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France and Germany have fought 23 wars in the last 400 years. For the young Ulrich Wickert, war with France was something completely normal. Along his biography, Wickert tells how the friendship of the “hereditary enemies” led to the European Union.



As a journalist, he personally experienced how French presidents became friends with German chancellors or became strangers to each other. He got to know them all and talks entertainingly about their human weaknesses. In his new book, Ulrich Wickert promotes this central pillar of a strong Europe very decisively.


Ulrich Wickert, born in Tokyo in 1942, is one of Germany's best-known journalists. He made a name for himself with critical contributions to the television magazine MONITOR before reporting from Washington, New York and Paris as a foreign correspondent for ARD for fourteen years.


He moderated the Tagesthemen for fifteen years and was considered the most popular presenter on German television during this time because of his stylistically polished texts, which were always peppered with irony.


Today he lives in Hamburg and southern France and is the author of numerous non-fiction books and crime novels.


(Program in German)

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September 2024
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