Jamila Schäfer, Vice-Head of the “Greens” and Philipp Amthor, CDU, answer questions from the moderation team Shakuntala Banerjee and Daniel Pontzen.
Berlin – The 28-year-old Jamila Schäfer has to admit right at the beginning of the broadcast on ZDF that the average age of the Green MPs is 51 and only two of them are under 30 years old. Philipp Amthor, of the same age, “youthful” figurehead of the CDU, with whom one always has the impression that the pimples are gone, but puberty has remained, is very supportive of the state: “Of course, the younger ones are one of them. But the mix makes it. ”And immediately raves about the Junge Union (JU), which has many direct candidates for the next Bundestag.
The moderation team from “Für & Wider” (ZDF) uses your brief introductory statements to include other guests in the studio who represent the different generations affected by the pandemic. Sanja Koch, the state chairman of the Hamburg School of Schoolchildren, feels that she and her generation are not being taken seriously by politics: “The focus of politics was more on the question of when the hairdressing salons open again instead of the schools opening. Our right to education has been taken away from us, now we want our lives back! “
“For & Against” (ZDF): “The younger ones demand a lot”
The coach and headhunter Klaus Hansen, on the other hand, thinks that “young people complain at a very high level” and advises them to take the initiative themselves. The Bremen high school student and book author Leonard Geßner (“Politics of Generation Z – an uncomfortable look into the future”) hits this notch on “For & Against” (ZDF): “The younger ones demand a lot.” And when he hears that some of his generation even question the car as a means of transportation in general, then he can only counter this with his own everyday reality (“I live in the country”).
| For & Against (ZDF) | |
| Philipp Amthor | CDU |
| Jamila Schäfer | Deputy Federal Chairwoman Alliance 90 / The Greens |
The 20-year-old Kai Lanz, co-founder of “krisenchat.de”, paints a rather gloomy picture: “Many young people are suicidal as a result of the lockdown and suffer from depression. We want to offer them help with our platform. ”His counterpart, the 82-year-old pensioner and former engineer Peter Wolf, thinks that the older generation has suffered from the lockdown as well and advises young people to learn from the old, who are always optimistic despite crises have looked to the future. In addition, Wolf breaks a lance on “Für & Wider” (ZDF) for all the educators who, despite the adverse technical conditions, have made home schooling possible and who receive far too little recognition from parent and student representatives.
“Pros & Cons” on ZDF: Right to vote from 16 years of age?
A lively debate triggers the discussion, once again initiated by the Federal Constitutional Court, that the rights of young people are being neglected by politics. “Youth in power” sums it up in a clip from the program “Für & Wider” (ZDF): 8 out of 10 children and young people between 10 and 17 years of age are in favor of voting rights from 16 years of age. Are youth parliaments like in Switzerland also conceivable in Germany? After all, there are already “child mayors” here and 4 out of 16 federal states allow young people to have a say at the local level.
Jamila Schäfer, like her party, is of course in favor of the “right to vote from 16”, while Phillip Amthor has legal objections (“But you can only solve this in a total package, because it would also affect the legal capacity of young people and juvenile criminal law”). Unfortunately, “For & Against” presenter Daniel Pontzen Amthor’s quite serious statements brusquely. Probably also because he is technically not up to Amthor’s argument. Unfortunately, this also applies to the conversation conducted by his equally uncharismatic co-moderator Shakuntala Banerjee, who, as in the completely unprofessional conversation with Robert Habeck on ZDF “Berlin direkt” – summer interview last Sunday, also lacks any bite.
“Pros & cons”: Philipp Amthor and Jamila Schäfer on the “Generation Corona”
The final outlook on “big politics” in “For & Against” on ZDF is more like a listing of well-known party positions than a discussion about “youthful” expectations and needs. Jamila Schäfer campaigns for a solid community, calls for the closure of tax holes and a tax on the rich. Wants to lift the debt brake (“It will only be expensive if we don’t invest, as we are now seeing with the flood disaster”). Philipp Amthor is, of course, in favor of the debt brake, does not want to play off the climate (“Climate does not sting everything!”) And the economy against each other – and is once again campaigning vigorously: “No left experiments – and that is only possible with the CDU!” (Rolf- Ruediger Hamacher)
Markus Lanz invited his favorite guest Karl Lauterbach once again on ZDF. But this time the conversation is different than usual.
