Thorsten Hinz, born 1962 in Mecklenburg, East Germany, studied German in Leipzig. He is a freelance author in Berlin (writing for the ‘Junge Freiheit,’ amongst others). In 2004 he was awarded the Gerhard-Löwenthal-Preis for journalists.
The communist leaders who returned to the East Zone from Soviet exile in 1945 to bring socialism to Germany knew from their own experience that the Stalinist system was a murderous one. Nevertheless, they acted as his satraps.
Slogans like “Complete the turnaround!” and “Then as now. We are the people” evoke associations with the upheaval of 1989.
German hyper-morality, born as a reaction against the amoral Nazi past, has turned into a turned into a “moral imperialism”.
Germany is releasing its neo-totalitarian potential.
Democracy is a backdrop, consisting of simulations, fictions and self-delusions, behind which decisions are made that the demos neither wants nor has legitimized.
Some migrants, and some Germans with migrant background, believe they are owed positive discrimination.
Some in the media express a furtive, conditional intent to kill.
Criticising the Swedish girl is sacrilege for some.
The gap between quantity and quality of the political discourse is wide.
Baby boomers in charge of Germany today display a worrying lack of maturity in intellect and character.
From whence should a society of hangers-on possibly draw the strength to resist?
Perpetrators present themselves and conquerors.
Immature authors assume the attitude of colonial masters.
The authorities can only win, even if they lose legally.
Without the weight of the US backing the UN Human Rights Council, countries are liberated from its hyper-morality.
In the face of massive non-European immigration in the west, the region's cultural identity could be maintained east of the river Elbe.
There is a sinister reason for the movie’s popularity in Germany. Here, the living have revoked a fundamental solidarity with the dead. A solidarity exemplified by ancient Greek dramatic heroine Antigone.
