Where politics and music meet, it’s better to take cover quickly. In this regard, Ministers Guttenberg and Scheuer will be remembered above all from the Merkel era. The fact that Guttenberg met his future wife at the Love Parade cannot be blamed on either of them – that he later bought T-shirts from AC / DC or put yourself (“KrisenbewälTiger”) over your rolled-up white shirt, yes. The fact that the Bundesverkehrsandi once appeared as a Germany jockey near Passau is still documented today as a video on the Internet, title: “Andreas Scheuer opens a disco and is really off!”
But even those politicians who are otherwise considered cool don’t really get going in the music category. Maybe it has to do with the fact that taste in music is more of a private thing. Joe Biden’s predecessor in office was someone who almost everyone assumed was very casual. Now he has to read a piece in Cringe major about himself on radiohamburg.de, title: “Barack Obama chills to these summer hits“.
Obama’s own fault. He’s really eager to publish all kinds of playlists. This is not to be expected from Angela Merkel. This Thursday she will be adopted by the Bundeswehr with a big tattoo. Merkel submitted the following three music requests: the ecumenical German hymn “Great God, we praise you” as well as the modern classics “For me it should rain red roses” (Hildegard Knef) and “You forgot the color film” (Nina Hagen).
The selection is surprising in the best sense of the word. In the ear the grölschaden “Life is Life” after the great tattoo for Thomas de Maizière is noisy. In the memory for audiovisual media, on the other hand, the slightly sluggish film is still running with the crying Gerhard Schröderwho played Sinatra’s “My Way” – this treacherous super classic, which many misunderstand as a custom-made product for their (professional) life, even though it is the skilful opposite: one size fits all.
At Merkel, of course, people were curious now. A lot would have been imaginable. For example the rule-breaking addition of a singer who performs a classic Merkel’s Corona warning sentence: “The thing slipped away from us”, perhaps performed on the melody of “Es ist ein Ros sprung”? Because Christmas is coming soon. Instead, the Knef, the Hagen, the Lord in heaven. West, east, up. Touching, shrill, humble.
It is a selection that shows one last time that Angela Merkel was generally better at sending her messages using gestures than words. In this sense, the song von Hagen in particular is a nice final shot in the color film of this chancellorship. So soon Merkel will get started with the Pritt pen: “Now I am sitting with you and myself at home again / And choose the photos for the photo album”.