Kaffeepause: What's Abuzz in Berlin?

On this week's Kaffeepause, Dr. Steven E. Sokol is joined by Marc Felix Serrao, Editor-in-Chief in Germany for the Neue Züricher Zeitung . Mr. Serrao has been the Head of the Berlin office since July 2017 and Editor-in-Chief of the Neue Züricher Zeitung in Germany since 2021. After military service, he studied political science in Berlin. In 2004/05, he was a Visiting Scholar at Columbia Universit...

On this week's Kaffeepause, Dr. Steven E. Sokol is joined by Stephan Detjen, Chief Correspondent for Deutschlandradio. He also heads the station's capital city studio in Berlin. Previously, he worked as Deutschlandfunk's Editor-in-Chief in Cologne and as a legal policy correspondent in Karlsruhe, among other positions.   Mr. Detjen is a member of the board of the Bundespressekonferenz and was a me...

On this week's 50th episode of the Kaffeepause podcast, Dr. Steven E. Sokol is joined by award-winning journalist and ACG fellow Vladimir Balzer.  Mr. Balzer is a moderator at Deutschlandfunk Kultur. He grew up in Leipzig and studied German, art history, and journalism in Dublin, Venice, and Leipzig. He studied abroad in Italy and the United States. He began his career as a presenter, reporter, an...

On this week's Kaffeepause, Dr. Steven E. Sokol is joined by Anja Wehler-Schöck, Head of International Politics at Der Tagesspiegel since August 2022. Prior to that, she worked as editor-in-chief of the IPG Journal, a debate platform for issues of international and European politics. She previously worked as a social affairs officer at the German Embassy in Washington and headed the Friedrich-Eber...

On this week's Kaffeepause, Dr. Steven E. Sokol is joined by Steven Erlanger, Chief Diplomatic Correspondent in Europe for  The New York Times . As of earlier this year, he is based in Berlin. In over 40 years of career as a journalist, he has covered news in over 120 countries, from the war in Kosovo to Brexit. In 2002, Mr. Erlanger shared the Pulitzer Prize for reporting on his work on Al Qaeda...

On this week's Kaffeepause, Dr. Steven E. Sokol is joined by Paul-Anton Krüger, Parliamentary Correspondent in the Berlin Bureau of the Süddeutsche Zeitung .  Previously Mr. Krüger reported on political affairs and served as Deputy Head of the Foreign Policy Department, focusing on the Middle East and international security for three years. Before that, he spent four years in Cairo and was a corre...

On this week's Kaffeepause, Dr. Steven E. Sokol is joined by Marc Felix Serrao, Head of the Berlin office and Editor-in-Chief of the Neue Züricher Zeitung in Germany. After military service, he studied political science in Berlin. In 2004 and 2005, he was a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University in New York. He graduated in 2006 and became a freelance journalist for various media outlets. He work...

On this week's Kaffeepause, Dr. Steven E. Sokol is joined by Daniela Vates, Chief Correspondent in the Berlin Bureau of the RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland. RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland is a Hannover-based corporate newsroom that provides journalistic content to more than 60 daily newspapers across the country – including Frankfurter Rundschau, Leipziger Volkszeitung, Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, and H...

On this week's Kaffeepause, Dr. Steven E. Sokol is joined by award-winning journalist and moderator at Deutschlandfunk Kultur, Vladimir Balzer.  Mr. Balzer grew up in Leipzig and studied German, art history, and journalism in Dublin, Venice, and Leipzig. He studied abroad in Italy and the United States. He began his career as a presenter, reporter, and editor at Deutschlandradio and MDR. Mr. Balze...

On this week's Kaffeepause, Dr. Steven E. Sokol is joined by Dr. Daniel Friedrich Sturm. Dr. Daniel Friedrich Sturm has been the head of the Tagesspiegel’s Berlin office since April 2023 and reports primarily on the German Chancellor and the SPD. Previously, he was an Editor for Die Welt and Welt am Sonntag and was their U.S. Correspondent from 2018 to 2023. Mr. Sturm began his journalistic career...

On this week's Kaffeepause, Dr. Steven E. Sokol is joined by ACG Alumna Sonja Gillert, Head of Audio and Podcaster for Die Welt.  Sonja Gillert (2019 ACG Young Leader) is the head of audio for Welt. Previously, she served as an editor in the paper’s foreign policy department in Berlin. In 2015, she spent three months in China with the Media Ambassador China Germany Program. In 2017 she was selecte...

On this week's Kaffeepause, Dr. Steven E. Sokol is joined by Henrike Roßbach, Deputy Head and Correspondent for the Parliamentary Office for the  Süddeutsche Zeitung . Ms. Roßbach has been a correspondent in the parliamentary office since the beginning of 2018. She reports on the FDP and the federal government’s financial and tax policies, and (together with her colleagues) observes and describes...

On this week's Kaffeepause, Dr. Steven E. Sokol is joined by Bojan Pancevski, Germany Correspondent for  The Wall Street Journal.  Bojan Pancevski is The Wall Street Journal ’s Germany correspondent, covering all aspects of Europe’s largest economy and its influence on the rest of the continent and beyond. He also covers Europe at large across major themes. Before joining the WSJ, he covered Europ...

On this week's Kaffeepause, Dr. Steven E. Sokol is joined by Jochen Buchsteiner, Political Correspondent for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung .  Jochen Buchsteiner has been Political Correspondent for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung in Berlin since 2023. Prior to that, he spent 20 years as the FAZ’s foreign correspondent in New Delhi, Jakarta, and London.   After studying Poli...

On this week's Kaffeepause, Dr. Steven E. Sokol is joined by Paul-Anton Krüger, Parliamentary Correspondent in the Berlin Bureau of the  Süddeutsche Zeitung. Paul-Anton Krüger has been the Parliamentary Correspondent in the Berlin Bureau of the  Süddeutsche Zeitung  since the 2021 federal election. Previously he reported on political affairs and served as Deputy Head of the Foreign Policy Departme...

On this week's Kaffeepause, Dr. Steven E. Sokol is joined by ACG Young Leader Alumna Dana Heide, Correspondent for Handelsblatt .  Ms. Heide (2018 ACG Young Leader) has been a Berlin-based correspondent for the Handelsblatt since the summer of 2022. She covers the Economics Ministry, focusing on digital policy, innovation, and small and medium-sized companies, and also covers the Free Democrats (F...

On this week's Kaffeepause, Dr. Steven E. Sokol is joined by Erika Solomon, Berlin Correspondent for  The New York Times.  Ms. Solomon has been a Berlin Correspondent for The New York Time s since April 2022. Prior to that, she served as a correspondent for The Financial Times , reporting from the Middle East and then Germany. Ms. Solomon spent over a decade reporting from the Middle East – first...

On this week's Kaffeepause, Dr. Steven E. Sokol is joined by Dr. Anna Sauerbrey, Foreign Editor for the weekly DIE ZEIT and 2018 ACG Kellen Fellow. Previously, Dr. Sauerbrey headed the opinion pages of Der Tagesspiegel and Tagesspiegel Causa , the paper’s online magazine. She studied History, Political Science, and Journalism in Mainz and Bordeaux. From 2005 to 2009, she was a research assistant i...

On this week's Kaffeepause, Dr. Steven E. Sokol is joined by Miriam Hollstein, Chief Reporter for Stern in Berlin and 2008 ACG McCloy Fellow. Prior to this position, Ms. Hollstein served as the Chief Reporter for t-online in Berlin from February 2022 until September 2023 and the Chief Political Reporter for FUNKE Zentralredaktion from November 2020 to December 2021. She wrote for the Berliner Zeit...

On this week's Kaffeepause, Dr. Steven E. Sokol is joined by Stefan Kornelius, Political Editor of the Süddeutsche Zeitung . Previously, Mr. Kornelius served as Foreign Editor of the paper for nearly 20 years. In his reporting career, he has covered Germany’s Christian Democratic Party (CDU), the chancellorship of Helmut Kohl, and defense issues in Europe. He served as Berlin Bureau Chief, and fro...

On this week's Kaffeepause, Dr. Steven E. Sokol is joined by Stephan Detjen, Chief Correspondent for Deutschlandradio and Director of the Berlin Studio. Previously, Mr. Detjen worked as Deutschlandfunk’s Editor-in-Chief in Cologne and as a legal policy correspondent in Karlsruhe, among other positions. Mr. Detjen is a member of the board of the Bundespressekonferenz and was a member of the foundat...

On this week's Kaffeepause, Dr. Steven E. Sokol is joined by Malte Lehming, Opinion Writer for Tagesspiegel . From late 2000 to 2005, Mr. Lehming was the newspaper’s Washington bureau chief. He joined the Tagesspiegel in 1991 as foreign policy editor — focusing on security policy, transatlantic relations, and the Middle East. From 1989 to 1991, he worked as a personal assistant and speechwriter fo...

On this week's Special Edition of the regular Kaffeepause, Dr. Steven E. Sokol is joined by CORRECTIV Editor-in-Chief Justus von Daniels. In late November, senior representatives from Germany's Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) gathered for a secret meeting with neo-Nazis and other like-minded individuals to discuss Germany's migration policy and who should count as being German. They developed a...

On this week's Kaffeepause, Dr. Steven E. Sokol is joined by Matthew Karnitschnig, Chief Europe Correspondent for Politico. Mr. Karnitschnig joined the publication in 2015 from the Wall Street Journal, where he spent 15 years in a variety of positions as a reporter and editor in the U.S. and Europe. In a career spanning two decades, Mr. Karnitschnig has been on the front lines of some of the defin...

On this week's Kaffeepause, Dr. Steven E. Sokol is joined by Matthias Deiß, Deputy Director of ARD’s Hauptstadtstudio in Berlin and deputy editor-in-chief of television. From 2018 to 2021, he served as the editorial director for ARD’s political magazine Kontraste. Before this, he worked from 2012 to 2017 as a TV correspondent with ARD. He studied communications and political science at the Univers...