Overview

• Angela Merkel attracted around 200 people to a book signing event in Hamburg, her birthplace, for her memoir 'Freiheit.'
• The 736-page memoir, co-written with Beate Baumann, covers Merkel's life and political career from 1954 to 2021.
• Merkel's memoir has been a commercial success, with approximately 12,000 copies sold per week since Christmas, according to the publisher.
• Attendees at the event expressed mixed views on her leadership, praising her crisis management skills but noting periods of political stagnation.
• Merkel avoided press interactions during the event and later planned to hold a reading from her book at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus.