Timeline

Juan Guse: Where and How to Begin? Writer Juan Guse puts Mann’s essay on trial and states in his contribution: It did not age well. Whether it is the cultural essentialism or the way Mann deals with the Shoa, does Germany and the Germans withstand a critical reading from today’s perspective?

Jagoda Marinić on German Feelings of Superiority Novelist, playwright and journalist Jagoda Marinić asks if there is a German feeling of moral entitlement through self-criticism?

Olga Grjasnowa on why “Germany still wrangles with the Concept of Nation” Writer Olga Grjasnowa asks: “Who has the right to belong to the German nation and who does not?”