Born 21.06.1969 in Horb am Neckar.

He has a degree in economics. From 1998 till 2010 he worked as political editor for the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeinen Sonntagszeitung. In 2010 he became deputy editor-in-chief of the monthly politic magazine Cicero – Magazin für politische Kultur. Since May 2016 he is editor-in-chief of the magazine Cicero as well as managing partner of the publishing house Res Publica Verlags GmbH.