b_179_129_16777215_00_images_DEU130906aa002.jpegBERLIN — "Mutti," or Mummy in English, explains in large part the hold Chancellor Angela Merkel has had on the German nation for a decade.

When Juli Zeh wrote a play last year whose title was Germans' pet name for their leader, she told broadcaster NDR that she wanted to reflect the psychology of a woman “who does little and says little, but exerts tremendous power."

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