In his remarkable career as a journalist, Werner Sonne has reported on some of the most significant changes in our world. As radio and TV correspondent for the German channel ARD, he covered German chancellors Willy Brandt, Helmut Schmidt, Helmut Kohl, Gerhard Schroder and Angela Merkel. He followed, from close up, Germany’s emergence from a divided country in the Cold War, traumatized by a terrible, self-inflicted past, unsure of its future, through the process of re-unification to the current position as strongest partner in the European Union, still struggling to find its place in the world. He saw the world from the perspective of a foreign correspondent for 11 years, on both sides of the then still-existing Iron Curtain. In recent years he has covered the Middle East conflict and German involvement in the Afghanistan war.