Angela Merkel: Publisher publishes publication date – and the cover

2024-05-13 11:35:31

Literature “Memories 1954-2021”

“Freedom” in the title – Merkel’s memoirs will be published in November

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Angela Merkel and her co-author Beate Baumann (left) in 2016

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“Freedom. “Memories 1954–2021” is the name Angela Merkel calls her biography, which is scheduled to be published this fall. The ex-Chancellor will provide information about her life in the GDR and also in reunified Germany, the publisher said.

It will be published simultaneously in 30 countries: The memoirs of former Chancellor Angela Merkel will be published on November 27th. The book is called “Freedom. Memories 1954–2021″, said the publisher Kiepenheuer & Witsch continue with.

Merkel wrote her memoirs with her long-time political office manager Beate Baumann. It is intended to cover her time in the GDR as well as in reunified Germany.

The publisher quoted the former Chancellor as saying that the topic of “freedom” had occupied her throughout her life. This applies politically because “without democracy there is no freedom, no rule of law, no respect for human rights”. But she also wanted to personally test her limits. “For me, freedom is not having to stop learning, not having to stand still, but being able to keep going, even after leaving politics,” the 69-year-old was quoted as saying.

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Publisher Kerstin Gleba promotes the publication with these words: “Yours (Angela Merkels, d. Red.) Political memoirs offer readers the historic opportunity to gain personal insights into the background and motives of Angela Merkel’s political work and to understand how her political decisions came about. Without a doubt, an important document of contemporary international history is being created here.”

One of the “most important leaders of our time”

Merkel, Gleba continued, is one of the “most important leaders of our time”. She brings seven decades of eventful history to life in her memoirs. “Your memories open our eyes to the possibilities, the challenges, but above all to the strengths of our democracy.”

Merkel, now 69 years old, did not run for the 2021 federal election after 16 years as chancellor. Born in Hamburg, she grew up in the GDR, studied physics and was politically active since the time of political upheaval in the East. In 1990 she was elected to the Bundestag. She was Minister for Women and later Minister for the Environment. From 2000 to 2018 she led the CDU.

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After 16 years in power, she has now largely withdrawn from the public eye. In April 2023, the CDU politician was awarded the “Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in a special version” by Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier. The former party leader did not take part in the CDU party conference last week.