One word, two syllables, that's all Marius Müller-Westernhagen writes under the simple black-and-white picture: »freedom«.
The photo shows the singer on a lounger.
Westernhagen wears a mask, he has freed his left upper arm for the vaccination.
Marius Müller-Westernhagen posted the picture on Instagram and Facebook on Friday afternoon.
Since then, more than 19,000 people have liked it and it has been shared more than 2,000 times on Facebook alone.
The post obviously promotes vaccination, and it may also be an attempt to resist the instrumentalization of his most famous song.
Vaccination opponents play the song over and over again at lateral thinker demos.
They interpret freedom as the freedom not to be vaccinated.
Müller-Westernhagen opposes this reading with the post.
Numerous experts have been emphasizing for months that the corona vaccination helps to secure civil liberties.
A high vaccination rate protects, among other things, the health system from being overburdened, so restrictions on social life can be reversed more easily.
In Germany, around 76 percent of the population has been vaccinated at least once.
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There are thousands of positive and negative comments under the photo.
Green politician Angela Dorn, who is responsible for art and science in the Hessian government, wrote: "Sometimes artists don't want to leave the interpretation of their works to others." Peter Plate, part of the "Rosenstolz" duo, sent his colleague three emoji hearts.
Marius-Müller Westernhagen released »Freiheit« in 1987. The song later became an anthem of German reunification.
Deutschlandfunk, among others, recently reported on the instrumentalization of the song in lateral thinker marches.
The article, which appeared at the end of January, said that Müller-Westernhagen did not want to comment, “neither in writing nor in an interview”.
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