{"id":3997,"date":"2010-07-06T15:16:51","date_gmt":"2010-07-06T13:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.zeit.de\/joerglau\/?p=3997"},"modified":"2010-07-06T15:16:51","modified_gmt":"2010-07-06T13:16:51","slug":"roger-cohen-warum-ich-deutschland-liebe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.zeit.de\/joerglau\/2010\/07\/06\/roger-cohen-warum-ich-deutschland-liebe_3997","title":{"rendered":"Roger Cohen: Warum ich Deutschland liebe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wunderbarer Artikel von Cohen in der <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/07\/06\/opinion\/06iht-edcohen.html?_r=1&amp;hp\">New York Times<\/a> \u00fcber das deutsche Fussballwunder:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8222;O.K., time for confessions, I\u2019ve morphed into a German fan \u2014 and not just because the language has a word for pleasure in someone else\u2019s pain.<\/p>\n<p>A German fan is something I never expected to be. Germany has become the country I could never settle in yet love most. It has played the most exciting football here, not least in demolishing Argentina 4-0, and made the most exciting political statement with its Benetton-ad team.<\/p>\n<p>When you spend a lot of time in conflict zones where people won\u2019t change, where they nurture grievance and make a fetish of difference, where they never exhaust a bloody past\u2019s capacity to ignite violence, you become a sucker, an easy touch for change. I love Germany for changing in its own way, earnestly.<\/p>\n<p>I love it for becoming Europe\u2019s ballast rather than its brute. I love it for facing the past rather than yielding to it. I love this Stuttgart-on-the-Med soccer school where Turkish flair meets the precision that yields the hermetic clunk of a German car door. I love the new M\u00fcller-Khedira sweet spot of athleticism and artistry.<\/p>\n<p>Leaving South Africa now, with just four teams left, I\u2019ve been thinking about our incorrigible thirst for the worst. Those who stayed away out of fear missed an uplifting event, and not just the German bit.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(&#8230;)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This is the first magical World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s the difference between war and peace? One day.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, yes, Germany the Friedensmacht, or peace power, to win.<\/em>&#8222;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wunderbarer Artikel von Cohen in der New York Times \u00fcber das deutsche Fussballwunder: &#8222;O.K., time for confessions, I\u2019ve morphed into a German fan \u2014 and not just because the language has a word for pleasure in someone else\u2019s pain. A German fan is something I never expected to be. 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