Demokratie fehlt Begegnung

Democracy lacks encounters: swimming pools, youth clubs, libraries, and sports clubs are dwindling. Individual leisure activities, digital media, and most recently the COVID-19 pandemic have dealt a blow to many places of encounter. However, democracy needs spaces for coming together in order to function sustainably. Rainald Manthe focuses on these everyday meeting places: streets and public transport, parks and cafés, the village pub, and parents' evenings. Only through the recognition of diversity, the formation of social relationships, and through shared activities can the essential foundation be created on which modern, diverse democracies operate and confront the significant transformations of our time.