Katrin Schumacher is a literary scholar, journalist and author. Born in Lemgo, she studied in Bamberg, Hamburg and Antwerp and holds a doctorate, and she has lived in Halle (Saale) for two decades. Since 2009 she has been a literary editor at MDR Kultur, where her programme "Unter Büchern" (Among Books), also available as a podcast, covers the literary world, new novels, and provocative and stimulating non-fiction.
Alongside academic writing, catalogue texts and essays, she is the author of "Füchse" (2020), a portrait of the fox drawing on natural and cultural history, and the novel "Liste der gebliebenen Dinge" (2024).
She is also an editor of the television programme "Druckfrisch", co-produced by MDR, and hosts literary events from time to time.