Klaus Stimeder  Klaus Josef Stimeder (aka JM Stim), (* March 17, 1975 in Schaerding, Austria) is an author and a journalist who lives in Los Angeles, California. In Germany and Austria the former war correspondent became known as the founder and publisher of political monthly "Datum". In the US and Canada he is mostly known for his 2011 book "Here is Berlin". Stimeder grew up in the Upper Austrian village of Obernberg am Inn. During his childhood and teenage years Stimeder's biggest influence was his uncle Franz Martin who was living in Salzburg. In the seventies and eighties many contemporary Austrian artists and writers gathered in Martin's apartments (e.g. ) whose works and lifestyles had a big impact on Stim (i.e. H. C. Artmann for whose readings Martin had been delivering the musical support for many years, Thomas Bernhard, Peter Handke, Lucas Suppin and painter Kiki Kogelnik). Stimeder started a career in journalism in 1998 at Format magazine for which he covered the war in Kosovo, Northern Ireland, Israel and the Palestinian territories and the aftermath of Hurricane Mitch in Nicaragua. In 2000 he went to New York City to intern at German-language weekly New Yorker Staats-Zeitung. While in New York Stimeder learned about the New York Times' Code of Ethics and the work of The New Yorker's fact-checking-department. Based on these experiences he later wrote the first-ever Code of Ethics for an Austrian periodical. After covering the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq he interned at Berlin daily Tagesspiegel, before joining Der Standard as a sports reporter. While working at Der Standard Stimeder met London-based financial consultant Johannes Weyringer with whom he founded DATUM – Seiten der Zeit. Datum's editorial concept was based on The New Yorker and German weeklies Die Zeit and Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin. The first issue was published in Vienna in May 2004. As publisher and editor Stimeder won over renowned artists, politicians, actors and scientists as contributors, i.e. Actionist painter Günter Brus, EU commissioner Johannes Hahn, actor Karl Markovics, philosopher Franz Schuh and quantum physicist Anton Zeilinger. He also co-initiated a series of literary events ("Datum presents") that brought Chuck Palahniuk, Ian Rankin, Sven Regener, Juli Zeh, FM Einheit of Einstürzende Neubauten to Austria's Capital.