In your biography, the young Angela Merkel is an apolitical grey mouse. Even the fall of the Berlin Wall didn’t interrupt her routine, did it?
She went to the sauna and then went home at 9:00 and was up at 7:00 to go to work. She was a research scientist doing pioneering work on nanotechnology. But what is interesting about her is that immediately after the Wall had come down, she got into politics, handing out leaflets, and within six months, due to grit and her ability to speak Russian, she became the deputy spokeswoman for the first and last elected East German government. She came into politics from nowhere.
Matthew Qvortrup, biographer of Angela Merkel
What makes the German Chancellor tick? The author describes a meticulous pragmatist who unlike her predecessors sees Europe from an eastern perspective
