Löcke column

Footprints and other traces

by Peter Löcke // What is the meaning of life? Why am I on earth at all? A column seems unsuitable for dealing with existential questions.

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Social side notes

by Peter Löcke // Do you remember what marginalia is? I had almost erased the word from my memory and vocabulary. Marginalia are

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Silence speaks

by Peter Löcke // Sunday evening. The ARD summer interview with Alice Weidel. Too much of a bad thing for me. The head of the capital city studio is Markus Preiß.

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No connection under this number

by Peter Löcke // Right-wing smear campaign or left-wing advertising campaign? That's what the heated debate about the Brosius-Gersdorf personnel issue currently boils down to. Only one thing is certain.

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The dignity of man

by Peter Löcke // Human dignity is inviolable. This is Article 1 paragraph 1 of the German Basic Law. At the very top, this sentence is a legal

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Exclusive inclusion

by Peter Löcke // Cologne and Büren, two towns in North Rhine-Westphalia, caused quite a stir last week. For those readers who are

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Black humor action day.

by Peter Löcke // On June 25, 2025, the time had come. The 12th day of action against hate and hate speech online was literally just around the corner.

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Dirty work on the home front

by Peter Löcke // Dirty work! Friedrich Merz praised the Israeli attack on Iran on Friday, June 13, 2025, as dirty work for all of us.

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The big naturalization test

by Peter Löcke // Over 290,000 naturalizations in 2024 [1]. Another all-time high. That's 46 percent more than in the previous year, the last

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Merz, Kleist and disk paste

by Peter Löcke // Heinrich von Kleist was a language skeptic. Kleist doubted that words were a suitable means of adequately expressing thoughts, feelings and human experiences.

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Behind the News

by Peter Löcke // Behind the Scenes! Behind the scenes! I'm interested in the background stories, the ironic, the hidden and the bizarre. I'm interested in the discarded film material, including

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Crazy views

by Peter Löcke // An axiom is a principle that requires no proof. In other words, a supposed truth that is not questioned further. Perhaps you know

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Safe is safe

by Peter Löcke // Safe at last! The AfD is certainly right-wing extremist. Says the independent Office for the Protection of the Constitution, which, according to former head Haldenwang, is not solely responsible for this,

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11 friends, 0 critics

by Peter Löcke // Philipp Köster is the managing director and editor-in-chief of "11 Freunde". He himself founded the magazine for soccer culture in April 2000.

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Man or machine?

by Peter Löcke // People write here. The publisher of the Club of Clear Words guarantees this with his name. Markus Langemann uses this seal of quality to advertise

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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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