Sauerbrey studied medieval and modern history, political science, and journalism in
Mainz and
Bordeaux. From 2005 to 2009, she was a research assistant at the Department of History of the
University of Mainz. She received her doctorate with a dissertation on
The Strasbourg Monasteries in the 16th Century. Sauerbrey was a guest editor at the newspaper
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and the broadcaster
ZDF, and worked for several years as a freelancer for
Rhein-Zeitung, a regional newspaper. Sauerbrey completed a traineeship at the
Tagesspiegel in 2009, and became a member of its opinion editorial staff in 2011. In 2013, she was an Arthur F. Burns Fellow at
The Philadelphia Inquirer. She writes a monthly column on Germany for
The New York Times. Sauerbrey heads the opinion section of the
Tagesspiegel and has been a member of the
Tagesspiegel editorial board since 2018. In 2019, Sauerbrey was a member of the jury for the
Axel Springer Prize. == References ==