Dr. Claus Hecking
US Correspondent, Reporter, Author.
My passion is my profession.
Journalism
Since 2024, I have been the US Science and Technology Correspondent of DER SPIEGEL, Europe´s leading news magazine and www.spiegel.de, Germany´s leading news website.
Between 2020 and 2024, I worked for DER SPIEGEL´s economic and science desks. Between 2017 and 2020, I worked for CAPITAL, Germany´s premier business magazine. From 2015 to 2016, I was an economic reporter for DIE ZEIT, Germany´s largest weekly newspaper. From 2012 to 2014, I worked for CAPITAL and SPIEGEL ONLINE.
My main topics are Science, Technology, Mobility, Energy, Climate and Environment.
Between 2005 and 2012, I worked for FINANCIAL TIMES DEUTSCHLAND as a finance correspondent, as a reporter and as an EU/NATO correspondent. Before that, I worked for BMW corporate communications and for DEUTSCHE WELLE, Germany international TV and radio broadcaster. During university, I was a freelancer for FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG, WELT AM SONNTAG and TAGESSPIEGEL, amongst others.
Studies
I studied business administration, law and political science in Muenster, Madrid und Brussels. After my PhD about the Belgian nationality conflict, I wrote a book about Belgium´s political system.
International
I used to live in Madrid, Brussels and Rio de Janeiro, and I spent a couple of months in each Rome, Lisbon and Dallas. This is why I speak English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch and Italian fluently.