Ste­fanie Oswalt stud­ied his­to­ry and lit­er­a­ture in Cologne, Lon­don and Munich. She received her doc­tor­ate in Jew­ish Stud­ies at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Pots­dam. She worked, among oth­er things, at the Moses Mendelssohn Cen­ter for Euro­pean Jew­ish Stud­ies. Since 2000 she has worked as a free­lance radio jour­nal­ist for Deutsch­land Radio, as a pub­li­cist and as a co-author on var­i­ous book pub­li­ca­tions on con­tem­po­rary his­to­ry. She worked as a free­lance jour­nal­ist and as an author in Berlin. Her pub­li­ca­tions include Siegfried Jacob­sohn, A Life for the World Stage: A Berlin Biog­ra­phy (2001), Ari is called Lion (with Ari Rath, 2012) Ari Rath: Rag­ing Reporter, Chron­i­cler, Bridge Builder (2022)