Melanie Amann


Melanie Amann is a German journalist and lawer. She is head of Berlin departement of German traditional news magazine Der Spiegel.
Melanie Amann grew up in Siegburg. She studied law at the University of Trier, Aix-Marseille III and at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. After her first degree in law Amann studied journalism at Deutsche Journalistenschule in Munich. She worked for Bonner General-Anzeiger and Süddeutschen Zeitung. Amann wrote as editor for Financial Times Deutschland mainly about issues in the middel east. In 2006 she became member of science departement of Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung and wrote mainly about law and woking-law issues.
Since 2011 she holds a Ph.D. in law from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München for a Dissertation about participation of workerks in companies.
Since 2013 Melanie Amann has been editor in the Berlin department of Der Spiegel. Since February 2019 Martin Knobbe and Amann headed the capital-department of Spiegel.

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