Philipp Ruch, born in 1981, is the founder and artistic director of the Centre for Political Beauty, which uses attention-grabbing campaigns to fight against right-wing extremism and for human rights.
Ruch has a degree in philosophy and the history of ideas, and a PhD in politics from Berlin’s Humboldt University (his supervisor was renowned political scientist Herfried Münkler).
He is the author of «Wenn nicht wir, wer dann?» (‘If not us, then who?’) and the bestselling «Schluss mit der Geduld» (‘At the end of our tether’) and «Es ist 5 vor 1933» (‘It’s 5 minutes to 1933’).