Harald Krieg was born in 1979 in Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt. From 1999 to 2002 he trained to be an offset printer. He than studied journalism and media management at the University of Applied Sciences Magdeburg-Stendal from 2002 to 2006. In 2006 Harald Krieg completed his studies aboard at the Danish School of Journalism in Aarhus, which has had a strong influence on his style of journalism.
