Christiane Hoffmann studied Slavic studies, Eastern European history and journalism in Freiburg, Leningrad and Hamburg. She worked for the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" for almost 20 years and reported as a foreign correspondent from Moscow and Tehran.
At the beginning of 2013, she became deputy head of the "Spiegel" office in the capital. Since 2018 she has been an author and frequent guest on radio and television. Hoffmann is the daughter of two refugee children. Her paternal ancestors came from Silesia, her mother's family from East Prussia.
(Updated: 2022)
