Christine Brand

Christine Brand (born 11 April 1973, Burgdorf, Switzerland) is a Swiss writer and journalist.

Christine Brand grew up in Oberburg in Emmental.

She completed her training as a teacher at the teachers' seminar in Langenthal.

After an internship at the Berner Zeitung, she became editor there.

From 1996 to 2004, she was editor and court reporter in the department "Canton" of the newspaper The Bund, starting in 2003 with reduced workloads.

From 2003 to 2005, she was Correspondent for Canton and City of Bern of a pool of daily newspapers Basler Zeitung, Aargauer Zeitung, Southeastern Switzerland and St. Galler Tagblatt.

In 2005, she completed an apprenticeship as a television journalist on the editorial board of the "Rundschau" of Swiss television, with two external internships at the Federal Parliament and in Geneva.

From 2006 to 2008 she was editor of the "Rundschau".

From June 2008 until the end of 2017, she was editor at the NZZ am Sonntag in the section "Background and Opinions".

In 2013 she was awarded the Media Prize of the Swiss Bar Association for a court report.

For a report on family killings, she received the media prize of SRG SSR idée suisse.

She teaches courses in journalism at the EB Zürich.

After being signed by Blanvalet publisher of the Random House Publishing, Brand became a self-employed writer in 2017.

Brand is a member of the associations Autorengruppe deutschsprachige Kriminalliteratur – Das Syndikat and Authors of Switzerland.

She lives in Zurich and in Zanzibar.

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