Robin Alexander | |
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Born | Essen, Germany | 13 May 1975
Robin Alexander (born 13 May 1975) is a German journalist and author. He reports mainly for the Die Welt group on the German Chancellery and the CDU/CSU parties.
He co-hosts the successful domestic politics podcast Machtwechsel together with Dagmar Rosenfeld since 2021. [1]
Robin Alexander was born in Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia. He studied history and journalism at the Leipzig University. From 1998 to 1999 he completed an internship at the Tageszeitung in Berlin, where he worked as a reporter and editor from 2001 to 2006. He was a columnist for the English-language city magazine Exberliner, [2] made reportage trips through southern Africa and was a guest editor at The Star in Johannesburg in 2004. [3] After one year of parental leave, he became founding editor of the German Vanity Fair in 2006.
Since 2008, Alexander has been writing for Die Welt und Welt am Sonntag , reporting on the German Chancellery since 2010 and accompanying Angela Merkel as rapporteur on international trips and summits. In 2013, he was a face of the Die Welt brand campaign. [4]
Robin Alexander is married, has three children and lives in Berlin.