The radioeins and Freitag Salon live from the Renaissance Theater
In the summer of 2024, an article was published in Die Zeit entitled: "Me, fighting for Germany? Never!" In it, Ole Nymoen, 27, wrote that he was prepared to fight "for almost nothing" and that he could not do anything with the new "competence in war" that Defense Minister Boris Pistorius had called for.
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Jakob Augstein
Anyone who goes into military battle is not defending their own interests, but those of their "rulers." At X, many people resented Nymoen's pacifism, and it triggered a veritable shitstorm. In an interview with the Berliner Zeitung, he defended his stance: "A dirty peace is better than being dead."
Despite the fierce controversy, Nymoen has expanded on his pacifist stance in a book: Why I would never fight for my country, which will be published on March 11, 2025.
What are the consequences for wars like the one in Ukraine when young people refuse to take up arms for "their country"?
Jakob Augstein will discuss this with Ole Nymoen. On April 14, 2025 in the Renaissance Theater and live on radioeins.
In the radioeins & Freitag Salon, journalist and publisher Jakob Augstein sits down with a guest once a month at the table in the Bruckner Foyer of the Renaissance Theater and talks - about politics in culture, about society and its constraints, about the mechanisms of publicity and lies, and about the disappearance of democracy in capitalism. radioeins broadcasts live.
Jakob Augstein has been publisher and managing director of the weekly newspaper "der Freitag" since 2008. Born in Hamburg in 1967, he studied politics at the Free University of Berlin and at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris from 1989 to 1993. He worked as a reporter for the Süddeutsche Zeitung in Berlin and East Germany for ten years. From 2011 to 2018 he wrote the column "Im Zweifel links" on "SPIEGEL ONLINE". From 2011 to 2020 he had a weekly exchange of blows on the political topic of the week with Nikolaus Blome, the former deputy editor-in-chief of the Bild newspaper, in the Phoenix program "Augstein und Blome". His novel "Die Farbe des Feuers" was published in March 2024.
Ole Nymoen (born 1998) is a German journalist, podcaster and author. He became known through the business podcast Wohlstand für alle, which he has been producing weekly together with Wolfgang M. Schmitt since 2019.
Also available live on radioeins – from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m.
(TALK IN GERMAN)
Participating artists
Jakob Augstein
Ole Nymoen
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April 2025
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