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On this week's Kaffeepause, Dr. Steven E. Sokol is joined by Dr. Daniel Friedrich Sturm.

Dr. Daniel Friedrich Sturm has been the head of the Tagesspiegel’s Berlin office since April 2023 and reports primarily on the German Chancellor and the SPD. Previously, he was an Editor for Die Welt and Welt am Sonntag and was their U.S. Correspondent from 2018 to 2023. Mr. Sturm began his journalistic career at the age of 15 as a local reporter for the Münstersche Zeitung. He studied political science at the University of Bonn. He was awarded the Willy Brandt Prize for his dissertation on the SPD and the unification of Germany in 1989/90. He has been observing and describing the Social Democrats for many years and has written several books about them.