Luisa Neubauer: »Gegen die Ohnmacht. Meine Großmutter, die Politik und ich«

The two of them started to think early on about what privelege means, and how one can do justice to it. They were born in very different and in each case very difficult times, and had to find out where they stood at a young age. Dagmar Reemtsma's father was murdered in a concentration camp; she married young, only to find out too late that her new father-in-law from the Reemtsma family had cooperated with the Nazis. Luisa Neubauer in turn had to understand that the country she was growing up in couldn't protect her generation from the climate crisis. She had just started to attend university to learn more about the impending ecological disasters when her father died. But it was never an option for either of them to give in to a sense of helplessness.

In her book »Gegen die Ohnmacht. Meine Großmutter, die Politik und ich«, Luisa Neubauer asks herself the old and new questions, the eternal questions. The war against Ukraine broke out during the talks about the book. Neither of the two women had ever expected to experience war in Europe again. So once again they have to consider where they stand, they have to think about responsiblility and about how to resist the feeling of helplessness.