Alles muss anders bleiben

From the Seventies to today: a political life in the Federal Republic. As a post-war child, the Green politician Jürgen Trittin has been both a witness and a protagonist of Germany's political history since the early Seventies. As a student and squatters' activist, he experienced the social-liberal years, and during the Kohl government, he helped build the Greens, served as a state minister, and paved the way for the Green Party's participation in the federal government in 1998 and again in 2021. Now, he reflects on political milestones and takes stock. His autobiographical reflections are more than just personal and engaged testimonies – they are a piece of contemporary history.

Four autobiographical essays on German politics. "I hate injustices." This quote from Clint Eastwood in "A Fistful of Dollars" opens this book. Because if we want to preserve the world, we must change it. - Jürgen Trittin. Jürgen Trittin addresses the central themes of his political life, examining injustices: the injustice of excluding people from democracy, the injustice of wealth distribution, the injustice and suffering caused by wars, and the injustice of the climate crisis, which affects those who have contributed the least to it the most.

He recounts the early days of the Greens, his ministerial years in Lower Saxony, and the first red-green federal government under Gerhard Schröder, the long years in opposition, and finally the cross-party coalition with the SPD and FDP since 2021. At the heart of his book is the concept of value-driven realpolitik, which creates security through change. After half a century in politics, Jürgen Trittin presents an impressive portrait of Germany in an era of accelerated global change.