BIO
Journalism
1984 – 1989: London-Correspondent for „die tageszeitung” (Berlin) and freelancer for “Die Weltwoche” (Zürich)
1989 – 1992: US-Correspondent for the German daily “die tageszeitung”
1992 – 1995: US-Correspondent for the German daily “Frankfurter Rundschau”
1995 – 2005: Foreign Reporter and Editor-at-large for the “Frankfurter Rundschau” covering the Balkans, US, Middle East and Southeast Asia
2025 - : blogging about the United States of America: what happened to America and why?
Development work
2005 – 2022: Country Director, offices of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) in Afghanistan, Namibia (fesmedia Africa), Tanzania, Pakistan, South Sudan and Uganda