Ah, Germany. Is Germany a feeling? If so, it can probably only be expressed in a sigh. As a contemporary feeling, Germany is worrying, incorrigible, and yet somehow solid. It's on the wrong track, and there's disagreement about which one. It's having a hard time—it always has.
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Gefühle am Ende der Welt • Folge 13: DEUTSCHLAND - Gesprächsreihe von und mit Henrike Kohpeiß, Philipp Wüschner und Gästen
The country of skeptics and world champions of remembrance culture has been careening from one impossibility to the next for a few years now, losing not least these two distinctions. Based on the requirement to pull itself together, Germany has, since its inception, claimed an authority of reason that is intended to exclude feeling as much as possible, yet in the process invites it in unintentionally.
Germany, one could diagnose, has gradually moved into a state of psychosis since the maximum emotional regulation of the Merkel years. It may not even recognize itself amidst arms deliveries, social cuts, and hypocrisy.
The feelings that the country that was never meant to be one actually evokes allow for surprising insights in the present.
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May 2025
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