Maybrit Illner invites you to indulge in 2015 nostalgia and tackles a classic topic of political talk: refugees. You don’t learn anything new there, but you do learn something about the zeitgeist.
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John Korsche
To begin with, two facts that at first glance hardly seem to be related. First, bell-bottoms are back in fashion. A few years ago, you wouldn’t have thought that this part of the 1970s would be popular again. Even more so if the forthcoming cannabis legalization would offer completely different starting points. And secondly, the most successful series in the world is StrangerThings, which snuggles up to the 1980s in a transfiguring way. What these two things say about our time: We live in a nostalgic world. Perhaps the editorial team around Maybrit Illner treated themselves to a strong sip from the nostalgia cup that is currently circulating through society when the Thursday broadcast was planned. In any case, reading the motto of the show immediately awakens feelings of 2015: “Less money, more refugees – is Germany still strong enough?”