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

These days, besides painting and writing, Jacqueline is curating an exhibition about the architect Ossip Joseph Klarwein.

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

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

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

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

• Paris bureau chief for the Tamedia Group (2004-2010)

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

• Freelance author at Neue Zürcher Zeitung

Images: Work in an International Management Consultancy

• Ossip Klarwein – von der Kirche zur Knesset, in: Jüdischer Almanach „Umbrüche“, Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin, 2023

• L’Allemagne: un modèle, mais pour qui? mit einem Vorwort von 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

• Die Wiedergeburt der jüdischen Gemeinde in Frankfurt am Main nach 1945, brochure for the Zentralwohlfahrtsstelle der Juden in Deutschland, Frankfurt, 1981

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• 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