I can’t do anything about my believing rhythm, like I stated, it’s managed by my feet. As I stroll down Kernerstrasse from Kernerplatz, I pass a structure with the engraving “Deutsche Polizeigewerkschaft” (German Police Union) on it. The composing shines in deep blue, just the last letters are embellished with intense red blobs. Most likely a passing robin with a thin whistle, as a boomer puts it (for explanation: because this hallmark is utilized for those born in between 1955 and 1969, I’m an early individual).
Because I pointed out the lovely German custom in uniform, let’s take a look at the blue lights of our police. His story is magnificently informed by Rayk Wieland in The Third Degree Insult, his legendary and amusing unique about the poisonous insanity of battling males. In it, the policewoman Tannenschmidt discusses why Hitler presented the blue light in 1933: “Because he was currently thinking of aerial warfare. The blue light scatters at high elevations. The opponent bombers can not see it from there. That was the factor. You. That’s why the German authorities are still driving around today. Due to the fact that of Hitler. And the air war.”
In the face of Nazi pears on armored cars, my unusual rhythm of idea opens a duration in my brain that started 40 years earlier. It belongs to “Erich’s light store”. That’s what individuals utilized to call the Palace of the Republic, East Berlin’s home entertainment temple, in Honecker’s view. My psychological flight in this case was not just with German lights, however likewise with my memory of Harry Belafonte.
With Udo in the GDR
In the fall of 1983, throughout the demonstrations versus the arms mania in the East and the West, there was a political experience when the West German rock star Udo Lindenberg was welcomed to the “World Peace Concert” in the Palace of the Republic. Prior to that, after unsuccessfully obtaining a trip of the GDR, he had actually kept in mind Honecker with the tune “Sonderzug nach Pankow”: “Erich, hi, you are so impolite/ why do not you let me sing in the employees” and the peasant federal government …
Because I had actually currently done a couple of interviews with Lindenberg at that time, the supervisor of the Baden-Hessian celebration Fritz Rau permitted me to take part in the GDR caravan with the words: “The Swabians can feature me …” So I wound up as a 29- year-old provincial and Big eyes in the Palace of the Republic. The images of this gala, dismissed as a “propaganda program” in the West, are popular: Outside the structure, youths shouted “We desire within”, “We desire Udo”, inside were blue t-shirts of the FDJ and SED authorities. That night protested the American Pershings and, thanks to Lindenberg, likewise versus the SS 20 of the Soviets (which eliminated more trip prepare for him). When, after my lots of not successful efforts, a trainee of FDJ lastly talked to me, he stated: “I want to see the entire thing like Lenin. To secure peace, one must, if essential, sign up with forces with the devil.” That’s how it looks.
However, the crowd favorite at this tranquil celebration with global artists was not Lederhosen-Udo, however the excellent vocalist and star Harry Belafonte. A brave and generous activist of the American civil liberties motion, endowed with excellent character, he was commemorated as a real hero in the hall. At the end of the program, when everybody included began singing “We will win”, Udo humbly rested on the drums in the back: “He’s playing the drums for the last stand,” I composed on my portable typewriter.
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