Robin Alexander (born 13 May 1975) is a German journalist and author. He reports mainly for the

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group on the

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and the CDU/

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parties. He co-hosts the successful domestic politics podcast ''Machtwechsel'' together with Dagmar Rosenfeld since 2021.

Life

Robin Alexander was born in

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, North Rhine-Westphalia. He studied history and journalism at the

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. From 1998 to 1999 he completed an

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at the ''

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'' 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'', made reportage trips through southern Africa and was a guest editor at The Star in

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in 2004. After one year of

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, he became founding editor of the German Vanity Fair in 2006. Since 2008, Alexander has been writing for ''

'' und ''

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'', reporting on the

since 2010 and accompanying

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on international trips and summits. In 2013, he was a face of the ''

'' brand campaign. Robin Alexander is married, has three children and lives in

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Publications

*''Familie für Einsteiger. Ein Überlebenshandbuch.'' Rowohlt Berlin, Berlin 2007, . *''Wenn Eltern laufen lernen. Eine Kurzanleitung.'' Rowohlt-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Reinbek 2009, . *''Staatshilfe für Eltern'' Beltz Juventa, März 2013, , * ''Die Getriebenen: Merkel und die Flüchtlingspolitik. Report aus dem Innern der Macht.'' Siedler, München 2017, . * ''Machtverfall: Merkels Ende und das Drama der deutschen Politik: Ein Report''. Siedler Verlag, München 2021, . * ''Letzte Chance: Der neue Kanzler und der Kampf um die Demokratie''. Siedler, Berlin 2025, .

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Alexander, Robin 1975 births Living people Writers from Essen German male journalists German newspaper journalists German male writers 21st-century German journalists Die Welt people Leipzig University alumni