Bastian Obermayer
German investigative journalist and author
Bastian Obermayer is a Pulitzer Prize-winning German investigative journalist at the Süddeutsche Zeitung. He co-wrote The Panama Papers with his colleague Frederik Obermaier.
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German Born 1977 in Rosenheim, Germany
About Bastian Obermayer
Obermayer was born in 1977 and works for the Munich-based newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung. An anonymous source passed the Panama Papers to him, and he later worked on the Paradise Papers with Frederik Obermaier. He has written several books, including The Panama Papers. In 2017, after a Knight-Wallace Fellowship in Ann Arbor, Michigan, he helped found Forbidden Stories, a non-profit investigative newsroom. With its founder Laurent Richard, he co-initiated the Daphne Project, the first undertaking of Forbidden Stories, which centered on Daphne Caruana Galizia, the Maltese journalist who was killed. Obermayer studied politics, history and American studies in Munich, and also studied journalism at the Deutsche Journalistenschule.