Tag: Helmut Kohl
Lars Windhorst: The risky business of Lars Windhorst
In Hanover, owners fear for their apartments, in Flensburg, workers are waiting for wages – and then there are tax debts: Investor Lars Windhorst is currently having problems everywhere. Where…
NATO Eastern Expansion: New Book with the Historical Evidence – Politics
In her book, historian Mary E. Sarotte presents the “true history of NATO’s eastward expansion.” A conversation about the motives of politicians in 1990, the strange role of Hans-Dietrich Genscher…
Adam Soboczynski: “Dreamland”: Emigration from Poland and the grumpy Germans – culture
As a child, Adam Soboczynski emigrated from Poland to Germany, i.e. to paradise. “Dreamland” tells the story of a nation that has a lot, especially: a bad mood, in a…
Cease and desist declaration on the “I was picture” book by Kai Diekmann – media
For 15 years, from the beginning of 2001 to the end of 2015, Kai Diekmann was editor-in-chief of Germany’s largest tabloid, or as he would say: “I was Picture.” His…
Who got the big medals with the laurel wreath – opinion
Big crosses and big ceremonies: How Theodor Heuss invented the order for Konrad Adenauer, which the Christian Democrats don’t want to celebrate in the case of Angela Merkel. Ingratitude is…
Alfred Dregger: A biography of the CDU hardliner. – Politics
The authors were aware that it would not be easy to do justice to their “desideratum”, i.e. their desired object, without wanting to sugarcoat something. “Because who seriously wants to…
The doubling of the Chancellery must be canceled. – Culture
The Chancellery in Berlin should be twice as big, for almost a billion euros? Thanks, maybe not right now! From Peter Richter Prudence, reason, no excessive tendency to self-expression: It…
Maassen and the CDU: Where is the border to the right? – Politics
From Jan Bielicki and Iris Mayer Twelve o’clock in the afternoon. The CDU presidium has given party member Hans-Georg Maassen a dramatic ultimatum. The former president of the Federal Office…
Exclusive: Konrad Rufus Müller photographed Chancellor Scholz – culture
Konrad R. Müller has photographed all German heads of government since Adenauer, now Olaf Scholz too. The portrait is the best answer to the question of who the Chancellor actually…
“Time of my life”: The memoirs of Theo Sommer – media
For years he had sweaty hands while writing, Theo Sommer claims in his memoirs, although his boss Marion Gräfin Dönhoff sent him an enthusiastic telegram from Sylt on his first…