Tanja Stelzer

Tanja Stelzer, born in 1970 in Kronberg im Taunus, studied political science at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and at Sciences Po in Paris. She is a graduate of the German School of Journalism in Munich. She worked for the daily newspapers Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Der Tagesspiegel and has been with the weekly DIE ZEIT since 2006, initially at the supplement ZEITmagazin. From 2013 to 2021, she was co-head of the reportage department “Dossier”. She was then one of the two people in charge of the cover stories at DIE ZEIT. Today, she is a reporter working for all departments at DIE ZEIT. She mainly writes on societal issues. Tanja Stelzer has won the “Deutscher Reporterpreis”, the “Egon Erwin Kisch-Preis” and the “Deutsch-Französischer Journalistenpreis” (German-French Journalist Prize), among others. She edited the book “Und plötzlich ist die Welt eine andere”, a collection of reportages on defining moments in human history.