“LIBERTATE.Memories 1954–2021”, the reflections on the personal and public career of Angela Merkel, former Federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, a volume eagerly awaited by readers around the world, is to appear in more than 30 countries. The book will be published in Romania on November 26, 2024, by Litera Publishing House, simultaneously with the international editions, the German translation being signed by Cora Radulian.
Pre-orders are already available on the website litera.ro: https://www.litera.ro/libertate-amintiri-1954-2021-afdiv341
For 16 years, Angela Merkel carried the responsibility of governing Germany, led the country through numerous crises and shaped, through her actions and attitude, both German politics and society, as well as the dynamics of the international political scene. In her memoirs, written together with her long-time political adviser Beate Baumann, Merkel recalls her life divided equally between two states and two worlds: 35 years in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) and 35 years in reunified Germany.
With utmost sincerity, Angela Merkel recounts her childhood, youth and studies in the GDR, talks about the drama of 1989 – marked by the fall of the Berlin Wall – and about the beginnings of her political life. He then allows us to participate in the meetings and discussions he had with the world's most powerful leaders. Starting from the turning points of national history – but also European and international – it reveals to us, with clarity and precision, how the decisions that shaped the present in which we live were made. The book offers a unique insight into the meanderings of power and is a strong plea for freedom.
“What does freedom mean to me? This question has concerned me all my life. On the political level, of course, freedom requires democratic conditions. Without democracy there is no freedom, no rule of law, no respect for human rights. But this question also concerns me from another point of view. Freedom means for me to realize what my limits are and try to overcome them. Freedom means not to stop learning, not to stand still, but to go further, beyond the boundaries of a political career.” – ANGELA MERKEL
Angela Merkel, Federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany from 2005 to 2021, was the first woman to hold the most important post her country had to offer. Born in 1954 in Hamburg, she grew up in the GDR where she studied physics and obtained her doctorate in physics. In 1990 she was elected to the Bundestag. From 1991 to 1994, she was Federal Minister for Women and Youth, from 1994 to 1998, Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Protection and Reactor Safety, and from 2000 to 2018, she was President of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany. In 2021, he ended his active political career.
