Summary / Resumé
In an interview with Manfred Güllner, the director of FORSA, the market and opinion research institute, the significant difference between the younger and older generations in regard to value orientation emerges. Public virtues seem to be disregarded. At the same time there are high value expectations, e.g. of family, job, local ties, but less of politics, on which especially younger people often turn their back. Increased attention to people’s specific problems is expected of the elites of the various areas of social life. There are growing complaints about the disappearance of local charitable institutions that in the wake of privatization have not found equivalent replacements yet.