Philip Oltermann  Philip Oltermann (born 1981, Schleswig-Holstein) is a German-born British journalist and the current chief of "The Guardian"'s Berlin bureau. He is the author of "How to Write" (2012), "Keeping Up with the Germans: A History of Anglo-German Encounters" (2012), and "The Stasi Poetry Circle" (2020). Oltermann read English and German literature at Oxford University. Oltermann has written for both German and English-language newspapers, including "Granta", "London Review of Books", "Prospect", "The Nation" and "Süddeutsche Zeitung", and others. His book "Keeping Up with the Germans" was well received. He has been the "Guardian"'s bureau chief in Berlin since 2016.