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Angela Merkel and Nina Hagen, the chancellor and “godmother of punk”. It is difficult to imagine two more distant figures – by culture, by temperament, by life choices – were it not for the fact that both grew up and became great in the days of the GDR. Well, it is Spiegel to reveal that for the farewell ceremony of his sixteen years at the chancellery (and, as far as we know so far, at active politics), the former ‘girl from the east’ has chosen a repertoire that is nothing short of surprising: in addition to very romantic For me it must rain red roses (It should rain red roses for me) by Hildegard Knef – the quintessence of the piece all violins & sentimento – and the first anchor of the ecumenical-ecclesiastical song …
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