About Thea Dorn
Thea Dorn was born in 1970 and studied philosophy in Frankfurt, Vienna and Berlin. She has written several novels (including “Die Hirnkönigin”), plays (“Marleni”) and non-fiction books (“The German Soul” co-written with R. Wagner). She wrote the screenplay for the film “Männertreu”, which won the 2014 German Television Award and the 2015 Grimme Award. Her novel “The Hapless Ones” was published in spring 2016 and “deutsch, nicht dumpf – Ein Leitfaden für aufgeklärte Patrioten” [“German, not Dull: A Manual for Enlightened Patriots”] appeared in 2018. She has also been one of the regular critics on the literary show “Das Literarische Quartett” since March 2017.
