Studio 9. The Day with Ricarda Lang and Steffen Mau. Deutschlandfunk Kultur - live from the Humboldt Forum

Here you can experience radio up close, to watch and also to join in the discussion. An engaging conversation about the issues of the day, broadcast throughout the republic, made in the new old centre of Berlin, in the rebuilt City Palace.

Ricarda Lang is a politician with BÜNDNIS 90/DIE GRÜNEN (Alliance 90/The Greens) and has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2021. Together with Omid Nouripour, she was federal chair of her party for over two years, until November 2024. In the summer of 2025, Ricarda Lang completed her Bachelor of Laws at Humboldt University and is now pursuing her master's degree through distance learning while working. In October 2025, her joint book with Steffen Mau was published: “Der große Umbruch. Ein Gespräch über Krisen, Konflikte und Kompromisse” (The Great Upheaval: A Conversation about Crises, Conflicts, and Compromises).

Steffen Mau is a sociologist at Humboldt University in Berlin and the author of several non-fiction bestsellers. His research focuses intensively on the question: Do Germans live in a divided society? In 2021, the professor of macrosociology received the Leibniz Prize from the German Research Foundation. His books “Ungleich vereint. Warum der Osten anders bleibt” (Unequally United: Why the East Remains Different) and “Trigger Points: Consensus and Conflict in Contemporary Society” (together with Thomas Lux and Linus Westheuser). Steffen Mau coined terms such as “polarization entrepreneur” and “change exhaustion.”

- free of charge
- from 11.50 a.m. to 1 p.m. (start of live broadcast at 12.05 p.m.)
- Duration: 70 min
- Language: German
- Location: Mechanical Arena in the Foyer
- Belongs to: Studio 9. Der Tag mit …