[1] After graduating from high school in Augsburg in 1990, Reitschuster qualified as an interpreter at the scientific center at Moscow State University of Economics, Statistics, and Informatics.

In 2008 he was honored with the Theodor Heuss medal for his "high personal commitment to freedom of expression and assembly and thus for the protection of citizens' rights" in Russia.

[5][6] Since 2015, Reitschuster has been working as a journalist for various media, including Focus, The European,[7] Tichys Einblick[8] and Junge Freiheit[9] as well as a presenter and lecturer.

[11][12] journalist and lawyer Liane Bednarz described Reitschuster on Spiegel Online as the operator of a "blog with right-wing populist bias".

"[14] According to a September 2021 study by the British non-governmental organization Hope not Hate, Reitschuster's page was "among the most shared [on Facebook] by AfD profiles, alongside that of the German offshoot of the Russian state broadcaster RT.