Christiane Wirtz was born in 1970 and studied law in Berlin. She has worked for the Süddeutsche Zeitung and Deutschlandfunk. She spent a year working in Tel Aviv as a freelance journalist. From 2014 – 2016, she served as deputy speaker for the German federal government, before moving to the Federal Ministry of Justice as a secretary of state. Since 2020, she has been working as a freelance journalist and writer. She lives in Berlin.