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Lothar Heinke, a Berlin native, worked as a chief reporter for the East Berlin paper Der Morgen (The Morning) until 1991. After the Wall fell, he joined the metro section of Tagesspiegel, Berlin's leading daily. He wrote about the transformation of Checkpoint Charlie, changes in the former GDR, and Berlin metro stories. In 2005, he published the book Fernsehturm Berlin (The Berlin TV Tower). Even though he is now retired, he continues to work for Tagesspiegel. He lives with his wife in Berlin-Mitte, likes to listen to music (especially classical), loves traveling in Italy, and is a member of the Berlin 1 FC Union soccer club. Eva Claudia Schweitzer works as a correspondent from New York for German papers and is the founder of Berlinica Publishing, a New-York-based publisher devoted to all things Berlin in translation. She has brought Weimar authors to the USA, mainly Kurt Tucholsky and Ernst Toller, and also books about Americans to Berlin, like Mark Twain and Bruce Springsteen. She divides her time between Berlin and New York. She has written twelve books, among them Manhattan Moments, a light-hearted short story collection about life in Manhattan.
Informative and full of anecdotes - a search for angelic traces in the city. -Andreas Conrad, Der Tagesspiegel
