参考消息网5月15日报道 西班牙《阿贝赛报》网站报道，虽然德国前总理安格拉·默克尔已经从公众生活中消失了，但她的退休生活依然忙碌。

据报道，默克尔退休的最初几个月里，她住在距离首都柏林半小时车程的乌克马克地区带菜园的小房子，现在住在柏林佩加蒙博物馆对面的那套公寓里。

默克尔并没有致力于种植卷心菜(她在担任总理时曾有过这个想法)，而她的菜园或多或少仍处于荒废状态。现在，她更加注重自己的健康，身体状况也更好了。

她坦言自己喜欢看电视剧和电影，如《王冠》和《巴比伦柏林》等。

B | 她会一边听有声读物一边散步，还经常去旅行。

C | 2022年6月，她兑现了前往华盛顿拜访奥巴马夫妇的承诺，并在一家博物馆与奥巴马合影留念。

她的日常生活习惯自然也发生了变化。她不再穿着色彩缤纷的西装外套，也不再天天打理头发和化妆。    CHICAGO -- After a stopover in the U.S. that lasted the better part of a century, a baroque landscape painting that went missing during World War II was returned to Germany on Thursday. The FBI handed over the artwork by 18th century Austrian artist Johann Franz Nepomuk Lauterer to a German museum representative in a brief ceremony at the German Consulate in Chicago, where the pastoral piece showing an Italian countryside was on display. Art Recovery International, a company focused on locating and recovering stolen and looted art, tracked down the elusive painting after a person in Chicago reached out last year claiming to possess a “stolen or looted painting” that their uncle brought back to the U.S. after serving in World War II.The painting has been missing since 1945 and was first reported stolen from the Bavarian State Painting Collections in Munich, Germany. It was added to the database of the German Lost Art Foundation in 2012, according to a statement from the art recovery company. “The crux of our work at Art Recovery International is the research and restitution of artworks looted by Nazis and discovered in public or private collections. On occasion, we come across cases, such as this, where allied soldiers may have taken objects home as souvenirs or as trophies of wars," said Christopher Marinello, founder of Art Recovery International. "Being on the winning side doesn’t make it right,” he added.The identity of the Chicago resident who had the painting was not shared. The person initially asked Marinello to be paid for the artwork.“I explained our policy of not paying for stolen artwork and that the request was inappropriate,” Marinello said. “We also know that someone tried to sell the painting in the Chicago art market in 2011 and disappeared when the museum put forth their claim.” But with the help of the FBI Art Crime Team, attorneys, and the museum, Marinello negotiated an unconditional surrender of the artwork.The painting, titled “Landscape of Italian Character,” will now reunite with its counterpart, which shares similar motifs and imagery, according to the museum.The two paintings together form a panoramic scene featuring shepherds and travelers with their goats, cows, donkeys and sheep at a ford in a river. The pair will soon be displayed together for the first time since World War II at the Alte Pinakothek in Munich, according to Bernd Ebert, the museum's chief curator of Dutch and German baroque paintings.Retrieving a long-lost painting "is actually a very rare moment for us,” Ebert said. “It’s exciting.”The Vienna-born artist, Lauterer, lived from 1700 to 1733.When war broke out in 1939, many Bavarian museum collections were evacuated to safe locations in the region, but the Lauterer painting has been missing since the beginning of the war, suggesting the possibility that it had been looted, according to the museum.The Bavarian State Painting Collections first started searching for the painting between 1965 and 1973, but no clues about its location emerged until decades later.Ebert, who flew from Munich to Chicago to retrieve the painting, will carefully bubble-wrap the centuries-old landscape to take it back home, where it will be touched up and restored after an eventful several decades.Luckily, Ebert said, it should fit in his suitcase.___Savage is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues.。

D | 在这方面，人们在她身上感受到了某种程度的“解放”。

她不再像以前离开总理府时那样每周五都去弗里德里希大街的埃德卡超市购物，但还是会去莎拉·维纳拥有的面包店买早餐面包卷。2019年，维纳曾作为奥地利绿党的候选人参加欧洲议会选举。长期以来，维纳一直致力于餐饮业和电视烹饪节目。

早餐后，默克尔通常会前往她位于菩提树下街71号的办公室。她在那里拒绝了很多职位、会员资格、邀请和采访请求。她现在每天都去办公室，而且一去就是好几个小时，因为她正在全力撰写自己的回忆录。该书将由基彭霍伊尔和维奇出版社于今年秋季在德国和美国同时出版。

她身边的人说，这位前总理正顶着巨大的压力和她的前办公室主任贝娅特·博伊曼一起赶稿。博伊曼也将被列为该回忆录的合著者。

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默克尔贴身团队(在政府圈子里被称为“女孩阵营”)的第三位成员是顾问埃娃·克里斯蒂安森，她在上次大选后加入了传播咨询机构FGS全球公司，开始了新的职业生涯。

她曾经的心腹、前政府发言人斯特芬·赛贝特被调任德国驻以色列大使，目前仍与她保持着联系。也许正因为如此，默克尔卸任后发表的公开声明中有一条就是关于反犹太主义的警告。去年10月7日的哈马斯袭击事件发生几周后，默克尔的办公室发表声明警告说，“我国的民主多数必须保持警惕”，“与任何形式的反犹太主义进行斗争，无论是右翼、左翼还是源自伊斯兰主义动机的反犹太主义，都是我们国家和公民的责任”。（编译/田策）