Frank Schumann

Frank Schumann is a culture writer for Unsere Zeit, the newspaper of the German Communist Party. Born in the German Democratic Republic, Schumann is a graduate of the journalism program at Karl Marx University and was a well-known news and television personality in the GDR. Schumann was an editor of Junge Welt and Die Weltbühne newspapers. He edited the weekly Berliner Linke for several years and authored numerous books on the history and culture of the former socialist state. Before his career as a journalist, Schumann was a glassworker.