Roger Boyes

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Roger Boyes (born August 7, 1952 in Hereford ) is a British journalist and author. From 1993 to 2010 he reported from Germany as a correspondent for the British daily newspaper The Times . He became known to the German-speaking public primarily through his biting, ironic cultural anthropological considerations of Germans from the perspective of a foreigner.

Boyes first studied political science, German and Swedish at the renowned King's College in London . He then worked for the Reuters news agency and the Financial Times in the 1970s . In 1981 he moved to the Times and worked for them as a correspondent in Warsaw and Rome . In 1993 he came to Germany in the same position and reported first from Bonn , then from 1999 to 2010 from Berlin .

For the daily newspaper Der Tagesspiegel he began to write down his reflections on the city and the Germans in the column My Berlin . In 2006 he published his bestseller " My dear Krauts " and in 2007 the successor " How to be a Kraut " hit the book trade.

In 2011 he returned to England. There he works as a "diplomatic editor" for the Times .

Fonts (selection)

  • with Adam LeBor : Surviving Hitler: corruption and compromise in the Third Reich . London: Scribner, 2000
  • My dear Krauts: how I discovered the Germans . Translation by Axel Henrici. Berlin: Ullstein, 2006
  • How to be a Kraut: Guide to a Whimsical Land . Translation: Axel Henrici, Tanja Handels. Illustrations Isabel Klett. Berlin: Ullstein, 2007
  • with Adam LeBor : Seduced by Hitler . Naperville, Ill .: Sourcebooks, 2007
  • Meltdown Iceland: How the Global Financial Crisis Bankupted an Entire Country . London: Bloomsbury, 2009
  • Ossi forever! : a novel from the Brandenburg province . Translation by Christian Lutze. Berlin: Ullstein, 2010

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personal data
SURNAME Boyes, Roger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 7th August 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Hereford