Christoph von Marschall is Diplomatic Correspondent for the Berlin ‘Tagesspiegel’, Deputy Chairman of the Berliner Presse Club e.V. and author of several books. He lives in Washington and has access to the White House. Christoph von Marschall is one of Germany's most renowned journalists and his expertise is much in demand. He focuses on international politics, power shifts between the major powers, the USA and the transatlantic relationship, the European Union and especially its eastern members, relations with China and Russia - as well as the current wars in Ukraine and the Middle East and their geostrategic consequences. Christoph von Marschall (*1959) studied Eastern European history, ancient history, political science and geography in Freiburg, Mainz and Krakow. After completing his doctorate in 1989/90, he reported from Hungary for the ‘Süddeutsche Zeitung’ on the mass exodus of GDR citizens to the West and the fall of communism in Romania and Bulgaria. In 1991 he moved to the ‘Tagesspiegel’, where he headed the opinion page from 1995 to 2005. He followed the integration of the countries of Central and Eastern Europe into the EU and NATO and interviewed almost all of their presidents. From 2005 to 2013, he was the US correspondent and, since Barack Obama took office in 2009, the only German newspaper correspondent in the White House Press Corps. In 2016, he reported from the USA again, this time on the election campaign that led to Donald Trump's election victory. In 2016, he again reported from the USA, this time on the election campaign that led to Donald Trump's election victory, and in 2017/18 he lived in Washington again as the first Helmut Schmidt Fellow of the Zeit-Stiftung and the German Marshall Fund, where he had access to Donald Trump's White House. He observed the 2024 US election and its consequences once again in the USA as a Global Europe Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center. Christoph von Marschall has received numerous awards for his work, including the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland in 2005, the Steuben Schurz Society Media Prize for his books on Barack Obama, Michelle Obama and the Obama presidency in 2010 and the Hedwig von Schlesien Prize of the City and University of Wroclaw in 2020. Christoph von Marschall is a regular guest on TV discussion programmes such as the ARD Press Club and the Phoenix Runde and regularly comments on WDR.