Deputy Government Spokesperson
Martina Fietz is Deputy Government Spokesperson. It is her job to inform the public about the work of the German government.
Martina Fietz
Photo: Federal Government/Kugler
comes from Oberhausen (North Rhine-Westfalia)
1966 – 1979
Primary and secondary school
1976 – 1977
Walnut Hill School, Natick, Massachusetts, USA with an ASSIST scholarship
1979 – 1985
Freelance work for the newspaper NRZ and the public broadcasters WDR, ZDF
1979 – 1984
Studied history, political science and publishing. Obtained master’s degree from the Ruhr University, Bochum
1985 – 1999
Trainee, deputy manager of Auslands-Report and as of 1991 parliamentary correspondent for the newspaper "Die Welt" in Bonn
1999 – 2002
Head of the "Bunte" correspondents’ office in Berlin
2002 – 2004
Parliamentary correspondent for the newspaper "Welt am Sonntag"
2004 – 2010
Chief correspondent for "Cicero", the German magazine for politics and culture
2010 – 2018
Chief correspondent for the online news magazine "FOCUS Online"
since April 2018
Deputy Government Spokesperson