Miriam Davoudvandi (DE)

Miriam Davoudvandi was born in Bucharest in 1992 to a Romanian mother and an Iranian father and grew up in southern Germany. She is an award-winning freelance journalist, host, and author and hosts the WDR podcast “Danke, gut,” in which she talks with public figures about mental health. She began her journalistic career writing about rap music. Later, she served as editor-in-chief of a hip-hop magazine. Today, her articles on pop culture, politics and mental health appear in all major German media outlets. In 2026, her bestselling non-fiction book “Das können wir uns nicht leisten” was published by btb/Penguin, in which she addresses poverty in Germany.