Regular Authors
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Henry Holland (born 1975, in Scotland) is a freelance author, editor, and translator of political science, philosophy, and poetry. He lives in Hamburg with his large family and their dog. Parallel to textual interrogations of Nietzsche, he has published scholarly articles, and essays, on Louis MacNeice, Rudolf Steiner, and other issues, and has co-translated Rosa Luxemburg (Verso Books), alongside a range of contemporary philosophical and social science titles. His thinking grapples with contradictory representations of modernity. For more on Henry’s scholarship and cultural politics, go to his blog, German Books, reloaded. As a board member for the Hamburg Writers' Room, a pioneer coworking space for writers and translators in Europe, he even dabbles occasionally in cultural practice. For our blog, he regularly translates articles from German into English.

Lukas Meisner (born 1993 in Stuttgart) lives and works as a philosopher and sociologist in Berlin, following a doctorate in Critical Theory in Venice an Erfurt.. A fellow at the “Structural Change of Property” at the Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, from 2023, and, since 2025, co-editor of Argument. Zeitschrift für Philosophie und Sozialwissenschaften  [Journal for Philosophy and Social Sciences], Lukas’s recent book publications include Erde im Himmel [Earth in Heaven] (Edition Halkyon, 2021), Medienkritik ist links. Warum wir eine medienkritische Linke brauchen [Media Criticism is Left. Why We Need a Left That Can Critique the Media](Das Neue Berlin, 2023), and the novella Wrackmente [Wrecked Fragments](Kopf & Kragen, 2024).

Michael Meyer-Albert (born 1982) comes from a village near Hildesheim, Lower Saxony, and studied philosophy, history, and literature at Göttingen, Vienna, and Hildesheim. After concluding his undergraduate studies with a thesis on Heidegger's interpretation of Nietzsche, Michael received his doctorate from the Free University of Berlin, for his dissertation about the concept of openness to the world in the work of John McDowell. He lives and works near where he grew up. His thinking addresses the question of an enlightened existentialism as the basis for a global ethic of civilization. Michael’s most recent publication tackles Nietzsche's concept of despair.

Christian Saehrendt (born 1968 in Kassel) lives in Thun, Switzerland. He won his doctorate from Heidelberg University in 2002, and has worked as a freelance historian and art historian ever since. His published scholarly studies include works on: political monuments (sculpture and architecture in the Weimar Republic, and during “actually existing socialism”, the former East Germany’s official ideology); international cultural relations; the history of the documenta art exhibition; and on Die Brücke, the influential group of Germany-based Expressionist artists. Christian has also engaged extensively with Nietzsche's reception in art and pop culture. He has published numerous scholarly monographs for a wider audience on modern and contemporary art, including: Kunst im Kreuzfeuer. documenta, Weimarer Republik, Pariser Salons: Moderne Kunst im Visier von Extremisten und Populisten [Art in the Crossfire: documenta, the Weimar Republic, and Parisian Salons—Modern Art in the Sights of Extremists and Populists] (Stuttgart, 2020); and Kunst im Kampf für das Sozialistische Weltsystem. Die Auswärtige Kulturpolitik der DDR in Afrika und Nahost [Art in the Fight for the Socialist World System: GDR Art as Foreign and Cultural Politics in Africa and the Middle East] (Stuttgart, 2017).

Hans-Martin Schönherr-Mann (born 1952 in Esslingen am Neckar) is Professor of Political Philosophy at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. His specialisms include poststructuralism, existentialism, the philosophy of language, and nineteenth century philosophy. His books on Nietzsche include: Übergang zum Untergang. Nietzsches politische Philosophie des Genius [Transitioning into Decline: Nietzsche’s Political Philosophy of Genius] (2022); Friedrich Nietzsche. Leben und Denken [Life and Thought] (2020); Der Übermensch als Lebenskünstlerin. Nietzsche, Foucault und die Ethik [The Superman as Feminine Artist of Life: Nietzsche, Foucault, and Ethics] (2009); Friedrich Nietzsche (published by UTB Profile, 2008); Die Technik und die Schwäche. Ökologie nach Nietzsche, Heidegger und dem “schwachen Denken” [Technology and Weakness :Ecology after Nietzsche, Heidegger, and “Weak Thinking”] (1989).

Natalie Schulte (born 1986 in Bergisch-Gladbach, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) is a freelance artist and philosopher in Freiburg. After scholarly articles including “Nur Narr, nur Dichter? Das Lied der Schwermuth in Nietzsches Zarathustra,” [Just Fools, just Poets? The Song of Melancholy in Nietzsche’s Zarathustra] published in the 2017 anthology Nietzsche als Dichter [Nietzsche als Poet], by De Gruyter, and “Neue Arbeiten zum Selbst bei Nietzsche” [New Studies on the Self in Nietzsche’s Works], published in 2017 in Nietzsche-Studien (De Gruyter), her dissertation was published by Metzler in 2023: Gefährlich Leben - Gefährlich Denken. Eine Untersuchung von Nietzsches Philosophie [Live Dangerous—Think Dangerous: An Investigation into Nietzsche’s Philosophy]. Parallel to writing for Nietzsche POParts, Natalie is preparing a scholarly introduction to Zarathustra for the same publisher.

Paul Stephan (born 1988, in Zwickau in Saxony) is a doctoral candidate in philosophy at the University of Freiburg, and lives and works in Leipzig. He has published an array of texts on diverse aspects of Nietzsche's philosophy, with the two-volume monograph Links–Nietzscheanismus. Eine Einführung [Left—Nietzscheanism: An Introduction], published in 2020 in Stuttgart at the core of these publications. For more information on Paul’s writings and other activities, go to the page links-nietzscheanismus.de. Further writings can be found on the blog of the Halcyon Association for Radical Philosophy. He is the editor-in-chief of Nietzsche POParts.

Estella Walter (born 1997) lives in Frankfurt am Main and is currently doing an MA in philosophy. In addition to Nietzsche's work, her field of interest centers around Marxism and poststructuralism, especially Deleuze and Guattari. During her internship as Research Assistant at Toronto Metropolitan University (2023), she focused on Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School. She is editor of Nietzsche POParts.