Birgit Maass

Birgit Maass (born in November 1968 in Hamburg, Germany) is a German-British journalist living in London. She is the UK correspondent for Deutsche Welle.
Before she moved to London Birgit Maass studied Cultural Studies and Media at the University of Lüneberg. She has worked for German state broadcasters all over the world working on documentaries like Gepanscht, gestreckt, gefälscht in 2002.
Maass' TV report Victims of Youth Violence was nominated for the FPA awards 2019 in the category TV/ Radio Report by a full member of the Foreign Press Association. In 2016 she founded the social media activist group Hug A Brit with Tessa Szyszkowitz, Katie Lock and Paul Varga in order to keep Britain in the European Union. The campaign went viral in April 2016 and added a human touch to the Brexit campaign which divided the United Kingdom: "Only love can help Britain from leaving the EU", said the German daily Die Welt in its report . She also was quoted by TheDrum saying: "No Brit was harmed." In the run-up to the EU referendum Maass hugged Nigel Farage on BBC television.
Hug A Brit was nominated for the Europe State Award 2016 by the Austrian ministry for Foreign and European Affairs. The Europe State Award is an acknowledgement of initiatives that contribute towards promoting understanding of the EU and cohesion in Europe.
Birgit Maass also comments regularly on British and European affairs on British media and German speaking media.

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