Education
Lentz studied political science, history and economics at the University of Hamburg during his tenure as a career officer in the armed forces.
Lentz studied political science, history and economics at the University of Hamburg during his tenure as a career officer in the armed forces.
His career as a journalist started in 1976, when he joined Der Spiegel, Germany"s weekly news magazine, as a correspondent for military and security affairs In 1981 he became a television reporter, national commentator and presenter of a weekly television program on world affairs with Atmospheric Reentry Demonstrator, Germany"s largest public television and radio station. In 1988, he joined Rundfunk im amerikanischen Sektor-television in Berlin, a joint United States-German radio and television station, becoming editor in chief
He was bureau chief in Brussels for six years, responsible for Deutsche Welle"s radio and television coverage of the creation of the Euro and the enlargement of North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the European Union. In January 1999 he became Bureau Chief and Senior Diplomatic Correspondent for Deutsche Welle Radio and Television in Washington.
As the representative of Germany"s only international broadcaster in the United States, Lentz managed its journalistic, public diplomacy, marketing and regulatory affairs In November 2009, Lentz took over the position as the first Executive Director of the German-American Heritage Foundation of the United States of America and the German-American Heritage Museum of the United States of America located at 719 6th Street Northwest in Washington, District of Columbia Since September 2013, Lentz returned to Berlin to head the Aspen Institute Germany as their Executive Director.
He also holds the position of the president of Atlantic Initiative United States., a non-profit, non-partisan organization founded to promote transatlantic cooperation and strengthen Germany’s foreign policy culture.
Lentz is a board member of the German American Business Council (GABC) and a member of the Atlantik-Brücke, a German-American foundation aimed at enhancing transatlantic relations.