Dr. Christoph von Marschall
Dr. Christoph von Marshall
Dr. Christoph von Marschall (born 1959 in Freiburg, Germany) has been lead opinion editor at Der Tagesspiegel since 1995. He is presently working as a US Correspondent in Washington. He also worked at the Süddeutsche Zeitung in Munich as a correspondent in Hungary from 1989 to 1990. He studied East European History and Political Science in Freiburg, Mainz, and Krakau, and obtained his doctorate in 1988. He was awarded a Kellen Fellowship in 1999 that enabled him to spend one month each working at The New Republic and The Wisconsin State Journal. In 2002, he received the German-American Commentary Award of the Foreign Office for a commentary post related to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. His 2007 book about then-candidate Barack Obama received much attention.
Education:
1978 "Abitur" (A-levels) in Frankfurt am Main
1978/79 Compulsatory service with the German Air Force
from 1979 Studies of Central European History, Ancient History, Political Science and Geography in Freiburg, Mainz and Cracow / Poland
1988 PhD in Freiburg, Thesis on "Freedom in Unfreedom. The National Autonomy of the Poles in the Habsburg Monarchy after the Austrian Hungarian treaty of 1867"
1989-1990: Süddeutsche Zeitung, news department. In August 1989 covering the flight of GDR-refugees through Hungary, later on the revolutions in Romania and Bulgaria.
Since 1991 with "Der Tagesspiegel", Berlin, the leading daily in the German capital,
1995-2005 Editorial Page Editor
Since August 2005 US Correspondent and Washington Bureau Chief.
Awards:
2002 German-American Commentary Award „Arthur F. Burns“
2005 German-Polish Journalist Award
2005 Order of merits for the Polish State awarded by the Polish President („Cavaliers Cross“)
Book:
2008 „Barack Obama. Der schwarze Kennedy”, Orell Füssli Verlag, Zürich Bestseller among political biografies in Germany; published as well in Japan end of July 2008 and in Poland end of August 2008