Thought Leadership Stage: Angela Merkel (DE) in conversation with Marc-Christoph Wagner
Waiting list - Germany's former Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel visits The Black Diamond on the occasion of the memoir Freedom.
It is one of the most significant political figures of our time who will come to the country when Angela Merkel visits Denmark in December. For 16 years, she was at the helm of Europe's largest economy, led Germany through numerous crises and influenced politics and social conditions with her actions and stances. In Germany and internationally.
On December 18, she can be seen in an interview at Royal Danish Library's Thought Leadership Stage in The Black Diamond. The reason for the visit is Angela Merkel's current memoir Freedom, which has been sold to more than 30 countries and is published in Denmark by Gutkind Forlag. The event will be the only one in the Nordics.
A defence of freedom
In her memoirs, which Merkel has written together with her long-time political adviser Beate Baumann, Angela Merkel looks back on her life in two German states – 35 years in the GDR, 35 years in the reunified Germany. As personal as never before, she talks about her childhood and youth, about her studies in the GDR and the dramatic year 1989, when the Wall came down and her political life began. She lets us into meetings and conversations with the most powerful people in the world and clearly and precisely highlights how decisions were made in decisive national, European and international moments that came to shape our time. Her book gives a unique insight into the inner workings of power - and is a resolute defence of freedom.
Contributors
Angela Merkel
Angela Merkel was Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany from 2005 to 2021, and the first woman ever to contest the country's most powerful office.
She was born in Hamburg in 1954, but grew up in the GDR, where she studied physics and obtained a doctorate. In 1990, she was elected to the German Bundestag. From 1991 to 1994 Merkel was Minister for Women and Youth, from 1994 to 1998 Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, and from 2000 to 2018 leader of the CDU, the Christian Democratic Union of Germany. She ended her active political career in 2021.
Marc-Christoph Wagner
Marc-Christoph Wagner, born in 1970 in West Berlin, studied political science and worked as a political journalist for many years. Today he is the head of Louisiana Channel and host of Louisiana LIVE. Recipient of the Academy Council's N.L. Høyen Medal in 2023 and the same year included in Krak's Blue Book.
Part of the series Thought Leadership Stage
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Royal Danish Library's series of events on economics, politics, philosophy and management.
On Thought Leadership Stage, Royal Danish Library addresses the state of the world and places the philosophical and educational questions in relation to leadership and development in a broad sense on the agenda.
