Cristoph Springate

Free-lance journalist, reporter / presenter, DW-TV

Born in Hong Kong, Christopher spent much of his childhood abroad. After studying languages and journalism in Cambridge, London and Paris, he married a Berlin teacher (two sons). A journalist since 1991, he became DW-TV's English-language political correspondent in October 1999. His hobbies are travel, world music, soccer and his children.

Christopher Springate first discovered his love of politics at university. Ever since, whether in his mother's native country Brazil, in the central Asian republic of Mongolia or in the North African nation of Libya, he has been fascinated by the task of discovering what parties and politicians stand for and what methods they use to climb the greasy pole of power.

Christopher became a freelance journalist in Germany, working for the BBC World Service, New Statesman and Society (a London weekly), local Berlin radio and several national newspapers in Britain. Since October 1999, he's been DW-TV's English-language political correspondent as well as a presenter of DW-TV´s weekly politics programme, "People and Politics".

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