Bin ich das?

What is behind the new compulsion to show oneself? With a lot of humor, self-irony, and keen observations, Valentin Groebner, "one of the coolest historians around," tells his brief history of self-disclosure. Whether in job interviews or on Instagram accounts, during team-building or in dating profiles: nothing works today without self-disclosure. It serves as both bait and obligation, representing self-promotion and the promise of intensity and redemption, in the grind of digital channels as well as in political debates about collective belonging. But how much of it is actually compulsion, and how much is desire? What do we gain, and what do others gain from the inflationary use of "I" and "we"? Valentin Groebner explores these questions in search of the everyday. He shows what historical invocations of home have in common with open-hearted tattoos and what connects the handling of old family photos with demonstrative rituals of couple happiness. But is public intimacy really the currency for success - or a trap?.