I do not want to exceed the posting limit, so...
Helge Schneider is a jazz pianist who also is a sort of absurdist comedian. I don't know how to describe him, sort of dadaist comedy. As a jazz musician he is also not bad. He did a comedy western over 10 years ago called Texas, where God is portrayed as a hippy-biker who lives in a mobile home.
But he is probably not the best indicator of the Zeitgeist. Far more true to what the attitude in Germany is regarding the World War is that reactionary shit film with Bruno Ganz as Hitler. The Traudl Junge character is obviously how Germany sees itself, the innocent nation deceived and led into the war by an evil leader. And then the evil stares of the barbarian Russian soldiers at the end. Garbage.
--- Carl Remick <carlremick at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >From: Angelus Novus <fuerdenkommunismus at yahoo.com>
> >
> >--- Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > >but
> > > based on my experience you are fantasizing
> again.
> >
> >"Based on your experience"? What kind of solipsism
> is
> >this?
> >
> >The existence of your Porsche-driving uncle refutes
> >the existence of pogroms against asylum seekers,
> the
> >carving up of Yugoslavia and the bombing of Serbia,
> >the national Dresden cult, the everyday fascism of
> the
> >Eastern province, the dismantling of unemployment
> >insurance under the Hartz IV reforms, the
> occupation
> >of Afghanistan, the murder of African immigrants by
> >police in Dessau, and the criminalization of
> leftist
> >protest?
> >
> >Perhaps you needed to take a day trip outside of
> >Schwaben during your stay.
>
> I'm not sure what it signifies, but it seems strange
> to see Germans now
> mining WWII for laughs. There was an interesting
> photo spread in Der
> Spiegel earlier this year of what I assume was the
> first "Nazi rally" to be
> staged in Berlin since the war; it was for what the
> magazine said was
> "Germany's first movie parody of Hitler." See
>
<http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/0,5538,PB64-SUQ9MTI4MzQmbnI9MQ_3_3,00.html>
>
> I wonder if this production, ""Mein Führer - The
> Truly Truest Truth About
> Adolf Hitler," was as much a witless WWII
> chucklefest as US television's
> "Hogan's Heroes" or the UK's "'Allo, 'Allo!"
>
> Carl
>
>
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