Since 2021, economics and business correspondent for the German daily newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) in Rome, covering Italy, Greece and a range of international topics. Before: 17 years economics and business correspondent for FAZ in Paris, before that: 8 years economics and business correspondent for FAZ in London.
Born in 1964
attended school near Freiburg. Freelance journalist in the local section of the "Badische Zeitung". Later Cologne journalism school. Academic education: master degree in economics from the Faculty of Economics at the University of Cologne. Worked as a freelance journalist at national newspapers and radio stations. In 1992, longer stay as freelance journalist in South East Asia. In 1993, he joined the business desk of FAZ, where he worked as a page editor and reporter.
German-British Journalism Prize 1999, book publications: "Great Britain: Island between the worlds. The British - Europe's eternal outsiders" (2003). "The new French dream. How our neighbor wants to stop its decline" (2017).
