"For decades, Germany stood for quality, efficiency, and engineering excellence. But today, visitors to Europe's economic powerhouse are often surprised to find a country where many things simply don't work. Trains are often late, roads and bridges are in bad shape, car sales in the doldrums, and public administration is entangled in a web of bureaucracy and suffering from lack of digitization."
"Add to that a string of public planning fiascos from the delayed central train station in Stuttgart to Berlin's international airport and it feels as though progress has slammed into a wall. To many, the country looks like it's in a permanent state of delay and disrepair. Not country-bashing, more like therapy Delayland is hosted by DW Business journalists Andreas Becker and Nicolas Martin."
"Each of the five episodes is a journey through dysfunction yet also a search for solutions. The hosts travel from Switzerland to India, France to Denmark, uncovering what lessons these successes might hold for Germany. Delayland isn't just a business podcast. It's psycho-geography: a map of Germany's mindset, its post-1945 identity, its superiority complex, and its fear of change. In short, a national therapy session."
Germany's longstanding image of engineering excellence is under strain as trains run late, roads and bridges deteriorate, car sales slump, and public administration remains mired in bureaucracy and limited digitization. High-profile planning failures, from Stuttgart's central station to Berlin's international airport, amplify a nationwide sense of delay and disrepair. The podcast Delayland, hosted by Andreas Becker and Nicolas Martin, investigates these failures and explores solutions by comparing Germany with countries such as Switzerland, India, France, and Denmark. The series combines investigation of dysfunction with cultural analysis of national mindset, aiming to map causes and potential remedies.
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