Studio 9. Der Tag mit Georg Mascolo

Georg Mascolo is one of the country’s leading investigative journalists. He served as Editor-in-Chief of Der Spiegel and headed the investigative research cooperation of NDR, WDR, and Süddeutsche Zeitung. His report on the fall of the Berlin Wall was included in UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register. In 2024, together with virologist Christian Drosten, Georg Mascolo published an assessment of the coronavirus pandemic. “Alles überstanden? Ein überfälliges Gespräch zu einer Pandemie, die nicht die letzte gewesen sein wird” (“All Overcome? An Overdue Conversation About a Pandemic That Will Not Be the Last”) is the title of their book. The German-Italian is a trained legal assistant and notary’s clerk. In 2014, he was honored as the political “Journalist of the Year.”

Together with his wife, Katja Gloger, Georg Mascolo published the book “Das Versagen. Eine investigative Geschichte der deutschen Russlandpolitik” (“The Failure: An Investigative History of German Russia Policy”) in 2025. Unfortunately, she had to cancel her planned participation at the Humboldt Forum for personal reasons.