About Katja
Katja's assignments as a military reporter included flying onboard U.S. aircraft carriers in the Pacific and the Persian Gulf, writing about the last German MiG-29 squadron, visiting a nuclear-powered submarine at the U.S. Naval Station Norfolk, Va., and traveling with NATO forces to Afghanistan.
From 2001 to 2005, she was stationed in Brussels as Die Welt's EU and NATO correspondent.
Her interviewees include former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, civil rights leader and former U.N. ambassador Andrew Young, President Barack Obama’s National Security Advisor General Jim Jones, former NATO Supreme Allied Commander and Democratic presidential candidate General Wesley K. Clark, the late Zoran Djindjic (the Serbian revolutionary who later became the country's first democratic prime minister), and EU Commission President and later Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi.
Katja holds a master's degree in modern history and economics from Freie Universität Berlin and is fluent in German, English and French. She is a fellow of the distinguished German-American Arthur F. Burns program for journalists and serves in the Advisory Council to the Department of German Studies at Emory University in Atlanta.
