The Bundeswehr taps actually look very martial. Who likes something like that?!
Photo: dpa/Michael Kappeler
What is missing is a scientific treatise as to why which top politicians want this or that piece of music to the Bundeswehr’s big tap. Olaf Scholz was the first to choose “In My Life” by the Beatles. The song promises in the first line: “I’m Remember …” How was that again with the memory gaps at Cum Ex? If a classic of the Liverpoole would have been better suited to Mister NO-Remember and Yesterday’s Chancellor of the wistful “Yesterday”. Secondly, he chose “respect”, in the intonation of the “Queen of Soul”, Aretha Franklin, to the anthem of the African -American civil rights movement.
Speaking of: Respect from the outgoing authorities towards the Bundeswehr’s music corps. People, that’s just a military chapel that is recruited from sheet metal and brass! Consideration is required. You can’t overwhelm them, as when the Karl-Theodor von and Guttenberg’s Karl-Theodor is adopted with “Smoke on the Water”. A horror for sensitive ears, especially for deep purple fans. The Pfeifer and drummer were also challenged by Angela Merkel’s desire for the “forgotten color film”, by 19-year-old Nina Hagen Grallert, immortal hit in the GDR.
Why does nobody choose “when the soldiers march through the city”? There is drumming and whistling. “Schingderassa, Bumderassa!” Okay, also sung in the Nazi era. But is an old soldier’s song, from the 19th century. And was presented by the anti -fascist Marlene Dietrich. Likewise from Claire Waldoff, who suffered a ban on work under the swastika. And provided with a new line from the West German songwriter Ekke Frank, in response to the NATO double brace: “When the soldiers march through the city,/ close democrats.” Three decades earlier it was modified by Ernst Busch and Hanns Eisler, the fear of many Germans and beyond the Elbe before the remilitarization of the Federal Republic, bundle: ” who train for world war number three! ”
In short, this song fits into our upper time. Although or precisely, because it points out that the cheers follow bitter disappointment.
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