Schlagwort: Erich Mielke

Wir haben hier schon darüber diskutiert, warum denn die Azzurri traditionell in Blau spielen. Warum Deutschland, später West-Deutschland und später wieder Deutschland in Weiß spielt, ist zumindest in diesem Blog noch nicht geklärt worden, der Guardian liefert aber schon mal die Antwort darauf, warum die „DDR“ in Blau spielte:

„The answer almost certainly lies in the fact that the shirts of the East German youth movement, the so-called ‚Free German Youth (FDJ)‘ were also blue,“ said Donald Phillips. „When sport started in post-war East Germany, it was under the auspices of the FDJ,“ he continued. „The colour of the FDJ shirts was in turn chosen as a neutral response – as opposed to the red-brown shirts of the Hitler youth. The FDJ was, of course, the youth arm of the governing party of East Germany, the Socialist Unity party, formed by the remnants of the pre-Nazi era German Communist Party and SPD.“

Donald went on to say that during one match the head of the Stasi, Erich Mielke, who was watching in the directors‘ box, was told off by the East German trainer for griping about the referee. „Shut up and sit down,“ he was told, „you know nothing about football.“ Mr Mielke, bless his ideological red socks, responded with: „It’s a free country, I‘m entitled to my opinion.“

Jetzt wissen wir, warum die DDR in Blau spielte. Sollte einer meiner Leser eventuell des Englischen nicht mächtig sein, bin ich gerne bereit, das Zitat in astreinstes Deutsch zu übersetzen. Wer den Text hingegen schon im Original begreift, möge das bitte in den Kommentaren angeben. Ich arbeite schließlich an meiner Dissertation „A time to make friends: The post-modern Germany and its knowledge of English as the soccer language in the year 2006.“