For decades, Germany stood for quality, efficiency and engineering excellence. But today, visitors to Europe’s economic powerhouse are often surprised to find a country where many things don’t work.
Trains often run late, roads and bridges are in poor condition, car sales are in recession, and the public administration is entangled in bureaucracy and suffers from a lack of digitalization.
Add to this a series of public planning failures – from the delayed central train station in Stuttgart to Berlin’s international airport – and it seems as if progress has hit a wall.
To many it seems that the country is in a permanent state of delay and dysfunction.
Not cursing the country, its like therapy
Deleland is hosted by DW Business journalists Andreas Becker and Nicolas Martin.
Refresh their award-winning investigative podcast cannabis cowboyThe pair now turn their attention to a domestic challenge: Germany’s race to keep up in a rapidly changing world.
Each of the five episodes is a journey through procrastination – as well as a search for solutions.
The hosts travel from Switzerland to India, France to Denmark to explore what lessons these successes can hold for Germany.
delleland This isn’t just a business podcast. This is psycho-geography: a map of the German psyche, its post-1945 identity, its sense of superiority and fear of change. In short, a national therapy session.
Edited by: Uwe Hessler
The podcast is available on dw.com, apple podcasts, spotifyetc All major podcast platforms,