Esther von Krosigk, born 1964 in Hamburg, studied in Munich Japanese, Modern History and Art History. After graduating, she went through a journalistic exchange program of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Tokyo, and then worked in the editorial departments of the Abendzeitung, the Bavarian Radio and the Bild newspaper. By 2002, she was an editor in Economic and Political Affairs at BUNTE. Today Esther von Krosigk lives with her family in Cologne, works as a publishing manager and writes novels and nonfiction.