“Leave Germany? I hardly know anyone who hasn’t thought about it.”
Quick Look
Diana Gronert, a lawyer living in Germany, expresses her desire to leave in the face of the rise of political extremes and the insecurity felt, echoing the journey of her refugee parents.
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Why It Matters
Electoral rise of Die Linke in Berlin and the AfD in several German regions.
“Leave Germany? I hardly know anyone who hasn’t thought about it.” Diana Gronert, married and mother of two children, was born in 1977 in Riga, Latvia.
When she was two years old, her parents emigrated to the German federal capital, where they still live today. Diana Gronert too. But his youngest son has already left Germany and his eldest plans to settle in a few years in the United States or Israel.
The lawyer “would have already left a long time ago” if professional and family imperatives had not held her and her husband back. But the electoral victory won by the radical left party Die Linke in Berlin, which comes in addition to those of the far-right party AfD in Saxony-Anhalt and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, revives his feeling of insecurity.
“I often talk about it with my mother. She finds it crazy: at the time, she and my father fled socialists and anti-Semites, and today, they are there...
Open Questions
- What are Diana Gronert’s concrete departure plans?
