Anna Sauerbrey
Anna Sauerbrey (born 1979 in Essen) is a German journalist and a member of the editorial board of the "Tagesspiegel". Career. Sauerbrey studied medieval and modern history, political science, and journalism in Mainz and Bordeaux. From 2005 to 2009, she was a research assistant at the Department of History of the University of Mainz. She received her doctorate with a dissertation on "The Strasbourg Monasteries in the 16th Century." Sauerbrey was a guest editor at the newspaper the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). and the broadcaster ZDF, and worked for several years as a freelancer for "Rhein-Zeitung", a  regional newspaper. Sauerbrey completed a traineeship at the Tagesspiegel in 2009, and became a member of its opinion editorial staff in 2011. In 2013, she was an Arthur F. Burns Fellow at the "Philadelphia Inquirer". She writes a monthly column on Germany for the "New York Times". Sauerbrey heads the opinion section of the Tagesspiegel and has been a member of the Tagesspiegel's editorial board since 2018. In 2019, Sauerbrey was a member of the jury for the Axel Springer Prize.