‘We miss her so much’: fans welcome Angela Merkel’s return to stage

Events in Berlin to promote former chancellor’s autobiography remind people of when ‘everything was more or less OK’

For Finn Kulbatzki it was worth the wait. The business studies undergraduate queued outside Berlin’s Dussmann bookshop for five hours before finally being able to present his copies of Angela Merkel’s autobiography, Freedom, for her to sign.

“I couldn’t believe that I got to stand right next to her,” the 23-year-old told journalists. A beaming Merkel, dressed in a lilac version of one of her trademark blazers, said little, but signed three copies of the hardback for him.

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