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[Roxanna Fitting]

Germantennis player Alexander Zverev had reported the spectator to the umpire after he heard him singing "Deutschland ber alles," or Germany above everything, during Zverev's match against Italy's Jannik Sinner.

Composed by Joseph Haydn, the much-admired melody for the "Lied der Deutschen" (Song of the Germans) - also known as the "Deutschlandlied" (Song of Germany) - was first performed in 1797 to honor Holy Roman Emperor Francis II, who would later become the emperor of Austria.

The lyrics were added by the German poet August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben in 1841. He was a big proponent of a unified Germany, which he believed preferable to all the small principalities with their own rulers that still existed in his time.

That's why the Allies prohibited the public singing of the "Lied der Deutschen" after they vanquished Nazi Germany to bring World War II to an end in 1945. When Chancellor Konrad Adenauer requested to reintroduce the song as the national anthem of West Germany in 1952, he made it very clear that only the third verse would be sung. It begins with "Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit / Fr das deutsche Vaterland," which translates to "Unity and justice and freedom / for the German fatherland."

The former communist East Germany had its own hymn, "Auferstanden aus Ruinen," or Risen from the Ruins." In 1991, a year after reunification, all of Germany then adopted the third stanza of the "Song of Germany" as its unified anthem.

It can still be tricky for non-Germans to get the anthem right. That became clear at another tennis event, when a US soloist performed the first verse at the opening of a Fed Cup match on the Hawaiian island of Maui in February 2017, angering German athletes and fans alike.

Though most Germans find the redacted lines, including a second verse that praises German women and wine, distasteful or undesirable, it is not a crime to perform the whole "Lied der Deutschen" at events.

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