Heinrich Böll on Politics and Power

„Only those understand politics who have the possibility at any given time to realize their ideas of the policies to be made, that is, those who are in power.“

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Heinrich Böll was a German writer and an important author of the postwar period.

In this quote, Heinrich Böll connects political understanding with the power to implement one’s own ideas in government.


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Heinrich Theodor Böll (1917–1985) was a German writer from Cologne. As a narrator of postwar German literature, he depicted urban destruction, the hunger and hardship of survivors, and the homecoming and disillusionment of returning soldiers. His well-known short stories include “Wanderer, kommst du nach Spa…,” “The Bread of Our Early Years,” and “Dr. Murke’s Collected Silences.”

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