Writer and photographer Adam Joachim (A.J.) Goldmann was born in New York City and lives between Berlin and Munich. 

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He is a regular contributor to The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Forward and VAN Magazine. In addition, he has written for Atlantic, Columbia Journalism Review, Liberties, The New Republic, The Guardian, LitHub, and The New Criterion. He has reported about art, film, music, theater, architecture and archeology from a dozen countries in Europe, Russia and the Middle East and interviewed leading cultural figures from Wes Anderson to Sasha Waltz and from Werner Herzog to the Beastie Boys.

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He has been a featured speaker at the German-American Conference at Harvard University, the Komische Oper Berlin, the Teatro Due in Parma, and the Berlin Jewish Museum. He has contributed essays and program notes for Carnegie Hall, the Salzburg Festival, the Royal Opera House, and the Komische Oper Berlin. 

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Mr. Goldmann is a former fellow of the N.E.A. Arts Journalism Institute in Classical Music and Opera and of the Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich Studienwerk Scholarship Program, and a winner of a 2011 Simon Rockower Award for News Reporting. He has taught writing at the School of the New York Times and the Münchner Volkshochschule.​​​