Die Deutsche Bahn AG

Free tetra packs of water to console people for missing their connections, confusion on the platform because the carriages are in the wrong order, hungry passengers in buffet cars that are out of service, stranded commuters at icy cold provincial stations, broken toilets, unmarked seat reservations, entire missing carriages and delays, delays, delays. The reason? An earlier train, signal failure, staff delayed from a previous journey … If there is one thing that everybody can still agree on, it is the catastrophic state of the German railways. But what are the reasons behind the reasons for the crisis? Searching for the answers, we encounter a lot of open questions: was converting Deutsche Bahn into a joint-stock company a mistake? Why is there still not enough investment in the track network? If in doubt, can everything be blamed on the former railway boss Mehdorn? Calle Fuhr is not satisfied with simple explanations. Over months of research, he has studied the situation around Deutsche Bahn and not left out a single power failure in an effort to understand the true nature of the crisis. After his acclaimed one-man shows KRIEG UND FRIEDEN and AUFSTIEG UND FALL DES HERRN RENÉ BENKO he now dives headlong into Deutsche Bahn AG’s network of companies, analyses political cronyism and looks for levers to get the railways back on track again.