ANGELALAND

But for heaven’s sake, how did she—the daughter of a Protestant pastor, a woman from the East—become the most powerful politician in the world? And what has she made of us?

Karl-Konrad has come to talk about Angela Merkel. He’s concerned with the authority to interpret events. Wasn’t he one of the fishermen Angela Merkel visited in Stralsund in the 1990s, shortly before they were forced to give up their work? Didn’t he dictate the article for the FAZ that was to bring down Helmut Kohl from the Palatinate and, ultimately, Schäuble from Swabia?

From the margins of society, from the East, author Juliane Hendes has her protagonist describe “our country’s” journey to the here and now. In doing so, she raises the question of how identity and everyday political life are so intertwined that they can no longer be separated. For all of us, one final question remains after the grand send-off for Angela Merkel: And what do we do now?

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