默克爾又雙叒叕贏了。
據德新社25日凌晨報道，德國聯邦議院選舉初步計票結果顯示，默克爾領導的聯盟黨獲33.0％選票，社會民主黨和德國選擇黨分獲20.5％和12.6％選票。
也就是說，默克爾毫無懸念地贏下了這場大選，如無意外將再次連任總理。而這也是她連續(xù)第四次獲得連任，德國即將迎來“默克爾4.0時代”。
十幾年來，不少西方國家的領導人換了又換，而默克爾在德國總理的位置上一坐就是12年，并且還將再坐4年……
但這位德國”鐵娘子”，每天早上醒來想的第一件事并不是國家大事，而是如何為自己的丈夫，約阿希姆·紹爾 (Joachim Sauer) 做一頓可口的早飯。
默克爾會看似隨意地向媒體透露：丈夫很喜歡她做的蛋糕以及撒在蛋糕上面的配料，而她自己喜歡土豆湯。而做蛋糕和土豆湯是德國主婦的傳統強項，也是傳統家庭生活的象征。
When German Chancellor Angela Merkel gets up in the morning, she doesn't start her day by saving the euro. She doesn't behave like a woman who dominates Europe, dominates Germany and dominates the European Union. When Angela Merkel gets up in the morning, she makes breakfast for her husband Joachim Sauer. She wants to make sure that he has a decent meal in his stomach before he leaves the house.
那么，能讓這位歐洲“大女主”親自洗手做羹湯的德國第一先生，究竟是個什么樣的人呢？
當默克爾和紹爾1981年在原東德科學院相遇時，默克爾是個物理學研究生，而紹爾則是學院里的教師。當時他們倆都已有家庭，但后來兩人都先后離婚，并慢慢走到了一起。
He met Merkel in 1981. She was 27, a graduate physics student. He was 32, teaching at the Academy of Sciences in Berlin. Both were married. Merkel’s marriage to Ulrich Merkel, also a physicist, ended in divorce in 1985. Sauer’s to a fellow chemist ended in 1983 when he moved out of their flat; they divorced in 1985, after 16 years’ marriage. They had two sons together.
如今是柏林洪堡大學化學系教授的紹爾很早就學術研究方面展現出了過（學）人（霸）天（屬）賦（性）。1974年，年僅25歲的紹爾便以最高榮譽獲得了洪堡大學的化學博士學位并留校任教。曾與他共事的同事更是稱他為全球前30的理論化學家，水平僅次于那些獲得諾貝爾獎的化學界大牛。
而且，他甚至還能為物理專業(yè)的默克爾提供指導。在默克爾1986年的物理畢業(yè)論文中，默克爾在前言部分專門感謝了紹爾“批判性的洞見”(critical insight)。
Reinhart Ahlrichs, who led a research group at Karlsruhe University where Sauer briefly worked, described him as one of the top 30 theoretical chemists worldwide but just below the rank of those who tend to win Nobel prizes.
And in a foreword to her 1986 physics dissertation, Merkel thanked Sauer for his “critical insight.” Her future husband was a prodigious student. He got his doctorate in chemistry with the highest honor - summa cum laude - from Humboldt University at 25 in 1974, and taught there before moving to the Academy of Sciences in Berlin in 1977. His work won acclaim in the West.
在默克爾從政之后，紹爾依然繼續(xù)鉆研科研，保持著低調的生活。
默克爾2005年競選德國總理時，作為丈夫的紹爾并沒有去幫妻子拉票，也拒絕接受媒體的采訪。他希望人們能以一個科學家的身份看待他，而不是“默克爾的老公”。
他只對媒體這么表示過：
“我決定不接受采訪，也不和采訪我妻子的政治活動的記者進行對話，交流僅限于我作為大學教師和研究人員的活動?！?/p>
'I have decided not to give interviews and not to hold conversations with journalists who deal with the political activity of my wife rather than my activity as university teacher and researcher.'
他很少在公眾場合露面，也從不評論政治，甚至就連默克爾的就職儀式都沒去現場，只在電視機前觀看。
而在英國女王訪問德國時，紹爾也因為自己的工作原因沒有和默克爾一起進行接待。
總之，這位德國第一先生經常“不在線”。
Over the course of his wife’s political career, Mr Sauer has earned a reputation for being publicity-shy and sometimes rude.
During his wife’s 2005 election campaign, Mr Sauer – whose name literally means sour or angry in German – refused to speak to the media.
When Ms Merkel was sworn in as Germany’s first female Chancellor in November 2005, her husband shunned the ceremony and instead watched it on television.
In the years since he has remained largely out of the spotlight, choosing not to accompany his wife on international summits. And when the Queen visited Germany in June, 2015, Mr Sauer declined to join a meeting between chancellor and monarch.
當時，英國《每日電訊報》(The Telegraph) 等不少外媒甚至還認為紹爾正如其名，脾氣很壞（“紹爾”在德語中意為“生氣的”或者“酸味的”），會影響默克爾在選舉中的支持率。
“臭脾氣的丈夫對默克爾想當德國總理的努力構成了威脅”
估計他們當時也沒想到，默克爾能在德國總理的寶座上穩(wěn)坐這么多年……
而且據了解默克爾和紹爾的知名登山家Reinhold Messner表示，紹爾明明就是個很風趣幽默的人好么！
“The clichés that circulate in the German media about Joachim Sauer are a total fallacy,” says Reinhold Messner, a renowned mountain climber who has hiked with Sauer and Merkel in the Alps. “The fact is that he’s his own man. He’s witty, he’s profound, he can be incredibly funny, and he’s an extremely bright guy. He’s an ideal counterpart to the Chancellor.”
“流傳在德國媒體中關于紹爾的陳詞濫調完全就是錯的，”曾和紹爾默克爾夫婦一同在阿爾卑斯山徒步的著名登山家Reinhold Messner表示?！笆聦嵣?，他是個極度我行我素的人。他機智、淵博、相當風趣，也是十分快樂的人。他是德國總理理想的另一半。”
雖然紹爾不常出席政治活動，但平時陪老婆，卻一次都沒有少。
默克爾和紹爾都是德國作曲家瓦格納的死忠粉，夫妻倆每年都會去參加一年一度的夏季瓦格納歌劇節(jié)。
不過，即便是和默克爾合體出現在了公眾場合，紹爾也從不接受采訪。
在一次歌劇節(jié)的紅毯上，紹爾甚至還很生氣地對媒體咆哮道：“我不會對你的麥克風說一句話！”
每年都來參加歌劇節(jié)，卻不接受采訪，絕望的德國媒體甚至還給這位“臭脾氣先生”起了個外號 —— “歌劇魅影”( Phantom of the Opera)。
While other “first spouses” sometimes speak out on the issues of the day or support favorite causes, Sauer has no public opinions. His determination to stay out of the public eye can sometimes appear hostile.
“I am not going to say anything into your microphone,” he growled into a camera on the red carpet with Merkel at the Bayreuth opera festival in 2005, when she was still opposition leader.
Within a year or two of Merkel’s taking power, German journalists had already given up trying to report on the unapproachable man they call the “Phantom of the Opera.”
當然啦，除了一起去參加歌劇節(jié)之外，紹爾還會帶默克爾去各種地方度假~
圍觀的德國媒體表示，這是他們所見過的“最輕松的默克爾”(the most relaxed we've ever seen her)↓↓↓
盡管不喜歡出現在鏡頭前，但紹爾在不少關鍵的外交場合，依然會陪伴默克爾左右。
2016年，紹爾更是“破天荒”地陪著默克爾前往日本參加G7峰會，德國媒體的頭條都直接刷屏了。
而且，感覺作為參會唯一的“第一先生”，紹爾和幾位“第一夫人”相處得還挺開心的↓↓↓
The G7 summit in Japan has been notable for something besides grim warnings of the perils of Brexit and Donald Trump - it has also produced a rare sighting of the most elusive of global leaders’ spouses: Angela Merkel’s husband, Joachim Sauer.
This is the first time the extremely private Prof Sauer has ever consented to accompany Mrs Merkel to an international summit abroad, and his appearance has made headline news in Germany.
More than that, Germans have been astonished to see the professor laughing and larking about with the wives of the Japanese and Canadian leaders, belying his reputation as shy and ill-tempered.
而在今年7月于德國漢堡舉辦的G20峰會上，作為東道主的紹爾為了招待來訪的各國領導人配偶，還策劃了一系列活動。
除了觀光和乘船游覽之外，紹爾還讓“第一夫人團”了解了有關德國氣候計算中心 ( German Climate Computing Center)的工作，讓大家學習了解氣候變化。
Parallel to the launch of the G20 summit on Friday, the Spouse Programme began. Professor Joachim Sauer, husband of Chancellor Angela Merkel, welcomed the spouses and partners of summit participants as they arrived at Hamburg’s new concert hall, the Elbphilharmonie. The group went on to enjoy the best of Hanseatic weather during a one-hour boat trip round Hamburg’s harbour area, before mooring at the Dockland in the early afternoon.
The group lunched together in Hamburg’s harbour area, before the programme moved on to focus on climate change mitigation. At a lecture, the spouses of the G20 leaders found out more about the work of the DKRZ, the German Climate Computing Center, which is one of the most important climate research institutes in Germany.
美國總統特朗普此前宣布退出《巴黎氣候協定》的事情，引發(fā)了不少西方領導人的強烈反對，其中就包括了默克爾。而紹爾這次的策劃安排，也可以說是相當力挺夫人了。
雖然默克爾兩口子在公眾面前的同框照根本也沒幾張，更不怎么會秀恩愛。但在偶爾談到自家丈夫時，這位“歐洲鐵娘子”字里行間都是對丈夫的依戀。
她曾形容自己和丈夫之間的對話“幾乎如生命般重要”，并稱丈夫是個“很好的建議者”。
Merkel has in the past described her conversations with her husband as “almost vital” and called him “a very good giver of advice.”
“我們倆都做著各自的工作，”默克爾曾在接受德國名人雜志《Bunte》采訪時表示?！拔也皇莻€家庭主婦，他也不是個家庭煮夫?！?/p>
“Each of us goes about their job,” Merkel once told Bunte, a German celebrity magazine. “I‘m not a housewife and he’s not a house-husband.”
而在周圍的人看來，面對身為德國總理的妻子，紹爾卻依然能將她視作一個普通人，坦誠地指出默克爾的不足：
一位在默克爾首個任期與她工作往來密切的德國官員透露，“她（默克爾）多次表示，‘我丈夫不懂我們在這兒做的事情’。然后我們就聊了起來。不過我認為他不是個積極影響政策的人。他更像是為她‘檢查現實’的人?！?nbsp;
“She has come into work a number of times and said, ‘My husband doesn’t understand what we’re doing here’. And then there’s a discussion. But I don’t see him as someone who actively influences policy. He is more of a ‘reality check’ for her.”says a German official who worked closely with Merkel in her first term.
（默克爾）一位親密的助手表示，紹爾“絕對是默克爾最重要的‘指路人’，”能在晚上和她討論一些政治以外的事情。“他會坦誠地告訴她內心所想。”
A close aide said Sauer is “most definitely an important ‘corrective’ for Merkel,” someone she can talk to about other things than politics in the evenings. “He’s someone who’ll openly tell her what he thinks.”
不知道默克爾這次再度連任總理，紹爾會不會參加默克爾的就職儀式？不過不論紹爾是否參加，在默克爾看來都沒什么關系了吧~
