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Ausgangssperren: Union und SPD wollen Notbremsen-Regelung aufweichen
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Five months before national elections, a Green party that once styled itself as the rebel of German politics is finding itself in an unusually respectable position.
The partyâs standing in the polls â in second place at 21-23% of the vote â means it will on Monday, for the first time in its 41-year history, nominate a candidate for chancellor. Furthermore, that candidate will have a realistic chance of filling the top job in German politics by the end of the year.
A party once notorious for raucous conferences and ideological squabbles is also entering the hot phase of the election race with uncharacteristic unity, watching calmly from the sidelines while its closest competitor, the conservative CDU/CSU bloc, is tearing itself apart over its own choice of candidate.
Durs Grünbein’s The Bars of Atlantis
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010
Despite its brief history, East Germany held potent sway over the Western imagination
Despite its brief history, East Germany held potent sway over the Western imagination; “athletes, spies and writers were three things they seemed worryingly good at producing” as Michael Hofmann put it. Escape artists also belong on that list. Thanks to the steady stream of emigration, the GDR had lost over three million citizens by 1991. In retaliation, the Eastern authorities radically altered their half of Berlin until it was virtually unrecognisable. Aside from the fortifications around the Wall, streets on the red side of the Spree were widened into colossal thoroughfares, or “pure marching zones for the military or the police” as Grünbein writes in “Breaking The Body,” one of the essays in