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Hobby poet Wolf: debate about parliamentary poet inappropriate

2022-01-23T08:44:23.128Z


Hobby poet Wolf: debate about parliamentary poet inappropriate Created: 2022-01-23Updated: 2022-01-23 09:41 Guido Wolf (CDU) gives an interview. © Christoph Schmidt/dpa/picture archive Does a parliament need its own poet? The green idea is currently being hotly debated in Berlin. A veteran Southwest politician and verser is skeptical. Stuttgart - The CDU politician and hobby poet Guido Wolf (6


Hobby poet Wolf: debate about parliamentary poet inappropriate

Created: 2022-01-23Updated: 2022-01-23 09:41

Guido Wolf (CDU) gives an interview.

© Christoph Schmidt/dpa/picture archive

Does a parliament need its own poet?

The green idea is currently being hotly debated in Berlin.

A veteran Southwest politician and verser is skeptical.

Stuttgart - The CDU politician and hobby poet Guido Wolf (60) considers the discussion initiated by the Greens about a parliamentary poet to be out of place in view of the Corona crisis. "That's just inappropriate," said the former Baden-Württemberg Minister of Justice of the German Press Agency in Stuttgart. In a pandemic in which companies are fighting for their existence and many people have to sit at home, such a debate is just weird. Since the Green Bundestag Vice-President Katrin Göring-Eckardt (Greens) took up the suggestion of three authors, the idea has either been praised or panned.

Wolf, who himself published a volume of poetry entitled “Politician Chatter or the Art of the Right Tone” many years ago, believes it is fundamentally right for politics to rhyme. "I am of the opinion that politics must have a sense of humor from time to time." He has found that this can sometimes be used to ease conflicts. "That can be done with a suitable rhyme." But the situation has to fit and you need a lot of tact.

The former president of the state parliament (2011-2015) and CDU top candidate in the 2016 state election sees the members of parliament as having a duty to make debates more interesting with a pinch of humor or self-irony.

"It's up to every politician to make fun of themselves or not to take things too seriously." You don't need a parliamentary poet.

"You don't have to centralize that," said Wolf.

He himself has not yet written a poem or Limerick about Corona.

In order to rhyme off the cuff, a portion of basic humor is required.

"I'm missing him right now," said the Tuttlingen MP, who has been a member of the state parliament since 2006.

His book "Politician Chatter" dates back to 1998, when Wolf was still the mayor of Nürtingen (Esslingen district).

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The following rhyme comes from the 80-page volume, with which the CDU man takes aim at the political discourse: “If a black man says to you: “Two and two more make four”, as a red you have to say no, for your own sake and yours.

But then the next day Red puts forward the counter-thesis, which alone is correct: “Four consists of one and three”, protests out of sheer sport, Black and contradicts immediately.

If the green one finally reports on the open stage, the whole game is completed: "Four times one is just as much," counters yellow, driven by anger: "Nonsense, four is eleven away seven." This explains every deadline , which is politically logical.” dpa

Source: merkur

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