Hans-Jürgen Heinrichs

Hans-Jürgen Heinrichs is a freelance writer and ethnologist. He has travelled widely in Africa, the Middle East and the Pacific. He has lived for long periods in Spain, in Amsterdam, Rome and Paris and has been based in Berlin since 2008. His writing and editorial work cover a wide range of disciplines, prose and essays, biographies (of Michel Leiris, Georges Bataille and Claude Levi-Strauss, among others) and conversations with Peter Sloterdijk and Gerhard Roth. He has previously published Schreiben ist das bessere Leben (Writing is the better life) with Kunstmann (2006).