there were the questions that moved me: What can I know? What should I do? What may I hope? and finally, perhaps the most important of all: What is man?
My decision matured. I wanted to study philosophy. It was a wish that seemed almost unattainable to me. I wanted education, but not school. After graduating from high school, I could finally enroll and see what answers the "great philosophers" had to the central questions of life. One thing quickly became clear: behind every answer lurked many questions.
After a few semesters, I also began to work as a journalist, because I was studying journalism, communication science and political science as minor subjects. I wrote for newspapers (FAZ, Süddeutsche Zeitung, GEO, Bild der Wissenschaft) and worked as an author for television (WDR, ZDF). I initially completed my philosophy studies with a master's degree. A few years later, I earned a doctorate in philosophy.