Disappointed, the paparazzi ended up letting go. Following her on the vacation track, they hoped, would be an opportunity to renew the Chancellor’s album. They quickly understood that it was not necessary to count too much. In the city, she carries her inevitable set-Pantalon jacket; In the countryside, the Chancellor’s outfit is just as immutable. There is no question of derogating from the Merkelian doxa, which banish any surprise effect in the way of cultivating its appearances.
Each summer,” Mutti “therefore comes out his hiking shirt. Always the same, with tiles somewhere between red and garnet, a shade that would not move to a Berlin hipster. The adequate clothing when it comes to going to walk in the mountains of Italian Tyrol with her husband, Joachim Sauer.
Do not see a demonstration of vitality. This Lutheran Pastor’s girl has always been described as having never been good at sports. Nor the desire to spin the metaphor for walking towards the summits, such as Mitterrand and his suite making the rock of Solutré. No, it’s a good franquette hike. Standard walking sticks.
“Practical and comfortable”
The Chancellor’s summer uniform also includes a beige pocket pantacourt, a matching cap, thick socks and large walking shoes. In 2017, people magazines made – it was time! – that Angela Merkel sported for the fifth year in a row this same outfit which pays tribute to the main principles of “Praktisch und Bequem” (“Practical and comfortable”) to which we hold so much across the Rhine.
Why should Agela Merkel change her habits and adopt the bling-bling style of her predecessor, Gerhard Schröder? Or appears in a pink dress as the English Prime Minister, Theresa May, who came for some time before in vacation in the Trentin-Haut-Adige? She’s like that, Angela. A photo, the teenager, dressed, already dressed in a checkered shirt when she was still a citizen East German. Her country house, which she nicknamed with a little irony “datcha”, is amendment. A small building in the roof of red tiles, quite ordinary, bought in Brandenburg long before the fall of the Berlin Wall.
“What makes Angela Merkel unique is the lack of staging that she had prevailing in power during her sixteen years. Germans, when they go on vacation, hold on their tranquility – but, other than that, we don’t know much about what she does with her vacation, “observes Marion Van Renterghem, Author of it was Merkel ( The arenas, 2021). A spontaneous way of displaying a form of simplicity which will have surprised much more abroad than in Germany. In France, we would undoubtedly have invoked a “duty of greyness”.
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