Diana Kinnert (1991, Wuppertal) is a CDU politician, entrepreneur, consultant, and author. She studied political science, social sciences, and philosophy in Göttingen, Amsterdam, and Berlin. She was chief of staff to Bundestag Vice President Peter Hintze and has advised party committees, most recently the Grundwertekommission under Friedrich Merz. Kinnert is a member of the Association for Digital Sovereignty and regularly publishes on Substack about capitalism, conservatism, and conformity.

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Jana Sepehr

Jana Sepehr was born in Hamburg and studied sociology, political science, globalisation and development studies in Kiel, Maastricht and San Diego. For her master thesis she spent two month at the University of Ghana to do research on brain drain migration. Since 2015 she is working as a freelance journalist for Die Zeit, Der Spiegel and ZDF among others. At Dokumentale, she serves as the chief-editor for publications.

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Die Achtsamkeitsfalle

Mindfulness is often seen as a path to inner peace and a method of self-care. But what if, in an age of performance pressure and self-optimization, mindfulness becomes a tool of capitalism? Then sports are exploited, health threatened, vulnerability disregarded, and community undermined.