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Kaffeepause: What's Abuzz in Berlin?
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Join the American Council on Germany for its “Kaffeepause: What’s Abuzz in Berlin?” a regular podcast that takes stock of current events in Germany. Each week, we are joined by a journalist based in Germany to talk about the stories behind the headlines.
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Kaffeepause: What's Abuzz in Berlin? - Dr. Melanie Amann
Sep 23Tap to summarizeOn this week's Kaffeepause, Dr. Steven E. Sokol is joined by Dr. Melanie Amann, Member of the Editorial Team at SPIEGEL.She studied Law in Trier, Aix-en-Provence, and Berlin, and received her doctorate from the LMU Munich. From 2003 to 2004, she spent a year at the German School of Journalism in Munich. After working as an editor at the Financial Times Deutschland, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, she moved to SPIEGEL in Berlin in 2013. From February 2019 until September 2025, she headed SPIEGEL's capital city bureau, together with Sebastian Fischer, Christoph Hickmann and Martin Knobbe. She was a member of the editorial board from May 2021 until September 2025.
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Dec 4, 2023Tap to summarizeOn this week's Kaffeepause, Dr. Steven E. Sokol is joined by Melanie Amann, Co-Editor-in-Chief for Der Spiegel. She is a German journalist and lawyer and heads Der Spiegel's Berlin office. She was born in Bonn and raised in Siegburg. She studied law at the University of Trier, Aix-Marseille III, and at the Humboldt University of Berlin.
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May 22, 2023Tap to summarizeOn this week's Kaffeepause, Dr. Steven E. Sokol is joined by Melanie Amann, Co-Editor-in-Chief for Der Spiegel.Ms. Amann is a German journalist and lawyer. She is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the leading German weekly newspaper, Der Spiegel, and heads the publication’s Berlin office. She was born in Bonn and raised in Siegburg. She studied law at the University of Trier, Aix-Marseille III, and at the Humboldt University of Berlin.
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