WorldcrunchBorn in Stuttgart in 1989. Studied law in Heidelberg, Berlin and Istanbul, legal traineeship in Berlin and at the German Embassy in Moscow. Worked as a legal scholar in the field of law and democracy. Doctorate (“Integration through Law”, 2023). After working as a business lawyer and stints at ZEIT in Hamburg, she has been a political editor at ZEIT ONLINE since September 2024.
The Chancellor has lost the voters’ trust—and his finger-pointing and failure to take responsibility only deepens the damage. The fallout will be felt far beyond his own tenure and may weigh on Germany for years to come.
The German Parliament has taken up discussion on a bill for an outright ban on the AfD, the country’s increasingly popular far-right party. Here’s the case to remove a political force that wants to dismantle the institutions of democracy from within. Germany, of course, has its own history on the question.