How do young people think and feel during times of crisis? For the eighth edition of our MutWe traveled through Germany with magazines, collecting voices and moods to get answers to this question.
In the face of climate change and war, a large portion of Germans are fleeing reality, as a recent survey by the Cologne-based Rheingold Institute has assessed the situation in Germany. More than 90 percent of all respondents in East and West stated that they design their homes as a safe haven.
But our team of reporters encountered many young people all over Germany who are not content with sitting on the couch at home. Among them are astonishing personalities like fifteen-year-old Quentin Gärtner, who in Stuttgart demanded tougher measures against the climate crisis in front of 30,000 people. Nathalia Neumann, 20, who identifies as „left-wing and lesbian“ and campaigns for tolerance and a youth parliament in her hometown of Zittau, acts with similar fearlessness. Likewise Jakob Springfeld, 21, from Zwickau, who has been pelted with firecrackers when railing against racism and right-wing extremists – and this in eastern Germany, where according to a survey by the University of Leipzig, every second person „wishes for a single strong party that embodies the national community.“.
18 daily newspapers are placing our Mutmagazine with a circulation of 800,000 copies. Their interest shows how great the need for orientation is. Because in Mut We don't just denounce grievances and then leave our readers to deal with them. We also look for answers and new perspectives.
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