Music Grönemeyer: Everyone has been "post-traumatized" since corona
Herbert Grönemeyer (68) believes that society is still severely affected by the pandemic. It is disgraceful that reactionary right-wingers in Europe and around the world are taking advantage of this situation and spreading hate speech and misanthropy, said the singer.
11.02.2025, 04:54
SDA
"We are all still suffering from post-traumatic stress since coronavirus, and the terrible wars and conflicts are creating collective fears and affecting us deeply," the singer told German news agency DPA.
Most recently, the pop star worked with Silbermond - as a guest singer on the new recording of the Silbermond song "Mein Osten". The rock band from Bautzen had already released the song in 2019 and took a critical look at their homeland.
Regarding the current German parliamentary election campaign, Grönemeyer said: "Even if the politicians are currently tangled up in vanity, we must remain stable and calm in defending our humanist society and its unwavering stance, pushing for and demanding action on the issues that are really on our agenda for our country." For Grönemeyer, the tasks of the new government include "redistribution, affordable housing, climate, health, humane, safe migration policy".
"Cracks go through families"
In the acoustic ballad "Mein Osten", the group around singer Stefanie Kloss and Grönemeyer sing about the drifting apart of society ("Cracks go through families and a crack also goes through me"). The musicians also pay homage to the East as a "beauty" and a region where Silbermond's roots lie.
Silbermond guitarist Thomas Stolle sees a "shaky world with populists tugging at the ends". "Sometimes you can only shake your head, but somehow we have to manage to remain stable as a society. Stable in our values, in our understanding of freedom and stable in our democracy itself."
Silbermond and Grönemeyer performed together on stage in Hamburg and Dresden in 2023 and 2024. This gave rise to the spontaneous idea for the joint song. When "Mein Osten" was first released, there had been racially motivated acts of violence in Chemnitz. There were also several state elections coming up.
