Features on these issues provide subjects for discussion and enhance the conversation on Talking Germany. Peter Craven asks Brent Goff about his plans for his new weekly TV magazine show Agenda, in which he discusses current affairs with three guests. The two also talk about relations between Germany and the US and the hard work academic teaching staff face, difficulties Brent Goff is well aware of through his experience as a guest lecturer.

Short Biography

Brent Goff was born in 1972 in Wilson, North Carolina. He grew up on a former tobacco plantation which his grandfather still ran. He became a scholarship student at a boarding school for the gifted in Durham, North Carolina.

A ten-month stay as an exchange student in Saarland awakened his interest in Germany. He returned to Germany as a Fulbright scholar and later as a journalist for CNN, before signing on as a presenter at Deutsche Welle. One reason for that was his enthusiasm for Berlin. In addition, Brent Goff teaches journalism at the Hamburg Media School as a guest lecturer. In his free time he works out under the guidance of a personal trainer in a fitness studio three times a week.