Franco-German Painter, Author, and Academic

Born in West-Berlin during the cold war, Jacqueline studied in Montpellier, Cambridge, and Paris, and graduated from the Sorbonne with a thesis in contemporary history and international relations.

Following a year as a volunteer with an NGO in rural Indonesia, she joined the editorial staff of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. She was appointed the FAZ’s Eastern Europe correspondent in 1987, during which time she also covered the transformation of the former East Germany.

In 1997, Jacqueline moved to Paris, where she worked first as a correspondent for Die Zeit and later ran the European program of the public radio France Culture.

In parallel, she continued to pursue her academic interests — teaching at Sciences Po Paris, doing research, and publishing a number of books on European history and culture in French and German.

Since 2022, Jacqueline has been curating the first exhibition on the life and work of the mysteriously underrated architect Ossip Klarwein.

• Concept and curation of the Klarwein Project (2022-ongoing)

• Managing Director at KekstCNC in Paris and Berlin (2013-2022)

• Producer, presenter and writer at France Culture (2002-2013)

• Paris bureau chief at Die Zeit (1997-2002)

• Correspondent at Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in Berlin (1993-1997)

• Eastern Europe Correspondent at Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (1987-1992)

Images: Work in an International Management Consultancy

• Ossip Klarwein – Vom “Kraftwerk Gottes” zur Knesset (Hrsg.), simultaneously published English edition: Ossip Klarwein – An Architect’s Journey from Berlin to Jerusalem (ed.), Kettler Verlag, Dortmund, 2025

• L’Allemagne: un modèle, mais pour qui? with a préfacé by Louis Gallois, Presses des Mines, Paris, 2012

• Une certaine idée de la France. Schriftenreihe Vontobel-Stiftung, Zürich, 2012

• What Does Germany Think About Europe? (co-ed.), post-face Jürgen Habermas, ECFR, London, 2011

• Berlin-Ouest. Histoire d’une île allemande. Editions Perrin, Paris, 2009

See WRITINGS for more information.

• French foreign trade advisor CNCCEF, German chapter

• Advisory board of NoonSong e.V., weekly free concerts in Berlin

• Member of the board at Club XXIe siècle, an equal-opportunities initiative in Paris

• Jury member for international projects for the Robert Bosch Stiftung, Institut Montaigne, Aspen Institute and others