Renate Flottau

Renate Flottau (b. 1944) is the correspondent in the Balkans for the German weekly Der Spiegel. She has been living in Belgrade since the early 1980s and is one of the few Western journalists to have met Osama bin Laden. She won a number of awards for her reports on the War in the Balkans – and was declared persona non grata by Serbia in the 1990s.