Berkley Center

Evelyn Finger is the religion editor of the weekly German newspaper Die Zeit in Hamburg. She created a desk at Die Zeit for religion, ethics, and philosophy under the title of “Faith and Doubt” in 2010. Finger’s enduring interests are the politics of dictatorship and totalitarianism in the twentieth century, with particular emphasis on Nazi and Communist Germany. She has also written about theater, politics, and history in divided Germany. In 2010, she taught a class on “German Literature After the Fall of the Wall” at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. She earned her degree from the University of Halle-Wittenberg in Literature and Linguistics.