Baden-Wuerttemberg's new State Premier Cem Oezdemir (C) plays the timpani as the Saxophonensemble Tuebingen music band performed in his honour in front of the Villa Reitzenstein in Stuttgart, southern Germany, after Oezdemir was sworn in, on May 13, 2026; at (L) is Oezdemir's wife Flavia Zaka. (Photo by Bernd Weißbrod / POOL / AFP via Getty Images)