Thomas Hummitzsch

Thomas Hummitzsch, born in Meißen in 1979, is a freelance journalist, press officer, critic and blogger. He studied German, Politics and Sociology in Munich, Berlin and Paris. He is the head of  the press department of the Berlin Brandenburg Humanist Association. From 2010 to 2013 he was editor-in-chief of »diesseits« - the humanistic magazine. Later on, he headed the migration policy newsletter »migration & bevölkerung«.

He has been blogging regularly for over ten years, his articles appear in magazines such as Rolling Stone, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Die Welt, Tagesspiegel, taz and Der Freitag. In 2009, he published a contribution to the anthology „Freiheit. Ich verstehe das Wort nicht, weil ich sie nie entbehren musste“ (Verlag Dr. Koester, Berlin, 2009). He has a passion for photography. Hummitzsch lives and works in Berlin.