Maxim Leo was born in 1970 in East Berlin. He studied Political Science at the Free University in Berlin and at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris. He has been an editor at the Berliner Zeitung since 1997. He was the recipient of the 2002 German–French Journalism Prize and the 2006 Theodor Wolff Prize. He lives in Berlin.
Maxim Leo
Articles by Maxim Leo
Tuesday April 15
Red Love: The Story of an East German Family
I’m the bourgeois in our family. That’s chiefly because my parents were never bourgeois. When I was ten, my father walked round with his hair alternately dyed green or blue, and a leather jacket he’d painted himself.