Thanks again for reacting to my subtitled video! I used this one, although it's very germany-centric, because there aren't a lot of "short" Hagen Rether videos out there. Mostly he does his program which is, at least, 1 1/2 hours long and I don't have the time to translate it and most people would rather watch 10 minutes than 1 1/2 hours, I suppose. I would suggest Moritz Neumeier from my channel, if you want a modern clash of cabaret and comedy as well as Rainald Grebe, for musical comedy with an undertone of social commentary
Hagen Rether is actually a pianist, the grand piano has to be there every time and he cleans the piano and eats bananas at every performance - that's part of it. If you're lucky, he plays something at the end.
If you are lucky, then you didn´t hear him complain about Bullshit while the World Burns arround him, he talks about Fat Faces and eating Meat. What about Stop shooting each other? Humans shouldn´t kill Humans. In matter of defense, thats another thing. But his Points are Weak, in Order to make People feel Guilty. That doesn´t Help anybody... But thats also just my PoV, i don´t mean no offense to you.
Ticks, like, the animals, are a recurrent guest of newspaper headlines in summer. An evergreen of the news cycle, very useful to fill the gaps in times of less newsworthy stuff.
I think, by ticks "Zecken" he may also mean the extrem left group that is demonstrating on 1. May and this almost every time ends in a fight with the police. But it could be the animals too.
I saw the first show program of Hagen Rether live. He was extremly funny, extremly intelligent, he told us much truth and he played a lot piano. And the show was at the end about 30 minutes longer. - Over the years his show became more and more ... a sad, angry sermon about how shit we all are. - I mean ... I still love him, ... but ... I think he don't love me nore himself anymore. - I don't know how he is right now - but about 10 years ago, he was pretty broken. - I understand that. It's hard for everyone of them .... telling the people over and over the problems .... and watching things getting constantly worse anyway.
Have been in his show last year. I don't remember if the show startet at 7 or at 8 but at the beginning he said we will not leave this place today. And he was right. I recommendent to bring a chair cushion to his show. You don't know the quality of the chairs and the whole show takes some time.
I saw him in spring this year. After rambling about everything and getting everybody pretty depressed he made a remark about people who survived the holocaust and till this day still visit schools to tell their stories. He added: "If they still do this every day and never gave up their hope in humanity - why should I?"
Kachelmann was a Swiss weather forecast man, very famous in Germany, very sympathical. One of his lovers said she was raped by him. It went viral, Kachelmann lost his job and was not seen again for years on TV. After years it was sure: He was innocent.
Hagen Rether is a brilliant artist. Nuclear power can not really be labelled as a safe energy source after all the incidents that happened. None of these have been solved (Tschernobyl and Fukoshima are still unsolved!). As soon as something goes wrong with this technology we are incapable of handling it as we all witnessed as these incidents happened. And we still have no solution for all the nuclear waste coming from the plants that will be radioctive for many thousand years. Love your content and reactions. Wish you all the best.
The chance of an airplane crash is 1:3000000 and the chance of a nuclear meltdown is 1:1000000000. So the risk it quite low but the damage if something happen is devastating to a big area. So its a low risk unsafe energy source that produce nuclear waste and thats to me is the big problem with nuclear energy
@@aidekhia81 especially considering that the people who build the Powerplant in Fukushima where warned multipla times by consultants that the emergency pumps should be in an elevated position because the area was at high risk of floods or tsunamis and having the pumps as low as they where would compromise them. But they did not listen and look what happened.
That's all true. However, I personally see the problem more in the fact that nuclear waste is being produced without us having figured out how to store it safely, let alone render it harmless. This waste continues to emit radiation for millions of years and we simply store it in some shafts, and that's it. I find that incredibly irresponsible. I don't want to leave shafts full of radioactive waste to future generations. If I started burying my household waste in the garden, my neighbors would probably call the police. But nuclear waste is okay...?!?
@@aidekhia81 I worked as QA for switchgear for an nuclear plant. Everybody knew were our gear was going to be installed. And I saw so many dumb or lazy errors. I trust the technic in itself, but all the people around it? Hell no!
Ticks is a term that originated and is commonly used in Germany's far-right environment to devalue and insult those who think differently, especially left-wingers and punks. For decades, May 1st has been the day for demonstrations in favour of workers' rights. However, bloody clashes between protesters and the police are a regular occurrence. In cities such as Berlin and Hamburg in particular, these protests regularly turn violent. Burning barricades and cars, street battles and a large police presence often dominate the images of Labour Day.
Maybe I'm wrong but I always thought he meant the insects that bite you (Zecken). Rether refers to the typical media coverage of dangerous insects that is a typical part of fear inducing media content, like islam, terrorism or witch hunts. It simply repeats in a similar fashion every year... and in May, the ticks come...
Hagen Rether is from Freiburg. There is a lot of actual ticks, that are especially active in the early summer (may) - which is the reason for promoting vaccinations against FSME (Early Summer Meningococcal Encephalitis) at that time of the year. I don't think he is talking about extreme left demonstrations here, as 'ticks' is a term for the extreme left, which is almost exclusively used by people of the far right and Hagen definitely doesn't have that kind of view of the world.
@@HeinoHeinzKetchup I agree with you. He criticises the media for trying to brainwash the people by always repeating the same stuff all over again, so it makes sense if the annual warning of ticks falls in that category.
Nuclear power in Germany, not even regarding the risks, at least is one of the most expensive, if not THE most expensive source of electricity: Companies get heavily subsidized for building a nuclear power plant, they get subsidized for maintaining them, Germany doesn't have a uranium mine anymore so we need to buy it from elsewhere (like the French, they buy it from Russia), nuclear power isn't "too cheap to meter" but the companies charge you as much as they can, and now that the power plants have been shut down, they want government (i.e., our) money to demolish them. And we don't even have a plan what to do with the radioactive waste and where to put it. Maybe the French will take it because at least they're allowed to have and build nuclear weapons, but they have enough nuclear plants already. So nobody will take it except maybe, wait a second ... president Putin, is that you calling? Hold the line please.
Like all forms of energy production, nuclear power has it's pros and cons. The pros are mainly thats a very reliable form of energy production and it has quite low CO2 emissions. The cons are: In the very rare case that something goes wrong, the potential damage is immense. This makes them also quite dangerous in the case of a war (see Ukraine) or a terrorist attack. There still is no really good solution for dealing with the waste. You can't shut it down as long as you have enough energy from other sources and quickly bring it back up when you need it, you have to always keep it running. One con that is overlooked most of the time: Despite many people stating otherwise, nuclear power is extremely expensive. So I think it's an acceptable option if you have no other options to provide a reliable low emission energy source, but I think if you have other options you are better off without it.
Nuclear power is one of the most expensive way to produce electricity. If you see countries like GB with their on going nuclear power projects are running massively out of budget. See Hinkley Point C project. Sweden and Finnland have stopped their nuclear projects and ambitions because they couldn’t finance it. And they couldn’t find operators. In France there are predictions that the price for a kWh of electricity will rise up to 0.6 € in the next years due to maintenance costs of their nuclear reactor fleet. And it’s not a safe technology at all. In Germany nuclear powerplants are not able to be insured. Every registered car has higher insured sum than a nuclear powerplant. The risks can not be calculated. And in the end you have to take care of nuclear waste. For millions of years.
12:35 "Nuclear Power is one of the safest forms of producing energy ..." I disagree to that. Nuclear Power is complicated and you need highly educated personal to handle it. If an accident occurs, the entire area around the reactor will be contaminated for decades to come. And where all the nuclear waste is to be safely stored for the next millennia is still unclear. Doesn't sound very safe.
Hagen Rether is known for his sharp-witted and critical performances in which he scrutinises current political and social issues. He is particularly known for his piano playing during his performances and his calm, thought-provoking performance style. Rether often addresses uncomfortable truths and makes the audience think. That's why sometimes you can't laugh at all, the laughter literally gets stuck in your throat. But the absurd situation with piano and bananas and the calm manner then develops into a very intense situation that is delicately covered in comedy.
Hi Mert, first of all thanks for your Scottish content from Malaysia, I love your special English language and continue to learn through you (because one day I want to speak Scottish with Paolo Nutini :-D). Can I recommend something from Hagen Rether that I found particularly great? He sits at his grand piano and keeps saying that nothing ever changes. His arguments and all the examples he gives are really powerful. Above all: you'll be fine afterwards, everyone will be better afterwards. By the way, about the translations and subtitles: They are not nearly as good as Hagen Rether knows how to play with words and reinterpret them, which is why only a hint of his talent can come across. Nevertheless, a lot can be translated through his facial expressions, his body signals, so he really is brilliant. So, and here's the video ‘Nothing changes, ever’ from 2020: ruclips.net/video/Og59snm16sw/видео.htmlsi=fdYsHIqtZ9kP5AGr
Where has Hagen Rether been, like most German comediens and cabaretists, during and after Covid? I'm really very disappointed about these people. Only very few of them (who were even bashed by the other main stream conform artists) had a clear vision and courage to say, what was really going on in these crazy times. A Crisis Veteran
This one really speaks to me. Been saying this, basically, for years. People just get so into their own mob mentalities. Some willingly refuse to be rational bc of their anger and frustrations. Who cares about evidence, data or the scientific method when it's much easier to just be angry and scream? I don't even have to tell you a topic where this happens because it seems like it's all of them.
After mastering the V of Volker Pisper, now the second lesson: Hahghen Reters (long A like in "bark" , hard G and simple T instead of TH (in German there is no TH sound it's always just T) Do English speakers have words for the fact that a sounds very different in "bark" and "bake" and "Tina" or the three A in banana?
The ticks in May can mean two things: Actual ticks, or rather the start of the tick-borne encephalitis season in Middle and South Germany or Left extremists (affectionately nick-named Zecken, ticks), who traditionally celebrate the First of May (Labour Day) by causing chaos and street fights with the police, famously in Hannover, which is he most interesting thing about that city.
Ticks are just ticks here. The annoying animals. Plain and simple. Every year in spring the media spreads stuff about them, as if they woundn´t have something better to write or talk about. Its got nothing to do with punks.
Yeah - and more: The joke has 2 parts. He starts with Chistmas seasons and the fear of islamic christmas market terrorists - and then he jumps to spring season when pure nature terrorizes us with tics. Dreadful - evil media finds always a reason, why we should be frightened - and we follow them on the leash - THAT's what he critizides
It's a shame that some of the puns are lost in translation. But the gist still comes across, at least. Have you thought about showing us some Malayan culture, people and the country? Also the food seems to be outstanding, as well. Very interested in those topics. It is very nice to see Germany from outside the box, but I'm also interested in learning more about Malaysia (and also Scotland). Take care and keep on doing what you do, it's very enjoyable. best regards
Rether is great, but in order to catch what he's saying/referring to, you need a "profound" understanding of German society/history. i.e. the "tic" allusion. My respect to you for putting with that kind of comedy!
Well, the Pope is not just a pope and, as such, a clerical man, but also the Head of State of the Vatikan. So, yes, it makes sense that he talks in front of the Bundestag. Just like the English King Charles III did, or other politicians... such as Selenskij, Hollande, Reagan, etc.
Arschbots halt. Immer schön mit paar Emojis drin und irgendeinem hübschen Frauengesicht oder -hintern. Sind überall eine Plage. Aber vielleicht sogar gut für die Creators, weil es Engagement bringt.
Nuclear power is only superficially clean. It produces nuclear waste which we don't know how to handle. It needs to be stored safely for thousands of years. We don't have tech yet that can guarantee this. So there is a cost for storage and a high risk too. Also if your country has no uranium mines, you still are dependent on countries to sell it to you as the power plants need a steady supply.
Hey Mert The first part was (also) about various scandals involving sexual violence. On one hand in the (I think mainly Catholic) church and then specifically on the Kachelmann scandal. Jörg Kachelmann was a well-known weatherman in Germany. Maybe THE weatherman. He was accused of rape by an ex-girlfriend. Kachelmann won the trial and all charges were dropped due to lack of evidence. There are “reasonable doubts” about his ex-girlfriend’s allegations. However, Kachelmann had already been judged by the press and the mob. To this day, Germany is not completely secularized. On the other hand people get upset when it's the same in other (preferably Muslim) countries, as Mr. Rether points out. To be honest Mr. Rether (and others like Pisper) is not funny. It is a bitter reality. best
afaik germany is still exporting wind and solar energy. as long as they're doing that, the complaints about every other form of energy that is still subsidized are valid no matter the safety or climate impact. in general, I think it's more important to get off of coal and gas than nuclear. things exploding on a LESS arid earth is vastly superior to endless fighting over water and food. if you think I'm being apocalyptic, there are reasons to be.
I live next to Spangdalem, which is i think the 2nd largest U.S. Air Base in Germany , France is next to us here, i think it doesn´t make any difference if the Nuclear Power is turned off. Europe is Full of em.
H.Rether is an excellent Kaberettist - but only native speakers will understand all hidden hints and especially his undertone. Even the audience often hesitates whether to laugh and clap - or better just sit and stay calm and serious. And many remarks are on contemporary events, which were in the medias IN GERMANY at THAT TIMEmake it difficult for foreigners - but no harm - only Germans here watching and comenting The tic-joke is imho not about the Antifa-Zecken (antifa-tics). He combines "german alarmism" about a vage terror threat on german chrismas markets and then in the spring in may, medias change the topic to the horror-tics in nature. So somehow the manmade season of christmas markets and the natural spring season - both originally connotated with joy and fun - but the medias turn them into terror and horror. Dreadful - evil media finds always a reason, why we should be frightened - and we follow them on the leash - THAT's what he critizides
Are you talking about germany? 50% of our energy comes from renewables. The number is courtasy of the federal statistical office so what the hell are you talking about?
07:50 The ticks refers to a derogatory (but reclaimed) word for left radicalists. In may means the first of may, the worker's day. There are big leftist protests & riots at 01.05.
I think he's wrong with "first you need to order your ecological energy source or become vegetarian before you are allowed to complain about non-ecological energy or meat production". The problem is that us consumers we can only buy what is offered and practical and affordable to us. Also, we can't actually guarantee that the "ecological power source" is where our power comes from, if only 25 % of our electricity comes from regenerative sources, not everyone can actually get clean power ,so basically we'd all need to consume 75 % less power. That is not going to happen. We need someone to invest into more clean power plants first, that is less likely to happen, if, say coal is bad for the environment but cheap. Our market system didn't properly account for environmental impact of it and we must make systemic changes first. That probably requires the government to act so that prices more accurately reflect the negative impacts of coal and gas, and we might need investment in building more clean power sources.
France actually has quite some problems with their nuclear power plants. THeir plants are getting quite old. Dry and hot summers forced outages. They anticipate to build ne reactors, but that is a slow process and they are not really getting anywhere with their plans, too expensive and complicated. THe rate they are gping, they will not manage to build enough reactors in time to replace the old ones.
The nuclear discussion might become very interesting in the next lets say 15 years. We will find out that we save huge amounts of money. France will find out how expensive it is to strip down a power plant. They have 56 currently. Most of them build to be used for 30 years. And most of them already older than 30 years. So some need to be shut down within the next 15 years. And stripped down. Then they need energy and will buy energy for immense costs from europe. So energy becomes more expensive in europa. And in germany people will say, it's the fault of the greens because they shut down the nuclear power 15 years ago. Which is neither the reason why energy becomes more expense nor was Angela Merkel with green party. But anyway... it must been the greens... ;-)
The Thing with nuclear Power is that ic something geschrieben Wrangler the repurcusions are massive. There Arena no sideeffects ic Wind and Solar Powergenerators malfunction. Ic a nuvlear Powerplant malfunctions the wohler Arena is conterminated for hundreds of thousands of years. Errors happen. And Errors in nuclear powerplants Arena war more devestating than anywhere else.
He leaves too much pauses for me. Every time he makes a point, he stops and my mind just goes on and comes up with a hand full of counter arguments, before he starts talking the next trash. His style is great, but his political view and content are not convincing or even factually correct.
I'm glad we shut down nuclear power. Yes, it's a way of producing power that *seemingly* doesn't produce any CO2, but that's without counting in the mining of the radioactive material, which is mostly done with really old machinery and under poor labor qualities, for example in Russia. So no "CO2 free" or "Emission free" energy. Then there's the issue with the waste material. We STILL have troubles with our old storages, and again, if you build new, modern storage solutions - it's gonna emit CO2 en mass and needs tons of space. And on TOP of that, you have the risk of a malfunction or attack or nature catastrophe that might result in heavy poisoning. I believe the science is far enough that we won't get a repeat of Chernobyl, but an accident like Fukushima? Surely is possible. So yeah, no thanks. Solar and Wind also emit CO2 in production, but they're safer, cheaper, and overall a better solution.
May 1st is traditionally used by n*o-N*zis for marches and rallies. It is true that we find more ticks (the animals) in May, but the statement "in May the ticks come" was ambiguous. In Germany, ticks are also colloquially used to describe unpleasant people who are difficult to shake off.
Hagen Rether gets paid to be unhappy. His style is the combination of not connected half sentences. My girl friend loves him, I hate him. "Kachelmann. Not funny. Even not boring." Makes no sense for me.
Quick feedback to pronunciation: the German language doesn't know/use either the voiceless /θ/ or voiced /ð/ 'th'! When you encounter it pronounce a 't' sometimes followed by an aspirated or voiceless 'h' ( just skip it if you don't know) So 'Rether' is pronounced 'Reter' and 'Brathering' is pronounced 'Brat-Hering' When talking to a native that just make them understand you!
In Germany "ticks" is used synonymously for "parasites" to describe far-right or far-left oriented people - depanding on the situation and audience. In this case Hagen is talking about the actual animal. How dangerous ticks are, is different in different locations. Ticks in middle Europe carry a cocktail of diseases in them, that makes them extremely deadly in comparison to f.e. Asia or Africa. So media in Germany tends to warn about ticks and tell people to get vaccinated every year in autumn, if there is nothing more interesting going on. What he is saying is, that news are, and have always been, mostly repeating bs with little to no valuable information.
… I here and then appreciate Hagen Rether… but this part is just arrogant… like »you are all idiots… but not me because I call you out…« that's just arrogant… and not funny. (from Munich, Germany…)
When I first saw him, I really liked him. Saw him live, too. But then I realized in several steps that I really hate this guy. His arrogance is unbelievable and he can only pick on everybody. As long as its fresh, it can be entertaining, but who likes someone who only whines about everyone and is only mean? His humor is the problem, it is exclusively negative but he combines it with a ultra moralistic attitude where nobody is good enough. Then he started doing things like slowly eating a banana which are only in order to piss off the audience. Why? And all his albums are called Liebe (Love) - he is just so pretentitious and arrogant and insufferable. I only watched the first 2 minutes of your video, sorry, but I can not watch him any longer.
My personal opinion of Hagen Rether: He is a moralizer of the worst kind. He is rarely funny and always presents himself as an apostle with a raised index finger.
I've seen him live several times. Great cabaret artist, I've never seen a script lying around, so it's all in his head. Frighteningly honest.
yea many do that though. kurt krömer evolves his stage set throughout the shows hes doing, its all improvised. quite impressive
Thanks again for reacting to my subtitled video!
I used this one, although it's very germany-centric, because there aren't a lot of "short" Hagen Rether videos out there. Mostly he does his program which is, at least, 1 1/2 hours long and I don't have the time to translate it and most people would rather watch 10 minutes than 1 1/2 hours, I suppose.
I would suggest Moritz Neumeier from my channel, if you want a modern clash of cabaret and comedy as well as Rainald Grebe, for musical comedy with an undertone of social commentary
Thanks for your effort! Highly appreciated!
It's more about 2½-3½ hours. No joking!
Thanks for your good job in translating. 👍🏼
Hagen Rether is one of a kind. Brilliant! 3 hours programm at it's best.
Hagen Rether is actually a pianist, the grand piano has to be there every time and he cleans the piano and eats bananas at every performance - that's part of it. If you're lucky, he plays something at the end.
If you are lucky, then you didn´t hear him complain about Bullshit while the World Burns arround him, he talks about Fat Faces and eating Meat.
What about Stop shooting each other?
Humans shouldn´t kill Humans.
In matter of defense, thats another thing.
But his Points are Weak, in Order to make People feel Guilty.
That doesn´t Help anybody...
But thats also just my PoV, i don´t mean no offense to you.
Hagen Rether is really heavy material, very good but heavy.
Ticks, like, the animals, are a recurrent guest of newspaper headlines in summer. An evergreen of the news cycle, very useful to fill the gaps in times of less newsworthy stuff.
It was an allusion to the traditional n*o-N*zi marches on May 1st.
I think, by ticks "Zecken" he may also mean the extrem left group that is demonstrating on 1. May and this almost every time ends in a fight with the police.
But it could be the animals too.
I saw the first show program of Hagen Rether live. He was extremly funny, extremly intelligent, he told us much truth and he played a lot piano. And the show was at the end about 30 minutes longer. - Over the years his show became more and more ... a sad, angry sermon about how shit we all are. - I mean ... I still love him, ... but ... I think he don't love me nore himself anymore. - I don't know how he is right now - but about 10 years ago, he was pretty broken. - I understand that. It's hard for everyone of them .... telling the people over and over the problems .... and watching things getting constantly worse anyway.
Have been in his show last year. I don't remember if the show startet at 7 or at 8 but at the beginning he said we will not leave this place today. And he was right.
I recommendent to bring a chair cushion to his show. You don't know the quality of the chairs and the whole show takes some time.
I saw him in spring this year. After rambling about everything and getting everybody pretty depressed he made a remark about people who survived the holocaust and till this day still visit schools to tell their stories. He added: "If they still do this every day and never gave up their hope in humanity - why should I?"
@@felixb.3420pretty dark. and that’s why i love him 🖖
Kachelmann was a Swiss weather forecast man, very famous in Germany, very sympathical. One of his lovers said she was raped by him. It went viral, Kachelmann lost his job and was not seen again for years on TV. After years it was sure: He was innocent.
Best German satire: Have a look at the election last weekend..
Hagen Rether is a brilliant artist.
Nuclear power can not really be labelled as a safe energy source after all the incidents that happened. None of these have been solved (Tschernobyl and Fukoshima are still unsolved!). As soon as something goes wrong with this technology we are incapable of handling it as we all witnessed as these incidents happened. And we still have no solution for all the nuclear waste coming from the plants that will be radioctive for many thousand years.
Love your content and reactions.
Wish you all the best.
The chance of an airplane crash is 1:3000000 and the chance of a nuclear meltdown is 1:1000000000. So the risk it quite low but the damage if something happen is devastating to a big area. So its a low risk unsafe energy source that produce nuclear waste and thats to me is the big problem with nuclear energy
@@aidekhia81 especially considering that the people who build the Powerplant in Fukushima where warned multipla times by consultants that the emergency pumps should be in an elevated position because the area was at high risk of floods or tsunamis and having the pumps as low as they where would compromise them. But they did not listen and look what happened.
That's all true.
However, I personally see the problem more in the fact that nuclear waste is being produced without us having figured out how to store it safely, let alone render it harmless.
This waste continues to emit radiation for millions of years and we simply store it in some shafts, and that's it.
I find that incredibly irresponsible. I don't want to leave shafts full of radioactive waste to future generations.
If I started burying my household waste in the garden, my neighbors would probably call the police.
But nuclear waste is okay...?!?
or the nuclear power plants have no water, as in France with its 80% nuclear power.🤔
@@aidekhia81 I worked as QA for switchgear for an nuclear plant. Everybody knew were our gear was going to be installed. And I saw so many dumb or lazy errors. I trust the technic in itself, but all the people around it? Hell no!
I love Hagen Rether...in this show especially he is doing such a dry and dark humour, he is very good!
Ticks is a term that originated and is commonly used in Germany's far-right environment to devalue and insult those who think differently, especially left-wingers and punks.
For decades, May 1st has been the day for demonstrations in favour of workers' rights. However, bloody clashes between protesters and the police are a regular occurrence.
In cities such as Berlin and Hamburg in particular, these protests regularly turn violent. Burning barricades and cars, street battles and a large police presence often dominate the images of Labour Day.
And it is used by Schalke fans to describe Dortmund fans :P
Maybe I'm wrong but I always thought he meant the insects that bite you (Zecken). Rether refers to the typical media coverage of dangerous insects that is a typical part of fear inducing media content, like islam, terrorism or witch hunts. It simply repeats in a similar fashion every year... and in May, the ticks come...
But I do see the double entendre of radical left-wingers and the insects - and the connection to 1st May. Hard to judge what he really meant.
Hagen Rether is from Freiburg. There is a lot of actual ticks, that are especially active in the early summer (may) - which is the reason for promoting vaccinations against FSME (Early Summer Meningococcal Encephalitis) at that time of the year.
I don't think he is talking about extreme left demonstrations here, as 'ticks' is a term for the extreme left, which is almost exclusively used by people of the far right and Hagen definitely doesn't have that kind of view of the world.
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I agree with you. He criticises the media for trying to brainwash the people by always repeating the same stuff all over again, so it makes sense if the annual warning of ticks falls in that category.
Nuclear power in Germany, not even regarding the risks, at least is one of the most expensive, if not THE most expensive source of electricity: Companies get heavily subsidized for building a nuclear power plant, they get subsidized for maintaining them, Germany doesn't have a uranium mine anymore so we need to buy it from elsewhere (like the French, they buy it from Russia), nuclear power isn't "too cheap to meter" but the companies charge you as much as they can, and now that the power plants have been shut down, they want government (i.e., our) money to demolish them. And we don't even have a plan what to do with the radioactive waste and where to put it. Maybe the French will take it because at least they're allowed to have and build nuclear weapons, but they have enough nuclear plants already. So nobody will take it except maybe, wait a second ... president Putin, is that you calling? Hold the line please.
Like all forms of energy production, nuclear power has it's pros and cons. The pros are mainly thats a very reliable form of energy production and it has quite low CO2 emissions. The cons are: In the very rare case that something goes wrong, the potential damage is immense. This makes them also quite dangerous in the case of a war (see Ukraine) or a terrorist attack. There still is no really good solution for dealing with the waste. You can't shut it down as long as you have enough energy from other sources and quickly bring it back up when you need it, you have to always keep it running. One con that is overlooked most of the time: Despite many people stating otherwise, nuclear power is extremely expensive.
So I think it's an acceptable option if you have no other options to provide a reliable low emission energy source, but I think if you have other options you are better off without it.
This program is maybe 12 years old. All the people he mentioned are not in politics any more. But his sarcastic sense of humor didnt change.
Nuclear power is one of the most expensive way to produce electricity. If you see countries like GB with their on going nuclear power projects are running massively out of budget. See Hinkley Point C project. Sweden and Finnland have stopped their nuclear projects and ambitions because they couldn’t finance it. And they couldn’t find operators. In France there are predictions that the price for a kWh of electricity will rise up to 0.6 € in the next years due to maintenance costs of their nuclear reactor fleet.
And it’s not a safe technology at all. In Germany nuclear powerplants are not able to be insured. Every registered car has higher insured sum than a nuclear powerplant. The risks can not be calculated. And in the end you have to take care of nuclear waste. For millions of years.
12:35 "Nuclear Power is one of the safest forms of producing energy ..."
I disagree to that. Nuclear Power is complicated and you need highly educated personal to handle it. If an accident occurs, the entire area around the reactor will be contaminated for decades to come. And where all the nuclear waste is to be safely stored for the next millennia is still unclear. Doesn't sound very safe.
Hagen Rether is known for his sharp-witted and critical performances in which he scrutinises current political and social issues. He is particularly known for his piano playing during his performances and his calm, thought-provoking performance style. Rether often addresses uncomfortable truths and makes the audience think. That's why sometimes you can't laugh at all, the laughter literally gets stuck in your throat. But the absurd situation with piano and bananas and the calm manner then develops into a very intense situation that is delicately covered in comedy.
Hi Mert, first of all thanks for your Scottish content from Malaysia, I love your special English language and continue to learn through you (because one day I want to speak Scottish with Paolo Nutini :-D). Can I recommend something from Hagen Rether that I found particularly great? He sits at his grand piano and keeps saying that nothing ever changes. His arguments and all the examples he gives are really powerful. Above all: you'll be fine afterwards, everyone will be better afterwards.
By the way, about the translations and subtitles: They are not nearly as good as Hagen Rether knows how to play with words and reinterpret them, which is why only a hint of his talent can come across. Nevertheless, a lot can be translated through his facial expressions, his body signals, so he really is brilliant. So, and here's the video ‘Nothing changes, ever’ from 2020: ruclips.net/video/Og59snm16sw/видео.htmlsi=fdYsHIqtZ9kP5AGr
A brilliant choice, Sir !
Where has Hagen Rether been, like most German comediens and cabaretists, during and after Covid? I'm really very disappointed about these people. Only very few of them (who were even bashed by the other main stream conform artists) had a clear vision and courage to say, what was really going on in these crazy times. A Crisis Veteran
This one really speaks to me. Been saying this, basically, for years. People just get so into their own mob mentalities. Some willingly refuse to be rational bc of their anger and frustrations. Who cares about evidence, data or the scientific method when it's much easier to just be angry and scream? I don't even have to tell you a topic where this happens because it seems like it's all of them.
I think cleaning the piano is to keep the peoples attention and/or like some kind of perfomance art
After mastering the V of Volker Pisper, now the second lesson: Hahghen Reters (long A like in "bark" , hard G and simple T instead of TH (in German there is no TH sound it's always just T)
Do English speakers have words for the fact that a sounds very different in "bark" and "bake" and "Tina" or the three A in banana?
The ticks in May can mean two things: Actual ticks, or rather the start of the tick-borne encephalitis season in Middle and South Germany or Left extremists (affectionately nick-named Zecken, ticks), who traditionally celebrate the First of May (Labour Day) by causing chaos and street fights with the police, famously in Hannover, which is he most interesting thing about that city.
Ticks are just ticks here. The annoying animals. Plain and simple. Every year in spring the media spreads stuff about them, as if they woundn´t have something better to write or talk about. Its got nothing to do with punks.
Yeah - and more: The joke has 2 parts. He starts with Chistmas seasons and the fear of islamic christmas market terrorists - and then he jumps to spring season when pure nature terrorizes us with tics. Dreadful - evil media finds always a reason, why we should be frightened - and we follow them on the leash - THAT's what he critizides
It's a shame that some of the puns are lost in translation. But the gist still comes across, at least.
Have you thought about showing us some Malayan culture, people and the country? Also the food seems to be outstanding, as well. Very interested in those topics.
It is very nice to see Germany from outside the box, but I'm also interested in learning more about Malaysia (and also Scotland).
Take care and keep on doing what you do, it's very enjoyable.
best regards
Cabaret artists and artists (Rammstein) hold up a mirror to society, journalism hardly ever does, unfortunately!
Rether is great, but in order to catch what he's saying/referring to, you need a "profound" understanding of German society/history. i.e. the "tic" allusion. My respect to you for putting with that kind of comedy!
Well, the Pope is not just a pope and, as such, a clerical man, but also the Head of State of the Vatikan. So, yes, it makes sense that he talks in front of the Bundestag. Just like the English King Charles III did, or other politicians... such as Selenskij, Hollande, Reagan, etc.
13 Minute Vid. Two minutes till two comments.
Perhaps they watch 7x speed 😅
Arschbots halt. Immer schön mit paar Emojis drin und irgendeinem hübschen Frauengesicht oder -hintern. Sind überall eine Plage. Aber vielleicht sogar gut für die Creators, weil es Engagement bringt.
5:10 Banana-Republic. 🙂
Nuclear power is only superficially clean.
It produces nuclear waste which we don't know how to handle. It needs to be stored safely for thousands of years. We don't have tech yet that can guarantee this. So there is a cost for storage and a high risk too.
Also if your country has no uranium mines, you still are dependent on countries to sell it to you as the power plants need a steady supply.
Hey Mert
The first part was (also) about various scandals involving sexual violence. On one hand in the (I think mainly Catholic) church and then specifically on the Kachelmann scandal.
Jörg Kachelmann was a well-known weatherman in Germany. Maybe THE weatherman. He was accused of rape by an ex-girlfriend. Kachelmann won the trial and all charges were dropped due to lack of evidence. There are “reasonable doubts” about his ex-girlfriend’s allegations. However, Kachelmann had already been judged by the press and the mob.
To this day, Germany is not completely secularized. On the other hand people get upset when it's the same in other (preferably Muslim) countries, as Mr. Rether points out.
To be honest Mr. Rether (and others like Pisper) is not funny. It is a bitter reality.
best
Again hard to understand most of this. Respect to anyone who is trying to really get into it.
afaik germany is still exporting wind and solar energy. as long as they're doing that, the complaints about every other form of energy that is still subsidized are valid no matter the safety or climate impact. in general, I think it's more important to get off of coal and gas than nuclear. things exploding on a LESS arid earth is vastly superior to endless fighting over water and food. if you think I'm being apocalyptic, there are reasons to be.
I live next to Spangdalem, which is i think the 2nd largest U.S. Air Base in Germany ,
France is next to us here, i think it doesn´t make any difference if the Nuclear Power is turned off.
Europe is Full of em.
H.Rether is an excellent Kaberettist - but only native speakers will understand all hidden hints and especially his undertone. Even the audience often hesitates whether to laugh and clap - or better just sit and stay calm and serious.
And many remarks are on contemporary events, which were in the medias IN GERMANY at THAT TIMEmake it difficult for foreigners - but no harm - only Germans here watching and comenting
The tic-joke is imho not about the Antifa-Zecken (antifa-tics).
He combines "german alarmism" about a vage terror threat on german chrismas markets and then in the spring in may, medias change the topic to the horror-tics in nature. So somehow the manmade season of christmas markets and the natural spring season - both originally connotated with joy and fun - but the medias turn them into terror and horror.
Dreadful - evil media finds always a reason, why we should be frightened - and we follow them on the leash - THAT's what he critizides
Hell no. You just heard it. We only use 10% from clean electricity. No, use powerplants until we sorted everything out.
Are you talking about germany? 50% of our energy comes from renewables. The number is courtasy of the federal statistical office so what the hell are you talking about?
07:50 The ticks refers to a derogatory (but reclaimed) word for left radicalists.
In may means the first of may, the worker's day. There are big leftist protests & riots at 01.05.
I think he's wrong with "first you need to order your ecological energy source or become vegetarian before you are allowed to complain about non-ecological energy or meat production". The problem is that us consumers we can only buy what is offered and practical and affordable to us. Also, we can't actually guarantee that the "ecological power source" is where our power comes from, if only 25 % of our electricity comes from regenerative sources, not everyone can actually get clean power ,so basically we'd all need to consume 75 % less power. That is not going to happen.
We need someone to invest into more clean power plants first, that is less likely to happen, if, say coal is bad for the environment but cheap. Our market system didn't properly account for environmental impact of it and we must make systemic changes first. That probably requires the government to act so that prices more accurately reflect the negative impacts of coal and gas, and we might need investment in building more clean power sources.
France actually has quite some problems with their nuclear power plants. THeir plants are getting quite old. Dry and hot summers forced outages. They anticipate to build ne reactors, but that is a slow process and they are not really getting anywhere with their plans, too expensive and complicated. THe rate they are gping, they will not manage to build enough reactors in time to replace the old ones.
The nuclear discussion might become very interesting in the next lets say 15 years. We will find out that we save huge amounts of money. France will find out how expensive it is to strip down a power plant. They have 56 currently. Most of them build to be used for 30 years. And most of them already older than 30 years. So some need to be shut down within the next 15 years. And stripped down. Then they need energy and will buy energy for immense costs from europe. So energy becomes more expensive in europa. And in germany people will say, it's the fault of the greens because they shut down the nuclear power 15 years ago. Which is neither the reason why energy becomes more expense nor was Angela Merkel with green party. But anyway... it must been the greens... ;-)
The Thing with nuclear Power is that ic something geschrieben Wrangler the repurcusions are massive. There Arena no sideeffects ic Wind and Solar Powergenerators malfunction. Ic a nuvlear Powerplant malfunctions the wohler Arena is conterminated for hundreds of thousands of years. Errors happen. And Errors in nuclear powerplants Arena war more devestating than anywhere else.
I think the bananas might be a play on words to say something simple like: It’s bananas! (It’s crazy)
I don't like watching it that much because it drags me down emotionally. But unfortunately he's often right about the content
He leaves too much pauses for me. Every time he makes a point, he stops and my mind just goes on and comes up with a hand full of counter arguments, before he starts talking the next trash. His style is great, but his political view and content are not convincing or even factually correct.
I'm glad we shut down nuclear power.
Yes, it's a way of producing power that *seemingly* doesn't produce any CO2, but that's without counting in the mining of the radioactive material, which is mostly done with really old machinery and under poor labor qualities, for example in Russia. So no "CO2 free" or "Emission free" energy. Then there's the issue with the waste material. We STILL have troubles with our old storages, and again, if you build new, modern storage solutions - it's gonna emit CO2 en mass and needs tons of space.
And on TOP of that, you have the risk of a malfunction or attack or nature catastrophe that might result in heavy poisoning. I believe the science is far enough that we won't get a repeat of Chernobyl, but an accident like Fukushima? Surely is possible.
So yeah, no thanks. Solar and Wind also emit CO2 in production, but they're safer, cheaper, and overall a better solution.
May 1st is traditionally used by n*o-N*zis for marches and rallies.
It is true that we find more ticks (the animals) in May, but the statement "in May the ticks come" was ambiguous.
In Germany, ticks are also colloquially used to describe unpleasant people who are difficult to shake off.
Subs are in this case not very accurate…
Hagen Rether gets paid to be unhappy. His style is the combination of not connected half sentences. My girl friend loves him, I hate him.
"Kachelmann. Not funny. Even not boring." Makes no sense for me.
Quick feedback to pronunciation: the German language doesn't know/use either the voiceless /θ/ or voiced /ð/ 'th'!
When you encounter it pronounce a 't' sometimes followed by an aspirated or voiceless 'h' ( just skip it if you don't know)
So 'Rether' is pronounced 'Reter' and 'Brathering' is pronounced 'Brat-Hering'
When talking to a native that just make them understand you!
I think that is really not his best bit tbh
In Germany "ticks" is used synonymously for "parasites" to describe far-right or far-left oriented people - depanding on the situation and audience. In this case Hagen is talking about the actual animal. How dangerous ticks are, is different in different locations. Ticks in middle Europe carry a cocktail of diseases in them, that makes them extremely deadly in comparison to f.e. Asia or Africa. So media in Germany tends to warn about ticks and tell people to get vaccinated every year in autumn, if there is nothing more interesting going on. What he is saying is, that news are, and have always been, mostly repeating bs with little to no valuable information.
he talks so much bullshit. Sounds like a typical conspiracy theorist
… I here and then appreciate Hagen Rether… but this part is just arrogant… like »you are all idiots… but not me because I call you out…« that's just arrogant… and not funny.
(from Munich, Germany…)
Who sais he doesn't include himself?
He is right!
@@matthias.t that is the problem… Germans tend to hating themselves… and that is just plain stupid….
When I first saw him, I really liked him. Saw him live, too. But then I realized in several steps that I really hate this guy. His arrogance is unbelievable and he can only pick on everybody. As long as its fresh, it can be entertaining, but who likes someone who only whines about everyone and is only mean? His humor is the problem, it is exclusively negative but he combines it with a ultra moralistic attitude where nobody is good enough. Then he started doing things like slowly eating a banana which are only in order to piss off the audience. Why? And all his albums are called Liebe (Love) - he is just so pretentitious and arrogant and insufferable. I only watched the first 2 minutes of your video, sorry, but I can not watch him any longer.
He hits you hard. 😂😂😂
My personal opinion of Hagen Rether: He is a moralizer of the worst kind. He is rarely funny and always presents himself as an apostle with a raised index finger.
He hit you hard. 😂😂😂
We apparently need apostles... Schinkengesicht?? 😂
There are worse fingers that could be raised. Not in public, perhaps …
@@HenrySimple But not as a Kabarettist! May he form or join a party.