NYT > Jochen Bittner

Jochen Bittner became a contributing opinion writer for The International New York Times in the fall of 2013. Mr. Bittner has been a political editor at the German weekly newspaper Die Zeit since 2001. From 2007 to 2011 he was also the paper’s European and NATO correspondent, based in Brussels. Before joining the newspaper, he worked as a freelance journalist for various publications, including The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Die Welt. Mr. Bittner holds a Ph.D. in legal philosophy from the University of Kiel, where he also lectured on constitutional law. He is the author of three books, including “The I.R.A. on Its Way From Myth to Mafia,” “Profession: Terrorist: A Diary of the New World Disorder” and “Not This Way, Europe!” He lives in Hamburg, Germany, and in Brodersby, a village in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein.