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Joshua Beer, Berlin
That’s why they’re gathered here, that’s why they’re discussing whether the party can still be saved or whether it’s already lost. And yet many avoid her name as if it were some sinister incantation. “The unspeakable,” jokes Lorenz Gösta Beutin, vice-chairman of the left. She is like “Lady Voldemort in this room”. And indeed: when one of the speakers dares to name her anyway – Sahra Wagenknecht – the microphone goes off and the light dims. Laughter in the hall, the woman is so powerful! Otherwise there is little to laugh about at the crisis meeting of the so-called “progressive left”.