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Most people have probably already heard of “plain language” and, when they received their last letter from the tax office, may have wondered why general comprehensibility is not also a worthwhile goal for the authorities.

At Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk, or more precisely at the Dresden regional broadcasting center, many people in different professions work to ensure that news is broadcast over the airwaves day after day, evening after evening. Experts explain the challenges of communicating in an integrative and inclusive way, where this is already successful and where obstacles to communication and understanding repeatedly arise in everyday public life.

Dresdeners, newcomers and married couples speak Saxon on the street after a relatively short time, in any case. High German is spoken at school, at least most of the time. French?

This question really gets on Mariela's nerves. Why is that? Isn't it okay to be curious and inquisitive in the best sense of the word?

Olga is a pediatrician, Yuliya is a teacher at the Waldorf School. Together with five to ten other women, they meet every Wednesday evening in the sewing café on Bautzner Straße. They are currently sewing patchwork birds, large and small, individually or as a small ensemble with repeating fabrics and patterns.