Kilian Trotier, 39, works as an editor at the weekly newspaper Die ZEIT. He is part of the “Christ & Welt” team and coordinates the project “ZEIT Sinn – Wofür leben wir?”, which deals with the big questions of life. He has been employed at DIE ZEIT since 2012, first as an editor in the feature section, then for the Hamburg section, which he co-headed for four years. He studied history and journalism at the University of Hamburg and McGill University in Montreal and lives with his wife and a son in the outskirts of Berlin.