On Monday, 22 September 2025, our former Federal Chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel will read from her biography "Freiheit" (Freedom). Tickets for the reading are available from the organizer, the bookshop Rein(ge)lesen in Parchim.
For 16 years, Angela Merkel was responsible for governing Germany, leading the country through numerous crises and shaping German and international politics and society with her actions and attitude. But of course Angela Merkel was not born to be chancellor. In her memoirs, written together with her long-time political advisor Beate Baumann, she looks back on her life in two German states - 35 years in the GDR and 35 years in reunified Germany. She tells us more personally than ever before about her childhood, youth and studies in the GDR and the dramatic year 1989, when the Wall fell and her political life began. She shares with us her meetings and conversations with the most powerful people in the world and uses significant national, European and international turning points to shed light on how decisions were made that have shaped our times. Her book offers a unique insight into the inner workings of power - and is a resolute plea for freedom.
