"Stones throw is simply not our style."

Since the book "Revolt of the boys" is Germany's flagship Gründig Wolfgang-Mittzwanziger. Pragmatism, commitment and ideology instead of irony: This is what he makes of his generation and that he sometimes desperately itself visit to a crisis child.

 

In front of the house of Wolfgang Green Dinger slides over a pensioner with a hat and stick. "Hello," says Green Dinger. The pensioner says nothing. "Like the wegschlagen crutch," says Green Dinger and laughs. He says it is not evil, he is also not bad. He is the Wolfie.

The Wolfie, who has just written a book, entitled "Revolt of the boys. As the war we can avoid the generations."

The book he dedicated to his mother. Green Dinger says: "I'm so conciliatory." The young rebels like cheesecake bakes.

If we in Germany after politically engaged young people studied, then one finds a few. Wolfgang green things you can find the 25-year pension experts. He lives in a panel at the Berlin Alexanderplatz, exterior tiles, inside top curtains, the TV tower is around the corner. In the kitchen stick a postcard: "A dirty house is a sign of a brilliant party."

Political Career? Nope, prefer not

He has an Obama doll, the "Yes, we can" says, if it on the head skin. In his room hangs a poster of Willy Brandt. "That's our Obama," says Green Dinger. Sometimes people ask him, in his WG rumhängen whether the man on the poster was his father.

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Dinger Green is considered the "law of youth." He has the generational equity price get the "Young Career" counts on him "the young elite of Germany." With five he saw the fall of the Berlin Wall on television, beat themselves with a hammer on the wall of the neighbors. With 16 entry in the SPD, with 17 first press conference at the Youth Summit on Climate Change in Bonn.

If the Green Dinger enters parliament in Berlin, cheep at the security check the rivets of his jeans. Otherwise it stands for a career as a politician, nothing in your way. The parties lechzen depending young blood, says Green Dinger. Only he does not want. Too much stress, he says, and then applies it even as overpaid, lazy and incompetent.

He does prefer to lobbying, as he speaks at least not purely. He calls the right to vote from zero years to 100 percent renewable energy, fighting for fair conditions internship. He complains of "premium seats" for older workers, it will not be fair if the elderly get more pay for equal work and more holidays and often still are practically irredeemable.

Why should we go worse?

The boys, he says, but would need security, but also wanted to start a family. Of course, one should respect for the lives somehow worthy performance. He thinks, for example, to a vacation day for the older gentlemen, as a birthday gift.

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Why he chose the pension interest and not for Palestine? "Because I probably have no more wars," says Green Dinger. The pensions of the elderly and private funding for their own retirement savings, he cites "a massive violation of intergenerational justice."

Intergenerational justice means to him that the generations after retroactive at least as good as going to the previous generation. And this is just exactly when the boy is no longer the case. Challenging, he is not. "Nope," he says, "why should they? That would be my parents but want to."

You can green Dinger, lone son of a vegetable seller in Bavaria, not complain that he was spoiled. When he was 2002 to the World Summit on Sustainable Development to Johannesburg to fly, he had only his identity with no passport. He knew it would not be better: It was his first flight, at home, could never afford to leave. Almost would have it no longer worked with South Africa, but as a green Dinger officials showed the invitation to all delegates, signed by Kofi Annan, he had suddenly quite a quick pass

Lobbying for an indifferent generation

Meanwhile, Green has determined Dinger 1000 conferences attended, including conferences. " Meanwhile, he even invites you to stone Meier exclusive events. Dinger Green is now something like the voice of youth. He studied social science, lectures at schools, writing articles, even if it is hardly any money to do so. He says: "It's makes for the Embassy and for the ego." Even Angela Merkel, he has an open letter written. "An economic perspective permeates the life of a whole generation," is there.

But Green does Dinger lobbying for a generation, in which he himself sometimes desperate. For example, at the time when Unistreik in Regensburg, when she organized a protest camp against the imposition of tuition fees. The university leadership was "cooperative," they even had the keys to the toilets where. A "sophisticated kebab shop" even donated baked focaccia bread. "The Kurds were behind us," says Green Dinger. Only the other students.

Some felt that they do nothing, then nearing completion. The next would prefer to learn exams. The third asked: Why should we even bestreiken? Wolfgang has a camp in his books to read.

"Throw stones is not our style"

At 16, he founded the organization YOIS, it was considered to be "inter-generational equity and sustainability." They wanted, says Green Dinger, something like a youth party, only without a party. But people came and went, had no desire to find rooms for the members' travel requests, or to edit. The case fell asleep. We could have used people, Green believes things that are paid to say: "Make it the Revolution, we clarify the stuff with the court."

Only that the revolution will not succeed. "Stones throw" Dinger says Green, "is simply not our style." They have in his WG eco-electricity and energy-saving lamps, they buy toilet paper at the discounters, but organic chocolate and organic coffee. The coffee is fair "for the feeling." Last year, Green says things, whether its balance sheet while climate has been disastrous, flights to China, Peru, USA. But it flies in Germany not from principle.

Dinger Green says he does not judge his positions to the right or left. He says: "I can with all of them." He goes to the Evangelical Church Day, although he is Catholic. Just because one is on the podium to say what can and even be taken seriously. He first demonstrated before the Atomic Forum and goes back to the Atomic Forum. Just to see how the others tick.

According to this youth tend not to

He finds the people of Attac and is sympathetic with those of what McKinsey drink. In November, he was in the demo in Gorleben, the first time he has a speech about the "Atomic Lies" held at the invitation of a professor. The atmosphere has really liked him. Was just a shame that for the speakers gave no fee.

In December they are together - Wolfgang, a few right-Young Socialists, a few green, including a vegan - the UN summit in Poland driven. You have the events in the aerospace and energy companies that have listened, wanted to "take impressions." Afterwards, there was always a buffet, which has made a good impression. At the end they decided the next time, in Copenhagen, we must be radical, spectacular actions, something very dramatic, perhaps delegates with water spray.

Green Dinger says: "We are far too serious and adapted. Everyone expected it from the youth that they are loud." Want to eat but they still continue in the industry. Perhaps green things not even in Copenhagen this because he is already studying in America, in California. There are many businesses in renewable energy, which interested him. And also you can surf as well.