Podcast: The end of the optimisation mania, the future of churches, contemplation at Christmas

00:36 - Welcome/Topic introduction

01:10 - Citizens want an end to constant optimisation: Google has more than 35 million entries on the topic of "optimise your life" - from nutrition and health to work, relationship and leisure tips. However, more than two thirds of Germans now take a critical view of the trend towards continuously optimising their own lives. So will the optimisation craze soon come to an end?

14:15 - The future of the churches: Our enquiry this week is about faith, God and the church: in addition to taking stock of attendance figures in places of worship, the focus is on the question of what German citizens expect, what developments are emerging and what the future of the church - between community and mediator of values - could look like.

24:00 - Contemplation at Christmas: In keeping with the run-up to Christmas, our topic of the week is all about the festival of love. Family, tradition and bright-eyed children, or rather kitsch, commerce and stress - what do Germans really associate with Christmas?

34:20 - What comes, what stays, what goes?