The New Germany S03E05: Social Transformation: What is German?

Geschichte ist Gegenwart! Der History & Politics Podcast der Körber-Stiftung

  • History
  • Politics
  • 53 min.
  • 70. episode

Season 3, episode 5 of our six-part series The New Germany with historian Katja Hoyer and journalist Oliver Moody is about the fact that Germany's society has changed - and not just in terms of its identity. Both external and internal influences, such as demographic shifts, globalization, geopolitical crises, and immigration, influence lifestyles and societal life. In addition, the German division and reunification have shaped regional differences within the population. How has the societal life in Germany changed? What effects and challenges does society face today? Is German society more polarised? And how can a common basis for living together be created?

Guest: Jagoda Marinić, Author and Political Commentator

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“So the whole immigration story of Germany itself is being deleted by the kids of those immigrant itself. Which is sometimes self-assimilation, a form of not be part of who they were and take the power and strength to change a country, to change the narratives of a country. And that’s why I don’t like Migrationshintergrund because it means that there is something dubious about migration in your background, somewhere in the back, but in the front you are somehow German.”

Jagoda Marinić

Author and Political Commentator

Artwork: Geschichte ist Gegenwart! Der History & Politics Podcast der Körber-Stiftung

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