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Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election will change the country: democracy is in danger, observers believe, and society could become more divided. However, Germany is also facing major changes following the collapse of the “traffic light coalition”. A new federal parliament is due to be elected in February 2025. What will both events mean for German politics? The long-serving Governing Mayor of Berlin and current SPD member of the Bundestag Michael Müller and playwright and director Patty Kim Hamilton discuss this with Christiane Florin.
In German only.
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Michael Müller (MdB) and Patty Kim Hamilton in conversation with Christiane Florin
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An event in cooperation with Deutschlandfunk
Chamber Music Hall Upper Foyer
12 €
Biographies
Michael Müller
Social Democratic Party (SPD) politician Michael Müller has been a member of the Bundestag for the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf constituency since 2021. As a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Michael Müller is primarily concerned with foreign and security policy issues; he is also a member of the Subcommittee on Foreign Cultural and Educational Policy and is committed to strengthening international exchange through culture and science. Born in Berlin, he completed a commercial apprenticeship before working for many years in his family’s printing company in Tempelhof. He was also a member of the Tempelhof district council from 1989 to 1996. He has been active in Berlin state politics for 26 years, including seven years as Governing Mayor.
Patty Kim Hamilton
Patty Kim Hamilton writes for the theatre, directs and performs. Her work operates at the intersection of intimacy and politics. Her play Peeling Oranges has received several awards, including the Jane Chambers Prize for Feminist Playwriting, the Nancy Dean Lesbian Playwright Award and the SWR2 Hörspielpreis at the 2021 Heidelberg Stückemarkt. Sex Play premiered at Schauspielhaus Graz and was performed at Theater Bielefeld. Schmerz Camp premiered at the Bremen Theatre in 2023. Patty Kim Hamilton studied at Stanford University and the Berlin University of the Arts. In the 2023/24 season, she was a studio playwright at the Deutsches Theater Berlin.
Christiane Florin
Journalist Christiane Florin is head of the Current Culture department at Deutschlandradio. From 2016 to 2023, she was editor for religion and society at Deutschlandfunk in Cologne; previously, she had been head of the Christ & Welt editorial team at the weekly newspaper Die Zeit. Christiane Florin is the author of several books, including DerWeiberaufstand (The Women’s Rebellion) (2017). She studied political science, modern history and musicology in Bonn and Paris. She completed her doctorate with a thesis on France’s handling of the Vichy past.
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