Mai Thi Minh Thu has already arrived. About a year ago, the 21-year-old moved from a small town in Vietnam to Magdeburg. She is currently undergoing training to become a nursing professional and has just finished her early shift. She enjoys her work and the city, she says during a meeting at a café in the city center. Once, a drunken man made derogatory comments about her background at a bus stop. „But that wasn’t worth mentioning,“ she quickly adds. She has never heard of the AfD, fortunately, as some in Magdeburg would say.