The ACG regularly hosts discussions with journalists based in Berlin regarding the topics making the headlines and shaping political discourse. With the U.S. midterms just weeks away, join us for a special edition of the Kaffeepause on the latest developments in U.S. politics and in the nation’s capital. On Monday, October 26, at 9:00 am ET we’ll talk to Gregor Schwung, U.S. Correspondent for Die Welt.
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Virtual: Kaffeepause: What’s Abuzz in Berlin?
October 26 @ 9:00 am - 10:00 am EDT
Gregor Schwung is the U.S. correspondent for WELT. He earned a bachelor’s degree in political science and economics in Heidelberg before moving to Berlin to pursue a master’s degree in North American Studies. From 2017 to 2020, he produced the podcast Politik mit Schwung and, in 2020, worked as a freelance reporter for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
From 2021 to 2022, he completed his journalism training at the FreeTech Axel Springer Academy of Journalism and Technology. In 2023, he joined the foreign policy department at WELT and WELT AM SONNTAG as an editor. He subsequently reported from Washington as a U.S. correspondent in fall 2024 and the first half of 2025, before serving as a foreign policy correspondent in Berlin from July 2025 to June 2026. Since July 2026, he has been back in Washington as WELT’s U.S. correspondent.