Heinz Bude (1954, Wuppertal) is a PhD in Philosophy and one of the most outstanding current German sociologists. He works at the Social Research Institute of Hamburg and is a professor of macrosociology at the University of Kassel. Its diagnoses on issues such as poverty and exclusion, reunited Germany with seat of government in Berlin, the role of churches or the level of education are very well received in the public sphere and the German media at the national level