Everything changed with Vladimir Putin’s attack on Ukraine. Or as Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock put it the morning after Russia’s invasion: “Today we woke up in a different world”. In Germany, this caesura is affecting a new generation of politicians. Not only Annalena Baerbock is one of them, but also politicians like Lars Klinbeil or Christian Lindner. Suddenly this generation of the “supple”, who has only known peace so far and who hasn’t attracted attention because of the fact that she has a particularly high profile dealing with crises and world catastrophes.
What kind of politician is this? The writer Nora Bossong knows that. Because she has them in her new book The Supple Ones: My Generation and the New Seriousness of Life portrayed. She judges: You’ve been busy with yourself for too long. About that, about freedom, comfortable politics and the question of how Nora Bossing actually sees her own role, she has something to say about it Friday-Spoke to editor Maxi Leinkauf.
The conversation was recorded on March 1, 2022.