Reaction To Volker Pispers: Capitalism & Politics (1 of 3)
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- Reaction To Volker Pispers: Capitalism & Politics (1 of 3)
This is my reaction to Volker Pispers: Capitalism & Politics (1 of 3)
Recently I reacted to German kabarett and satire artist Volker Pispers' History Of USA and thought it was excellent. So I wanted to react to more of his work and in this one I react to his views on Capitalism and Politics, especially German politics.
Original Video - • Volker Pispers: Capita...
Too bad that the subtitles are quite horrible.
Oh gosh, yes.... 😔🙈
They're quite literal.....
True…True❤
Indeed... luckily I understand both.
They need to be redone with the help of DeepL
These are really bad English subtitles. They seem hardly English at all.
Reiner Calmund is a former football executive. He maintained an image as a 'gentle giant'. The joke is about him being really fat at that time (even he stopped gaining weight at some point). He lost a lot of weight since then though.
Pegida (patriotic europeans against the islamisation of the west) is a far right wing movement that formed in 2014. They demonstrated mostly against syrian refugees and they hold their demonstrations on mondays, like the people did in 1989 in the DDR (GDR), as well as trying to reclaim their famous 'wir sind das Volk' (we are the people) slogan.
Pegida is a right wing movement we don't have anything far right in the western world ATM 😅 (edit who has anything to say or is organized)
@asddasdasdasdadsa Oh there's definitely organised far right groups, sweetie😢
@@annnee6818 no they are not or they're so tiny nobody heared of them, the people who are called far right today are not far left that's all. Leader of Italy somehow far right never sad anything or did anything far right AFD pretty similar pegida another example if you can show the the organized mop who hunts foreigners we can talk about far right the closest we came to that was probably the NSU and that's again over 15 years ago and where 3 people.
@@annnee6818 you are called far right if you are against fascism today so pls take a break, maybe we can cound Jehovah's Witnesses, or scientology but I would count them into religious fanatics and not really political. And yeah we have a few neo Nazis but they aren't organized and are more or less right wing punks who are to stupid to think (calling themself after a far left movement and being far right is also quit ironic isn't it)
@@asddasdasdasdadsa How about the "Reichsbürger" organization? The "Azov Battalion", huge organizations of european Neo-nazis, there several different european magazines on the German VS watchlist (constitutional police) to NOT call them "far right" is absolutely ridiculous! What you may be mistaking is that we have little to no "LEFT politics" in europe anymore even the most stereotypical "left-parties" are dumb enough to mistake "liberalism" for "political left" CDU was once supposed to be a "Party of the middle" their politics are now something easily considered "right-winged" in weimar republic! "Far right" doesn't necessarily mean "they want to kill and mass murder foreigners" its a political position of discrimination against certain groups in society... in that respect you could say most parties in germany are in some way "far right" after all they almost all unitarily "discriminate against the general middle and lower economic classes through their finacial and social politics"....
Sigmar Gabriel is a former german politician and he ist not skinny at all. Volkers sentence "Früher waren 'Dick und Doof' mal zwei" roughly translates to "In the past, Stan and Ollie were two different people" 'Dick und Doof' (Fat and stupid) was the german name for the iconic comedy duo and both adjectives seem to fit quite well for Mr. Gabriel. Also 'einschleimen' means something like 'boot licking' or 'brownnosing'.
I am from Germany and agree with every word he say. Watched him live two times. Another Satire-Guy you have to know is Georg Schramm. He is a genius.
Urban Priol is good too
WestLB is the 'Landesbank Nordrhein-Westfalen', the head bank of the local savings banks of that province. They are infamous for being the first german Bad Bank after several bad business decisions regarding stock trading and dabbling in US subprime lending resulting in having to transfer assets worth 85 Bn. Euros to a winding up agency.
An interesting sidenote: CDU chairperson Friedrich Merz got paid 5000 Euros a day to facilitate the sale of the WestLB (without success).
Ich bin wirklich beeindruckt, wie schnell alle Unklarheiten und Fragen von den Zuschauern hier beantwortet werden. 👍
Volker Pisper is the best. Too bad he stopped :/ Much love from Germany for your reactions to him
Leider, ich hatte mich auch scho auf seine finale Tour nach Corona gefreut.
What I like about Volker Pispers is that he can explain complex things in a simple way. Well, he was a teacher - and not a bad one I guess.
What I like about you is your critical, open mind, your genuine appearence and your accent ;)
Go ahead!
hats off sir, making sense of most of it with THAT translation at that speed. i´m in awe!
I love Volker Pispers 😂
One of the greatest german cabarettist ever 💪🏼
It's such a big pity he retired 😢
Volker is really good. You can even watch 25 years old stuff of him and it is still actual
does this mean that he is good or that we are fkin bad?
@@sockosophie3132 I suppose both 😂
It is not "actual" (which is a "false friend" meaning "tatsächlich"), but you certainly mean that his old stuff is still *applicable* ("zutreffend"), *valid* ("gültig") or *current* ("aktuell"). 😉
@@jawosammadennhier7062 👍
But that makes me sad, cause it looks like we have learned nothing and still the same problems for years…
To fully understand and appreciate Pisper's humor you need to know a lot of German history, culture, politics, and language.
Countless clever allusions throughout.
It's absolutely brilliant.
Hagen Rether "Liebe" is one of the best programs. Pispers, Schramm and Rether are the holy trinity!
Until 2010, a job center was called "ARGE" (Arbeitsgemeinschaft SGB II). The Federal Employment Agency is responsible for the federal funds, such as funds for placement in work and standard benefits, in a joint facility.
Now it is simply JOB CENTER, and it handles as well domestic town welfare help in communes.
I'm from germany and a totaly agree with his points!
He is a legend!
Another show which has some good points is Extra3 pretty close to the Heute Show.
Pispers : BEST man !
..since decades he is talking truth .
Hey Mert If you want to, I can upload the next parts for you with better translation.
Wie macht man das? Ich hab schon immer mal Untertitel für Videos machen wollen…?
Know you only over the Pisper Reaction Videos. And as an leftist german i am happy to see when others explore the german "Kabarett". I can warmly recommend you "Die Anstalt". A political satiric Show with very precise analytics, and always with a fact check to support the arguments they bring.
I once saw a picture of the wall of a public toilet where someone had written "we buy things we don't need, with money we don't have to impress people we don't like." and someone else had written underneath "we write words on toilet walls that aren't our's to impress people we don't know" or something along those lines. I think I don't remember the answer correctly... yea, the walls of public toilets, the original social media.
and the german author and .. Kleinkünstler (also by now, film director and who knows what else he's up to) Mark Uwe Kling, takes this idea one step further in his books (Quality land). and makes the neo liberals (as a political party) register as an official church (like the catholic or protestant church in germany). in his books the neo liberals claim it was just to save taxes.. but it's really just being honest.
no comedian talked about the wall like he did ! and it was exactly like he described it !
Hello friend.
Its a pleasure to see you watching Volker Pispers classics on youtube.
I'm from Germany and a big Pispers fan.
He's a comedy legend and comes from my area here as well (Düsseldorf).
Can't await see you watching the next parts from Pispers.
Volker always gets to the point. Also very good is the German satirical show 'Die Anstalt'. They show the flaws in our country and the political parties very vividly.
okay, it's quite impressive how much you were able to decipher context through those terrible subtitles. It's auto-translated I'm assuming; I hope there are better versions somewhere.
Volker Pispers was always spot on with everything he spoke about.
The East of Germany (GDR/DDR) could not keep up with the economic growth supported by the USA, for they were also partially exploited by the UDSSR. They tried to better their economy with production for e.g. IKEA. The currency and the production costs were lower than in West Germany. Therefore students and people with lower wages from the West could afford products from the GDR/DDR easier. It was like a transfer of wealth that continued even after the Fall of the Berlin Wall by western Companies and Investors (from GER West and International) buying up Eastern German companies, exploiting them and letting them die.
This problem is to be seen from multiple perspectives, for it is a very complex situation, but I think that example can give an easy to understand impression.
as german history geek from austria, i can say at least from my point view his arguments are valid.
In the early 80s, Volker Pispers was a teacher at my school. I didn't take any lessons from him myself, but I often saw him in the schoolyard. He was popular, but also a little strict. I think he's great as a comedian, but unfortunately he doesn't do that anymore.
As you asked about it: Rainer Calmund is a former German football manager. He was very famous for being tall, if not suffering from obesity. Hence Volker's remark to endless growth
If you want to know about another good satire show: I can highly recommend "Die Anstalt", I think you actually already watched a short video from this show. They release a new episode each month. But I'm not sure, if these episodes are availabe with english subtitles :/
you make great videos , love to watch your content
I think comedians who compare to Volker would be Urban Priol and Georg Schramm. Dieter Hildebrandt too, but he passed away long ago. But he was great.
Priol is boring!
The electric irons for ironing sold at the Quelle Versand which was German Amazon sold for 19.90 Deutschmark have been all produced in either East Germany or other east European Countries..
I like your stuff, keep on. If you are well familiary to the Germans, Austria would be a challenge. Regards from Vienna! 🧐
i definitly agree with the piont of win win win situation. pisper is insane good
As a german i agree to all what Pispers is saying. Everything's absolutly true. He's genius!
Nice reactions, for me it´s a refresh.
Someone i can highly recommend is Georg Schramm. If you like Volker i will say it´s a must see!
Another good guy but also one of the broken ones. Schramm left the cabaret with the same reason as Pispers left. Both are tired of explaining basic knowledge but without subsequent actions from the audience.
I can't wait for the translation of Georg Schramm 🙂
"Einschleimen" means "kissing up" or "sucking up". The "cesspool" joke is a wordplay on Günther Jauch, a famous TV host, who at that time hosted a talk show on Das Erste, with "Jauch" being similar to "Jauche" which means as much as sewage. And "the first programming" is the channel Das Erste, which literally just means "the first" since it was the first federal TV broadcasting company. Similar to the BBC it's a publicly owned broadcaster and not in private hands.
The "fat and stupid" joke is a play on the German name for Laurel and Hardy, an American-British comedy duo out of the silent film era that still have a relatively large fan base in Germany. The German title of the duo was "Dick und Doof" which means "fat and stupid". Generally speaking, these subtitles are a bit subpar. It's often enough just autogenerated based on the exact meaning of a word, not the contextual meaning within a phrase or sentence. And sometimes words just weren't translated at all, like "einschleimen" or later "Walt" which means "forrest" and wasn't even written correctly in German since we write it we a "d" at the end, not a "t".
Furthermore, Sigmar Gabriel at the time was the federal chair of the SPD, the German equivalent to the Labour Party in the UK. In that position, Gabriel also served as Vice Chancellor under Merkel from 2013 till 2018. For most of that time, and I think also while this was recorded, he was also the Federal Minister for Economic Affairs. Pegida was a far-right protest movement in Dresden that kinda fuctioned as a base for the rise of the AfD at the time. The AfD being Germany's far-right political party.
13:35 "Bouquet" is another sign that this was not translated by a human. While the German word "Strauß" can be a short form for "Blumenstrauß" which means "bouquet", in this case this is not what it means. Strauß was the last name of right-wing politician Franz-Josef Strauß, to this day revereed by the conservative CSU in Bavaria and made infamous through the Spiegel-Affaire in 1962, when he used his position as Federal Defence Minister to order a raid on the weekly news magazine Der Spiegel after a critical article about the battle readiness of the Bundeswehr (German military) had been published there. This was a major attack on the freedom of the press and Strauß had to leave but he did return into government. He not only did become Federal Finance Minister four years later, he was the Minister President (basically governor) of Bavaria from 1978 to 1988. In that position he was essential in getting the Western German federal government to agree to give the Eastern German government a major loan in the sum of billions back in 1982/83.
17:18 "Everyone and everyone" is another really bad translation. Better would be "anyone and everyone".
16:10 Arge is the abriviation of Arbeitsgemeinschaft (working partnership). East Germany was like 'Made in China' of the past, and West Germany was buying and consuming the products
I am German and no he ist the best, and i total agree with him. ❤
13:08 As many others have already said: I would recommend Georg Schramm as another critical voice in the face of capitalism. The only thing is: He often acted out his parts as some character with a German dialect. So I assume that well written (!) subtitles would be good in his case.
I discovered Volker Pispers in 2010 when I was 16. It was an eye opener. I went from totally uninteressted in politics and history to full on economy nerd and liberal communistic know it all. It was great. I learned so much. Now I'm much more nuanced in my opinions but I still think that Volker Pispers is mostly right.
Oh Gott, Du glaubst tatsächlich, Systemkritik wäre rechts???? Pispers würde Dir was husten! Bitte informier Dich! Bitte, bitte, bitte!
@@thomaskoke7139 You misunderstood that. I meant "right" in the meaning of "richtig" or "correct". Aber bitte überdenk du doch mal, ob dein Kommentar der richtige Weg wäre, jemanden wirklich dazu zu bringen, sich zu informieren, wenn er eine solche Überzeugung hätte, wie du sie mir unterstellt hast. Be curiuos, not judgemental!
Pispers is legendary
Strauss was a Bavarian (West German) right wing politician who made possible a billion mark credit. Strauss was translated as bouquet, because that is what it can mean
As you might have noticed other then the first Bit this one is not specially translated to be understood by non Germans. This is why you might not get everything or miss some of the Points. But its still a great bit. If you don't get a Joke just look up the Persons he is mentioning.
You asked whether Pispers' view of the function of the GDR for German capitalism was valid: The way I see it, as someone who has lived in Germany since 1970, the answer is a regrettable "yes". Not that the West was guilty of direct exploitation of "prisoners"; the Soviets were the prison admin and guards and allowed these products to be sold to the West to keep their prison financed. But the brands were ubiquitous in post WWII Western Europe, and especially in Germany. Pispers' view has a great deal to recommend it.
Did you think about making a twitch stream? Then the chat could answer all your questions in real time :)
"Einschleimen" == "brown-nosing"
And "Dick und Doof" (Fat and Stupid) is the german name for the old comedy duo "Stan & Olli" (Stanley Laurel & Oliver Hardy). And Siegmar Gabriel simply was both. He would have tried to sell sticks in a forest if he had the chance to do so - granted, some of his hardcore voters would actually have bought them, but still ... :D
I'm from germany and he say true words ... 😢❤😂
Arge = Arbeitsamt.
If you lose your job, you go to the employment office(Arge) and apply for unemployment benefits, after a year you get Hartz4/Bürgergeld. 1-Euro-Jobs are so-called mini-jobs in Hartz4 to get the unemployed back into the world of work. So that the employer can see that the person also wants to work.
Mert, the translation sucks. Maybe we can translate those videos in a discord for you.
And give you a live partner that answers your questions. A lot of your viewers know this videos since 10+ years and have public available knowledge about the mentioned situations and jokes.
Those subtitles are a human rights violation...
@17:49: he's not so much talking about luck, but about what's actually possible in reality. "Most people don't understand the difference between 'anybody' and 'everybody'." In a lottery (and in capitalism) _any_one can get rich, but not _every_one at the same time.
The subtitles on the first series of Volker's programme were better than on this series. Some things are translated incorrectly or not at all.
Nevertheless: Respect for your comprehensive understanding of many of the facts presented.
Rainer Calmund is a former German football player who gained an extreme amount of weight after his career.
The GDR was often lacking foreign currency. Hence the government tried everything possible to get currency by trading with countries in the west. Since basically all companies and production facilities were owned by the state they did have many possibilities to sell the work of east Germans to provide the government with money. And of course there were enough companies in west Germany willing to profit from cheap labour as offered by the socialist government of east Germany (GDR).
dick und doof (fat and stupid) is the german translation of stan laurell and oliver hardy
those black and white comedys that proceeded spencer and hill
West LB was one of the many bad banks in the banking crash of 2008.
Volker Pispers is one of the smartest and most eloquently performing political satirists in Germany.
His view on the German political system is very on point, every political spectrum is complaining to be mocked most - which only views he gets them all 😋
The auto-translation is sadly very very incorrect in many parts..
If you like this kind of German Political Satire you can try out “Urban Priol”, a Bavarian artist who gives a great review at the end of every year, called “Tilt 20__!”
On the topic of East-West Germans Olaf Schubert is very good cabaret artist to watch - even a must watch. He dresses as a "stereotypical" east german (traditionally playing an east-german), always wearing an old/retro green/yellow slipover/ sleeveless pullover. He is often part of "heute show" as the "quota-east-german", presenting among other things an "east-german" perspective on topics. Unfortunately there is no video of him online, that I know of, with english subtitles. So you probably, sadly, can't understand any of them. Yet, he stays a good recommendation.
If you enjoy satire, I can really recommend some austrian Kabarett - artist: In m opinion one of the greatest an deepest minds in the german/ austrian Kabarett - scenery is Josef Hader; but also Lisa Eckhart. If you like Volker I am quite sure that you like them both. The only problem could be the translation, because they both use austrian slang a lot
Regarding GDR (or East Germany), everyone had enough to live, but Luxury, be it exotic fruits, high tech products or cars were hard to come by. On the other side in the West you got cheaply made luxury products to make everyone happy.
Volker Pispers was a great person to explain politics, his videos are dated regarding persons (Pegida dissolved into the AfD for example) but the themes have not yet to change. Maybe it is a reason why he quit, he made 20 years his "show" and had not to change alot of stuff for it.
Damn, is there no decent translation for this? You probably had a hard time fully understanding most of it, I imagine.
...zur Urne schleppen... refers to old people (drag to the urn)
He meant "Wahlurne" - "ballot box".
@@alexandergrundt6261 *grinst* ... ähm stimmt natürlich, sch** kontextgebundene assoziation...- correct, sry.
The "buy stuff you dont need, with money you dont have to impress people you dont like" is a quote from Fight Club 1999
Reiner Calmund was mentioned because he was really Fat.
The subtitles are pretty bad. alot of stuff is just wrong.
Die Anstalt has good scotches. Watch the ones with the whiteboard.
every second sentence doesn't work with the auto generated subtitles, Google is garbidge)
1 Euro Job = unemployed are force into such jobs by the Agency for Labour, to work there, often full time, and only get ~1€ per hour (that's on top of the unemployment benefits, though). Main problems:
1. They are forced to do that and the jobs most of the time are either stupid or they should just be normally paid jobs.
2. Corrupt companies profit from these 1€ Jobs by not only getting the payment for the worker from the state, but also a bonus on top. So instead of normally paying a real wage, they MAKE money by getting a work slave for free. What is pretty insane, but we can't get rid of that insanity, since the majority of germans still vote for the right wing parties which are of course more than fine with that.
if you look for more guys...here is one I love, I mean no comparison to volker but he is younger and active, christoph siebert
edit...didn't think about the fact that there might be no translation :(
good job bromigo... take care ;-)
thaaaaaanks for more Volker :-) rainer kalmund was a very very obese sport official. (but now he had surgery he is slim now^^) Do you have a discord? sometimes it would be good if a german could explain some of that. the subtitels are not always good^^ sometimes only reading them I do not get the points^^ I think you only get half of the buttons he is pressing.
I am from eastern Germay. And the wall did what Volker said. Even today it is the region with the biggest low payment sector in germany. And you get less money as for the same job in western germany. The problem is, that the right partys use it for there propaganda.
I was wondering if you have similar voices in GB. I do watch a few panel shows but Ive not seen the BBC have dedicated programmes for satire and individual artists as they have in Germany on the "dritter Kanal". Pispers, Georg Schramm and Urban Priol have, for decades, defined political satire in Germany. The only GB name that came to mind was Tom Walker/Jonathan Pie, and I wonder if you can name a few more?
Those auto generated subtitles really mess up his context and messages. Sadly there doesn't seem to be an official upload with proper sub titles
I have to give you one thing, you really picked the good cabaret artists. I could still recommend Michael Mittermeier to you, but I think the automatic translator will drop out because he comes from Bavaria.
"Die Anstalt" is actually no longer a cabaret, more of a satirical reality, precisely because Claus von Wagner and Max Utthoff provide really well-founded information. That could easily be described as school lessons of the very best kind.
Too bad the automatic(?) subtitles were so bad in this one. I wished you would have gotten a better experience of this performance.
Hagen Rether is another great cabaret artist:
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Christoph Sieber is also great, but unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any uploads with English subtitles yet.
Hey Mert, these auto generated subtitles are horrible! Please let us know if you have not already recorded part 2 and 3, so I would be glad to translate!
Thank's,good Video and reaction. Greetings from Germany 😊
10:20 Sigmar Gabriel is a polition of the Social Democratic Party. He used to be the foreign minister of Germany. He is overwight.
Capitalism is factually the best system of economics ever created, it's everything else around it that makes people think otherwise.
Capitalism is a fun notion, but let's not forget that Capitalism is pure and free from ideology, the people around it, aren't.
Capitalism is the best philosophical invention ever, however I don't think humans are the best suited to live by it, I mean it is truly a beautiful idea. The exchange of goods and services for money, and as we all know money is time. Now some people sell their time for money real cheap, we call them the working class, then we have the people who sell their time for a lot, we call them the middle class, then we have the people who you can't afford to buy their time, the upper class, and then we have those people who you can't pay others to know how much you would need to pay for their time in the first place, we call them entrepreneurs. And then we have those who waste their time away doing nothing, we call them the welfare recipients.
The biggest problem with Capitalism is that it has brought along ideologies that are harmful, such as materialism.
Materialism is really bad. And as a non-materialistic person myself, I mean most people would understand how I keep all them 0s at the end of my bank balance. Because I don't buy stuff.
I have a bed, I have a table I have a computer. I have an old drawer that was gifted to me, 20 years ago, I don't have a TV, I don't have a sofa, I don't need them, I only buy stuff I need like food. My current phone is 7-8 years old, my clothes are ragged, because I only buy new clothes once every 5-6 years... The problem isn't capitalism it's the people.
Everyone could make bank with Capitalism, not everyone will, life is unfair after all. I've worked hard all my life and I'm still not rich, by any means, but I'm not poor either.
People fail to recognize that to get stupid rich you need to use your money wisely...
Everything that can occur in economics, can be explained in economics with ease.
Inflation. Government spending greater than taxation.
Poverty. Cost of living greater than income.
Taxation. Government stealing your money.
Welfare. The greatest lie ever told to people. I could afford to feed 3 adults for a month with the money I was taxed for as a low income earner. Now the government can feed 0.1 adults for the same amount of money. Because...
Government. The most useless institution ever made, can't handle money efficiently, is a wastrel, has a lot of plans, steals your money, because they can't make their own, except they make the money, thus deflating the value of the money due to an inflation of currency.
Still capitalism is greater than socialism, always. I prefer having the chance to get rich over everyone gets poor except the ruling class.
The last remark is not about people getting rich because of luck at the lottery. It's about capitalism giving us the beleive that ANYONE can become rich. But not EVERYone. If everyone was rich, there would be no poor workers tro be taken advantage of, so the rich would become poor.
Pispers is on the the best satirist in germany. but imo the best is Georg Schramm. But i think he is to complicated for non germans. and i dont know if there is any translation of his videos.
he has difference roles. Lothar Dombrowski as pensioner, Oberstleutnant Sanftleben as military lieutenant.
very intelligent man
"Fat and Stupid" = in germany the show of "Laurel and Hardy" was called "Dick und Doof" (meant in a funny way).
Sigmar Gabriel (= high ranked politician in germany) is overweight AND stupid - in one person.
In the U.S.A everybody has the right to prosper. Which does not mean everybody does. Tent cities, young people with bad teeth.
I guess Sigmar Gabriel = former politician ❤️👀
There is something with German satire that doesn't pass through translation - irony. When Volker states/repeats (from that Sarazin populist guy) that people from the south are lazy getting born with a hammock it's an ironic parody to that people that indeed might think like that. Actually, have heard such opinion from people in Italy or Spain ignoring that their southern regions are one average there much less developed, with bad job perspectives and low salaries ...
:- ) watch your videos and understand why it make me so disconnected to live in the UK :- )
Hat er deutsch gesprochen? "wäre schön" at 1:25?
"Einschleimen" (colloquial) = to suck up to sb.
"einschleimen" = "to brown-nose" or "to suck up" (not my translation)
One Euro jobbers are people who are long time unemployed and forced to take a job by the "Arbeitsamt" (=german employment agency) where they get one euro per hour for their work. Mosly work without a lobby, like cleaning and so on. But through this they fall out of the unemployment statistics.
"einschleimen" means "to suck up to someone"
What does a expensive watch if i don't have time!
The subtitles are unfortunately not the yellow of the egg. 4:31 Leiden translated means suffer, but not in this context. You know it for sure. What is meant here is that you buy things you don't need with the money you don't have to impress people you don't like.
Grins... Loddar Maddäus...
I think I spider.....
Hi Mert,
one quick question...
Celtic or Rangers? :)
Going to save this video for a while - I'll watch it and perhaps give you a running commentary some time soon.
can we get more Bernd das Brot plz?
"Dick und Doof" is the german titel for "Laurel & Hardy"....these subtitles are horribly wrong sometimes.
There sadly so many things are lost in translation, the subtitles aren't very "precise" but i think you still get the bigger picture. Also i think this is a bit too "high" for you, not because you are stupid or something like that but because the references he makes can't be understood without knowing persons, institutions, how the system works/worked and so on and because of that you just can't get the cynical nature, the satire, etc of many things or the humor or allegories and so on. But still, kudos for trying. With Volker you have one of the best we had in germany, ther is only one other who i would say also ranks up high there or maybe is even better, and that is Georg Schramm in his role as prussian pensioner (called Lothar Dombrovski). You defintly should watch him. He is so bitter und so truthfull that the laugh dies in your throat. When you see his programms you will notice that most of the times the people don't laugh but just listen in aww and silence, to hard hit to laugh. Where Volker here and there gts some laughs in (and he wants to) Georg (in that role) almost has none, not because it is "bad" but because it is so on the point that you just can't laugh anymore. I know this doesn't sound like "fun" and in a way it isn't, it a a lesson it is the truth and it is shockingly honest, and makes you think of yourself. Sadly Georg, like Volker, also has quit already some years ago. Those two are the best that germany had to offer for the last 30 years and nothing comes close to them in modern times.
Reiner Kahlmund is a Football trainer back in the days. I went reeeally chubby and lost 100kg, but he gains it again
He was the manager from the german Football Team Bayer Leverkusen. He was severely overweight. He loved to eat (one of his Hobbies) and was a realy big person (in business and in real live).
That's why the comparison fits to this man.
Arge is the job department of germany*