SV 07 Elversberg is the sensational climber from the third to the second Bundesliga. The small town in Saarland (almost 13,000 inhabitants) has red and yellow in the municipal coat of arms; The black and white football club with a mini stadium on the Kaiserlinde is “benevolently supported by the pharmaceutical company Ursapharm and the Holzer family,” according to the online service of the ARD sports show.
On the penultimate match day (May 20/21) against Wehen Wiesbaden, they managed the feat of being promoted directly to the next higher division as a regional league promoter, in order to welcome Hertha from Berlin (around 3.7 million inhabitants) in the upcoming tableau.
A special shirt is currently being offered for sale on the club’s Twitter account in “a limited number for 29 euros (with flocking on the back: 39 euros)”.
So all the jubilation, hustle and bustle in the south-west of the republic!?
Not quite!
Because on other Twitter accounts, a side note of euphoria is currently being wildly discussed.
“Oof. SV Elversberg celebrates its rise with a song by the right-wing extremist #Onkelz,” writes user Tino P. “Only recently did you hear a song by this band at a right-wing extremist demo in #Weimar on Liberation Day, when fascist Höcke was a guest..”
Uff: The @SV07Elversberg celebrates its rise with a song of the right-wing extremists #unclez.
A song by this band was recently heard at a far-right demo in #Weimar on the day of liberation, when fascist Höcke was a guest.#antifascismpic.twitter.com/kf1xIXsS4G
— Tino Pfaff 📯 (@TinoPfaff) May 22, 2023
The text of the song “Auf GuteFreunde” is rather innocuous, it pays blunt homage to the consequences of drinking. Otherwise the instruments crackle, a voice roars like Hirsch: “Spilled dreams; Pictures from the old days – Of the madness I lived – And what they tell me today, I slept too little – And I drank too much, the pain in my head – It was a familiar feeling…”
Aesthetically, all this is not too far removed from the sound material of completely unsuspicious stadium punk forces from the left camp. The Onkelz have repeatedly publicly distanced themselves from their right-wing extremist past over the past few decades, but many find this unbelievable. It was not until 2010 that a hat with a Nazi symbol was found in singer Kevin Russell’s car after he fatally injured two people in an accident while intoxicated.
The question arises as to whether the Onkelz, who are close to the Eintracht Frankfurt sports community, will lose their certain reputation. In any case, the Onkelz camp has so far shown no reason to react to the recent (football and pop) debate.