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Sehr persönliche und unerwartete Einblicke haben prominente Zeitzeugen Frank Schirrmacher und Stefan Aust im Gespräch gewährt. Sie alle lassen ein deutsches Jahrhundert voller dramatischer Ereignisse Revue passieren. Neben dem souveränen historischen Urteil und der ganz privaten Rückschau auf den eigenen Lebensweg legen sie ihre Gedanken zur Zukunft Deutschlands dar. Ein faszinierendes Buch, das uns durch den Spiegel der Zeitzeugen Wesentliches über die Deutschen und ihre Geschichte lehrt. "Ich habe meinen Vater seither nie mehr lachen gesehen." Richard von Weizsäcker "Wir Deutschen bleiben ein gefährdetes Volk." Helmut Schmidt "Aber da war es schon zu spät. (Wolf Jobst) Siedler stand hinter mir und schubste mich geradezu in die Arme von Speer." Marcel Reich-Ranicki "Der entscheidende Punkt der Wende des Denkens war diese Scheißmauer." Egon Bahr "Glauben Sie jetzt nicht, daß ich gegen das allgemeine Wahlrecht bin, aber da muß man aufpassen." Roman Herzog "Manchmal denke ich, daß viel zu wenig gewagt wurde, denn das Regime war ängstlich." Joachim Fest

Der "westliche Kreuzzug" (so einer der Autoren über den Kosovo-Krieg) ist beendet; die erstmals vorwiegend im April und Mai 1999 in der FAZ erschienenen 43 Beiträge sind damit aber kein Schnee von gestern, selbst wenn nicht mehr alle Aussagen stimmen. Aber grundsätzliche Probleme bleiben strittig, so - neben den Ursachen der Kosovo-Krise - Überlegungen zu "gerechten" Kriegen schlechthin, den Manipulationen durch Mediengiganten und semantische Tricks, der Funktion der NATO, dem gewaltsamen Export von "Werten" des Westens, dessen way of life. Ein außergewöhnlich fesselndes Diskussionsangebot, gar nicht in einem etwaigen FAZ-Einheitslook, unterbreitet von überwiegend renommierten Schriftstellern und Wissenschaftlern aus Europa und den USA mit ziemlich breitgefächerten, z.T. extrem gegenteiligen politischen Positionen (so García Márquez, Enzensberger, Konrád, Michnik, Mailer). Sich dem Kosovo-Thema vorrangig bzw. erstmals Nähernde auf der Suche nach abgesicherten Informationen und Antworten werden aber wohl eher verunsichert. Fertige Antworten zu Kriegsursachen und -folgen kann es noch nicht geben. (2) (Gert Kreusel)

"Im Osten erwacht die Geschichte". Essays zur Revolution in Mittel- und Osteuropa. Hrsg. von Frank Schirrmacher. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1990. 239 S., br., 28,- DM

Twenty-five years after the end of the Cold War, a new Cold War is being waged in our societies. During the Cold War a theoretical model of man was developed by economists and the military, an egotistical being interested only in his own benefit and in duping his opponents to achieve his ends: a modern homo oeconomicus. After his career in the Cold War ended, he was not scrapped but adapted to the needs of the twenty-first century. He became the ringmaster of a new era of information capitalism. He sought to read, control and influence thoughts; to predict, price and eliminate risks. Today stock-market trading is guided by him. He uses computer algorithms and Big Data to build up detailed pictures of our preferences and then suggest and sell goods to us. The model has become a self-fulfilling prophecy. We are no longer the masters of our own fate. The Game of Life runs without us. Schirrmacher traces the progress of this extreme rationalization of social life from the Cold War games of the 1950s Rand Corporation to the stock-market trading techniques that brought about the financial crash of 2008, showing how these developments were interwoven with the rise of game theory, rational choice theory and neoliberal economics. The state and politics increasingly submitted themselves to the logic of computerized game theory and an economistic view of the world, evading real decision-making in the process. In this brave new world individuals, alone in front of their computers, may think they are constructing a reality of their own choosing, but in fact they are being manipulated all along by others who are setting the rules of the game. This international bestseller by one of Germany's most distinguished journalists is a powerful indictment of a way of thinking that has become pervasive and threatens to undermine not only parliaments and constitutions but also the sovereignty of the individual to be the person he or she wants to be.

Twenty-five years after the end of the Cold War, a new Cold War is being waged in our societies. During the Cold War a theoretical model of man was developed by economists and the military, an egotistical being interested only in his own benefit and in duping his opponents to achieve his ends: a modern homo oeconomicus. After his career in the Cold War ended, he was not scrapped but adapted to the needs of the twenty-first century. He became the ringmaster of a new era of information capitalism. He sought to read, control and influence thoughts; to predict, price and eliminate risks. Today stock-market trading is guided by him. He uses computer algorithms and Big Data to build up detailed pictures of our preferences and then suggest and sell goods to us. The model has become a self-fulfilling prophecy. We are no longer the masters of our own fate. The Game of Life runs without us. Schirrmacher traces the progress of this extreme rationalization of social life from the Cold War games of the 1950s Rand Corporation to the stock-market trading techniques that brought about the financial crash of 2008, showing how these developments were interwoven with the rise of game theory, rational choice theory and neoliberal economics. The state and politics increasingly submitted themselves to the logic of computerized game theory and an economistic view of the world, evading real decision-making in the process. In this brave new world individuals, alone in front of their computers, may think they are constructing a reality of their own choosing, but in fact they are being manipulated all along by others who are setting the rules of the game. This international bestseller by one of Germany's most distinguished journalists is a powerful indictment of a way of thinking that has become pervasive and threatens to undermine not only parliaments and constitutions but also the sovereignty of the individual to be the person he or she wants to be.

Die wichtigsten Texte Frank Schirrmachers in einem Band. Frank Schirrmacher war bis zu seinem viel zu frühen Tod einer der wirkmächtigsten und debattenfreudigsten Intellektuellen der vergangenen Jahrzehnte. Als Redakteur und später Herausgeber der Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung sowie als Buchautor initiierte und prägte er Diskurse wie kaum ein anderer zu den aktuellsten gesellschaftspolitischen Themen. Der vorliegende Band versammelt seine wichtigsten Texte aus drei Jahrzehnten