Frank Schirrmacher (born September 5, 1959) is a German journalist, doctored literature expert and essayist, writer, and since 1994 co-publisher of the national German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). After studying Germanistics, English studies, and philosophy in Heidelberg and Cambridge, Schirrmacher joined the FAZ as editor of the Feuilleton in 1985. In 1988, he received his doctorate for a work about Franz Kafka at the University of Siegen. In 1989, he succeeded Marcel Reich-Ranicki as the director of the editorial staff "Literature and literary life" and in 1994 he succeeded Joachim Fest as one of the five publishers of the newspaper, responsible for the Feuilleton, Science and other parts. Schirrmacher supports expanding this section to include science. Popular culture has also been dealt with more since Schirrmacher has been with the FAZ. Schirrmacher has always managed to determine, what controversial topics are discussed in