Steffen Mau

Many people experienced unemployment, very long periods of insecurity or even existential crisis and the result of that is that they developed a habit of' keeping and defending' and are not willing to accept more social change, populism falls on fertile ground, people are very much willing to say' they defend what we have, they defend our culture, they defend our borders,'.

Three quarters of the lead positions in east Germany are occupied by people with a west German background.

East German women are successful. by Steffen Mau

East German women are successful.

Three of them are women. by Steffen Mau

Three of them are women.

Women and men married quite early, but they also divorced early, there was very high divorce rate [ in the East ], so women were extremely independent and not just part of a man's career, they had their own careers, they were very self-confident.