Michael Groth

Correspondent for DeutschlandRadio

Michael Groth is a correspondent with the capital bureau of DeutschlandRadio. He specializes in security issues, most of all Afghanistan and has made regular trips to the region.

He got his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in 1983, and worked for four years as junior editor for "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung". Since 1988 he is political editor at DeutschlandRadio, with two-time-assignments to its capital bureau in Berlin, and with regular trips to the U.S.