Apparently, a literary genre has recently been enjoying particular attention.
These are the election programs of the parties running for the Bundestag.
Many claim to read these works with particular interest.
On Wednesday evening, for example, the entrepreneur Frank Thelen with Sandra Maischberger.
According to his own admission, he mainly devoted himself to that of the Greens.
The external reason was understandable: Her chancellor candidate Annalena Baerbock was invited to an individual interview on the show.
Apparently, Thelen thought by reading this party official prose that he had learned about the actions of a potential Chancellor.
Perhaps someone could take the trouble to compare the politics of the Chancellors of the past decades with their election programs: He would find surprisingly little in common.
This is by no means only true for the incumbent, who has achieved a certain mastery in this discipline.
The most beautiful feathers like a peacock
It corresponds to the function of election programs.
These serve primarily to form the will of the party within the party, so that all wings and groups can find each other again.
In addition, the ideological self-assurance, which is why the parties flaunt their most beautiful feathers like a peacock.
In the SPD and the left it is social justice, in the FDP it is the market economy, in the Greens it is the environment.
The Union parties alone have always considered their claim to power to be the most important concern, which is why they have never taken the election manifesto particularly seriously.
These works, mostly written by bureaucrats, struggled with the balancing act between non-binding and specificity.
But all politicians were certain of one thing: four years later, nobody will be interested in yesterday's election programs.
Armed with a hot heart and a highlighter
Before the show, Thelen had probably studied the green election program armed with a warm heart and a highlighter, in order to find the disaster he was expecting from a Chancellor Baerbock.
However, the project failed across the board.
Because Baerbock was so well prepared in terms of content that Thelen even had to agree with her in the end.
Thelen informed us that he had already pointed out to Federal Minister of Economics Peter Altmaier the tax problems related to electricity from storage facilities, as pointed out by Ms. Baerbock.
Ms. Baerbock is experienced enough as a professional politician to avoid possible pitfalls. So she was a bit taken aback when Ms. Maischberger spoke of a national air traffic concept of the Greens, "that domestic German air traffic is largely shifting to the railroad." But she couldn't deny that either, after all it sounded like a green agenda.