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It regarded just like the backstage photograph of a newcomer band and was celebrated as an expression of a “new political culture”: on Instagram selfie of the previous opponent FDP and Greens from the pre-sounds for the later visitors gentle coalition, there was no medium in September 2021. Now the photographer, Minister of Transport Volker Wissing, has revealed that there was exhausting work, which regarded like a snapshot. Eight makes an attempt wanted till all the pieces regarded cool and for the longer term, says the FDP basic secretary on the time within the podcast “My hardest decision” by the Funke media group.

The photograph session already had a forerunner with the later Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, Minister of Economics Robert Habeck (each Greens) and FDP boss Christian Lindner till Wissing himself stretched out and pushed it out. “I think we had given someone a cell phone and asked to take a picture of us. And that just didn’t get anything,” he recollects. “There were a lot of pictures that you couldn’t do anything with them.” At some level you wished to offer it up. “And then I said, no, we’re going to make selfie again.”

Wissing: It was about sending a message

Then lastly “so this spirit” got here throughout. “So we probably had to do it ourselves because we just knew what we were about,” says Wissing. The photograph didn’t meet the calls for of the 4 immediately. Wissing nonetheless saved eight variants of selfies on his cellular phone at the moment. “You don’t see Robert Habeck so happy.” “Okay, there is not this expectation in the eyes.” After all, it was accomplished. “It was really about simply sending a message. And it also arrived.”

In reality, the image was instantly thought of a time doc. A cable appeared to hang around of the ceiling, which made it appear much more informal. But the Munich sociologist and creator Armin Nassehi (“Theory of Digital Society”) already suspected in an interview with the German Press Agency: “It is not a random picture, but fully styled.”

In any case, the initiation of the coalition relationship used it, the threesome with the SPD happened. But it was like many bands that climbed younger to stars: over sooner than initially deliberate. And now, with the Union and SPD? There are images of men and women once more in fits on balconies and in entrance of elevators, like earlier than.