Jochen Bruchsteiner – born in 1965 – is the FAZ's London correspondent. After graduating in political science and rhetoric he first reported for the ZEIT about the late Kohl years and the first red-green coalition from Bonn and Berlin. He then was sent to Asia by the FAZ where he covered the war in Afghanistan, the developments in India, in the far east and in Australia. In 2005 Die Stunde der Asiaten was published by Rowohlt, where his new book Die Flucht der Briten aus der europäischen Utopie will appear in autumn 2018.