Klaus Brill
Having worked as a reporter for Reuters, Klaus Brill joined Süddeutsche Zeitung in 1983 where he was responsible for the German daily's "page 3" feature reports. Since 2005, he has lived in Prague and writes on Central and Eastern Europe.
In a country that has not always been renowned for propriety, Czechs are increasingly calling on etiquette coaches to get rid of the bad manners that marked the communist era. However, as Süddeutsche Zeitung reports, the reign of the Hapsburg monarchy did leave some traces of polite society.