Juli Zeh

Juli Zeh (, Julia Barbara Finck, née Zeh; born 30 June 1974 in Bonn) is a German writer and former judge.

Zeh lived in Leipzig from 1995, and currently resides outside Berlin.

She is married and has two children.

She travelled through Bosnia-Herzegovina in 2001, which became the basis for the book Die Stille ist ein Geräusch.

Among her other books are Das Land der Menschen, Dark Matter, Kleines Konversationslexikon für Haushunde, Gaming Instinct, Ein Hund läuft durch die Republik, Decompression and The Method.

Zeh's first published novel was Eagles and Angels, which received the 2002 Deutscher Bücherpreis for best debut novel.

She studied law in Passau and Leipzig, passing the Zweites Juristisches Staatsexamen – comparable equivalent to the U.S. bar exam – in 2003, and holds a doctorate in international law from Saarland University.

She also has a degree from the Deutsches Literaturinstitut Leipzig.

She is known for novels such as The Method (2009), Unterleuten (2016) and About People (2021).

Juli Zeh is the daughter of the lawyer Wolfgang Zeh.

Since January 2019, Zeh is an honorary judge at the constitutional court of the state of Brandenburg.

She was one of the first signers of the Open letter on the German position regarding the Russian invasion of Ukraine in April 2022, who demanded not to support Ukraine with arms in order to "prevent a third world war".