Spiegel: Angela Merkel will leave the post of German Chancellor to the song of the German punk rocker 
a song by the German performer of the fifties Hildegard Knef, as well as to the composition of a punk rocker from the GDR Nina Hagen. Spiegel reports this with reference to a source.
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According to the German tradition, a politician leaving office can “order” the music for the orchestra, which will sound at the farewell ceremony. According to the source, the Chancellor wanted to make her departure unusually emotional.
Merkel is performed to the composition of Knef “It should rain for me from red roses” (Fur mich soll's rote Rosen regnen) and Hagen's song “You forgot the color film “(Du hast den Farbfilm vergessen), which became a hit in the GDR in 1974.
The ceremony will be held at the territory of the Ministry of Defense in Berlin. Only 200 people are invited to it. All 52 federal ministers during her reign and other associates.
Earlier, Angela Merkel said that she had not yet thought about plans for retirement after leaving politics, but she was sure that first of all she would try to rest. The politician joked that at first she would alternately read and sleep, and then do whatever comes into her head.