On this week's Kaffeepause, Dr. Steven E. Sokol sits down with Annett Meiritz.

Annett Meiritz is an International Correspondent for Handelsblatt in the Berlin office. Previously, she served as the U.S. Correspondent until October 2025. She has worked as Parliamentary Correspondent for Germany’s leading news portal Spiegel Online, based in Berlin. She holds a B.A. degree in Modern History and Media Science and was trained as a journalist at the Berlin Journalism School. She is the co-author of two books on the U.S. — “Guns ‘n Rosé: Conservative Women Conquer the U.S.” (2022) and “The Alliance of the New Right: Make Europe Great Again?” (2025).