Roger Boyes

Roger Boyes ( born August 7, 1952 in Hereford ) is a British journalist and author. Since 1993, he reported as a correspondent for the British newspaper The Times from Germany. The German-speaking public, he was known primarily for his bitingly ironic cultural anthropological considerations of the Germans from the perspective of a foreigner.

Boyes studied at the prestigious King's College, London, Political Science, German and Swedish. He then worked in the 1970s for the news agency Reuters and the Financial Times. In 1981, he joined the Times and worked for them as a correspondent in Warsaw and Rome. In 1993 he came to the same function to Germany and reported from Bonn, from 1999, then from Berlin.

For the daily newspaper Der Tagesspiegel, he started there, write down his observations about the city and the Germans in the column My Berlin. In 2006 he published his bestselling book "My dear Krauts " and 2007 was followed by the sequel "How To Be A " in the book trade.