Philip Oltermann (born 1981) is a German-born British journalist and the current chief of The Guardian 's Berlin bureau. [1] He is the author of How to Write (2012), Keeping Up with the Germans: A History of Anglo-German Encounters (2012), and The Stasi Poetry Circle (2020). [2] [3] [4] [5]
Born in Schleswig-Holstein, Oltermann read English and German literature at Oxford University. [6] [7] Oltermann has written for both German and English-language newspapers, including Granta , London Review of Books , Prospect , The Nation , Süddeutsche Zeitung , and others. [8] His book Keeping Up with the Germans was well received. [9] [10] He has been The Guardian's bureau chief in Berlin since 2016.