Postcard view: lighthouse near List
Image: Frank Lukasseck
One Germany, please. How you can get from Munich to Westerland and everything that goes through your head is described by our reporter from the regional train diagonally across the country.
Dhe original request we received four weeks ago was: as soon as the 9-euro ticket is available, we should drive from southern Germany up north, from Berchtesgaden or Sonthofen to Flensburg. A lot has happened since then. The federal government’s action, limited to three months, fired the imagination of the citizens like nothing from political Berlin for a long time. There isn’t a newspaper that hasn’t asked at least one intern to look at the practical effects of the ticket or sent it on a trip to Germany on a regional train, including a live blog.
However, the counter-movement set in immediately, especially on social media, which are known for their defeatism. With biting irony, for example, a colleague wrote to the “Tageszeitung” on May 23: “I’m already looking forward to all the testimonials where journalists went everywhere for 9 euros a month.” The tweet was liked many times, including one esteemed colleagues from the department from which we received the suggestion for the text. In fact, you can ask yourself what the added value of such field reports is. Ever since Twitter has existed, everyone has known which journalist is stuck at which station or what the person sitting next to him is yelling into his mobile phone in the quiet zone.