The Harvard Club of Berlin invites members of the Carl Kruse Blog to the Fireside Chat – “Turning Point. In the world. In the United States? In Germany ?” with Dr. Gregor Peter Schmitz to take place on Wednesday, May 28, 2025, at 6:30 pm at the Marriott Hotel on Potsdamer Platz. The event is done in conjunction with the Ivy Circle Berlin.
About Dr. Gregor Peter Schmitz:
Gregor Peter Schmitz, born in 1975, is Chairman of the editor-in-chiefs of STERN, GEO and Capital. He is also responsible for the joint digital offering Stern +. A lawyer and political scientist with degrees from Cambridge and Harvard began his professional career as head of the Brussels office of the Bertelsmann Foundation. He spent six years as SPIEGEL’s USA correspondent in Washington before he took over as European correspondent in Brussels. After heading the capital city office of “WirtschaftsWoche” in Berlin, Schmitz spent four years as editor-in-chief of the “Augsburger Allgemeine”, one of the highest-circulation and most-cited German daily newspapers.
He has received numerous awards for his journalistic work, including the Henri Nannen Prize, the Theodor Wolff Prize, the Arthur F. Burns Prize and several times as “Editor-in-Chief of the Year”. His first book, “Wetten auf Europa: Gespräche mit George Soros” published by Random House, was a SPIEGEL bestseller and was translated into numerous languages. Schmitz is a regular guest on national and international TV and radio programs, such as Markus Lanz, Anne Will, Maischberger, the Presseclub, Deutschlandfunk and the BBC. At the end of 2022, after his first year as the new editor-in-chief at STERN he has been awarded by both a 100-member jury of the “Medium Magazin” as well as by the trade magazine Kress as “Editor-in-Chief of the Year”.
We are very much looking forward to seeing you at our Fireside Chat!
Tickets: Members & partners: 25 € p.p.
Non-Members: 35 € p.p.
Soft drinks and finger food are included.
Registration here: Registration Link
Payment options:
- Transfer: Please transfer the ticket to the account:
Harvard University Alumni Club of Berlin e.V.
IBAN: DE33 1007 0848 0036 7532 00
BIC: DEUTDEDB110
Reference: your name & Gregor Schmitz
- Paypal: frohn@pwwl.de family and friends
Reference: your name & Gregor Schmitz
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Other events with the Harvard Club in Berlin include Should Europe Have Its Own Nuclear Weapons and Democracy and the Rise of Authoritarianism.
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