Podcast “Jump into the Cold Water” – daring on the safety rope

The best thing about childhood and youth was that you made almost everything, regardless of how banal it was, for the first time. First time eat ice cream, first time swimming without the help of air wings, first intoxication, first in love. Hach. These are real feelings of self -efficacy. The older you get, the less common the first time, the less often you get into this euphoric state, which only occurs if you overwhelm the unknown. However, getting old does not mean that there are never again these first time, they only feel different, somehow more existential, not so easy. For the first time, change the job, first time divorce, first pick your own child from the police.

The former left-wing chair and ex-senator Katja Kipping and the social scientist Jutta Allmendinger are devoting themselves to this emotional state in their joint podcast “The jump into the cold water”: no idea what is coming, but I’m just doing it now. A nice idea actually, this podcast offers the chance to get motivation unless everything goes according to plan. So it humans.

As the first guests, they invited themselves and chat to them somewhat free of theses, which they have with many podcasts from the lay guide genre (you could also simply call them influencers). Kipping, 25 years in politics, will become unemployed in Berlin in 2021 and unemployed in Berlin and almost two years later, because Bankrottland Berlin has to repeat the Senate election and the SPD would then prefer to coalition with the CDU. What now? The left has long since arrived in the valley of tears, Kipping has achieved everything in the party that could be taken over in offices. From now on she can be trained as a lifeguard, every Thursday gives swimming lessons on Thursdays and has been writing her first résumé for the parity association for over 20 years, in which she still works today. Previously, application speeches for party posts had been the replacement for making their curriculum vitae fit. Kipping talks about their short and therefore disorientation without false shame. She also had intellectual and financial capital, carelessly to break up during this time of uncertainty. She knows that why you can’t take the cheerful chat. For others, becoming unemployed means something else, the water is not literally cold when it comes to jumping, but this is (unfortunately) not an issue here.

Jutta Allmendinger, who hosts the podcast together with Kipping, is now in retirement, which she speaks just as well in a good mood, because after all, this woman is a well -known, highly respected social scientist, equipped with several supervisory board and advisory activities; Also in retirement. So if you add privileged pensioners in the lexicon, a picture of Jutta Allmendinger is certainly shown there, which should not devalue her scientific career, but should only illustrate what spokesman position this woman has, who is talking about new beginnings and daring. Allmendinger now knows that she no longer has her own driver, after all how to drive public transport.

The fall height increases leisurely with the guest of the second episode. Allmendinger and Kipping talk to WDR journalist Georgine Kellermann about her coming out as a trans woman. But here too, and that is beautiful in and in itself, we mostly hear positive things. The parents accepted their daughter more or less calmly. Others, and that says Kellermann himself, are beaten up by her father after such conversations. In the worst case, the colleagues also only asked attacking questions, but nobody turned away from her.

The two Heidi Reichinnek invite you to be the fourth guest, who once again recapitulates the history of her explosive AfD speech and talks about her sudden fame in her deeply likeable Hoppla-Hopp Art. Other guests are the former SPD party chairwoman Andrea Nahles or the ex-Brandenburg Minister of Economic Affairs Albrecht Gerber, who surprisingly resigned for private reasons, but from whom one knows, as well as with Kipping, that he was still excellent from times of the Platzeck SPD in his party.

Overall, people with people who have a new beginning, a step into the unknown, may have been quite difficult, but they never had to be afraid and anxious existence, which the apartment was never terminated because they could no longer pay the rent, who at least ruined their own life or had to overcome the really serious blows of fate. Failure only occurs as an opportunity here, because the invited people have at least one, actually several security networks (pension claims, transitional funds, supervisory board posts, stable, liberal networks or simply the cognitive skills to make themselves worried from a overwhelming situation).

Of course, you cannot accuse all of this to the interlocutors, but this carelessness, this straight-long-for-good, with the ultimately privileged people about failure or being brave, is a weak point of the podcast. This is not relevant in terms of sociopolitanism, and that of two people who were always important in their own work. Kipping and Allmendinger invite people from their bubble and the complexity of the stories is limited.

However, Allmendinger’s inability to endure other people is really difficult to endure, which annoys at least in conversation with Kellermann to the boundary of the tolerable, because more space for their stories would have done the podcast well at many points.

The guiding principle of “The jump into the cold water” is quite interesting if it had more perplexed or depicted dependencies on a well -developed network of help. And this is a pretty example of why professional journalism can still win against the impairment impetus.

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