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Carolin Würfel

Carolin Würfel

The Guardian

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Millennial women were told to chase our dreams. That’s left us burnt out, broke and dreaming of a rich patron

Millennial women were told to chase our dreams. That’s left us burnt out, broke and dreaming of a rich patron
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Carolin Würfel

Which political animals will be at Anthony Albanese’s meeting in China?

15.07.2025 10

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Carolin Würfel

Women born in East Germany have lived between two worlds. That’s why we’re shaking up art and politics

15.07.2025 40

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Carolin Würfel

Mother’s Day in Germany is a reminder that motherhood is a battle that’s not for me

10.05.2025 9

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Carolin Würfel

I fear I’m doing friendship wrong: why do we lose the art of just hanging out?

18.04.2025 40

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Carolin Würfel

Around me in Istanbul there is fear on every face – but I see a resilience that refuses to die

29.03.2025 40

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After a breakup, can you ever be happy living alone? I moved countries to find out

Recently I found this note in my 2021 diary: “Moved into this apartment five days ago, waiting for loneliness to catch up, but it hasn’t come.”...

24.12.2024 10

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Carolin Würfel

East German culture has been ignored for too long. Until we embrace it, our country will remain dangerously divided

When I went to school in the 1990s, GDR literature wasn’t taught or read. It was treated as something shameful. I didn’t dare to pick up a book by...

20.08.2024 60

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Carolin Würfel