Christiane Hoffmann studied Slavic Studies, Eastern European history and journalism. After her studies she worked at the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung for many years, where she was a correspondent in Moscow, Tehran and Berlin. She maintains some of the contacts she made there, including in Ukraine and Russia, to this day. As an author at SPIEGEL, she specialized in foreign and security policy, until she took up the position of First Deputy Spokesperson of the Federal Government and Deputy Head of the Press and Information Office of the Federal Government in 2022. Hoffmann focuses in depth on displacement, loss of homeland and new beginnings.
In January 2020, she spent seven weeks retracing her father's 550 km escape route from the Red Army in 1945. She records her experiences and diverse encounters in her book "Alles, was wir nicht erinnern" (Everything we don't remember), warning of the horrors of war. The flight of millions of people from the war in Ukraine reminds Hoffmann of her father's flight. She views her position as First Deputy Spokesperson, therefore also as "another opportunity to help shape the future." Further, she warns against disinformation from Russia, which is a concrete threat to democracy.
