In 2025 I learned that reconciliation is less about a grand apology than a shift in perspective
Forgiveness isn’t a destination. It’s a journey. Mine began on an escalator at Berlin Brandenburg airpor…
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Carolin Würfel
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How are you? If you’re German, like me, you might struggle to answer | Carolin Würfel ⊕
Our cultural aversion to superficial answers leaves ‘Wie geht’s?’ sounding like a trick question. Perhaps it is time to let our guard down
In the early autumn, over pizza and wine, I had a conversatio…
6 months ago
Millennial women were told to chase our dreams. That’s left us burnt out, broke and dreaming of a rich patron | Carolin Würfel ○
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By my age, my German boomer parents had kids, a house, a car, a garden. All I have is a nervous feeling whenever I open my banking app
A couple of weeks ago, I came across an Amy Poehler joke in which…
7 months ago
Women born in East Germany have lived between two worlds. That’s why we’re shaking up art and politics | Carolin Würfel ○
The stories of curator Kathleen Reinhardt and provenance expert Lynn Rother show how exclusion can be turned to powerful insight
In February 1990, the German news magazine Der Spiegel ran the headline…
9 months ago
Mother’s Day in Germany is a reminder that motherhood is a battle that’s not for me | Carolin Würfel ○
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Growing up in east Germany I saw how women around me struggled – and not enough has changed to make me alter my course
To be honest, mothers make me sad. Especially working mothers with small childre…
10 months ago
I fear I’m doing friendship wrong: why do we lose the art of just hanging out? | Carolin Würfel ○
Pre-planned lunch is fine but is rarely about true connection. Surely unstructured time with friends is better
There’s a black and white image of the photographer and war correspondent Lee Miller and …
11 months ago
Around me in Istanbul there is fear on every face – but I see a resilience that refuses to die | Carolin Würfel ○
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Many turbulent years have taught my friends never to make plans. Yet, even after Ekrem İmamoğlu’s arrest, they have hope
- Carolin Würfel is a German writer based in Istanbul
When I first visited Istanbu…
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