DAMMIT, WE'RE STILL ALIVE!

Not being fluent in German, although able to communicate after a fashion, as well as reasonably comfortable with newspaper texts and other bits and pieces, I tend to treasure fragments that together do not form a linguistic dexterity of any usefulness. Quotable passages from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, for instance. "Wir können hier nicht anhalten, das is fledermaus land" The entire movie is filled with a level of crazy, more so if you see it dubbed. "Der himmel war foll von riezige fledermausen."

Something which I've always wanted to tell European tourists on the Golden Gate bus is: "you cannot stop here, this is bat country".

"Sie können hier nicht anhalten ... "

Make their visit special.

Ganz affengeil.

Ja doch.


Some things in German are iconic. The defining moments for a generation. I'm not talking about Dieter and his monkey, or anything by Sasha Baron Cohen. Instead, I wish to offer you this.


THE COMMISSAR

[SOURCE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-bgiiTxhzM.]

Du liebst Fernseh-Funk, ja? Doesn't everybody? It's the sound of the repressed and yearning masses, and this is their veritable anthem.

"Schau, schau; der Kommissar geht um!"

Much better than Abba, more memorable.
And you can dance to it.


A film of the singer's life, " Falco – Verdammt, wir leben noch!" (dammit, we're still alive!) came out a year after his death (6 February 1998).
This was also the title of his last album.


Great for karaoke.




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