Ulf Poschardt
German author and journalist Ulf Poschardt (b. 1967) was formerly editor in chief of Süddeutsche Zeitung's Friday magazine, and then later editor in chief of the German edition of Vanity Fair. Currently deputy editor of Welt am Sonntag, he is nationally renowned for his iconoclastic opinions.
A Europe long at peace is once again a seething continent. In France, Greece and Spain crowds of youths are out demonstrating against their situation, and in London they have reduced neighbourhoods to rubble and ashes. What is going wrong here? wonders a German columnist.