Gunnar Kaiser (born 9 June 1976 – 12 October 2023) was a German teacher, writer, political blogger and YouTuber. His critical contributions, especially during the Covid 19 pandemic, are controversial.
Gunnar Kaiser was born in Cologne. He studied philosophy, German philology, and Romance studies at the University of Cologne. After his state examination, he taught German and philosophy at grammar schools in Bonn and Cologne until 2021. In 2021, he gave up his job as a civil servant high school teacher to devote himself entirely to his YouTube channel and his work as an author.
From 2021 onwards, Kaiser wrote articles for the Swiss monthly Der Monat, the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Die Welt, the Jüdische Allgemeine, taz, Berliner Zeitung, Stadtrevue and literaturkritik.de. He also wrote for the Rheinischer Merkur, which was discontinued in 2010.
His first novel, Unter der Haut (Under the Skin), was published in 2018 by Piper Verlag. It has been translated into 6 languages, including French by Fayard (Dans la peau) Greek (Kátō apó to dérma), Italian (Nella pelle), Spanish (Bajo la piel) and Turkish (Derinin altında).
He was diagnosed with cancer in 2022 and died of cancer on 12 October 2023, at the age of 47.