Do you remember the first time?
Yes, a long time ago, but you never forget such an experience!
It cannot be said that it would have gone off like a rocket.
But Merkel's first government declaration already gave an idea of the stamina this Chancellor had.
Sixteen years of her life, the best, she gave to the fatherland.
We should say servus quietly for a reasonable length of time.
Unlike all of her predecessors, Merkel informed us in good time that she was leaving, so that the farewell celebrations could be properly prepared.
Angie - Fateful Years of a Chancellor
Berthold Kohler
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The series of reviews has already started on television. One has almost as many episodes as "House of Cards". On another channel there was a whole themed evening on the secrets of the Chancellor, which luckily remained secret. An attempt to do justice to the Merkel phenomenon in just two and a half hours, however, seemed all too bold to us. This short version also worked out nicely what a wonderful person our Chancellor is (e). The key witnesses who conjured this up told such heartwarming stories about the leader of the free world and her legendary potato soup that there was enough material for a full-length feature film (“Angie - Fateful Years of a Chancellor”).
Reinhold Messner's testimonial was particularly impressive, not only having successfully climbed Mount Everest for the first time without an oxygen bottle, but also, if we understood him correctly, an even more exclusive summit storm: a visit to Merkel's private apartment, with dinner like at a mother's.
Even from the flood of current reports about what our Chancellor is doing for the last time - explaining politics to MPs, dining in the White House, watering the flowers on the roof terrace - we hear growing melancholy, not to say: worry.
What are we going to do without "mom"?
Where we don't even know who will be goal-oriented, balanced and “friendly” (Annette Schavan) in her position in the future.
And whether then there is not a "panic chick" at the state steering wheel.
Merkel was indeed not, as Mariae Gloria Princess von Thurn und Taxis attested to.
Dear Bussibussi with Baerbock
Do we trust Annalena Baerbock to swap looks as in love with Joe Biden as Merkel does with Obama?
You can imagine that Biden preferred to do Bussibussi with Baerbock than with Scholz.
But would the Green Eminence in the background, Habeck, also allow her such freedom of movement, after the already known missteps?
And if Laschet moves into the Chancellery: Are his beef roulades and red cabbage as good as Merkel's?
Maybe we should let Messner test his cooking skills before we go to the ballot box.
The selfies with the refugees as stills
In addition, we must now quickly think about how and where we are going to put Merkel monuments. We could drag a few statues of Bismarck, the old slave driver, to remind of highlights in Merkel's chancellorship on the pedestals, such as the selfies with the refugees. Speaking of which: if we still had the nobility, Merkel would at least have to be made Countess (Uckermark) - where in England even the eternal unlucky fellow Southgate is knighted.
But how should the republic honor the life's work of the crisis chancellor? She has enough doctoral hats now. (And which German university could come up with a robe like Johns Hopkins? He even beats Söder's carnival costumes.) The title “Honorary Citizen of Europe” went to Kohl. And Schröder will not vacate his honorable retirement home at Putin's feet, not for Merkel.
Even the usual portrait in the ancestral gallery of the Chancellery would not do justice to Merkel's importance. In addition to the transitional chancellor Schröder! The least would be a mural based on the model of Leonardo's “Last Supper”: the Chancellor sitting for the last time at the cabinet table in the midst of her dismayed ministers. You could take admission for it, as many citizens would want to see it. Our prognosis is: Merkel's nostalgia will know no bounds. Germany already worships her, even though she has not yet ascended to heaven.