A banner made of dirty fabric dangles from the first-floor window, bearing a blue VW logo surrounded by the words “Verkehrswende”. Inside, in the terraced house east of downtown Wolfsburg, activists are meeting who want to force Europe’s largest car company, Volkswagen, to completely reorganize its business.
“Actually, the car industry only has to do one thing – namely to go under,” they write on an Internet blog. In the house on Amselweg in Wolfsburg, “Amsel 44”, as the action and project house is called, the group offers everything that like-minded people need to join.