Germany

Michael Obert is an award-winning German author and journalist. Based in Berlin, he reports mainly from Africa and the Middle East and writes for National Geographic, GEO, Sueddeutsche Zeitung Magazin...

Alex Cocotas is a writer based in Berlin. He has written about a wide range of topics, including Israeli politics and culture, Eritrean refugees, synagogue architecture, and contemporary trends in...

Laura Kasinof is a freelance print journalist and author of the memoir, Don't Be Afraid of the Bullets: An Accidental War Correspondent in Yemen, about her time reporting for The New York Times from...

Ben Mauk lives in Berlin. He writes for The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, and Harper's, among other publications. He co-founded and directs The Berlin Writers' Workshop and is an editor at...

Elisabeth Zerofsky writes on European and American politics and society. Her recent work has focused on illiberalism and inequality. She has written for The New Yorker, New York Times Magazine, the...

Niklas Schenck is a filmmaker and journalist in Germany, trained at the Henri-Nannen school of journalism in Hamburg. His first documentary, Secret Wars for German public television, detailed Germany...

Lukas Augustin, 27, is based in Berlin, Germany but works mostly abroad as a filmmaker and journalist. He studied comparative literature and Middle Eastern studies at Bochum university. He lived for...

Joshua Hammer was born in New York and educated at Horace Mann and Princeton University, graduating with a BA in English literature. In 1988 he joined Newsweek Magazine as a business and media writer...

Martina Merten works as a freelance journalist in Berlin, Germany, focusing on health issues. From 2005 until 2009 she worked as a social and health editor for the German Medical Journal. Her work has...

Rieke Havertz is an editor and writer for the German newspaper Taz, Die Tageszeitung. With a degree in journalism and American Studies from the University of Leipzig in Germany, Rieke lived in Ohio...

Mustafah Abdulaziz is an American documentary photographer based in Berlin, Germany. For three years he traveled across the United States photographing his country's identity and its divergence from...