I'm alone again
and that makes me more nervous with so many people
throat-clearing
Well, "we are participating actively in the discussions"
is a quote from the "digital agenda"
2014 to 2017 of the [German] Federal Government
I wrote "agenda" in quotes,
this has a reason to which we'll come later.
And I will speak from a contentual, philological and
linguistic perspective about that.
And there's also something new,
because until now I worked more the linguistic way,
but I'm – in part time – a philologist as well.
And we'll have a look at what philology is actually.
Here it reads in Greek.
It is the "word friendship".
Actually it is the science of texts.
Oh, more maté, super.
audience laughing
Now also Flora [maté].
The science of texts, and yes,
I also keep myself busy with that.
It is said to be prosaic and politicians think,
you could easily abolish philology.
Happening right now at the university of Saarbrücken.
We don't want that of course and I want to show
a bit, why philology is something contemporary
one is able to make use of, also politically.
And that I will show with the "digital agenda".
So first we'll have some philology,
than we'll talk about the "digital agenda" and for the remaining
I will have some quotes from politicians at the end.
So, how do you do philology?
There are tools.
In the past people used cue cards for that.