Larissa Smurago is a writer, editor and cultural journalist based in Berlin. Since 2025, she has been contributing to Berliner Zeitung, FAZ and other publications, writing about contemporary culture, aesthetics and urban life.

Her work unfolds between theory and practice, exploring how thought becomes visible in experience and takes shape in images, spaces and stories. Alongside her journalistic work, she collaborates with artists, filmmakers and curators on exhibitions and interdisciplinary projects and has extensive experience as an editor for academic and cultural publications. She organized salon smurago, a year-long philosophical salon, and currently works on various artistic projects.

She is pursuing a Ph.D. in philosophy at Humboldt University of Berlin on the concept of forgetting in modern thought. Before moving to Berlin, she worked as a lecturer at Goethe University Frankfurt, teaching courses on modern literature, aesthetics and sociology, and gained experience as a project manager in social research. She holds two B.A. degrees in German studies, philosophy, sociology and art history and an M.A. in German literature from Goethe University Frankfurt, with a semester abroad at King’s College London.