http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/ef7bd7c3f16ea959 https://verfassungsblog.de/naturalised-and-muted/ Naturalised and Muted - Freedom of Expression to All Germans and Dignity to All Peoples Gašperin Wischhoff, Jakob eng 2026-06-12 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Citizenship Deutschland Freedom of Speech Naturalization Staatsräson german Deutschland Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 Not long ago, I was chatting with my German-born friends about belonging, identity, and citizenship. I had recently become a German citizen, but wondered whether that truly makes me an equal one. A lively debate immediately flared up, and my friends charmingly convinced me that there is no such thing as “Bio-German”– that this is only a ghost from the past. But then the case of Abdallah A. decided by the Berlin Administrative Court forced me to revisit that conversation.