Journalist and author Florian Werner studied American, British, and German literature in both Germany and Scotland and earned his PhD in 2007. His short-story collection Wir sprechen uns noch (We Still Talk) was published in 2005 by DTV. In 2007, he published the non-fiction book Rapocalypse, a study of millenarianist HipHop lyrics, and in 2011 a cultural history of human excrement, Dunkle Materie: Die Geschichte der Schei e (Dark Matter: The History of S***) When he is not writing, he tours with his band, Fön, and plays soccer for the German national team of writers` Autonama. Werner lives in Berlin.