{"id":4200,"date":"2019-10-10T13:17:55","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T13:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/veranstaltung\/der-preis-der-einheit"},"modified":"2025-12-03T11:00:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T11:00:37","slug":"the-price-of-unity","status":"publish","type":"kreisky_event","link":"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/en\/veranstaltung\/der-preis-der-einheit","title":{"rendered":"The price of unity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>THE PRICE OF UNITY<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>How German unity changed Europe<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Daniela Dahn<\/strong>, born in Berlin, studied journalism in Leipzig and worked as a television journalist. She resigned in 1981 and has worked as a freelance writer and publicist ever since.<\/p>\n<p>Moderation <strong>Renata Schmidtkunz<\/strong>, journalist and presenter, editor and documentary film director, Austrian Broadcasting Corporation ORF<\/p>\n<p>\u201eAfter thirty years of unification, the internal division between East and West is as deep as ever; and new rifts have even opened up that are shaking our community. They have to do with the fact that the supposed victors of history have completely rejected the legacy of the \u201ebrothers and sisters\u201c who were tested by accession. A monetary union without economic and social union also became the model for a united Europe. In this respect, German unity is also the history of all Europeans. Without the annexation of the GDR, today's balance of power would be unthinkable.\u201c (Daniela Dahn)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Daniela Dahn's book<br \/>\n<em>Yesterday's snow is today's deluge. Unity - a reckoning<\/em><br \/>\nwas published in September 2019 by Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag (288 pages, ISBN: 978-3-499-00104-8. Also available as an e-book: ISBN: 978-3-644-00376-7)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DER PREIS DER EINHEIT Wie die deutsche Einheit Europa ver\u00e4nderte Daniela Dahn, geboren in Berlin, studierte Journalistik in Leipzig und war Fernsehjournalistin. 1981 k\u00fcndigte sie und arbeitet seitdem als freie Schriftstellerin und Publizistin. Moderation: Renata Schmidtkunz, Journalistin und Moderatorin, Redakteurin und Dokumentarfilm-Regisseurin, \u00d6sterreichischer Rundfunk ORF \u201eNach drei\u00dfig Jahren Vereinigung ist die innere Spaltung zwischen Ost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4193,"template":"","format":[29],"meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"schwerpunkt":[43],"class_list":["post-4200","kreisky_event","type-kreisky_event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","schwerpunkt-internationale-politik-europa-und-sicherheit","format-podiumsdiskussion"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Der Preis der Einheit - Kreisky Forum<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/en\/event\/the-price-of-unity\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Der Preis der Einheit - Kreisky Forum\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"DER PREIS DER EINHEIT Wie die deutsche Einheit Europa ver\u00e4nderte Daniela Dahn, geboren in Berlin, studierte Journalistik in Leipzig und war Fernsehjournalistin. 1981 k\u00fcndigte sie und arbeitet seitdem als freie Schriftstellerin und Publizistin. 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