Angela Merkel, we say. In a remarkable Interview with the “time” has spoken to the German Chancellor’s unusually open about her life as a woman and as an East German. The conversation reads like a small Revolution. The Chancellor is on your days of old even a feminist? Want to make your peace with the East Germans? And why now?
Angela Merkel has always refused to be a certain group in Germany to belong to. Even now, she stresses again that it is “the Chancellor of all people in Germany”. But it applies in this conversation, but much more clearly than in the past with a group of women and in the group of East Germans.
“We are experiencing disadvantages,” she says of the women. And: “We East Germans (…) are in a Phase in which one looks back.” Angela Merkel is committed to your biography, and thus to a certain degree of subjectivity. You give up, what was their logo: their state-neutrality.
Angela Merkel as Chancellor, more and more an Institution than a Person. This neutrality was always its great strength and its great weakness. The state was politically the right thing with no one particular group have in common. For women and also for East German? – it was frustrating.
the Two groups will still always denied social equality. Angela Merkel could have been a bit of recognition, their Power, their influence is transmitted. But they did not. Hardly any targeted for the promotion of women in the party, even if they had Ursula von der Leyen, a free Hand. In relation to East Germany gave Merkel reconciliation of capital that they brought qua biography.
In recent times, now Merkel has abandoned-especially with regard to women’s policy, your back posture, at least rhetorically. Yet in W20-summit in Berlin in 2017, where she performed among others with Christine Lagarde, she refused to describe herself as a feminist.
you still does. However, at last she quipped on the “English Parliament” of the young Union from the Podium way against the men’s club (“women enrich the life”) and called on the occasion of 100 years of women’s right to vote “parity”. In the Union, something changes. Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, the topic of “women in politics goes to” offensive.
A commitment to the biography is wisely
Why is Angela Merkel right now, your neutrality? Is the expression of a certain Invulnerability to the end of your term of office? This is a piece of liberation from the Bunker of the office, the desire to explain, to be a Person, with a view to posterity?
In any case, the turn makes tactical sense. In the East of Germany is elected. As in no other Region of Germany, the people contend here with the CDU, especially with the uncompromising Chancellor, and their refugee policy. East German politician, see at breakaway electorate a willingness for the CDU to return, but are not sure whether the voters would come back to Merkel. In this Situation, understanding and a commitment to the biography are strategically wise.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel frustrations understands “” in East Germany
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the Same for the women. The Union and long also Merkel – cut case of voters for a long above average, this woman bonus weakens. So it’s time for a “We”. But who is the real Angela Merkel? This question is, and remains, a mystery.
