Your taste in music is today, command: The curfew three favorite songs played by the former defence Minister. A musical Statement during an otherwise very rigid military ceremony.
March 2019: Ursula von der Leyen at the “Girls’Day” in Berlin
“Great tattoo, stop!” In Rank and file, the staff music corps comes up behind the Escort and the torch-carriers to the Stand. No one is stirring, a stillness unusual in the otherwise hectic Berlin’s political operation. The highest military ceremony, a nearly 200-year-old Ritual, has fallen out of time. Surprisingly snappy, the use of Music, which starts after the command “Serenade!”.
Today’s tattoo will be at this point, “Wind of Change” by the Scorpions, Mozart’s “Ave Verum” and “Ode to joy” from Beethoven’s 9. To listen Symphony be. Up to four of the songs are allowed to wish the outgoing Minister of justice, the Federal Chancellor or the Federal President for program point “Serenade”. It is the menschelnde part of this rigid evening event, without many words. Instead, the Playlist is a Statement – and what could be, in fact, more intimate than the insight into the music tastes of a politician. The music corps of the Bundeswehr, an outstanding 100-soldiers-strong brass band, the stars of the original. The course will give weird measurements, however, have a straight skirt classic in this rigid environment, sometimes involuntarily.
Outstanding brass Ensemble: staff music corps of the Bundeswehr at Large curfew 2012
Irony and tears
Consistently in style, My Way “sound” of Frank Sinatra in the adoption of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder in 2005. As to a trumpet solo by the band voting prone to use, shoot the self-conscious, militant SPD politician, the tears in the eyes. With “Smoke on the Water” gave the Minister of defense, Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg for the last Statement. The accusation that his doctoral thesis was a plagiarism, forced him in 2011 to resign. The Deep Purple Song of the hard rock Fan Guttenberg brought unfamiliar sounds from the brass ensemble of the armed forces. A self-deprecating accent, Thomas de Maizière 2014 with “Live is Life” by the Austrian band Opus. His term of office from 2011 to 2013 was turbulent and ended with the affair to the giant drone “Euro Hawk”.
Soundtrack of change
Now his successor is to be adopted: Ursula von der Leyen, the first woman in the Federal defense Ministry and the owner of the command and command authority over the armed forces. Since 2013, von der Leyen in the office, wanted to bring a fresh Wind into the rigid structures, the defence sector reform. For the Wind of Change”, one of their music like desires” are. In 1989, as a song of the Soviet Perestroika written, it was to an unexpected anthem of the turn of time. “The Song has actually outlined is only one hope, a snapshot, here’s what changed now. Here is a rapprochement is possible,” said the Scorpions ‘ singer Klaus meine in a DW Interview.
The Scorpions – your the 1990-released song “Wind of Change” was considered as the “anthem of change”
Ursula von der Leyen has certainly taken care of in the Ministry of defence for quite a lot of “Wind of change”: Under your leadership, the defense budget rose from 21 to 43 billion euros, the defence should modernise the Bundeswehr rebuilt and the stock is to be digitized. But a to each other, such as singer Klaus meine, the statement of the Song described, it was hardly. As you attested to 2017, the German armed forces to the extreme right-wing incidents a fundamental “attitude problem”, which took the majority of the force right evil.
Christian values and views to the front
Maybe she has chosen this Song even more because of their home to cover: The Scorpions are from Hannover, von der Leyen property in the Region of Hanover lives on a family. In “Ave Verum”, another music request, this could reflect a basic Christian conviction of the 60-Year-old to resist. This is Mozart’s setting of a medieval prayer in Latin, one of his most famous works. Von der Leyen, in a Protestant dominated parents grew up in the house. As defence Minister, she held, among other things, 2017 at a Peace Church service of the Evangelical Church of the day, a sermon.
Traditional troops visit before Christmas: Ursula von der Leyen 2018 in Afghanistan
On your Playlist, the “Ode to joy is also”. The last movement of Beethoven’s 9. Symphony is the European anthem, and certainly a reference to the new job as an EU Commissioner. An incredible step in my career, is, nevertheless, your previous work los still: The very cost-intensive use of external consultants brought her up a Committee of inquiry, before which you will probably need to testify as an EU Commissioner. Perhaps it is therefore no wonder that at their final musical Statement, unlike, for example, in the case of the predecessor Guttenberg, the arbitration reluctant to office, not a traditional military March is held.