Anna Sauerbrey

Anna Sauerbrey is a German journalist and a member of the editorial board of Der 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 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 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 editorial board since 2018.
In 2019, Sauerbrey was a member of the jury for the Axel Springer Prize.