ThisAnthropocene and German Political Science articleThe Anthropocene and German political science attempts to explain why political sciencePolitical science in the German-speaking research area has so far only marginally dealt with the conceptConcept of the AnthropoceneAnthropocene, although a drastic structural change between the HoloceneHolocene and the Anthropocene is becoming apparent. At the centre of the explanatory approach is the hypothesis of an incongruence between political sciencePolitical science and Earth scienceEarth science researchIncongruence between political science and earth science research. In the dominant political sciencePolitical science discourse, environmental conditions are seen as constant and the focus is on political actorsPolitical actors coping with the problems of the present. Earth science, on the other hand, ignores political actorsPolitical actors and their struggle for political consensus as restrictive variables for planetary governancePlanetary governance. The third part of the article presents a political sciencePolitical science perspective that addresses the problems facing politics in the new Anthropocene era. Here, the thesis is developed that in the AnthropoceneAnthropocene, the structural conditions of politicsPolitics and political governanceGovernance are undergoing lasting change.