Rabea Weihserworked in opera dramaturgy and radio before joining ZEIT ONLINE. There she became music editor in 2008 and head of the culture section in 2014, which also covered travel, fashion and lifestyle. With her colleagues, she built a digital arts and culture section. She has taught pop journalism and cultural criticism at Humboldt University and the Berlin University of the Arts. In 2021 she joined the basketball club ALBA BERLIN as cultural director. Today she works as a freelance journalist and moderator. She is writing a biography of the human face, to be published by Diogenes, and since September 2025 she has hosted the monthly “Schönheitssalon” (Beauty Salon) at Berlin’s Urania.