Markus Feldenkirchen was educated at Albertus Magnus Grammar School in Bergisch Gladbach, where he took his Abitur examinations (A-level equivalent).
[3] Feldenkirchen joined Martin Schulz to report on the five final months of the electoral campaign for the Bundestag (German Federal Parliament) in 2017.
The portrayal of Barack Obama in The New Yorker served as a model for the feature story written by Feldenkirchen in November 2016.
The book tells the story of a successful banker, who receives a letter that reminds him of first love and thus makes him feel nostalgic.
The novel portrays a conservative man who falls in love with an independent young woman and wavers in his moral values.