Christine Schoefer is a Berlin-born German American writer and educator who likes to think about everyday life in the larger context of politics and culture. After getting her PhD in Political Science at UC Berkeley (“A Public Voice: Literature and Politics in East Germany”), she wrote on topics ranging from German unification to Holocaust commemoration and Neo Nazis.
Raising three daughters, her interests shifted. She wrote essays about a wide range of subjects including family life and parenting, Harry Potter, energy vampires, and Kleptomania. For the German radio station Westdeutscher Rundfunk, she did interview features with Americans scholars and artists including Art Spiegelman, Ursula Hegi and Michael Rogin.
Christine has written as a freelancer for many US outlets; including The Nation, Salon, the San Francisco Chronicle, the LA Times, the Chicago Tribune, California Magazine, Pacific News Service and the Bay Area’s public radio station KQED. In Germany, her work has been featured by Berliner Zeitung, Tageszeitung, and various radio stations.
Her just completed memoir Bridging: My Cold War Life is a story of personal transformation that unfolds in divided Berlin and the United States.
Christine lives in Berkeley, California and the small German village of Rodenäs, with her husband. Their grown daughters also live bi-culturally.