Sabine Adler

After graduating from high school, Sabine Adler completed a newspaper traineeship and studied journalism at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig. After completing her studies in 1987, she worked at the Magdeburg broadcaster, which produced a regional window for Radio DDR II. From 1990 to 1994 she worked for radio ffn and then switched to Deutsche Welle for three years. From 1997 to 1999 she worked at Zeitfunk in the Funkhaus Cologne for Deutschlandfunk and then for five years as Deutschlandfunk correspondent in Russia. During this time, she gathered the material for her 2005 book, “I Should Die a Black Widow”, about Chechen suicide bombers. From 2005 to 2007 she was foreign policy correspondent in the Berlin parliamentary department of Deutschlandradio. In 2007 her second novel, “Russenkind”, was published about the daughter of a Russian woman who grew up in East Germany after the Second World War. From 2007 to 2011, Adler was head of the capital city studio of Deutschlandfunk.

In October 2011, she was appointed Head of Press and Communications at the German Bundestag by Norbert Lammert, President of the Bundestag. In September 2012 she returned to Deutschlandfunk and has since worked for the Deutschlandradio broadcasting group as the Eastern Europe correspondent in Poland, Belarus and Ukraine.

Sabine Adler is a member of Women in International Security (WIIS), a network of women in security and defense policy, of Reporters Without Borders and Executive Director of the ERES Foundation.