Andrea Böhm

Reviews in leading German media of Böhm's non-fiction books and reports have mentioned her profound knowledge of the countries described, a lively and straightforward narrative style as well as special empathy for ordinary people.

Due to more than 10 years as foreign correspondent in New York and her numerous trips into the lesser known regions of the United States, Böhm published the non-fiction book Die Amerikaner: Reise durch ein unbekanntes Imperium (The Americans: Journey through an Unknown Empire) in 2004.

In her essays about members of the upper class as well as about the social marginalization of many underprivileged Americans, Böhm combined "biographical, historical and political aspects into a comprehensive analysis.

"[3] In the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the academic of African studies Andreas Eckert discussed the non-fiction book Gott und die Krokodile.

[5][6] In a December 2022 article for the Frankfurter Rundschau on the occasion of Böhm's award of the Werner Holzer Prize for Foreign Journalism, her former colleague at Die Zeit, Özlem Topçu, wrote that Böhm always had both geopolitical and climate policy in mind, challenged the "white view of the African continent" and portrayed people in the global South as "acting subjects".