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Minister of State Bär, Doctors Bela and Farin
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The doctors - "Westerland"
Dorothee Bär, 42, CSU
As a CSU politician, I have to live with a contradiction: I like bands that I know for sure that none of them would ever vote for CSU.
But for me that's no reason to boycott a musician.
I was once at a concert by Jasmin Tabatabai in Munich, in the federal election campaign in 2002. At that time I was the youngest candidate in Bavaria, Edmund Stoiber was a candidate for Chancellor.
At some point Tabatabai yells: "Stoiber wants to become Federal Chancellor!"
And I yell: "Yeah!"
But she continues: "We all have to prevent that!"
Today I can almost laugh about it, but of course it was a memorable experience of a special kind back then.
I'm trying to separate that now.
When I tell people that I think the Toten Hosen are great, the first thing that comes up is: "I would never go to Bayern."
Tolerance also taught me to endure that.
I don't just like the pants, I also like the doctors - at school I never understood why you had to choose between the two bands.
During this time I was also in the punk scene and went to Ska-Punk festivals.
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