2023-07-18 15:52:01
Opinion A cool head
How Karl Lauterbach confused the churches of Siena
As of: 3:52 p.m. | Reading time: 3 minutes
“Beautiful medieval construction”: Lauterbach
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Karl Lauterbach recommended visiting cool church rooms when it’s hot and tweeted a church photo from his vacation in Italy. The advance is now being wildly discussed, but so far friend and foe have overlooked the real punch line: Lauterbach made a mistake in the church.
The SPD is the most German of all parties because it has such a jealous, wildly emotional relationship with Italy. Gerhard Schröder once canceled his usual vacation with friends in the Pesaro region because he was annoyed with Silvio Berlusconi, and instead drank Italian red wine in Hanover with Sigmar Gabriel. When he was Labor Minister, Olaf Scholz drove all the way to South Tyrol and even accepted public criticism for using his company car. And Rudolf Scharping even lost his job as Minister of Defense because of photos from the vacation pool.
Okay, the series doesn’t quite add up, that with Scharping was Mallorca, but that’s exactly what this is about: minor inaccuracies and dealing with them calmly. Which brings us to SPD Health Minister Lauterbach, a man who already has the Carolingian’s fateful Italy policy in his name.
Karl Lauterbach is currently traveling in Tuscany and posted a greeting on Twitter: “Basilica di San Francesco (Siena). Beautiful medieval construction, but also a cold room. The churches should be open as cold rooms during the day and offer protection during heat waves.” There is also a photo of a rather simple church interior with pointed arches.
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It wasn’t long before the dpa reported on the tweet, “Spiegel” and “Zeit” picked up the message, and the matter made it into the “Tagesschau”. The German Bishops’ Conference and the Evangelical Church in Germany welcomed Lauterbach’s initiative. And of course there were also outraged people on Twitter who accused Lauterbach of misusing religious buildings.
But they all, friend and foe, overlooked the actual point of the posting: Lauterbach’s photo does not show the Basilica di San Francesco at all.
Instead, you can see the Basilica di San Domenico, which is also in Siena. At least if you can believe Father Bruno Esposito, who confirmed the mix-up with WELT, and he should actually know, he is the Superiore of the Dominicans in Siena, i.e. the head of the house.
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Just a small inaccuracy, as I said. Francis or Dominic, if you can’t even get it wrong after a tour of all the beautiful churches in Siena or after two glasses of wine with Sigmar Gabriel, throw the first stone. No reproach, on the contrary, the generous selection of photos is more of a good sign: under the Italian sky, even Lauterbach, who is notorious for being a principled rider, is learning how to take it easy.
Saint Dominic died in 1221, lived an ascetic life, cared for the sick and tended to preach, a kind of medieval Karl Lauterbach, so to speak. St. Francis, on the other hand, makes one think of Pope Francis, who made laxity a government program. Vatican experts say that when the pope gives his people the first manuscript for a new encyclical, there tends to be a lot more confusion in the source documents than just the names of two mendicant monks.
With his tweet, Lauterbach confesses that he also wants more of this spirit for himself, a nice and important stimulus for this holiday season. Askesis or Scharping, the main thing is Italy.
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