{"id":3182,"date":"2026-08-24T17:54:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T15:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sugarbear.music\/?p=3182"},"modified":"2026-08-25T14:05:51","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T12:05:51","slug":"auftritt-beim-csd-magdeburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sugarbear.music\/en\/auftritt-beim-csd-magdeburg\/","title":{"rendered":"Performance at the Magdeburg CSD"},"content":{"rendered":"
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15 minutes on Cathedral Square in front of 1,000 people<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t
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Performance at the Magdeburg CSD on August 22, 2026\u2014during the anniversary year, two weeks before the state election.<\/strong><\/p>

On Saturday, I was on stage at the Magdeburg CSD. Domplatz, anniversary year: thirty years of CSD in Saxony-Anhalt. A short set, four songs, a good quarter of an hour.<\/p>

I sang \u201cTrue Colors,\u201d followed by my own songs, \u201cSag mir, wo du stehst (Demokratiesong)\u201d and \u201cFr\u00fchlingserwachen\u201d and finally, in memory of the victims of the CSD attack in Berlin, \u201cOver the Rainbow.\u201d<\/p>

The second song was the reason why I was invited at short notice by the CSD team. It takes the 1967 GDR song of the same name and turns it on its head: what was then a declaration of allegiance to a system without freedom of choice becomes an invitation to form one\u2019s own opinion \u2014 and now to make responsible use of that freedom of choice. This call takes on particular significance in the run-up to such an important state election.<\/p>

Being able to sing this song in front of over 1,000 people, and the enthusiastic applause that followed, give me hope that the song\u2019s message has been passed on. Hopefully, this will convince many more undecided people not to let their vote go to waste.
Elections will be held in Saxony-Anhalt on 6 September and in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania on 20 September. The song doesn\u2019t make the decision for anyone.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n<\/div>\n

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Performance at the Magdeburg CSD on 22 August 2026 \u2014 in the anniversary year, featuring a song about democracy two weeks before the state election.
\nI sang \u201cTrue Colors,\u201d followed by my own songs, \u201cSag mir, wo du stehst (Demokratiesong)\u201d and \u201cFr\u00fchlingserwachen\u201d and finally, in memory of the victims of the CSD attack in Berlin, \u201cOver the Rainbow.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gigs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sugarbear.music\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sugarbear.music\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sugarbear.music\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sugarbear.music\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sugarbear.music\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3182"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/sugarbear.music\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3277,"href":"https:\/\/sugarbear.music\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3182\/revisions\/3277"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sugarbear.music\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sugarbear.music\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sugarbear.music\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sugarbear.music\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}