The German blogging scene
They initiate debates, comment on current events, or simply express exactly what they feel – the Germen blogging scene is very lively.
She has been writing about literature and food for over ten years. She comments on public affairs and offers her poetic reflections about love or the family. She reaches a large audience with her Melancholie Modeste blog. But nobody knows who the author actually is, and it does not really seem to bother the readers. The most important thing for them is that Melancholie Modeste’s entertaining contributions address topics that capture the spirit of the times.
She is a lawyer. That is all that the blogosphere seems to know about the author. But in reality, she tells a lot more about herself: she writes exclusively from her own perspective. She just does not give her name. Nevertheless, her blog is authentic, and that is what makes her and other anonymous German bloggers, such as 500Beine or Airen, so successful. The majority of these popular bloggers pursue their passion for poetic writing without pay and in their spare time. Deutsche Welle recently named Melancholie Modeste’s literary blog the Best German-Language Blog of 2014.
In addition to poetic blogs, political blogs in particular attract a lot of attention in Germany. For example, Publikative.org, which focuses on extreme right-wing contents on the Internet and documents them. This platform, which was founded by the German journalist Patrick Gensing, is now hosted by the Amadeu Antonio Foundation. Then there is Der Postillon, a satirical blog that went online in 2008. Around 50,000 people visit this website every day. Its editor-in-chief Stefan Sichermann has already won the prestigious Grimme Online Award twice.
Meanwhile, two prominent bloggers in Germany are stimulating the debate about digitalisation. In their blogs the journalists Sascha Lobo and Stefan Niggemeier spotlight questionable developments in the media. Lobo, the man with the trademark red Mohawk haircut, recently got people talking when he claimed that the Internet has been ruined.
http://blogs.faz.net/planckton
