Our guests:

Johannes Staemmler - is an author and academic, born in former East-Germany. He says: "Germany is united, but only on the surface.”

 

 

 

 

Andreas Kluth - is the Germany correspondent of The Economist magazine. He says: "East and West are slowly growing together economically, but they’re growing ever further apart in their psycho-political cultures." 

 

 

 

 

Anna Sauerbrey - is an opinion editor at the Berlin daily Der Tagesspiegel, who also writes for The International New York Times. She says: “We had almost forgotten. But recent attacks and abuse have brought back the ‘ugly East’.”

 

 

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