Clara Oldenburg

Industry, competition and the future of German manufacturing.

Clara Oldenburg is a German-born business journalist who spent over a decade covering the automotive and industrial sectors for trade publications in Munich and Stuttgart before turning to long-form nonfiction. Her reporting focuses on the structural shifts inside Mittelstand manufacturing culture — the tension between engineering pride and the speed of Asian and American competitors. She writes with an insider’s affection for German industry and an outsider’s willingness to say when it is getting something wrong.