About euro|topics / Correspondents

euro|topics has a Europe-wide correspondent network at its disposal. The correspondents read the most important newspapers from Estonia to Portugal daily, and select articles for the press review. This is where you can find the list of correspondent's names, sorted according to countries. You would like to make contact with one of the correspondents? Please contact: eurotopics@bpb.de

Brigitte Alfter is our euro|topics correspondent in Denmark. After several years in Brussels, she is now living in Copenhagen once more. Her topic: Europe again and again: the only thing that changes is the perspective!

Annette Birschel is our euro|topics correspondent in the Netherlands and the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium. She has lived and worked in Amsterdam for 12 years as an independent (radio) journalist for various German media. She has lived in Germany, France, the USA and Switzerland (Geneva).

Peter Bognar is our euro|topics correspondent in Hungary. He studied Political Sciences, philosophy and Finno-Ugrian studies in Vienna und Budapest. He is the Hungarian correspondent of the Austrian daily newspaper "Die Presse" and editor of the Hungarian weekly, "Budapester Zeitung". He also works as a translator.

Eva Clausen is our euro|topics correspondent in Italy. After doing her A-levels, she travelled to Italy and has been living in Rome since 1980. She studied English literature and language and art history in Rome. Since then, she has been employed in these fields: a literary agency, film, theatre and publishers. Since 1995, she has mainly been active as a journalist, among other things for RAI in Italy, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Handelsblatt, Der Standard, Die Zeit – focussing on art and culture, society and travel.

Dr. Berthold Forssman is our euro|topics correspondent for Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. He studied Scandinavian, Slavic and Indo-European languages and literature in Erlangen, Kiel and Reykjavik, obtaining his doctorate from Friedrich Schiller University in Jena. Since 2000 he has worked as freelance journalist and editor at nov-ost.info and DeutschlandRadio, among other media. Dr. Forssman translates from Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian and Swedish into German, and is author of numerous textbooks and dictionaries.

Anabela Gaspar is our euro|topics correspondent in Portugal. She studied German and English language and literature in Lisbon. After this, she became a language tutor and translator. She is also an editor of a monthly German-speaking magazine in Portugal. She speaks Portuguese, German, English and Spanish.

Tom Gebhardt is our euro|topics correspondent in Spain. After studying Journalism in Germany and postgraduate studies in politics and philosophy in Bolivia, he then worked in the Goethe Institute, La Paz and then as editor for German-speaking newspapers in Spain for several years. He speaks Spanish, English and Catalan.

Anna Hinz is our euro|topics correspondent for Poland. She works as a tutor for German as a foreign language and for Polish, as well as being a translator for Polish. She studied German literature and languages in Poznan (Posen) and Augsburg.

Oliver Hinz is our euro|topics correspondent for Poland. He also works as a Poland correspondent for, among other things, the Catholic news agency (KNA) and n-ost. He studied communication sciences, politics, law, history and economics via a course of journalism lectures at the FU Berlin, and did volunteer work at the Kreisbote in Wolfratshausen. He worked as Bavarian correspondent for the taz and the AP news agency.

Elif Kayi is our euro|topics correspondent for France, as well as for the French-speaking parts of Luxembourg, Belgium and Switzerland. She studied economics and foreign languages at the University of Lyon - with two exchange years in Berlin and in the Netherlands. She then did her Masters in European Studies at the University of Hamburg. Since February 2006, she has been working as an independent journalist for various media (Proche-Orient.info, Neues Deutschland, Jerusalem Post, L'Arche...) - focussing on the Islamism, Anti-Semitism and the country of Turkey. In addition, she has worked as a media analyst in Montpellier since August 2007.

Cornelia Kiaupa is our euro|topics correspondent in Finland. Since 1991, she has worked as a professional author and journalist, focussing on tax law and IT / the Internet. She has lived for 8 years in Finland and runs the most comprehensive website on Finland in the German language (Finnland on Line).

Diljana Lambreva is our euro|topics correspondent in Bulgaria. She lives in Sofia and works for the foreign editorial staff on the Bulgarian daily newspaper Klassa, the Austrian Standard and the Berliner Zeitung.

Annett Müller is our euro|topics correspondent in Rumania. She works as an independent journalist in Bucharest and Leipzig for the ARD and n-ost. She studied journalism and psychology in Leipzig and Edinburgh.

Nina Müller is our euro|topics correspondent in France and the French-speaking parts of Luxembourg, Belgium and Switzerland. Since 2006, she has lived in Montpellier, in the South of France, working as an independent journalist and media analyst. Before this, she worked as a reporter for AP and the Spotlight publishers in Munich, as well as completing a training / studies in journalism at the Deutschen Journalistenschule (German School of Journalism) and the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.

Ksenja Samardzija Matul is our euro|topics correspondent in Slovenia.

Hans-Jörg Schmidt works as correspondent in Slovakia and the Czech Republic for euro|topics and several German-language newspapers, including Die Welt. After studying journalism he moved to Prague, where he has lived since 1990. His book "Tschechien - eine Nachbarschaftskunde für Deutsche" (The Czech RepublicGermany's neighbour to the east) was
published in 2006 by Christoph-Links-Verlag.

Alexander Schrepfer-Proskouriakov is our euro|topics correspondent in Switzerland. From 1989 - 1994, he studied history and political sciences at the Staatlichen Pädagogischen Hochschule Tambov (the State College of Pedagogics in Tambov). He was a DAAD stipendiary from 1997-1998. In 2003, he did his postdoctorate at the University of Constance, and since 2001 he has been living in Switzerland and working as an independent journalist, among other things for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung.

Jutta Sommerbauer is our euro|topics correspondent in Austria. She worked for three years in Bulgaria as an independent journalist, among other things for n-ost and Die Presse (Vienna). She has lived in Vienna since autumn 2007.

Dieter Weiand is our euro|topics correspondent in Sweden. He has lived in front of the gates of Stockholm since 1994. Over the past years, he has been the Chief Editor for Radio Sweden, the German Foreign Service for Swedish Radio. He has done independent work since January of this year.

Chrissi Wilkens is our euro|topics correspondent in Greece and Cyprus. She is half-Greek and studied sociology in Munich. Since 2003, she has been working as a journalist in Athens; among other things for the weekly newspaper "Investor's World", the magazine "Diplomatia" and other Greek media.

Jochen Wittmann is our euro|topics correspondent in Great Britain and Ireland. After working as an independent culture correspondent in Berlin, he went to Great Britain in 1993. Since then he has worked there as an independent foreign correspondent for a range of German regional newspapers.