Marteria: Oops, I was a Putin defender

Marteria and Campino sit with “Markus Lanz” and talk about the contrasts between East and West in Germany. A kind of washing up over 30 years after reunification.

Hooks are the jointly released singles “Scheiß Wessis” and “Scheiß Ossis”, on which Die Toten Hosen and the MeckPomm rapper hit each other’s sensitivities in the face. “We shitty Ossis ruin your day; Shit Ossis, we’re the ones nobody asks. We shit Ossis, today we’re stripping naked at the nudist,” says something in the rhymes of Marteria. During the pop and politics chat, he then surprised with an amazing statement: “I was always a Putin defender – and instinctively defended this eastern side a bit,” said the native of Rostock, who only experienced the GDR in his childhood days . He could never have imagined that the Russian President’s verbal bluster could turn into bitter reality. “Then it just happened – and you realize: Oh God, this madness”.

As a benevolent observer from Düsseldorf, Campino supports him with his statesmanlike assessment: “It doesn’t matter whether you’re on the left or the right: as soon as you have autocrats or extremists in power, things get uncomfortable.” The world must protect itself from this – and not from any system,” says Campino. In the same breath, he also writes “the West” in the family book that not everything has always gone smoothly in the recent past.

Against this background, the Ossi/Wessi split single can be understood as a contribution to the discussion on contemporary history. A wake-up call that is also intended to remind people that German reunification happened without blood, terror, and without the use of force. From today’s perspective, anything but a matter of course.

Campino also reaches into the box of confessions later. Of course, back in the early 1980s, he would have refused military service. Today he would “perhaps decide differently because of this situation”. Marteria, on the other hand, who was with the Bundeswehr around the year 2000, answered the question “What would you do if there was war?” by talk show host Markus Lanz: “I don’t think I would run away. I think I would turn myself in. For the freedom that you have and that I can experience”.

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