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Former Minister of Culture Monika Grütters knows which methods you can use to get up in the CDU. How fought with rumors against single women. And why you don’t go to Merz. Interview:
Tina Hildebrandt and
Moritz Müller-Wirth
After more than 30 years there is an end: Monika Grütters clears her office in the Bundestag and says goodbye to politics. For years she was standing alongside Angela Merkel that she owes her one of the most important teachings of her political life, she says. And of course she also has an opinion on Friedrich Merz.
Zeitmagazin: Ms. Grütters, they say goodbye to active politics after more than 30 years. Did you find documents or objects that you particularly touched when you clean up your office?
Monika Grütters: Some, for example an article from the Picture-Zeitung with the heading: “How much Merkel is in your blonde hope?” In addition a photo of me and the chancellor. Among other things, our clothes and our hairdresser were compared. Shortly afterwards I became Minister of Culture …
