Articles By Mara Delius
May 2013
‘Despite the Turkish origins of most of the victims, the Munich court failed to allocate a single press seat in the Zschäpe murder trial to a Turkish media outlet’
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April 2013
‘Germany is seeing a definite increase in Euroscepticism—and now it’s coming from the Left too’
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March 2013
'"You could certainly fill a dirndl," the elder statesman said, before taking her hand, kissing it and propositioning her'
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January/February 2013
‘Journalists discussed the prospective disappearance of their newspapers as if they were watching their own funeral but not quite believing their eyes’
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December 2012
‘Strolling around Alexanderplatz one cold but sunny afternoon, I was surprised at just how trashy it is’
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November 2012
'One can become American but one can never become English'
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September 2012
'Germans longed for Olympic medals as validation, but were surprised at how London rose to the occasion'
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July/August 2012
'A friend asked her editor for a pay rise. Surely, he replied, her husband was earning enough to support them both'
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June 2012
‘The seriousness of a left-wing movement in today’s Europe can be measured by its stance towards Israel’
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May 2012
'I was fond of my father's old friend Günter Grass. I'd like to think he knew better'
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April 2012
‘German intellectuals are fascinated by outsiders, especially tortured rebels like Heinrich von Kleist’
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March 2012
‘Their grandparents fled the Nazis, their parents boycotted all things German, but their children are flocking to Berlin’
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January/February 2012
'Germans are obsessed with paying taxes - they are affronted by any state with little or not taxation - such as the British Virgin Islands'
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December 2011
'No matter how grim the outlook or how politicians squabble over what to do, Germans stick to their idealistic concept of Europe'
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November 2011
‘Do we still have an intellectual elite that reads, and writers to cater for it? In Germany, we have Merkur’
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October 2011
‘Europe’s intellectuals should get on with the job of helping to lift the continent out of its apparently endless crisis’
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September 2011
'Germany’s reaction to America’s credit-rating downgrade was predictable: a pre-emptive schadenfreude that has become the gold standard when reacting to US affairs'
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July/August 2011
‘In Germany, whether it’s a matter of beansprouts or nuclear power plants, moral superiority can quickly turn into self-centred hysteria’
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June 2011
‘I only discovered both how much I was missing New York and what was irritating me about Berlin when I visited Manhattan in the week after
bin Laden’s killing’
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May 2011
'China’s place in the world is that of a plagiariser — the intellectual equivalent of the faked designer bags you find in Beijing'
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April 2011
‘When Mr Googleberg attempts a comeback, he will come up against a German attachment to truth and decency’
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March 2011
‘Every woman among male egos knows she has to fight a war—an older colleague calling you “Blondie”, for instance’
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January/February 2011
‘Who would want a dusty collection of children’s books, their spines broken, written in German?’
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December 2010
‘Now that I am about to leave, I realise how uniquely American is the craving for “change”’
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November 2010
'Alumni could be an integral part of saving European institutions of learning from becoming the Costa cafés of the academy'
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October 2010
‘Why do grown men in the Tea Party dress up as George Washington?’
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September 2010
‘The image of the newspaperman as a suave but ballsy individual who, whisky in hand, wires copy to a smoke-filled newsroom is now incredibly remote’
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July/August 2010
'In the Old World, a leader is criticised — and quits — for being too emotional. In the New World, a leader is criticised for not being emotional enough'
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June 2010
'Don't believe what they say about California: it is still the matrix for our civilisation'
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May 2010
'Should we treat assimilation not as a taboo subject but as an opportunity?'
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April 2010
‘American academia is being swamped by the backwaters of identity politics’
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March 2010
‘This is a cautionary tale about a deception so delicious yet so serious that it causes us to reconsider the impact of the public intellectual on our culture’
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January/February 2010
‘Entertaining the reader is now the main goal of criticism’
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December 2009
‘England is perceived by my Continental friends as being a country that is all about belonging or not belonging’
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November 2009
‘The tone in the parks and pubs was that of disappointment. One man was ready to admit – through clenched teeth – that he wished the Brits would take over again’
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October 2009
‘Italy's real problem isn't Berlusconi's private affairs. Rather, the problem is the culture he now represents. ’
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September 2009
‘This reunification generation of Germans is sick of coalition government but equally dissatisfied with the alternatives on offer’
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June 2009
‘A mock funfair with absurdist theatre and the return of ideologues of 40 years ago — is that the new era of change and hope?’
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March 2009
The film Valkyrie has sparked a debate in Germany about Claus von Stauffenberg's action-hero credentials
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April 2009
‘Now that Berlin is officially one of the coolest places in Europe, many have developed a peculiar sense of being German - a form of confidence, or nonchalance at least, about their nationality’
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About Mara Delius
Mara Delius is a writer and editor for the culture section of Die Welt. She has a doctorate in German Literature from King's College, London, and lives in Berlin.
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