🇩🇪 Germany Episodes

Someone is parked in the driveway. Someone needs to drive away quickly. That's huge trouble.

If you love your club, you must suffer. Especially when you encounter the opponent's fans.

When school classes go to court, they learn something for life. For example about marriage.

Nora is an author, specialist journalist for educational topics, one of the most prominent representatives for attachment-oriented parenting. I wanted to know from her what attachment-oriented parenting means? We talk about the role parents play in this, how to give in to the pressure of perfection and remain gentle with oneself. It's about the difference between needs and wants, about attentive assertiveness, and about how to make space for the feelings and needs of all family members. ADVERTISING PARTNERS & DISCOUNTS: https://linktr.ee/hotelmatze MY GUEST: https://www.nora-imlau.de/ THINGS: Nora's (latest) books: “What Makes Family Life Easier. Relieving Impulses for an Attachment-Strong Everyday Life” (2025) https://bit.ly/3MdAhVE “Attachment Without Burnout. Attentively Guiding Children Without Burning Out” (2024) https://bit.ly/48MMhWN “In Good Hands” (2023) https://bit.ly/3KkceUt “My Boundary Is Your Support. Lovingly Saying Stop to Children” (2022) https://bit.ly/4pgyfTr Jesper Juul, Danish Family Therapist A selection of his works: https://bit.ly/3XxEjdR Marshall Rosenberg “Nonviolent Communication – A Language of Life” https://bit.ly/3Y1An5k Donald W. Winnicott, British Pediatrician and Psychoanalyst, one of the pioneers of child psychotherapy A selection of his works: https://www.thalia.de/autor/donald+w.+winnicott-654272/ KC Davis, Psychotherapist Her Website: https://www.strugglecare.com/struggle-care Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/strugglecare/?hl=de TEAM Maximilian Frisch - Production Annie Hofmann - Editorial Mit Vergnügen - Marketing and Distribution Hotel Matze live - https://eventim.de/artist/hotel-matze/ 12/06/2025 – Berlin – Deutsches Theater Berlin MY STUFF: My Question Set FAMILY: https://beherzt.net/products/familie My Question Set LOVE: https://beherzt.net/liebe My First Question Set: https://beherzt.net/matze My Fundraising Campaign: https://machmit.wellfair.ngo/hotel-matze-spendenaktion-2025 My Newsletter: https://matzehielscher.substack.com/ YouTube: https://bit.ly/2MXRILN TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@matzehielscher Instagram: https://instagram.com/matzehielscherHotel LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/matzehielscher/ My Book: https://bit.ly/39FtHQy

Children's noise doesn't make everyone happy. A woman comes up with an idea to silence young soccer players.

Four-time mother Sylvie dares a courageous new beginning: Together with her new love Eckhard, she moves into a house in Nuremberg. A step full of trust, confidence, and the hope for a more beautiful life. But when she helps a friend in an acute emergency and takes her in as a flatmate, their initially harmonious everyday life begins to darken. From a gesture of solidarity, a climate of mistrust, underlying tension, and growing threat slowly emerges, eventually ending in a tragedy. This episode of "Mordlust – Crimes and their Backgrounds" tells a story that serves as a powerful reminder of how important it is to trust one's own intuition and how mental illnesses can unbalance both those affected and their immediate environment. The expert for this episode is Dr. Nahlah Saimeh, a forensic psychiatrist, expert witness, and professor at Friedrich Schiller University Jena. **Credit** Producers/ Hosts: Paulina Krasa, Laura Wohlers Editorial Team: Paulina Krasa, Laura Wohlers, Simon Garschhammer Editing: Pauline Korb Legal Approval: Abel and Partners **Sources (Selection)** Nuremberg-Fürth Regional Court: Judgment of October 7, 2022, 5 Ks 104 Js 2462-21 SWR: https://t1p.de/o22dv **Information for Affected Persons and their Relatives** Social Psychiatric Services (nationwide, available in every major city at the public health office): https://www.bapk.de/sozialpsychiatrischer-dienst.html Federal Association of Relatives of Mentally Ill People (BApK) with "SeeleFon" counselling for relatives: https://www.bapk.de Caritas Counselling Centres for Mental Health and Crisis Intervention: https://www.caritas.de/hilfeundberatung Schizophrenia Self-Help Groups: https://www.gesundheitsinformation.de/selbsthilfe-bei-schizophrenie.html **Episode Partners** Would you like to learn more about our advertising partners? You can find all information & discounts here: https://linktr.ee/Mordlust Would you like to place an ad in this podcast? Then learn more about the advertising opportunities at Seven.One Audio here: https://www.seven.one/portfolio/sevenone-audio

In Munich, housing is fiercely contested and expensive. A paradise for unscrupulous landlords. But a student fights back.

Woop! Woop! Today I'm speaking with Achim Truger, the economist and member of the German Council of Economic Experts, about the annual report 2025/26 and the necessity of reforms to inheritance tax. With Christoph Safferling, it's about the 80th anniversary of the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials, the current "impotence of international law," and the return of the law of the stronger. Enjoy!^^

The first episode of our advent calendar: Two elderly people invest all their savings in precious books. But that is not a good idea.

Daniel is an author and essayist. He has written about home, sobriety, and being alone – and now about love as a political act. We conducted the conversation live in front of an audience in Leipzig. I wanted to know from him why he has perceived an ever-growing wave of hatred for several years and why he sees a political answer to it precisely in love. We talk about how his own fear and retraumatization from the 90s feels and why silence and looking away are no longer an option for him. It's about radical kindness, charity, the idea of a grand alliance against right-wing extremist and neoliberal elites, and the question of how to speak with people who hold completely different political positions. AD PARTNERS & DISCOUNTS: https://linktr.ee/hotelmatze MY GUEST: https://www.instagram.com/thedanielschreiber/ THINGS: Daniel's new book “Love! A Call to Action”: https://bit.ly/48koPPd Daniel Schreiber - “Alone”: https://bit.ly/4oju5bW Daniel's ZEIT article on “Home”: https://bit.ly/3KcD40K Daniel Schreiber - Writing Workshops: https://salonfestival.de/schreibseminare/ March on Washington D.C. : https://bit.ly/3KnGRs5 Maximilian Frisch - Production Lena Rocholl - Editorial Mit Vergnügen - Marketing and Distribution Hotel Matze live - https://eventim.de/artist/hotel-matze/ December 6, 2025 – Berlin – Deutsches Theater Berlin MY STUFF: My Question Set LOVE: https://beherzt.net/liebe My First Question Set: https://beherzt.net/matze My Fundraising Campaign: https://machmit.wellfair.ngo/hotel-matze-spendenaktion-2025 My Newsletter: https://matzehielscher.substack.com/ YouTube: https://bit.ly/2MXRILN TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@matzehielscher Instagram: https://instagram.com/matzehielscherHotel LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/matzehielscher/ My Book: https://bit.ly/39FtHQy

Fabian is a comedian, author, podcaster, and above all, a heute-show reporter. We talked live in front of an audience at the Cologne Volksbühne. I wanted to know from Fabian how he ended up on the "heute-show" so early, why Markus Söder hasn't let go of him for years, and what his secret weapon is in his job as a reporter. We talk about a very sheltered childhood in Cologne's West, poetry slam evenings in his school's auditorium, first appearances on "TV total," and what it's like when not a single gag lands at the German Comedy Award. It's about smoking weed on camera and his friendship with Lutz van der Horst, repeatedly about Markus Söder, about political sham debates, and about the question of what satire can still achieve when everyone is just screaming. ADVERTISING PARTNERS & DISCOUNTS: https://linktr.ee/hotelmatze MY GUEST: https://www.instagram.com/fabiankoester/ THINGS: Fabian as Russia Today Kids Reporter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiMHBUqWGoc Fabian's first appearance on TV Total: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs4decW0hlk&t=300s Fabian and Lutz smoke weed “for science”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztJcZsXy0TQ Fabian and Markus Söder in the elevator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIe1cSXRUlA Tour 2026: https://bit.ly/48rP1YC Podcast “Schlag und fertig”: https://schlag-und-fertig.podigee.io/ Schlag den Star with Lutz and Fabian: https://bit.ly/3XjBLzW Lukas Hambach - Production Lena Rocholl - Editorial Mit Vergnügen - Marketing and Distribution MY STUFF: My Question Set FAMILY: https://beherzt.net/products/familie My Question Set LOVE: https://beherzt.net/liebe My First Question Set: https://beherzt.net/matze My Fundraising Campaign: https://machmit.wellfair.ngo/hotel-matze-spendenaktion-2025 My Newsletter: https://matzehielscher.substack.com/ YouTube: https://bit.ly/2MXRILN TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@matzehielscher Instagram: https://instagram.com/matzehielscherHotel LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/matzehielscher/ My Book: https://bit.ly/39FtHQy

Trigger warning: This episode deals with racism, among other things. Minerva Mirabal grew up in the Dominican Republic at a time when dictator Trujillo tolerated no dissent and demanded absolute loyalty. But the young woman made no secret of her thoughts on politics and justice. When the Mirabals were invited to a ball hosted by the dictator in 1949, where he made advances towards her, that evening would change her life forever. A resistance against the regime grew within her, one that could no longer be stopped and soon extended far beyond her own family. In this episode of "Mordlust – Crimes and their Backgrounds," we talk about what it means to show courage in a system that punishes every deviation. It's about female resistance, the mechanisms of a dictatorship, power, machismo, and how three women became symbolic figures for an entire country, and how their legacy resonates internationally to this day. For the case of the Butterflies is why November 25th is now recognized as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and Girls. Experts in this episode: Political scientist Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Werz, former Chair of Comparative Government at the University of Rostock with a research focus on politics in Latin America, Prof. Dr. Barbara Potthast, Professor of Iberian and Latin American History at the University of Cologne with a focus on gender relations, and Dr. Carolin Weyand, lawyer and board member of UN Women Germany. Special thanks to Minou Tavárez Mirabal, Minerva's daughter, with whom we collaborated closely on this episode. Credit Producers/ Hosts: Paulina Krasa, Laura Wohlers Editorial Team: Paulina Krasa, Laura Wohlers, Marysol Mercado Editing: Pauline Korb Legal Review: Abel und Kollegen Sources (Selection) Book: “Alive in Their Garden: The True Story of the Mirabal Sisters and Their Fight for Freedom” by Dedé Mirabal Speech by Minou on the 60th anniversary of the Mirabal Sisters' death and the eulogy for her aunt Dedé taz.blogs: https://t1p.de/zvm2s Publication by Nikolaus Werz on Rafael Leónidas Trujillo: https://t1p.de/fo4pe BKA - Situation Reports: https://t1p.de/mf9nx Further information on UN Women Germany: UN Women Germany www.unwomen.de Campaign page www.gewalt-stoppen.org

In this episode, I talk with my friend Philip Siefer about mistakes – from small sloppiness to the really serious ones, which hardly anyone is allowed to talk about. We ask ourselves why our reaction to mistakes often functions like a six-year-old child: hiding, distracting, making jokes – and why fear almost always produces more mistakes. MY GUEST: https://www.instagram.com/philipsiefer/ THINGS: Hartmut Rosa “Unverfügbarkeit” - https://shorturl.at/R8YR1 Tupoka Ogette “Exit Racism” - https://shorturl.at/jJkZq Meditate with Philip - https://shorturl.at/wgNFx TEAM: Alex Stösslein - Production Mit Vergnügen - Marketing and Distribution MY STUFF: My Question Set FAMILY: https://beherzt.net/familie My Question Set LOVE: https://beherzt.net/liebe My First Question Set: https://beherzt.net/matze My Fundraising Campaign: https://machmit.wellfair.ngo/hotel-matze-spendenaktion-2025 My Newsletter: https://matzehielscher.substack.com/ YouTube: https://bit.ly/2MXRILN TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@matzehielscher Instagram: https://instagram.com/matzehielscherHotel LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/matzehielscher/ My Book: https://bit.ly/39FtHQy ADVERTISING PARTNERS & DISCOUNTS: https://linktr.ee/hotelmatze

Désirée is an actress, author and entertainer - one who provokes and polarizes. I wanted to know from her how she learned to deal with her public perception, rejection and clichés. We talk about what it was like growing up in a women's household in Berlin, what it means to be a star out of self-defense. Also about life between high culture and trash TV and why she actually finds goddess an appropriate job title. ADVERTISING PARTNERS & DISCOUNTS: https://linktr.ee/hotelmatze MY GUEST: http://www.desiree-nick.de/ THINGS: Désirée's book: “Nice to meet you, Berlin!” https://bit.ly/3LOkTij Désirée's book: “Bockwurst & Champagne - Visiting Désirée Nick” https://www.thalia.de/shop/home/artikeldetails/A1071343371 Matze and Désirée's first encounter: https://bit.ly/4r9fgLG TEAM: Lukas Hambach - Production Annie Hofmann - Editorial Mit Vergnügen - Marketing and Distribution Hotel Matze live - https://eventim.de/artist/hotel-matze/ 11/18/2025 – Cologne – Volksbühne am Rudolfplatz 12/06/2025 – Berlin – Deutsches Theater Berlin MY STUFF: My question set LOVE: https://beherzt.net/liebe My first question set: https://beherzt.net/matze My fundraising campaign: https://machmit.wellfair.ngo/hotel-matze-spendenaktion-2025 My newsletter: https://matzehielscher.substack.com/ YouTube: https://bit.ly/2MXRILN TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@matzehielscher Instagram: https://instagram.com/matzehielscherHotel LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/matzehielscher/ My book: https://bit.ly/39FtHQy

Trigger warning: This episode deals with suicide and sexualized violence, including against adolescents. Christiane is known in her small North German community like a colorful dog. She creates her pottery with a lot of passion and is always inspired by nature during her beloved walks. Together with her son and her brother, she hikes one winter across frost-covered meadows and field paths – until she suddenly collapses and can no longer take a step. A momentous diagnosis determines her everyday life from then on. Unexpectedly, Holger enters her life a little later. At first, he alleviates her pain through acupuncture, but soon he becomes the center of her life. Holger soon opens his own naturopathic practice in Christiane's house – a place that will be completely turned upside down a few years later because of a gruesome suspicion. What comes to light is a human abyss that has dragged several victims into the depths. This episode of "Mordlust – Crimes and their Backgrounds" is about a carefully constructed web of lies built up over years that would probably never have been exposed – if one person had not broken their silence and thus brought everything crashing down. **Credit** Producers/ Hosts: Paulina Krasa, Laura Wohlers Editors: Paulina Krasa, Laura Wohlers, Marisa Morell Editing: Pauline Korb Legal approval: Abel und Kollegen **Sources (Selection)** Judgment of the Flensburg Regional Court of June 12, 2024 - File number I Ks 106 Js 19856/22 Spiegel: https://t1p.de/2xp2h sh:z: https://t1p.de/f9rlw NDR: https://t1p.de/yb2jh **Episode Partner** Would you like to learn more about our advertising partners? Here you can find all information & discounts: https://linktr.ee/Mordlust Would you like to place advertising in this podcast? Then find out more about the advertising opportunities at Seven.One Audio here: https://www.seven.one/portfolio/sevenone-audio

Ein Viehfrachter mit 6.000 Kühen gerät mitten im Pazifik in einen Taifun – und fährt weiter, direkt ins Auge des Sturms. Was wie Naturgewalt klingt, entpuppt sich als System aus Billigflaggen, Zeitdruck und Schweigen, in dem Menschen und Tiere zu Verschleißteilen werden. A livestock carrier with 6,000 cows gets caught in a typhoon in the middle of the Pacific - and continues, straight into the eye of the storm. What sounds like a force of nature turns out to be a system of flags of convenience, time pressure and silence, in which people and animals become expendable.

Woop! Woop! In the 300th episode (unbelievable, already the 300th episode ^^) I discuss with the historian Ute Daniel the question "How close, how far are the "Weimar conditions"?" and afterwards Michael Butter explains to me who "The Alarmed" (Suhrkamp) are. It's great that you've stayed with my podcast for so long. Thank you! All the best, Jenny. Enjoy!^^

Aladin ist Soziologe, Autor und Professor. Das letzte Mal war er im November 2023 im Hotel Matze zu Gast. Diesmal - ziemlich genau zwei Jahre später - wollte ich von ihm wissen, warum der Populismus so stark ist, woher seiner Meinung nach der Vertrauensverlust innerhalb unserer Gesellschaft kommt und wie er auf das Thema Migration und den politischen Umgang damit schaut. Wir sprechen über Vertrauen und Misstrauen in Wissenschaft, Medien und Politik, über „Misstrauensgemeinschaften“, warum Bekämpfen oft das Falsche verstärkt und was die Finanzkrise 2008 mit unserer Gegenwart zu tun hat. Es geht um Erwartungen an Institutionen, Korrelation vs. Kausalität, Medienkritik, Wissenschaftsverdruss, Polarisierung, Migration – und darum, wie wir wieder krisenfester werden. WERBEPARTNER & RABATTE: https://linktr.ee/hotelmatze MEIN GAST: https://www.mafaalani.de/ DINGE: Aladins aktuelles Buch “Misstrauensgemeinschaften – Zur Anziehungskraft von Populismus und Verschwörungsideologien”: https://bit.ly/3K39fiW Initiative für einen handlungsfähigen Staat – Abschlussbericht (als Buch/Report, frei downloadbar): https://bit.ly/4p50wvy FAKTEN: Geburtenrate und Sterbeüberschuss in Deutschland seit 1950: https://bit.ly/4paQUQ3 Schwarzer Oktober 2008: https://bit.ly/4i0bPmx Stimmungsschwankungen nach der Willkommenskultur 2015: https://bit.ly/47VmWbx Zu- und Fortzüge über die Außengrenzen Deutschlands 1950-2022: https://bit.ly/47ElawO 19 Prozent der deutschen Bevölkerung wurde woanders geboren: https://bit.ly/4nVIVFy Zwei Millionen ausländische Fachkräfte in Engpassberufen: https://bit.ly/47U0hwq Alex Stößlein - Produktion Lena Rocholl - Redaktion Mit Vergnügen - Vermarktung und Distribution Hotel Matze live - https://eventim.de/artist/hotel-matze/ 17.11.2025 – Stuttgart – Liederhalle Mozartsaal 18.11.2025 – Köln – Volksbühne am Rudolfplatz 06.12.2025 – Berlin – Deutsches Theater Berlin MEIN ZEUG: Mein Fragenset LIEBE: https://beherzt.net/liebe Mein erstes Fragenset: https://beherzt.net/matze Meine Spendenaktion: https://machmit.wellfair.ngo/hotel-matze-spendenaktion-2025 Mein Newsletter: https://matzehielscher.substack.com/ YouTube: https://bit.ly/2MXRILN TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@matzehielscher Instagram: https://instagram.com/matzehielscherHotel LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/matzehielscher/ Mein Buch: https://bit.ly/39FtHQy

Sahra is a politician, publicist, and co-founder of the BSW, the party named after her, “Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht” (Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance). She just came from the press conference where she explained the realignment of her party. I wanted to know from Sahra what "no retreat" exactly means, how much power a faction has, where she feels pressure on her opinion, and what she thinks is needed for Germany to become more confident again. We talk about peace and rearmament, media trust, sleep deprivation, growing piles of books, and the fact that Sahra reflects on having alienated people in the past. It's about fears, corrections, reason, and conviction. ADVERTISING PARTNER & DISCOUNTS: https://linktr.ee/hotelmatze MY GUEST: https://instagram.com/sahra_wagenknecht/ THINGS: Sahra's book “The Self-Righteous”: https://bit.ly/4hVWof7 Sahra's YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/channel/UCPH3ZPeqWqRVZ_ef4vOZgSw Steffen Mau, Thomas Lux, Linus Westheuser - “Trigger Points”: https://suhrkamp.de/buch/triggerpunkte-t-9783518029848 Christian Baron - “Three Sisters”: https://ullstein.de/werke/drei-schwestern/hardcover/9783546100700 FACTS: Tagesschau report on Palantir software: https://tagesschau.de/investigativ/ndr-wdr/palantir-einsatz-deutschland-100.html Lawsuit for insult by Robert Habeck: https://bit.ly/47S8Vvc ZDF heute about Nexperia: https://zdfheute.de/wirtschaft/nexperia-chips-eu-china-ausnahme-halbleiter-100.html Perception value on freedom of expression 2023: https://bit.ly/447VOVJ Critical report by Deutschlandfunk on ZDF committees: https://deutschlandfunk.de/zdf-fernsehrat-staatsfern-politik-100.html Poverty risk for single parents: https://bit.ly/3LGke2e Gross domestic product 2024: https://destatis.de/DE/Presse/Pressemitteilungen/2025/01/PD25_019_811.html Job cuts in companies: https://bit.ly/4nUNOyu Lukas Hambach - Production Marie Schiller - Editing Lena Rocholl - Editing Mit Vergnügen - Marketing and Distribution Hotel Matze live - https://eventim.de/artist/hotel-matze/ 11/17/2025 – Stuttgart – Liederhalle Mozartsaal 11/18/2025 – Cologne – Volksbühne am Rudolfplatz 12/06/2025 – Berlin – Deutsches Theater Berlin MY STUFF: My question set LOVE: https://beherzt.net/liebe My first question set: https://beherzt.net/matze My fundraising campaign: https://machmit.wellfair.ngo/hotel-matze-spendenaktion-2025 My newsletter: https://matzehielscher.substack.com/ YouTube: https://bit.ly/2MXRILN TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@matzehielscher Instagram: https://instagram.com/matzehielscherHotel LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/matzehielscher/ My book: https://bit.ly/39FtHQy

Trigger warning: This episode deals with suicide and violence against children Help with suicidal thoughts Telephone counseling: 0800 111 0 111 / 0800 1110 222 and 116123, anonymous, free and available 24/7 Also via chat: https://online.telefonseelsorge.de/ In July 2015, 24-year-old Sabine receives a message that initially seems like a bad joke: her family has disappeared. Her mother Sylvia, her stepfather Marco, and her little sister Miriam are all missing. Sabine repeatedly tries to reach the three, but all her calls and messages go unanswered. There are also no clues to their disappearance in the family's house. The police begin a large-scale search operation. Sabine is convinced that everything will be cleared up and turn out to be a misunderstanding - until a family member is finally found dead on day eight of the investigation. The case of the Schulze family from Drage occupied the whole of Germany in the summer of 2015 and raised questions to which there are still no clear answers today. We'll be talking about that in this episode. Expert in this episode: Michael Düker, former chief criminal investigator and head of the SOKO Schulze **Credit** Producers/Hosts: Paulina Krasa, Laura Wohlers Editors: Paulina Krasa, Laura Wohlers, Jennifer Fahrenholz Editing: Pauline Korb Legal approval: Abel und Kollegen **Sources (Selection)** STERN: https://t1p.de/3ifdo NDR: https://t1p.de/b0gpp BILD: https://t1p.de/wopj3 argon podcast: https://t1p.de/r96hl Information to the Harburg Police Inspectorate Phone: 04181 2850 E-mail: [email protected]