In a rapidly changing world, MADE in Germany examines the risks and benefits of digitalization and its impact on the way we work, what we earn and how we live.
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 4 days 17 hours 30 minutes
Career pressure - just say no
Optimize your career, and you’ll find yourself working long hours and checking your email at the weekend. Don’t do it, says Alix Fassmann, author and career refusenik. She turned her back on a job in PR.
Optimized: An experiment in self-improvement
How many kilometers have you walked today? How many calories have you burned? Wear a fitness tracker and you’ll have your answer. But are you putting yourself under unnecessary pressure? Our reporter gives it a go.
Farmer in Peru vs. a German utility
He is suing German power company RWE for damages. It generates electricity by burning coal. That contributes to climate change and thus the melting of the glacier near his home. The water threatens his livelihood. A German court will hear the case.
Founders Valley: Start-up in Bangladesh
German entrepreneur Fridtjof Detzner visits a start-up in Dhaka that has developed an app to match service providers with customers. He also meets with activists from a childrens' rights organization. It helps child laborers get some education.
Ilse Bosch, heiress and benefactor
Ilse Bosch is the granddaughter of the industrialist Robert Bosch. She uses her wealth to support projects around the world that benefit women and girls and LGBTQI communities.
A bus ride across Berlin: From poor to rich
The M29 bus cuts through Berlin. The one end of the line is in a working-class and immigrant neighborhood. The other is where the rich have their villas. We ride the bus and ask people along the way how they see social justice.
The wealthy and their enablers
We talk to asset managers, luxury-goods dealers and a sociologist about the wealthy – and how they do it. In 2017, around 80 percent of the wealth generated globally went to just one percent of the population.
Digital Germany: Smarty pants
Clothes are going digital. They could soon connect to the internet and be made to measure on 3D printers. But they won't come cheap.
Why do women still earn less?
Around the world, women still earn less than men. What are the reasons for the wage gap, and when will it finally be closed?
Women in construction
Larissa Zeichhardt and her sister run the building business founded by her father. She says it takes a lot of determination to make her way in the construction industry, which is still dominated by men.