Liebe Mitte der Gesellschaft

In the organizer's words:

The live podcast and talk "Liebe Mitte der Gesellschaft" is dedicated to addressing right-wing tendencies, especially in public institutions. When we talk about home in an intercultural community, it is important to address who actually wants to prevent good coexistence:

"Dear middle of society... At the beginning of 2024: millions of Germans are on the streets. The country is protesting against fascism, misanthropy and the racist plans of an extreme right-wing party. One year later: the traffic light has failed, the firewall is crumbling, the SPD is deporting people on a grand scale and the Greens have a stomach ache, the FDP is blocking, the CDU is forming majorities with a feuding AfD, a fascist is ruling the states, Elon Musk is chatting with Alice Weidel, who is relabeling Hitler as a leftist, Friedrich Merz doesn't know what Bubatz is. What a complete fever dream. Director and playwright Robert Zeigermann has been watching, listening and asking questions for a year and is now rubbing his eyes in amazement. What were we on the streets for again at the beginning of 2024? And what - dear middle of society - are we doing now?

The podcast "Dear Middle of Society" seeks answers to these questions.
What can the center of society do?
Where does this center stand and what is its self-image?
What is the connection between "Nazis secretly eating kebabs" and a tightening of asylum laws?
What is the center doing to stop the shift to the right?
And what is it perhaps not doing?"

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Artistic direction, research and host: Robert Zeigermann
Voice of reason: Yulia Yáñez Schmidt
Sound design, music, post-production: Timo Hein

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This live podcast is part of a Heimatwerkstatt and is funded by the Ministry of Homeland, Municipal Affairs, Building and Digitization.