Subject: Hong Kong, care, East Germany

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Issue 47/2019

In the service of the truth

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The campus of Baptist University of Hong Kong is intersected by a street spanned by a pedestrian bridge. It is an ideal place to attack approaching police from above, with paving stones, Molotov cocktails, bow and arrow.

Fahrion

This bridge was the scene of many that SPIEGEL editor Georg Fahrion visited to talk to protesters in Hong Kong and get a picture of the situation that can only be described as procedural. In order not to be injured in the violent clashes between protesters and police, Fahrion wears a neon-colored vest that identifies him as a journalist, plus a helmet and a gas mask. He hopes that's enough. "Parts of the protest movement have become radicalized and are resorting to militant means, as the Hong Kong police act increasingly uninhibited," says Fahrion, who observed the actions of the protesters for more than a week up close. "Government and protesters are unforgiving."

Hong Kong protests: "So we too need to increase violence" - read our report here.

Jesco Denzel / THE MIRROR

Mother and daughter Friday, Schmergal

Nursing industry: "I have never seen my mother like this" - read the story about the fight against the house management, the corporation and regulators. Finding a place in a nursing home for the parents is usually exhausting, and the searchers often ask themselves with a guilty conscience whether the elderly are actually doing better there than at home. But what can one do if one eventually realizes that one has chosen the wrong home ? That her own mother does not get enough to drink, that she is sore and that she has to listen to how the nurses call out across the hall: "The old woman should feed herself!" Barbara Freitag experienced this with her mother Ruth - and had to learn how attentive and resistant relatives were thwarted. SPIEGEL editor Cornelia Schmergal has researched the history of her struggle. Her conclusion is sobering: "Anyone who has no relatives in their old age, who regularly check whether they are well looked after in the home, probably already lost."

Nursing industry: "I have never seen my mother like this" - read the story about the fight against the house management, the corporation and regulators.

Maria Feck / THE MIRROR

Schmiegel, driver Heiko

Lübtheen , a small town in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, is in the whole of eastern Germany, the place with the fewest women between 20 and 39 years. There are almost two men for every woman of this age. Why do men stay when women go? And how do these men live then? This was the question asked by SPIEGEL employee Cathrin Schmiegel and photographer Maria Feck. Many times they went to Lübtheen and talked to the people there - they finally found answers at a Shell petrol station in the town where Heiko, 31, regularly parks his Golf III GTI to meet with friends. Many conversations took place in the car, Schmiegel drove in the passenger seat through the place, but before the rules were made clear. No coffee in the paper cup, no infected cigarette butts in the car. And Feck was only allowed to take pictures of the Golf after Heiko had ensured that the car was spotless.

Lübtheen in Mecklenburg: "We talk about 60 percent about cars and 40 about women" - Cathrin Schmiegel about a place with a lack of women.