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Rüdiger RossigImage: DW/F. Görner

Rüdiger Rossig

Editor, author and reporter of DW Programs for Europe

Born in 1967, Rossig began his journalistic career in 1987 as a local reporter. He studied Balkanology and sociology in Berlin. In 1993, he became editor for the war in former Yugoslavia for the daily newspaper taz.

From 1995 to 1998, the journalist and Southeast Europe specialist was a staff member of the UN and the OSCE in the Former Yugoslavia, then opinion editor of the taz and senior editor of the English-language monthly newspapers The Atlantic Times and The German Times. 

Parallelly, Rossig published in various German-, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian- and English-language media. In 2008, his book "(Ex-) Jugos" about migrants from the former Yugoslavia was published in Germany, and in 2016 he produced "Bosnia and Kosovo - Europe's Forgotten Protectorates" for arte-TV together with Zoran Solomun. 

Rossig has been an editor at DW since 2018.