As we rejoice over not having to go to work and put on our Halloween costumes, we're also asked to remember a little something a famous local guy named Martin Luther did 500 years ago. But what we're commemorating may not have taken place quite as promoted over the past centuries.
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Can a Petry-led faction distance themselves significantly from the AfD to win over enough CDU voters and politicians? The next 18 months will be a dry run for this possibility, threatening the traditional progressiveness of Leipzig in the process.
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"Why hadn’t I kneed him in the gonads? Why hadn’t I gotten up and moved somewhere else? Why hadn’t I shouted and woken everyone up and told them all what he had done? I don’t know. But I do now." #MeToo
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Unannounced screenings after midnight? Films smuggled over the border in a suitcase? Hotel rooms bugged by the Stasi? Legends about the Leipzig film festival abound.
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