Christoph von Marschall is an award-winning journalist, expert on the US, long-time White House correspondent and proven expert on Eastern Europe. He is one of Germany's most renowned journalists and his expertise is much sought after. Christoph von Marschall (*1959) studied Eastern European history, ancient history, political science and geography in Freiburg, Mainz and Krakow and worked for the "Badische Zeitung" while still a student. After receiving his doctorate, he reported from Hungary in 1989/90 for the "Süddeutsche Zeitung" on the mass exodus of GDR citizens to the West and the upheavals in Romania and Bulgaria. He followed the integration of the Central Eastern European reform states into the EU and NATO, interviewed almost all their presidents and made a name for himself as an expert on Eastern Europe. In 1991, he joined the "Tagesspiegel", where he first worked in the political editorial department, and from 2005 to 2013 he was the newspaper's USA correspondent and was the only German newspaper correspondent in the White House Press Corps when Barack Obama took office. In 2016, he accompanied the election campaign Donald Trump in the USA on a total of six trips lasting several weeks through the election-critical "swing states". In 2017/18, he observed the Trump presidency as the first Helmut Schmidt Fellow of the ZEIT Foundation and the German Marshall Fund of the United States, again with an access pass to the White House. Christoph von Marschall has received numerous awards for his work, including the German-American Commentary Prize in 2002, the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland in 2005, and the Media Prize of the Steuben-Schurz Society in 2010 for his books on Barack Obama, Michelle Obama and the Obama presidency. In addition to his work for the "Tagesspiegel", he is a guest in the ARD Press Club as well as in "Phoenix Runde" and comments on Deutschlandfunk and WDR. He is vice-chairman of the Berliner Presse Club e.V. and author of several books.