Mathias Bröckers (born 26 June 1954) is a German journalist, publicist, political blogger and author, co-author or editor of political monographs, and novels (with Sven Böttcher). He was co-founder, culture and science editor of the taz, and from 2006 its online consultant. He worked as a columnist for Die Zeit and Die Woche and as a science editor for ARD radio. Of his total of some 71 publications as author, co-author, or editor, Die Wiederentdeckung der Nutzpflanze Hanf ("The Rediscovery of Hemp as a Crop" with Jack Herer, 1993) and Verschwörungen, Verschwörungstheorien und die Geheimnisse des 11.9. ("Conspiracies, Conspiracy Theories, and the Mysteries of 9/11", 2002) were international best-sellers. The first edition of Wir sind die Guten ("We are the good guys"), written with Paul Schreyer (2014/2019) was in the Spiegel-Bestsellerliste for nonfiction. Bröckers positions are partly controversial. His explanatory approaches, especially to the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001, to the Ukraine war, to the assassination of John F. Kennedy and to Julian Assange are classified as conspiracy theories. He advocates the legalization of drugs, especially of hemp. Life According to his own statements, Bröckers was active in his youth as an altar boy, choirboy, footballer, and boy scout, among other things. In 1973, he graduated from the humanistic grammar school Tilemannschule in Limburg. After graduating from high school, Bröckers moved to West Berlin to avoid his draft. That same year, he began studying at the FU Berlin literary studies, linguistics and political science with German and Politics for the teaching profession. To finance his studies, he obtained a passenger transport license in 1976 and joined Berlin's first cab collective. He graduated in 1980 as a senior high school teacher of German and Politics. His master's thesis on the Role of Language in Psychoanalysis received the grade "With Distinction." From 1980 to 1991 he worked first as culture editor, later also as science editor of the taz. During this time he published his first book in 1985 with texts by the Berlin cabaret artist Wolfgang Neuss. In 1989 he published the documentary Die taz – das Buch on the occasion of the paper's tenth anniversary. It was published by Zweitausendeins, which later became his house publisher. In 1991, together with Karl Wegmann, he established the satire page "Die Wahrheit" for fake news in the TAZ. In addition, he was a columnist for Zeit, the Woche and author of natural