"I want tired, dirty, thirsty, his".

They are concerned about ambition and courage, about debt and mobile phone photos - Rapid generation of children from the 20 - to 35-year-olds telling what her life makes sense. And why the word "Maybe" as a survival strategy can be.

 

Are they ever a generation?

Of course they are das But not really.

People 20 to 35 years is hardly a feel-generation. There is no protest attitude which unites them, not the speaker, not an ideology. You are just a lot of individuals who are the same.

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Influenced were young Germans by the attacks of 11 September 2001 and through the Great Depression. What it most, is a feeling of insecurity. They live in unstable conditions, often precariously - between fear and terror Trainee Program, Assessment Center and Labor.

The only contract that they still get unlimited, is the marriage. You want an average of two children, but have only 0.6. And they want more than anything else: no worse than their parents live. To do all the fighting they do not usually together, but every man for himself.

The 20 - to 35-year-olds, they are children's crisis. And in some terms can this feeling down. Ambition is one of them, including debt, courage or cell phone photos. And the inconspicuous word "Perhaps" - because tomorrow no longer have to guess what today is correct.

The blogs has asked members of this generation down what these terms with their lives to do. Five of them come here to speak: