Wilhelm Schmid: 70th Birthday on April 26, 2023

On April 26, 2023, Wilhelm Schmid celebrates his 70th birthday.

Schmid was born in 1953 in Billenhausen, Bavaria, and studied philosophy and history in Berlin, Paris and Tübingen. Since 1980, he has been working as a freelance philosopher in Berlin. He also teaches philosophy at the University of Erfurt. For many years, he taught as a visiting professor in Riga, Latvia, and in Tiflis, Georgia, and worked as a »philosophical counsellor« at a hospital near Zurich, Switzerland. He is a sought-after guest speaker and has been giving lectures in China and South Korea since 2010. For his publications he was awarded the Meckatzer Prize for Philosophy in 2012 and the Egnér Prize in 2013. His works have been translated into 25 languages, his bestselling book Gelassenheit has sold over 600.000 copies and his works regularly appear on the Spiegel bestseller list for many consecutive weeks.

Most recently, Insel Verlag published On the Swing Set. The Art of Enjoying Life, which sold 11,000 copies in the first month of publication.

We congratulate our author on this joyous occasion.