{"id":10872,"date":"2019-07-25T11:00:10","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T11:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/?p=10872"},"modified":"2019-07-23T17:50:01","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T17:50:01","slug":"why-merkel-is-sitting-down-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/why-merkel-is-sitting-down-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Merkel Is Sitting Down Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Something is going on with Germany&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/whos-who-in-german-politics\/\"><em>Bundeskanzlerin\u00a0<\/em>(Federal Chancellor)<\/a> Angela Merkel. The\u00a0<em>Powerfrau\u00a0<\/em>(power woman) experienced heavy\u00a0<em>Zittern\u00a0<\/em>(tremors) several times in the past few weeks, and it got the Germans worried. What&#8217;s behind the\u00a0<em>Sch\u00fcttelattacken\u00a0<\/em>(shake attacks)?\u00a0<em>Geht es ihr gut<\/em>?<\/p>\n<h2><em><strong>Die<\/strong><strong> Zitteranf\u00e4lle<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Wieder zittert Merkel bei \u00f6ffentlichem Auftritt | n-tv\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xjzdpi5ygag?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On June 18, during a state ceremony, <em>Bundeskanzlerin <\/em>Merkel shook visibly . Afterwards, she declared <em>&#8220;Ich habe inzwischen mindestens drei Gl\u00e4ser Wasser getrunken. Das hat anscheinend gefehlt. Insofern geht es mir sehr gut&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>(I already drank three glasses of water now. Apparently that was missing. In that respect, I am doing very well.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>Only 9 days later, during the inauguration of the new <em>Justizministerin <\/em>(Justice Minister) Christine Lambrecht, it happened again. Her reaction then: <em>&#8220;Ich bin \u00fcberzeugt: So wie diese Reaktion aufgetreten ist, wird sie auch wieder vergehen.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>(&#8220;I am convinced: This reaction will be gone as quick as it came.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>Then on July 10, it happened once again. Another <em>Zitteranfall <\/em>during a\u00a0<em>Staatsbesuch\u00a0<\/em>of Finnish Antti Rinne. Afterwards, she\u00a0said:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Ich habe neulich schon einmal gesagt, dass ich in einer Verarbeitungsphase der letzten milit\u00e4rischen Ehren mit dem Pr\u00e4sidenten Selenskyi bin. Die ist offensichtlich noch nicht ganz abgeschlossen, aber es gibt Fortschritte, und ich muss damit jetzt eine Weile leben. Aber mir geht es sehr gut, und man muss sich keine Sorgen machen.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>(&#8220;Recently, I already stated that I am in a processing phase of the last military honors with [Ukrainian] President Selenskyi. That phase is apparently not over yet, but there is progress, and I have to live with this now for a while. But I am doing very good and there is no reason to worry.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>All three times, Merkel stood still for an extended period of time. The moment she walked again, nothing appeared to be wrong. And what does she do now?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ernennung von Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer (CDU) zur Verteidigungsministerin am 17.07.19\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sWoAYBw0ybA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Sie sitzt!\u00a0<\/em>(She is sitting!)<\/p>\n<p>While some have speculated that this could be something very serious, like Parkinson&#8217;s disease, others say it is less dramatic, and rather speak of <em>somatisches Zittern <\/em>(somatic tremor) or <em>Angstattacken <\/em>(anxiety attacks). Whatever it is, so far it seems that Merkel is doing just fine!<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Should Germany know?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_10942\" style=\"width: 910px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter post-item__attachment\"><a href=\"https:\/\/de.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Datei:Besuch_Bundeskanzlerin_Angela_Merkel_im_Rathaus_K%C3%B6ln-09916.jpg\" aria-label=\"Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel Transparent German Wiki 2019\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10942\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10942\"  alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"900\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/07\/Bundeskanzlerin-Angela-Merkel-Transparent-German-Wiki-2019.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/07\/Bundeskanzlerin-Angela-Merkel-Transparent-German-Wiki-2019.jpg 900w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/07\/Bundeskanzlerin-Angela-Merkel-Transparent-German-Wiki-2019-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/07\/Bundeskanzlerin-Angela-Merkel-Transparent-German-Wiki-2019-350x350.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/07\/Bundeskanzlerin-Angela-Merkel-Transparent-German-Wiki-2019-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10942\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Angela Merkel in 2019 (Image by Raimond Spekking at Commons.wikimedia.org under license CC BY SA 4.0)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The\u00a0<em>Zitteranf\u00e4lle\u00a0<\/em>caused debate in Germany whether the\u00a0<em>Bundeskanzlerin<\/em>&#8216;s <em>Gesundheit <\/em>(health) is within her <em>Privatsph\u00e4re\u00a0<\/em>(private sphere) or whether it should be public, since she holds such an important public office. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merkur.de\/politik\/angela-merkel-mehrheit-deutschen-sieht-zitteranfaelle-als-privatsache-zr-12812366.html\">According to a\u00a0<em>Umfrage\u00a0<\/em>(survey)<\/a>, 59% of Germans say that her\u00a0<em>Gesundheit\u00a0<\/em>is her\u00a0<em>Privatsph\u00e4re<\/em>, whereas 34% say that she needs to make it public. In general, <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/munich-whats-going-on-with-these-bikes\/\">Germans are quite concerned about their\u00a0<em>Datenschutz <\/em>(data protection)<\/a>, so it is not surprising that they think this way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"350\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/07\/Bundeskanzlerin-Angela-Merkel-Transparent-German-Wiki-2019-350x350.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/07\/Bundeskanzlerin-Angela-Merkel-Transparent-German-Wiki-2019-350x350.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/07\/Bundeskanzlerin-Angela-Merkel-Transparent-German-Wiki-2019-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/07\/Bundeskanzlerin-Angela-Merkel-Transparent-German-Wiki-2019-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/07\/Bundeskanzlerin-Angela-Merkel-Transparent-German-Wiki-2019.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>Something is going on with Germany&#8217;s\u00a0Bundeskanzlerin\u00a0(Federal Chancellor) Angela Merkel. The\u00a0Powerfrau\u00a0(power woman) experienced heavy\u00a0Zittern\u00a0(tremors) several times in the past few weeks, and it got the Germans worried. What&#8217;s behind the\u00a0Sch\u00fcttelattacken\u00a0(shake attacks)?\u00a0Geht es ihr gut? Die Zitteranf\u00e4lle On June 18, during a state ceremony, Bundeskanzlerin Merkel shook visibly . Afterwards, she declared &#8220;Ich habe inzwischen mindestens drei&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/why-merkel-is-sitting-down-now\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":10942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[224302,551762],"class_list":["post-10872","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-language","tag-angela-merkel","tag-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10872"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10946,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10872\/revisions\/10946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}