Each week, the ACG hosts a discussion with a journalist based in Germany on the topics making the headlines and shaping political discourse in Berlin.
Join us on Monday, June 6 at 9:00 am ET for a Kaffeepause with foreign correspondent and author Erik Kirschbaum.
Erik Kirschbaum is a foreign correspondent based in Germany. He has worked for Reuters, the Los Angeles Times, and other newspapers in Europe since 1989. A native of New York City, he grew up in Connecticut and studied history and German at the University of Wisconsin. He has covered World Cups and Olympics, and is the author of Burning Beethoven: The Eradication of German Culture in the United States during World War I, Rocking the Wall: Bruce Springsteen: The Berlin Concert That Changed the World, and Swim and Bike and Run: Triathlon — The Sporting Trinity. He is also the executive director of the RIAS Berlin Commission, a German-American exchange program for broadcast journalists in both countries.