Peter Frey was born in 1957 in Bingen, Germany. He studied political science, education and Spanish philology in Mainz and Madrid and obtained his Ph.D. in 1986. During his academic education, he already began working as a journalist for radio and a Frankfurt-based newspaper. In 1983 he joined the German television broadcaster ZDF as editor and reporter for the news magazine “heute-journal”. Since 2001 Frey is editor in chief of the Berlin studios of ZDF.