The long-awaited memoir by one of the most important political leaders of our timeFor 16 years, Angela Merkel bore the governmental responsibility for Germany, leading the country through numerous crises and shaping German and international politics and society with her actions and attitude. But Angela Merkel was not born a Chancellor. In her memoirs, co-written with her long-standing political advisor Beate Baumann, she looks back on her life in two German states – 35 years in the GDR (German Democratic Republic), 35 years in reunified Germany. More personally than ever before, she talks about her childhood, youth, and her studies in the GDR, and the dramatic year of 1989, when the Wall fell and her political life began. She shares insights into her meetings and conversations with the world's most powerful leaders and elucidates, with clear and precise examples, significant national, European, and international turning points and how decisions were made that shape our times. Her book offers a unique insight into the inner workings of power – and is a decisive plea for freedom.“What does freedom mean to me? This question has occupied me my entire life. Naturally, politically, because freedom needs democratic conditions, without democracy there is no freedom, no rule of law, no protection of human rights. But this question also occupies me on another level. Freedom, for me, is finding out where my own limits are, and pushing my own limits. Freedom is for me not to stop learning, not to have to stand still but to be allowed to continue, even after leaving politics.” - Angela Merkel
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Freedom: Memories 1954 – 2021
von Anonymous GWAL, Angela Merkel
The long-awaited memoir by one of the most important political leaders of our timeFor 16 years, Angela Merkel bore the governmental responsibility for Germany, leading the country through numerous crises and shaping German and international politics and society with her actions and attitude. But Angela Merkel was not born a Chancellor. In her memoirs, co-written with her long-standing political advisor Beate Baumann, she looks back on her life in two German states – 35 years in the GDR (German Democratic Republic), 35 years in reunified Germany. More personally than ever before, she talks about her childhood, youth, and her studies in the GDR, and the dramatic year of 1989, when the Wall fell and her political life began. She shares insights into her meetings and conversations with the world's most powerful leaders and elucidates, with clear and precise examples, significant national, European, and international turning points and how decisions were made that shape our times. Her book offers a unique insight into the inner workings of power – and is a decisive plea for freedom.“What does freedom mean to me? This question has occupied me my entire life. Naturally, politically, because freedom needs democratic conditions, without democracy there is no freedom, no rule of law, no protection of human rights. But this question also occupies me on another level. Freedom, for me, is finding out where my own limits are, and pushing my own limits. Freedom is for me not to stop learning, not to have to stand still but to be allowed to continue, even after leaving politics.” - Angela Merkel
Aktuelle Rezensionen(1)
Rezension von Nick LangeEingangs möchte ich erwähnen, dass ich mich vor den vorgezogenen Bundestagswahlen 2025 nur sporadisch mit Politik beschäftigt habe. Trotzdem stand für mich fest, nachdem ich dieses Buch erstmals in der Buchhandlung gesehen habe, dass ich es unbedingt lesen muss, weil mich die Person Angela Merkel interessiert. Vor dem Lesen habe ich mir gewünscht mehr über die private Frau Merkel zu erfahren. Diese Erwartungen wurden meiner Meinung durchaus erfüllt, auch wenn es zu 95% um die politischen Entscheidungen und Debatten geht, die Frau Merkel in ihrer Laufbahn bewältigen musste. Aber auch diese zeigen welche Eigenschaften ihr als Mensch wichtig sind. Ich kreide es meiner bisherigen Verschlossenheit der Politik gegenüber an, dass ich mich mit einigen Kapiteln schwer getan habe und froh war, dass ich diese letztendlich überwunden hatte. Grund dafür waren wahrscheinlich auch die vielen Namen, Daten, Gesetzesnamen oder auch Abkürzungen, die den Lesefluss ein wenig hemmten. Aber ich denke, wenn einem Literatur aus der Politik nicht fremd ist, sollte dies kein Problem darstellen bzw. dann ist es erwartbar. Nichtsdestotrotz bekommt man einen Blick hinter die Kulissen einer Bundeskanzlerin, die so mit Sicherheit einmalig sind. Ich würde dieses Buch weiterempfehlen an LeserInnen, die es auch schaffen an vermeintlich nicht sehr spannenden Punkten ein Buch weiterzulesen und es nicht sofort aufgeben. Rating 3,5/5