A Day in the Life of Greta Thunberg

Greta Thunberg is in Davos, Switzerland, this week, addressing and dressing down the gathered global elite. Cameras and crowds follow her everywhere, like the tail of a comet. But how does the seventeen-year-old spend her days when she’s not leading mass rallies or instructing world leaders? Die Weltwoche asks close fellow travelers of the unlikely international superstar. They tell us the answer.

A teenager, his hair dyed gleaming silver, is jumping for joy as if Justin Bieber or, better yet, Billie Eilish has just taken the stage. The Lausanne, Switzerland town square, packed with elated teenagers, erupts into wild cheers. A sea of cell phones are held aloft to electronically memorialize Generation Z’s global hero, climate icon: Greta Thunberg.

A Day in the Life of Greta Thunberg

It is Friday afternoon. The seventeen-year-old activist ...