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Audio Archive Podcast â Go against the Grain is a long-term journalistic project and digital archive for conversations, interviews, reports, and essays on politics, society, and culture. Two to four new podcast episodes are released each month.Â
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Audio Archive Podcast â Go against the Grain is a long-term journalistic project and digital archive for conversations, interviews, reports, and essays on politics, society, and culture. Two to four new podcast episodes are released each month.Â
For more than three decades, we have been conducting interviews with philosophers, authors, activists, and scientists worldwide. Our interviewees explain the complex developments of our time and place them in an easily understandable and contemporary context within the global framework.Â
The Audio Archive Podcasts focus neither on mass media uniformity nor on unreflective pack journalism, but on differentiating insights: enlightening, knowledgeable and free from economic interests.Â
All Audio Archive podcasts are free. No revenue is generated through advertising. No AI support.
More details about the project, background informations, articles, video shorts, essays and more you'll find on our webpage www.audio-archiv.com
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Oct 17, 2025
Oct 17, 2025
31 min
đ Christoph Burgmer im GesprĂ€ch mit Christoph Butterwegge (geb. 1951). Der Politiloge und Armutsforscher Christoph Butterwegge erlĂ€utert in diesem GesprĂ€ch, wie Armut aktuell die europĂ€ischen und die deutsche Demokratie gefĂ€hrdet. Dazu wird die Geschichte der Verteilung von Reichtum und Armut seit der WĂ€hrungsreform 1948 entmystifiziert. Christoph Butterwegge lehrte an der UniversitĂ€t Köln und wurde 2017 von der Partei "Die Linke" als Kandidat fĂŒr das BundesprĂ€sendentenamt aufgestellt.
đ Christoph Burgmer in conversation with Christoph Butterwegge (born 1951). In this conversation, political scientist and poverty researcher Christoph Butterwegge explains how poverty currently threatens European and German democracy. To this end, he demystifies the history and distribution of wealth and poverty since the currency reform of 1948. Christoph Butterwegge taught at the University of Cologne and was nominated as a candidate for the office of Federal President by the Left Party in 2017.
đ Veröffentlichungen u.a. / publications a.o.:
- Christoph Butterwegge / Carolin Butterwegge: "Kinder der Ungleichheit. Wie sich die Gesellschaft ihrer Zukunft beraubt." Campus Verlag, Frankfurt a.M. 2021.
- Christoph Butterwegge: "Umverteilung des Reichtums." PapyRossa Verlag, Köln 2024.
- Christoph Butterwegge: "Deutschland im Krisenmodus. Infektion, Invasion und Inflation als gesellschaftliche Herausforderung." Beltz Verlag, Weinheim 2024.
#butterwegge #umverteilung #armut
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