Martin Mittelmeier, born in 1971, was an editor and editorial director at renowned publishing houses from 2001 to 2014. He has been a freelance editor and author since 2014. In 2019, he was a visiting scholar at Rutgers University in New Jersey. His most recent publications are "Adorno in Neapel" (Naples 2025), which has been translated into several languages, and "Dada. Eine Jahrhundertgeschichte", and "Freiheit und Finsternis - Wie die Dialektik der Aufklärung zum Jahrhundertbuch wurde.