Löcke column

Looking inwards

by Peter Löcke // Pause, mourn, empathize. There should be time for that. And only judge when we know more about the terror in Solingen. The

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Lots of new things in the east.

by Peter Löcke // Only three weeks to go. Then the time has come. Elections will be held in Saxony and Thuringia on September 1. Election days are festive days of

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The political pentathlon

by Peter Löcke // "I was a pentathlete at the sports school in Leipzig." This is what Saxony's leading SPD candidate Petra Köpping says about herself in an election commercial [1].

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My coming out

by Peter Löcke // "I'm gay and that's a good thing." Who doesn't remember this legendary sentence? It was Klaus Wowereit

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The biggest show on earth

by Peter Löcke // Hollywood can pack it in. House of Cards can pack it in. The political reality of the United States is currently writing the best script in the world.

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News from the media matrix

by Peter Löcke // This is the first German television with the daily news. This is how the inviting female voice welcomes me from off-screen. It follows

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Orgies.orgies.orgies.

by Peter Löcke // Sex, Drugs & Rock'n'Roll! When was the last time you celebrated an orgy in your life? When did you have the

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The EM color theory

by Peter Löcke // Football is our life. So are colors. After a week of the European Football Championship, it's time for a first interim summary. A summary

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The program in simple language

by Peter Löcke // News is finally available in plain language. Exclusively for people who need inclusive care. Here is the original pilot broadcast [1].

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Play me the song of life

by Peter Löcke // Assassinations and attacks, knife attacks and murders, crises and a lust for war. If you look at social media, it seems that almost every day there is a

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About forbidden songs.

by Peter Löcke // Germany is turning hollow and the reason is an electronic party song from 1999 called "l'amour toujours".

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A court case with a certain degree of suspicion

by Peter Löcke // Justice's die is cast. On May 13, 2024, the Higher Administrative Court in Münster ruled that the AfD should be classified by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution as a right-wing extremist party.

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Kafka Esken

by Peter Löcke // The adjective "Kafkaesque" means eerie, unreal, threatening, bizarre. It is one of the few adjectives that cannot be enhanced.

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The prophet

by Peter Löcke // Prophecies wherever you look. Gloomy visions of the future justify political decisions of the present. Prophecies are modeling, scenarios,

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Correctiv thought through to the end

by Peter Löcke // "We thought it through to the end." This is how the accompanying text for the video "Grandma, what was in Germany again?" begins. The clip was

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Never again!

by Peter Löcke // Never again! Never again fascism! Since the end of the Second World War, generations of schoolchildren have been confronted with the darkest 12 years of

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