Claudia J. Koestler is an award-winning journalist and works, when not podcasting during her spare time, as a senior editor at the Süddeutsche Zeitung, Germany’s leading nationwide premium newspaper. 
Born in Upstate New York, ‘Over Here, Over There’ (OHOT) host Dan Harris has had a varied career in politics, investment banking and high technology on both sides of the Atlantic. He is now a podcaster, management consultant, and a guest contributor on BBC radio/TV. He proudly boasts US, UK and Italian citizenship, although if he could complete his ancestral quest and obtain an Irish passport, he’d die happy.
Having lived in the UK and Europe off and on since 1979, Dan can’t help being interested in comparative culture. It’s had its ups and downs to be sure, but it continues to feel like an extended vacation without a return ticket home. With his increasing number of passports affording him multiple identities, he feels obligated to look at things from different people’s perspectives. It also makes life a heck of a lot more interesting. He also self-identifies as a permanent 39-year-old and is a lifelong Boston Celtics and Chelsea FC fan, which no doubt will spark plenty of conversation among other things.
But you are not here for the dry facts, are you? So here are a bit more juicy details: She was born and partly raised in Bad Tölz in Bavaria, Germany. As a teenager and young adult, Claudia spent significant time abroad, mainly in Great Britain, Iceland, and the US. At university, she enrolled in Scandinavian, English, and German studies and literature, first in Cologne, Germany, then – thanks to a grant by the DAAD – in Reykjavík, Iceland. Before she became a full-time journalist and editor, Claudia worked internationally as a writer for stage and screen, and she translated books and movies as well as working as a manager and consultant for artists, actors, and musicians. She also has traveled extensively, including frequently to various European countries, the US, and Africa, and still likes to do so, when her day job or her podcasting passion allows.
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Born in Upstate New York, ‘Over Here, Over There’ (OHOT) host Dan Harris has had a varied career in politics, investment banking and high technology on both sides of the Atlantic. He is now a podcaster, management consultant, and a guest contributor on BBC radio/TV. He proudly boasts US, UK and Italian citizenship, although if he could complete his ancestral quest and obtain an Irish passport, he’d die happy.
Having lived in the UK and Europe off and on since 1979, Dan can’t help being interested in comparative culture. It’s had its ups and downs to be sure, but it continues to feel like an extended vacation without a return ticket home. With his increasing number of passports affording him multiple identities, he feels obligated to look at things from different people’s perspectives. It also makes life a heck of a lot more interesting. He also self-identifies as a permanent 39-year-old and is a lifelong Boston Celtics and Chelsea FC fan, which no doubt will spark plenty of conversation among other things.