Marianne Wellershoff (born 1963) is a German journalist, author and musician.
From 2002 to 2015, she was head of the editorial department of Kulturspiegel, the now discontinued culture supplement of the news magazine Der Spiegel.
For example, from October 2016 to October 2017, she wrote a long-term observation of the inner workings of a Hamburg reception center entitled Flüchtlingsheim am Grenzweg as a weekly blog[2] for Spiegel Online and wrote the booklets Richtig essen (2017) and Endlich fit (2018) for Spiegel Wissen.
Wellershoff has published several books that focus on the role and emotional world of the thirtysomething generation, including the critically acclaimed short story collection Nah dran, a collection about love in the jungle of the young urban bourgeoisie.
[4] Wellershoff is a bassist and lyricist with the Hamburg band Hansagold, before that she was a member of the Kitchen Cowboys.