Erschienen in "Berliner Zeitung Magazin", Nr. 70/2013
As teenagers they played sports, or hung out doing nothing. Then they found their vocation. Now Serkan, Ahmet, Rahim and Abd al-Hadi are deeply serious young men: Germany’s new Islamic fundamentalists.
A café in Frankfurt, Germany, is the regular rendezvous of a dwindling handful of senior citizens. They argue, tell jokes, listen to music. Conversational topics range from bienenstich to Birkenau.
Erschienen in "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung", 05.12.12
In 2002, the German government, then social democratic and green, began requiring universities to hire their long-term teaching assistants permanently. The upshot? No more long-term contracts.