New research shows adolescence is a crucial window for learning, creativity, and early mental health care, with parents helping most by guiding rather than controlling.
Author: Tillman Prüfer
Since 2024, he has been leading the family department at ZEIT and ZEIT ONLINE together with Carla Baum. He joined ZEIT in 2007 and started in the founding editorial team of ZEITmagazin. He was initially responsible for fashion and design, most recently he was deputy editor-in-chief. At ZEITmagazin he writes the column “Prüfers Töchter”. He is the author of “Being a father – why we need new fathers more than ever” (Rowohlt).
More than 100 years ago, German colonists destroyed the culture of the Chagga people in Tanzania. Now the Chagga are trying to regain their lost history through books by German missionary to the region Bruno Gutmann, the author’s great-grandfather.