“Weak Mats world”
Udo Lindenberg shoots against Trump and right fans
Udo Lindenberg shoots against Trump and right fans
02.04.2025, 4:56 p.m.
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Udo Lindenberg has been on stage for 50 years. The rock star also likes to position himself politically. He sang against the war 40 years ago. Now the Trump government is particularly changing him. The rock musician also finds clear words for right fans at his concerts.
Rock musicians and painters Udo Lindenberg doubts the debate about the armament of Germany on his pacifist basic attitude. In the eighties you went to the street “against all the shit rockets,” says the 78-year-old In an interview With the “star”. Today, however, the situation is different. “In this stray weakness world, you suddenly ask yourself the anxious question: do we have to rethink? Do we need a strong military now?”
The question of “how we can still save our free world and whether words and songs and art and demos are sufficient for it, or whether we would actually have to prepare for militarily, hurts my Pacific soul and sometimes doesn’t let me sleep,” Lindenberg told the magazine.
In view of the international development with the Ukraine War and the second term of Donald Trump as US President, he speaks of a horror scenario: “Vance, Musk, Putin and also our sagging traffic light government, around which the right-wing extremists are getting louder.” Trump “comes around the corner with new secretions every day,” says Lindenberg and mine the decrees of the US President. These are “bad excretions from any intellectual plague. Roarded, the whole thing.”
For him, resignation is not an alternative. “We are not allowed to let the next generation hang. We can never get used to the fact that the world is ruled again by schizomats,” says Lindenberg. “At some point, new people with our ideals and visions come for the better and fairer world of tomorrow.”
Lindenberg calls right fans “a strange number”
Lindenberg has been against right -wing violence since the beginning of his career. When asked how he deals with right fans, says Lindenberg: “There is nothing to talk to with explained Nazis, but there are many others, you don’t have to dismiss them as a leper idiots. You can perhaps reach them again, even with good songs and smart texts. At least you have to try it.”
During his concerts, he could sometimes see from the stage how dynamics change in parts of his audience when he votes on songs against the right. “At the latest when we play ‘Colorful Republic of Germany’, suddenly some people have to get out briefly and get new beer. This is also for me and my band a strange number,” said Lindenberg in the “Stern”. What gives him hope: that all fans would be in contact with the rest of the evening together with his band and him in an arena. “We have to stay in conversation and in connection, especially the more polarized.”
Udo Lindenberg is also a successful painter. Two large work shows will testify to his painting this year. In addition to his popular, colorful rock art motifs, the political line predominates in Lindenberg’s oeuvre.
