A piece of nature dies every day, ”says the election poster.

In the video you can see a few green fir trees, around them the whole forest is brown, withered, dead.

Annalena Baerbock says: “Your vote decides on the last government that can still actively influence the climate crisis.

Before it's too late. ”It's the same warning, but there are almost 40 years in between: The poster is from the spring of 1983, the video from the summer of 2021. The Greens want to focus on positive messages in this election campaign, not on the apocalypse.

“Ready because it's you” is her slogan.

But in the last few meters Baerbock reached into the instrument box of the founding Greens.

You can hear Gudrun Pausewang calling from afar.

Helene Bubrowski

Political correspondent in Berlin.

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The first Greens saw themselves as an anti-party party, Annalena Baerbock has started to lead the next government. It doesn't go together at all. Or is it? If one observes Baerbock and speaks about her with many greens and non-greens, the relapse into old patterns suddenly seems plausible. It's a story about a woman who searches for orientation in thin air. And about a party that doesn't really know where it's going.

Baerbock actually wanted to provide orientation.

When she took over the chairmanship of the party with Robert Habeck in January 2018, the two of them agreed that not only Germany needed a new departure, but also their own party.

Out of the corner of spelled and conceit, into the breadth of society, to the country, to the Dax executive boards, to the east.

With advertising language, inviting communication - this is how Habeck recently described the project.

Encourage people instead of fear.

The party leaders ban the word radical, they don't talk about bans, but about incentives.

They want to leave the raised index finger stuck, especially the middle finger.

And then it should go to number one with the Union.

Two realos at the top of the party

Baerbock and Habeck both want this new style of politics. But he embodies the idea more than she does. He is the father, you could say, she is the adoptive mother. It is not that Baerbock did not demand their party. In the struggle for party leadership, it threw a party left out of the running and thus exposed the sacred green principle of wing arithmetic. Now there are two Realos at the head of the party. Baerbock also asserts that the Greens are not the better people, but want to make better politics. She admits that she likes to put a piece of meat on the grill and sometimes throw away spaghetti from the day before. But she spares her party real unreasonable demands. At the end of 2018, she publicly proposed to deport offenders more quickly. No green man gets upsetBaerbock had previously secured all sides and in return promised to finally reject the hated concept of safe countries of origin.

Habeck, on the other hand, goes to Ukraine and proposes the delivery of defensive weapons, although it contradicts the decision. He surprised and angered his party and earned praise from the conservative side. Baerbock slows him down. She knows the threat situation in the country, but she does not want to promise more than support in clearing mines. She doesn't think the Greens can take any more.