author, Cancel Culture: Democracy in Danger; editor, upday
Kolja Zydatiss studied psychology, neuroscience and statistics. Since 2016, he has worked for a variety of online- and print-media. Currently Kolja is an editor for the German edition of the news aggregator app upday. He is also the socio-political spokesperson for the Freiblickinstitut e.V. debate institute.
Kolja’s first book, Cancel Culture: Demokratie in Gefahr (Cancel Culture: Democracy in Danger) was published in March 2021 by Solibro, Münster. It was awarded the Ferdinand Friedensburg Prize 2021 by the Ferdinand Friedensburg Stiftung e.V. His second book Interregnum: Was kommt nach der liberalen Demokratie? (Interregnum: What comes after Liberal Democracy?), co-authored with Mark Feldon was published in June 2024 by LMV, Munich.