Germany voted

Germans went to the polls at the end of September to decide who will serve as legislators in the Bundestag. We summarize how users in social media commented on the vote on election night. Cultural creatives and civil society actors all over the world tell us what they wish for in the time after the election.

Blick in die Kuppel des Reichstagsgebäudes

Foto: Arndt Oehmichen © Deutscher Bundestag

Election night and Street campaigns

In the Street Campaigns
Sunflowers, Ice Cream and Spies

No election campaign gets by without posters or info booths in pedestrian zones. In the street campaigns, parties and public are discussing, arguing, canvassing – all with the tremendous efforts of campaign volunteers. They spend their weekends at info booths, hand out flowers and put up posters. What drives them? A look behind the scenes of the street campaigns in Bavaria and Berlin.

Photo: Goethe-Institut

#BTW17
What the internet is saying about the German elections

Many observers had criticised the campaigns in the runup to the Bundestag elections as boring. Despite this, on election evening everyone was excitedly awaiting the results: on TV, in party headquarters – and in social media as well there was only one topic.

My wish for Germany

What do people outside Germany wish the Bundesrepublik? In short clips, journalists, civil rights activists, experts on Germany and other engaged persons from seven countries express their often surprising opinions.

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