Eckart Lohse presents his new book "Die Täuschung. Angela Merkel and her Germans" (book premiere)
Germany is disappointed and Merkel's policies have failed in many areas: Russia, energy supply, defense, integration. The climate-friendly restructuring of the fourth-largest economy has come to a standstill. What looked like stability and for which Germany was internationally envied was often sewn on the edge.
Eckart Lohse has followed Merkel as a journalist since her years in Bonn. For this book, he spoke to numerous politicians about what drove and slowed Merkel down. His insight: adaptation for the sake of maintaining power has characterized the East German government's actions. She lacked the ideas to lead the country into the future.
Dr. Eckart Lohse studied political science, modern history and Romance philology and has been an editor at FAZ/FAS since 1994. Head of the parliamentary editorial department of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung since 2018. Together with Markus Wehner, he was named "Journalist of the Year 2011" by 'Medium Magazin' and author of a 'SPIEGEL' bestseller about Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg.
"Die Täuschung", 320 pages, will be published on September 12, 2024, dtv
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