Miriam Hollstein was born in 1970 in Karlsruhe, and studied journalism, romance studies, and film studies in Berlin and Montreal. She wrote for the Berliner Zeitung while still a student and worked as an editor for Internationale Politik. She worked as a foreign reporter for the Welt am Sonntag, and from 2006-2014 was a WELT-Gruppe’s domestic policy editor and reporter. From 2015-2020 she worked for the Bild am Sonntag, first as domestic policy and them from 2018 as chief reporter politics. Her reporting brought her into regular contact with the office of the German Chancellor. Since march 2020 she works as a freelance writer and moderator.

In 2009 she published the first graphic biography of Angela Merkel, entitled “Miss Tschörmanie,” together with illustrator Heiko Sakurai. She appears regularly on the German news program „Phoenix“, where she speaks on political and societal issues. She regularly travels internationally for reporting assignments. In addition, she was a 2005 Marshall Memorial Fellow, a 2008 McCloy stipend holder, and was recognized in 2015 by the DEFA Stiftung (German Film Corporation Foundation) for her contribution to the preservation of German film heritage. Miriam lives in Berlin.