Jürgen Trittin

In the organizer's words:

The Green politician reads from his autobiography and talks about half a century of German politics.

As a post-war child, Jürgen Trittin has been a witness and protagonist of German political history since the early 1970s. As a student and squatter, he experienced the social-liberal years, during the Kohl government he helped build up the Greens, was a state minister and paved the way for Green participation in the federal government in 1998 and 2021. He now takes stock along political milestones. His autobiographical reflections are more than just personal and committed testimonies - they are a piece of contemporary history.

Jürgen Trittin talks about the early days of the Greens, his ministerial years in Lower Saxony and the first red-green federal government under Gerhard Schröder, the long years in opposition and finally the cross-party coalition with the SPD and FDP since 2021. At the heart of his book is the concept of a value-driven realpolitik that creates security through change.