Katrin Hörnlein, born in 1977, studied journalism at the University of Dortmund and did a traineeship at Westdeutscher Rundfunk, for which she worked as an author and reporter for eight years before joining ZEIT in 2008. She has been an editor at the weekly newspaper since 2009, where she is responsible for the children's pages, children's and youth literature, the LUCHS Prize, and editor of the children's magazine ZEIT LEO.
