Art, music and politics: Lindenberg: As a pacifist, I just have sleepless nights

The handling of the numerous wars and crises is very burdened by the Hamburg musician Udo Lindenberg (“Komet”, “Special train to Pankow”). “As a pacifist, I have very difficult times and sleepless nights on how to deal with the situation,” the panic rocker wrote on “Facebook”. He was always a pacifist, if it was still, many of his songs and statements in the past decades, the 79-year-old emphasized.

Lindenberg has always been a pacifist

But: “Should a real threat to us and question our values ​​and want to sweep us down from the panic stage with everything we believe and what we stand up for, e.g. the free colorful republic, then of course we have to be able to defend ourselves. But I think the pure deterrent is enough here.”

With a view to the military, he wrote: “It is a shit. We wanted it differently, but it must be that we have to be ready to defend ourselves.” Apart from that, it is a worldwide, humanistic bankruptcy declaration of “a number of autocrat ganoves that now go back to the military” trillions and trillions for killing devices and murder material.

Use money for the fight against climate disaster and hunger

The money is urgently needed “to avert the climate catastrophe we rolled up and finally end hunger in the world”. Lindenberg keeps commenting against wars of all kinds as a pacifist. This is evident in many of his songs and his painted works of art. An example: in 1981 Lindenberg has the song “What are wars for?” Published, it has been covered several times since then.