Ulf Buermeyer

Ulf is probably best known for his podcast on current affairs, "Lage der Nation", which he co-hosts with his friend and colleague Philip Banse. With about 1.5 million downloads per month Lage der Nation is Germany’s most popular weekly podcast on politics.

Ulf studied law in Leipzig, Berlin & Paris and worked at various courts, including the German Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe where he clerked for Justices Hassemer and Vosskuhle. In 2024 he quit his life tenure position on the bench of Berlin's Superior Court to work as a journalist at Lage der Nation while also writing for major German media outlets like Zeit online, Der Freitag & Süddeutsche Zeitung.

Other than in legal and political issues Ulf is deeply interested in computer science & software engineering. He's been writing software since he got a C64 for his 10th birthday. At present he codes mostly for iOS & Mac and builds backends and web applications. For example, he loves free & open maps, so he wrote OpenStreets, a free iOS app that showcases various maps using OpenStreetMap data.