The ‘Friedman in Conversation’ series focuses on the existential and political issues of our time. In conversation with guests from the worlds of politics, the arts and academia, author, journalist and philosopher Michel Friedman regularly seeks to engage with these topics. His discussions are intense, controversial and driven by a curiosity about emancipatory potential and clear-cut positions.

In this edition, Michel Friedman speaks with Steffen Mau and Karin Prien about Germany: What remains of a democracy when voters no longer take an interest in it? Where does this indifference to one’s own future come from? From the feeling of not being affected – that the misery of others, the injustices, the crises, the hatred will never reach you? From the inability to imagine what it is like to be someone else? From fatalism? Or from complacency?