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Saxony-Anhalt celebrates itself once again – and the citizen is left to guess what exactly forThere are moments when one wonders whether administrative communication is secretly being practiced as its own art form. Saxony-Anhalt regularly provides new examples of this – most recently once again in an impressive way through a press release that made its way into the digital public sphere via a Facebook post. 
Even the opening of “Successful model project strengthens cooperation in the education sector in Saxony-Anhalt - final report on the model project Cooperation in municipal education management” is a small masterpiece of modern self-assurance: a model project was “successful,” “cooperation was strengthened,” “results are positive.” One can almost feel the administration patting itself on the back while, somewhere in the background, an Excel spreadsheet hums contentedly. Everything appears rounded, clean, and finished – as if it were a project that leaves no open questions whatsoever. If it weren’t for that one small, seemingly insignificant side note: there is a final report. A final report! That sounds like substance, like data, like results, like something one can actually read when one does not merely want to enjoy the press-release version of “good weather conditions.” The moment when transparency stopsAnd this is exactly where the real adventure begins. Because anyone who becomes curious – truly curious, in an old-fashioned civic sense – and actually wants to read this report, experiences digital Saxony-Anhalt at its most poetic: the great nothing.No clean download link. No archive. No central document hub. No “everything is transparently available” logic. Instead: links that lead into emptiness. Paths dissolving into administrative fog. Documents that apparently exist only as long as no one actually tries to read them. Communication in glossy finish – content in deep waterThe press release itself uses a language that can only be described as “administrative euphoric prose”:
What exactly improved? What data is available? What problems were solved – and which were not? What costs were incurred? What conflicts of objectives arose? The answers remain – as so often – elegantly in the background. One might say: strategically placed with discretion. Or less kindly: simply not visible. The final report as a digital Schrödinger documentThe truly brilliant aspect is this: the final report exists and does not exist at the same time.It is mentioned, celebrated, politically classified – but when one tries to read it, it behaves like a digital Schrödinger document: formally present, practically impossible to find. And so the interested citizen is left with a fascinating epistemic triangle:
Civic participation in practiceSo what does the citizen do with this information?They could of course:
Everything fine. Please do not ask further questions.In the end, a classic administrative narrative remains in its purest form: a lot of work was done. A lot was achieved. A lot was communicated.And anyone who still has questions has apparently misunderstood the system. Because modern transparency today does not work in a way where things are found. It works in a way where one knows they exist. And that, apparently, must be enough.
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