“The voice can be gone”
It creates the mood in the DFB games
07/21/2025 – 12:28 p.m.Reading time: 3 min.
There is a very exuberant mood in the European Championship games in Switzerland. Annika Bäumer is responsible for this.
When the German national women plays, their voice cannot be ignored. Annika Bäumer is in front of the fan block with the megafon in every European Championship game-and brings thousands of supporters in the mood. The 20-year-old accepts that her voice is suffering: “Including fan march you can easily roar into megafon for four hours. The voice can be gone,” she says the “picture”.
Bäumer comes from Hamm, studies business psychology and is a passionate fan of the women of VfL Wolfsburg. In the past two years she has only missed two games there. She took on her role as a singer spontaneously. At the international match in the Netherlands in February, the actual singer was prevented – “he had simply put the microphone in my hand beforehand,” she continues.
Since then she has gone the tone at the games – also at the European Championship. With the jersey of her favorite player Sjoeke Nüsken, megafon in her hand, she brings the curve to sing. The fishing chants are prepared, wrote down and printed out – but in the stadium she leaves her feeling: “I turn it out of my gut, after all, I have half a year of experience now.”
She hardly gets the game itself. Most of the time she stands with her back to the field, looks into the ranks. “I take the mood much more,” says Bäumer. She recognizes what is happening on the pitch at the reaction of the fans – as in the quarter -finals against France: she did not see the red card, but she briefly put the megafon aside at the penalty shootout.
Ten million viewers watched the game against France on television. After a dramatic 6: 5 in a penalty shootout, Bäumer speaks of an unforgettable experience: “I have never experienced such a mood in women’s football. That was the most blatant game I’ve ever seen in my life.” The classic among the fishing channels was particularly well received: “‘It is going on, Germany, fighting and winning’ – that just fit the game.”
Women’s football is changing, Annika Bäumer also feels. “Women’s football is getting bigger from a tournament to tournament,” she says. The environment around the European Championship also stands out for you: “There are no fan marches in a normal international match. This is totally cool here.”
Between the games she lives with other fans at the campsite – including a ritual after every win. “We then jump in some waters nearby,” she says. After the success in St. Gallen against Poland, we went to Lake Constance after the victory against France in Basel in the Rhine. “Now we want to go to Lake Zurich and then again in the Rhine.”
Despite the attacked voice, she is optimistic about the semi -finals and a possible finale, as she revealed the “picture”: “The title is absolutely in there. If we play too horny, we can get it towards eleventh.” She now hopes that her voice will hold out again by Wednesday. Because then the DFB women meet Spain in the semi-finals (from 9 p.m. in the T-Online live ticker).