Georg Diez
Georg Diez is a columnist at Spiegel Online. He worked as a theatre critic for the Süddeutsche Zeitung and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung and has written monographs on the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.
Updated: 23 November 2011
Jürgen Habermas has had enough. The philosopher is doing all he can these days to call attention to what he sees as the demise of the European ideal. He hopes he can help save it -- from inept politicians and the dark forces of the market. 
What Germany’s leadership of the EU means isn’t very clear – least of all to the Germans themselves. A Spiegel columnist looks for the answer in two books, wandering between the lost soul and the genius of the country.