The German Green Party has been accused of trying to revive its hippie origins, not by publishing Campaign advertisement for next month’s federal election Revive a 19th-century folk song.
Five weeks before the general election, the party was once in the lead in the polls. Some critics believe that this one-minute commercial is a deliberate final attempt to attract the widest possible constituency because it is incompatible with the revival. The Social Democrats competed for second place.
Grandmothers, football players, farmers, bus drivers, priests, garbage pickers, and a group of middle-aged retirees grilling in the back garden appear in the movie along with bees and sunflowers. The paramedic and the courier talked about the low wage debate, and a lady sitting in front of the computer was worried about not being able to use the high-speed internet.
not mentioned The devastating flood hit a large area of western Germany Last month or UN’s latest climate change report How human beings have caused unprecedented changes to the world’s climate.
The slot is based on Anton Wilhelm von Zuccalmaglio’s rewriting of the German folk song of 1840, which was popularized by the Wandervogel (Wandering Birds) movement in the 1910s. Young members of the movement opposed industrialization as a cure based on the doctrine of the wandering scholars in the Middle Ages advocating nature. source.
The original song, Kein Schöner Land in Dieser Zeit (there is no more beautiful country than us at this time)-still a popular campfire song, widely sung by scouts-celebrating a summer night in nature Gathering of friends. They announced that, by the grace of God, they would continue to meet in this way in the future.
This song is often rewritten and sometimes used as an imitation or as a cultural reference to highlight environmental damage and social injustice.
In the version of the Green Party, ordinary Germans sang in the workplace, living room and gymnasium: “This is a beautiful country at this time; the awakening is happening, and we are walking on a new path. [and] We will not stand still… We need to protect our planet, it has become too warm to survive, we will fight for the climate, short flights and our farms. “
At the end of the time slot appeared Robert Habek, the co-leader of the Green Party, who asked voters to “go all out now”, and the party’s prime minister candidate Annalena Belbok said: “Living in the awakening- We are ready.”
Der Tagesspiegel called the ad a “political ad for a DIY shop” and stated that it is similar to the national anthem of cargo bicycles. This is a plan announced by the Green Party last week to provide each German household with 1,000 euros of cargo bicycle subsidies. Encourage people to give up their cars. The election campaign was ridiculed by opponents in the party.
However, the Times said that at first glance, this time period is a clever attraction for older Germans-by far the largest demographic group of voters.
“This is not so far-fetched, it may win some disappointed conservative voters with its aesthetically conservative look and feel,” it said, but condemned “Catchy tune“(Earworm) Slot quality, implies that “just like every earworm, you will soon start cursing it”.
