One item from the program for the anniversary of the Paulskirchen Assembly is called "Escape Bubbles".

It is a playful installation based on the Escape Rooms model, in which a group solves puzzles together in order to escape from a locked room.

In the case of the “Escape Bubbles”, the room represents a filter bubble in which, like in everyday life, there are lots of people who share similar attitudes and encourage each other.

The aim should be to deal with it, to take on new perspectives and thus break up social polarization.

It would be nice if this could be achieved at least to a certain extent.

In general, it is correct not only to take the 175-year anniversary of the first German National Assembly as an opportunity for a historical review, but also to deal with the present and the future of democracy.

But the ambitious organizers should also get out of their intellectual bubble themselves.

A place you can enter

One can describe the Paulskirchen Assembly as a "parliament of honours", criticize a "hegemonic culture of remembrance" and call for a "postcolonial perspective", but first of all it should be noted that the National Assembly was the nucleus of German parliamentarianism and that an anniversary is a good occasion to talk about it learn and share history.

And yes: an “affirmative” reflection is also justified, even necessary.

The more plural society is, the more important are positive, connecting points of identification.

It is also wrong to say that “the young generation” or “the migrants” don't know what to do with the Paulskirche because it all happened almost 175 years ago and belongs to a society that has little to do with today's.

In history lessons at Frankfurt schools, the Paulskirche is one of the topics that reliably arouses interest - whether among students with a migration background or not.

This is because history can be experienced in concrete terms in the Paulskirche.

Democracy has a place on Paulsplatz, the students know the building, they can visit it.

When they come home from a tour, they proudly say that they were there where the cornerstone of German democratic history was laid almost 175 years ago.

Maybe the parents can learn something from it.