Daniel is a senior German journalist, born in Munich into a Jewish Shoah survivor family. He came to the UK in 1991, initially to study at SOAS. He is the contractual Great Britain Correspondent of taz, die Tageszeitung, Germany’s socio-critical, independent, left of centre daily newspaper.

He covered the entire period of the UK referendum on Brexit and its aftermaths and the Conservative-led years since 2010 as well as the ascendancy of Keir Starmer, including the challenges of antisemitism in the Labour Party. He has also reported from other international locations, including Sierra Leone, Grenada, Jersey and Israel.

His reports from the regions of Great Britain inside taz have become characteristic in their ability to allow local voices to come to the forefront. He also works a.o. for the German Jewish Jüdische Allgemeine.

He is the author of the two-part book series Zol Zayn Shulem (in German “Soll sein Schulem”) published in 2025 which documents the story of his family before, during and after the Shoa (Holocaust).

He graduated from SOAS in Politics of Africa and History of the “Modern Third World”, and holds two postgraduate master degrees, from Goldsmiths College (Contemporary Urban Studies) and Brunel University (Sports Coaching). Amongst others, between 2005 and 2011, he worked for Oasis of Peace UK, supporting the Israeli-Jewish – Palestinian Peace Village and its institutions.

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