Angela Merkel I wondered how good the chancellor, who ruled the country for sixteen years after becoming famous as a punk singer, Nina Hagen He chose his song as the music for his military farewell party. Merkel and her Social Democrat successor, Olaf Scholzut He is expected to be installed as chancellor next week, and will bid his usual military farewell in court in front of the Defense Ministry on Thursday night.
The party will be more conservative than usual due to restrictions caused by the coronavirus, with only two hundred guests attending. Like his predecessors, Merkel managed to order three songs to be performed by a brass band during the military honors. but while Gerhard Schroeder And Helmut Kohl Choose a traditional musical material for the occasion – among others Frank Sinatra my wayAnd Ludwig van Beethoven for his joyR – Until then, Merkel’s choices were not self-evident.
while the Great God we thank you No wonder the popular Christian Anthem (God Almighty), referring to her upbringing as the daughter of a Protestant pastor and the religious identity of her Christian Democratic Union (CDU), even her. second election Hildegard Knife It should rain red roses for me The song (The Rain of Rain Should Be Rained on Me) about melancholy about teenage ambitions and youthful arrogance, already refers to a sarcastic wink, The Guardian writes.
But the real cucumber egg is the third, Nina Hagen I forgot the color film (You forgot Color Film), first recorded in traditional Schlager style in 1974, was a huge hit on the East German pop charts before Hagen migrated to the other side of the Iron Curtain, immersing himself in London’s punk subculture to become The prominent West German punk scene in the 1980s.
However, the assumption of his identity in East Germany was not yet characteristic of Merkel. The song whose lyrics Kurt Daimler He wrote, an angry complaint berated Hagen’s friend Michael for taking only a black and white film with them during their vacation on Hiddensee Island, a popular holiday destination for East Germans. As a result, “no one would believe how beautiful she was here.”
Although the song was not censored by the state, its fans at the time interpreted it as a secret critique of the GDR and its gray everyday life, where color films were scarce. Some commentators have speculated that the resigning chancellor may have seen a more modern meaning in Hagen’s song: The rant of frustration in men who had usually neglected their work was also meant to be a farewell message to Merkel’s male colleagues.
