Dr. Peter Priskil is a historian and literary scholar in Freiburg. He worked for many years as a scientific editor and translator in a  publishing house specializing in medieval studies and Paleolithic art. Since the U.S. military interventions, he has spent several periods of time in Iraq and the former Yugoslavia, starting in 1992. Another focus of his work is the application of authentic psychoanalysis to various fields of the so-called humanities.
Major works: Die Karmaten (The Qarmatians), Der verdrängte Humanismus (The Suppressed Humanism), Freuds Schlüssel zur Dichtung (Freud’s Key to Poetry), Der Kalte Krieg (The Cold War), Indonesien 1965/66 — Vom Schlachthaus zum Power House des Westens (Indonesia 1965–66 — From Slaughterhouse to the West’s Power House).