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blogs ONLINE: Is it really true that the young German is so bad in a crisis, or they just whine too much?
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Klotzek Timm, 36, visited the German School of Journalism in Munich and was chief editor of the "Now" - magazine of the "Süddeutsche Zeitung". When the youth magazine stopped, started Klotzek "Neon" favorite book of the generation of children's crisis. 2006 was Klotzek journalist of the year. His new magazine is called "Nido", a parents' magazine.
Timm Klotzek: I do not think they much lament his face, how they shall pass. The easy to remember: I have professionally done everything right, and I will still back and forth hergeschubst. They have little grip. And they know it's hardly different. Above all else: It is not in sight, that it will be better times. The crisis is objectively there, but perhaps this generation feels it is not so because the crisis has become a permanent condition.
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Klotzek: Yes, that's why they can still sleep at night, they are not different from usual. The boys are much more annoying than the generation of 45-year-olds. You also do not find residents of Mexico City, who says: My God, what a smog!
blogs ONLINE: Is there ever since something like a generation of awareness among 20 - to 35-year-olds?
Klotzek: An awareness already, but no strong urge to have a single motto-shirt printing for you. This is not a homogenous, predictable generation, rather a lack of solidarity generation. There are not related to the strong generation that says: Oh, that's one over 40, there is no more room at the table.
blogs ONLINE: Nevertheless - there are typical characteristics of this generation? How is she?
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Klotzek: O.k., but now it's getting boring. The generation is pragmatic, not organized, visionslos, suffering, unideologisch. Therefore it is no use for a pragmatic target any political or social utopias to design. With the political air locks must be the boys are not coming, not even the "neon" readers.
blogs ONLINE: But are they wholly apolitical not ...
Klotzek: No, for the generation of simple pragmatism has a greater fascination than a coherent worldview. Obama is liked because he is talking with bankers and with the crazy wind jackets types in Iran, because he exudes moral integrity. There are three moral principles, which this generation has, despite all of pragmatism: the prohibition of torture, the fight against climate change, the rejection of attack wars.
blogs ONLINE: The aversion to ideology is so far not only for the policy. That's a whole attitude to life.
Klotzek: Yes, the old battles, Beatles or Stones, Techno or acoustic guitar, are definitely over. There are a few pop-Taliban to defend the pure doctrine, but no one will be asked today: Sort times your iPod.
blogs ONLINE: Is it not precisely this attitude of "anything goes", the other generations so irritated?
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Klotzek: This whole total pragmatism suggests that this suffering. Of the elderly is often the accusation: you need more edge. But something is indeed not alone. There's my washcloth-reproach rather than the war experiences of Helmut Schmidt referred to the need to feel. I think it is indeed a historic step forward that I have not served. If now people are being gunned down just to this generation a different view of things get?
blogs ONLINE: Where does this capacity for suffering because of the boys?
Klotzek: It is simply the alternatives. They knew not even how it should be otherwise. The slogan: "Then go over it", which there is for today's generation no longer. Other hand, it impressed the boys, even if a few such offense, sacks perpetual old saying: As I would in your place but let go to head.
blogs ONLINE: Was it easier for the elderly earlier?
Klotzek: The 68ers were able to at least a university degree all start somewhere to work. In my introductory lecture, the professor said: Welcome to the temporary unemployment.
blogs ONLINE: The external conditions are one thing. It also has the feeling that many will not want to definitively determine, still prefer to make a trip around the world, quite happy to switch between the job. Is it not also a generation that likes options postponement?
Klotzek: forward, then again reluctant to stop and go back a step - all this is typical. There is always this doubt: Will I use this way now to go? So the old "Neon" tagline: "Actually, we should grow up." Ambivalence is crucial for this generation. It is her yes also often accused of that no-Hurra dashing style. It is but a quality that they were being questioned, that one can not uncritically by five years in one direction runs.
blogs ONLINE: And now - the hesitation by the financial crisis but now grown up?
Klotzek: No, because what does' grow up? It is said to find its place in society, but it is now even more difficult. The conditions are still unsafe. Since Pauschalisten be terminated fees down, there is often no longer even-year contracts. Adulthood means but if I close the eyes, I can imagine how my life in ten years. Instead, the boys all in the balance. Nevertheless, this in no way such a Will-you-me-with-the-Rave? Generation.
blogs ONLINE: The subtitle of your new book "Plan or drift?" reads: "As you can see whether you too much or too little thought to make his life". Did this generation but not too much time and too little existential worries, if they even think about it?
Klotzek: There is one area where they are certainly too little thought makes. Sure, people have understood that pensions are not sure. But financial preparedness is still totally uncool - despite the financial crisis.
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