Berlin / Hamburg (dpa) – The songwriter Wolf Biermann (“encouragement”) considers “election results, perspectives and different assessments between East and West not to be a problem.” Why does it actually have to align? What kind of new religion is that? “, The author told the German Press Agency in Berlin before his 85th birthday (November 15).” I have nothing against it, “admitted Biermann,” but I know that . People die by their own experiences, with their own body, with their own soul, with their own mind. “

Biermann pointed to different experiences in both parts of the country. “The East Germans have the bad luck that they don’t have one dictatorship behind them, but two dictatorships.” That has consequences. “Even in a dictatorship you learn things that you can use later. But you definitely don’t learn what you need to live in a democracy.”

The songwriter referred to his own experiences with the system change between GDR and FRG. “When I was thrown into the West, expatriated in 1976, I felt weirdly bad. “I need many years to learn the democracy of our society.” Motorways, houses and bridges could be rebuilt relatively quickly, something that the Germans could experience after the Second World War. “But the ravages in humans are more complicated, complex and protracted.”

From Biermann’s point of view, patience is still necessary. “So one should be disappointed in the wrong hope for a long time. That does not mean that one has to come to terms with what has to be improved. But one should also be hysterically desperate”, hysteria is not a character, understandable, correct, real reasons. “Only the measure is wrong. That also applies to the assessment of a single human specimen, so that one is not unjust to him. But that also applies to social forms of coexistence, to social structures.”

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