Ex-Chancellor: Merkel’s memoirs are to be published in autumn 2024

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Merkel’s memoirs are due to be published in autumn 2024

Ex-Chancellor Angela Merkel wants to publish her memoirs – but that will take time. photo

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It’s supposed to be exclusive and personal when the ex-Chancellor publishes her political memoirs. Her announcement sounds as if she wants to explain herself in it.

Ex-Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) wants to publish her political memories in a book in autumn 2024. The publisher announced on Thursday that the memoirs, written together with Beate Baumann, her long-time political adviser, would give an exclusive, personal insight into Merkel’s political life and work.

Merkel wrote in the publisher’s statement: “I am pleased to be able to reflect on the central decisions and situations of my political work in my book, written together with Beate Baumann, and to make them understandable to a broad public, also with recourse to my personal history.”

Merkel, now 68, did not run for the federal elections last September after 16 years as chancellor.

The publisher of Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Kerstin Gleba, explained that Merkel had led the country through dramatic crises and “shaped German and international politics and society in a unique way with her actions and attitude”. Her memoirs offer “the historic opportunity to gain personal insight into the background and motives of Angela Merkel’s political work and to understand how her political decisions came about”. Gleba announced: “There is no doubt that an important document of international contemporary history is being created here.” According to Kiepenheuer & Witsch, they have secured the world rights to Merkel’s memoirs.

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