The author and literary critic recently published the bestseller “Aging”. In a podcast, she explains what bothers her in the present.
Cologne author Elke Heidenreich is bothered by some modern sensibilities. “Everything has become very woke, very hysterical and very worrying these days,” said the 81-year-old in the podcast “Die Wochentester” by “Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger” and Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland in conversation with Wolfgang Bosbach and Christian Rach. “We live in somewhat hysterical times, and today I would probably have to justify every third sentence. And I would no longer feel like doing that,” she said.
The author and literary critic recently published the bestseller “Aging”. She has already expressed her criticism of wokeness – the current vigilance against discrimination, including in language – in the past.
Source: Stern
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