Ronen Steinke, born in Erlangen in 1983, is a senior editor and columnist at the Süddeutsche Zeitung. He studied law and criminology and has worked in law firms, a youth detention centre and at the UN International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague. His doctoral thesis on the development of war crimes tribunals from Nuremberg to The Hague was praised by the FAZ as a »masterpiece«. His biography of Fritz Bauer, published in 2013, was adapted into a film and translated into numerous languages. In 2017, Berlin Verlag published his book »Der Muslim und die Jüdin. Die Geschichte einer Rettung in Berlin« (The Muslim and the Jewess: The Story of a Rescue in Berlin). This was followed in 2020 by »Terror gegen Juden. Wie antisemitische Gewalt erstarkt und der Staat versagt« (Terror Against Jews: How Anti-Semitic Violence Is on the Rise and the State Is Failing), in 2022 by the bestseller »Vor dem Gesetz sind nicht alle gleich. Die neue Klassenjustiz« (Not All Are Equal Before the Law: The New Class Justice) and in 2023 by »Verfassungsschutz. Wie der Geheimdienst Politik macht« (Constitutional Protection: How the Secret Service Makes Policy).

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