from Peter Löcke

Crime statistics

by Peter Löcke// Taboo questions about crime statistics There they sit on the podium and present the annual police crime statistics (PKS) [1]. They are the

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April Fool's Day!

by Peter Löcke // April April! Once a year, politicians are allowed to poke fun at their voters and the media at their readers. The punctual joke for the

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Tacheles instead of disclaimer

by Peter Löcke // A disclaimer is a technical term used in Internet law for an exclusion of liability. Translated, the English verb "to disclaim" means something like

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Debt Authorization Act

Commentary by Peter Löcke// 513 votes in favor. At 4 p.m. on March 18, 2025, Bundestag President Bärbel Bas announced the eagerly awaited result of the vote

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About artists and cultural abolitionists

by Peter Löcke // TESTZENTRUM. This is the name of the stage program by Felicia Binger and Christine Prayon. The accompanying text announces a satirical evening followed by a "discourse constriction" [sic!]

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Fraud & War

by Peter Löcke // Whether it's compliance with the debt brake or a turnaround in migration policy - Friedrich Merz and his CDU/CSU will not fulfill their two most important election promises.

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I can't handle it!

by Peter Löcke // They are ordered, delivered, canceled. One day I am forced to accept them against my will. The next day I wait

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The hangover after the election

Commentary by Peter Löcke// After the party is before the party! That was the attitude to life in the 90s of the last millennium. My favorite café

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The green laundromat

Commentary by Peter Löcke// One election show follows the next. On the unattractive TV Monday of January 17, 2025, it was that time again. Jessy Wellmer and Luis

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The plagiarist

by Peter Löcke // I hereby affirm on oath that I have never knowingly committed the crime of "intellectual theft". Inspiration is welcome, but

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State failure

Commentary by Peter Löcke// Two instead of three dead, a park instead of a market square, Aschaffenburg instead of Solingen. For a brief moment, I was overcome by a cynical thought. Take

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Sustainable organic German

Commentary by Peter Löcke // Can I use language to demarcate without excluding? Can I use words to name differences without being suspected of marginalizing other people?

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Cake battles

by Peter Löcke // "The pie on the human face is one of the most important ideas in international humor." [1] I do not share this opinion, but who

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Great sport

by Peter Löcke // Let's not talk about politics, please. I often hear sentences like this. Disenchantment with politics wherever you look and whoever you ask. Sometimes

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The instrument box

by Peter Löcke // Pausing or instrumentalizing? After the rampage in Magdeburg, in which five people were killed on the evening of Friday, December 20, 2024

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Storytelling with Claas

by Peter Löcke // Claas Relotius. In Germany, the name is synonymous with the so-called lying press. Initially celebrated as the star and figurehead of Der Spiegel

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