Robin Alexander was born in
Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia. He studied history and journalism at the
Leipzig University. From 1998 to 1999 he completed an
internship at the
Tageszeitung in Berlin, where he worked as a reporter and editor from 2001 to 2006. He was a columnist for the English-language city magazine
Exberliner, made reportage trips through southern Africa and was a guest editor at The Star in
Johannesburg in 2004. After one year of
parental leave, he became founding editor of the German
Vanity Fair in 2006. Since 2008, Alexander has been writing for
Die Welt und
Welt am Sonntag, reporting on the
German Chancellery since 2010 and accompanying
Angela Merkel as
rapporteur on international trips and summits. In 2013, he was a face of the
Die Welt brand campaign. Alexander left the paper in 2025. Robin Alexander is married, has three children and lives in
Berlin. ==Publications==