Michael Steininger is the Monitor's Berlin correspondent. Before returning to his hometown in 2011, he worked for more than ten years as an international news producer at BBC World Service radio in London. He was born and raised in East Berlin, trained as a welder, and studied German, English, and American literature there – with a short interruption during which he watched the Berlin Wall fall.
Stories by Michael Steininger
- Germans wonder why it took Merkel so long to get angry over NSA spying
- Merkel's big victory proving a big obstacle in forming German government
- Merkel under fire as Germany seethes over NSA spying
- In return to Berlin, Obama finds a cooler Germany
- Germans see troubling questions in high-profile neo-Nazi murder trial
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