ABSTRACT
I begin my reflections with a quotation from the polemical essay ‘Youth of Yesterday’ by Susanne Balthasar (2000), which was published in the German newspaper Frankfurter Rundschau:
Those in their mid-twenties have been overtaken from behind by children who make career before driving a car. By Benjamin Lebert, who is writing a bestseller novel at the age of 16, or the countless boys and girlies who are TV stars before growing up and the children hackers who crack the Telecom code while doing their homework. They make the trends and the TV, so they can read the signs of the times better than any 20-year-old. They have understood that times have changed.
