Anke Petermann

Petermann studied languages in Perugia and Grove and at the Westfälische Wilhelms University German studies, Romance languages and literature and Skandinavistik. As a freelancer she wrote for the Iserlohner Kreisanzeiger newspaper, from 1992 followed a traineeship at RIAS in Berlin, later she was a reporter and presenter of the German language programs Voice of America in Washington, D.C. and came back to RIAS as an editor from Magdeburg. Since 1994 she is a freelance correspondent for the Deutschlandfunk, initially from Saxony-Anhalt, since 2001 from Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse. For the Heinrich Boell Foundation she wrote in 2015 and 2016.^[1][2]

She is the author and cocontributor of 33 episodes of the daily at 06:30 pm magazine background on Deutschlandfunk and other broadcasts..