Christoph Scheuring, born in 1957, lives and works in Hamburg as a freelance journalist and author. Previously he was a reporter for the magazines STERN and SPIEGEL. For his journalistic achievements he was twice awarded the Egon Erwin Kisch Prize for the best German-language report of the year. His novel ‘Echt’ was nominated for the German Youth Literature Prize in 2015. He has also written a detective novel, ‘Tod eines Engels’, (together with Udo Röbel).