Ulf Buermeyer

Ulf Buermeyer (born 1976 in Osnabrück) is a German jurist and journalist based in Berlin who, since 2016, has co-hosted the political podcast "Lage der Nation" with the journalist Philip Banse. From 2007 to 2024 he was a judge of the state of Berlin, serving mainly in criminal cases at the Landgericht Berlin, and he left judicial service effective 1 August 2024 to work full-time on the podcast. In 2015 he co-founded the Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte (GFF), a non-profit that pursues strategic litigation on human and civil rights, and he was its first chair and a board member until 2025. He holds a doctorate from Goethe University Frankfurt and an LL.M. from Columbia Law School, and he writes for publications including der Freitag, the Süddeutsche Zeitung and ZEIT Online.