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“ÜberMerkel” – Episode 1
Alice Schwarzer takes stock: What has Angela Merkel achieved for women in Germany?
“As Chancellor, she has also become a fashion role model.” Alice Schwarzer with Angela Merkel in Berlin in 2000.
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31 years ago, Angela Merkel took up her first ministerial office. Since then, not only has she changed politics, but politics has changed her as well. the star In the new podcast series “ÜberMerkel” looks back on more than three decades of Angela Merkel in federal politics – and asks: What remains of her? Guest in the first episode: Alice Schwarzer.
Germany’s best-known feminist takes stock. In the new star-Podcast “ÜberMerkel” speaks Alice Schwarzer With starEditor-in-Chief Anna-Beeke Gretemeier on Angela Merkel’s women’s policy: What has the ex-Chancellor achieved for women in Germany? Schwarzer’s conclusion is more benevolent than one might have expected from Germany’s flagship women’s rights activist.
Alice Schwarzer talks about Angela Merkel
In the podcast, the 79-year-old also reports on her first meeting with Angela Merkel at an Italian in Cologne, an almost forgotten article by Merkel in Schwarzer’s magazine “Emma” (“We women must continue on the march through the institutions and participate in public power !”) and she explains why Angela Merkel called her “quite desperately” after winning the federal election in 2005. You can hear that and more in the first episode of “ÜberMerkel – Telling Trustees”.
“About Merkel – telling stories”
Angela Merkel was Chancellor for 16 years. The first. At the end of 2021 she resigned her post, now there is a man in office. What is left of her? What was she like, the chancellor? How is she as a boss, as a friend, as a feminist? For years, the story of Angela Merkel was mostly told by men. stern– Editor-in-chief Anna-Beeke Gretemeier meets for the podcast “ÜberMerkel – Vertraute recounting” with companions of the former Chancellor – yes, only with women. The conversations show new perspectives and thus draw a very personal audio portrait.
“ÜberMerkel – Familiar stories” appears weekly on Tuesdays at AudioNow, Spotify, iTunes, Amazon Music and everywhere there are podcasts. You can also find all episodes here.
31 years after her start in federal politics and after she left last December, the star in the multi-part podcast series “ÜberMerkel – Familiar Stories” on the unusual career of the ex-Chancellor – and only with women.
In the coming episodes, editor-in-chief Gretemeier will talk to Merkel’s long-time minister Ursula von der Leyen, to Merkel’s friend Annette Schavan and to the last head of state in the GDR, Sabine Bergmann-Pohl, to find out: What was she like, the chancellor? How is she as a boss, as a friend, as a feminist? And what is left of her? The conversations show new perspectives and thus draw a very personal audio portrait.
Sources and additional material for the first episode of “ÜberMerkel”
“ÜberMerkel – Familiar stories” appears weekly on Tuesdays at AudioNow, Spotify, iTunes, Amazon Music and everywhere there are podcasts.