Berlin – Angela Merkel comes from a famous – Catholic country, completely foreign – German institution: the Protestant parsonage. Hundreds of well-known celebrities emerged from these strict, educational and advancement-oriented centers of practiced Protestantism, which were always watched by the public. They range from Gotthold Ephraim Lessing to Friedrich Nietzsche to Hermann Hesse, from the RAF terrorist Gudrun Ensslin to the Nazi martyr Horst Wessel, from Wilhelm Busch to Christoph Hein – from the savage rebel to the morally saturated intellectual worker to the ethical pragmatist.
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