Roger Boyes – Curriculum Vitae Germany Correspondent of The

Roger Boyes – Curriculum Vitae Germany Correspondent of The

Roger Boyes – Curriculum Vitae
Germany Correspondent of The Times
Date of Birth: August 7, 1952
School
1963-1970
Duke of York’s Royal Military School, Dover
1970-1974
B.Sc. University of Surrey - International Relations,
German, Swedish;
Marburg University
1974-1975
Career
M.A. University of London, King’s College – War Studies
1976 – 1977 Moscow Correspondent, Reuters
1978 – 1979 Leader writer, Financial Times
1979 – 1981 Bonn Correspondent, Financial Times
1981 – 1987 Warsaw Correspondent (Eastern Europe), The Times
1987 – 1989 Rome Correspondent (Southern Europe), The Times
1989 – 1992 Warsaw Correspondent (Eastern Europe), The Times
1993 – 1999 Bonn Correspondent (Germany and Eastern Europe), The Times
Since 1999
Berlin Correspondent (Germany and Eastern Europe), The Times
Regular contributor New Statesman
Languages
fluent German, Polish; good Swedish, Italian, Russian; reads Dutch, Danish;
primitive French
Publications
Sport behind the Iron Curtain (1980)
Death of a Priest: The Murder of Father Popieluszko (1985)
Hard Road to the Market: Gorbachev, The Underworld and the Rebirth of
Capitalism (1990)
The Naked President: Biography of Lech Walesa (1994)
Surviving Hitler: Choices, Corruptions and Compromise in the Third Reich
(2000)
Sezon na Europa (in Polish) (2003)
Koniec Europa (in Polish) (2004)
My dear Krauts: Ein Engländer entdeckt die Deutschen (in German) (2006)
How to be a Kraut (in German) (2007)
A Year in the Scheisse (2008)
„Meltdown Iceland – Lessons on the world financial crisis from a small
bankrupt island“ (Bloomsbury USA, 2009)
“Ossi forever! – Ein Roman aus der Provinz (in German) (Ullstein, 2010)
ongoing projects: book on food and war
Essays
in, for example, Die Alpha-Journalisten (2007) and Schauplatz Berlin (2007)
Pamphlet
Is it easier to be a Turk in Berlin, or a Pakistani in Bradford? (with Dorte
Huneke) Anglo-German Foundation Bulletin (2004)
Awards
Commended British Press Awards Foreign Correspondent of the Year 1983
Commended British Press Awards Foreign Correspondent of the Year 1985
Anglo-German Friendship Prize, Königswinter Conference 1999
Shortlisted London Foreign Correspondents Prize 2002
King Edward VII Award for German Coverage 2006
Other activities
Columns for Berlin’s Der Tagesspiegel, Forum Gelb magazine, Goethe
institute
Contributor to Die Zeit, Vanity Fair, Cicero, Sueddeutsche Magazine,
Park Avenue, Dogs
Television
regular participant primetime German talk shows “Presseclub” and
“International Fruehschoppen”
Personal
widowed 2002; son born 1985, studies at LSE