MLT Club Member Jürgen
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If it’s just about the Christmas lights, this is my personal favourite:
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Fairy tales without princesses, kings, castles and palaces. Almost unthinkable.
David, with this song, Heintje, a Dutch child song star, sang himself into the hearts of all mothers in 1968. In 1982, the band „Neue Heimat“ recorded the song again. “Neue Heimat“ (New Homeland) was actually the name of a non-profit housing association that was active in social housing construction and built rather ugly large housing estates. In addition, the board of directors enriched themselves from the socially deprived tenants and finally the company was sold, heavily in debt. Against this background, the name of the band in combination with the song lyrics results in a rather ironic mixture.
I’ll build you a castle (lyrics)
I’ll build you a castle like in a fairy tale / I’ll live there with you, then all alone / I’ll build you a castle when I grow up, / Then you can live there and be happy / The blue sky looks down on us, / Tells you every day how much I love you /And all the clouds go by so fast, / The castle of our dreams / I’ll build you a castle, you’ll see,
Soon I’ll be grown up, then we’ll move in / Where there’ll be flowers for you in the garden, / Every day will be a Sunday / The blue sky looks down on us, / Telling you every day how much I love you / And all the clouds go by so fast, / The castle of dreams for the two of us / The castle of dreams for the two of us.Ich bau dir ein Schloss (german lyrics)
Ich bau dir ein Schloss, so wie im Märchen / Da wohn ich mit dir, dann ganz allein. / Ich bau dir ein Schloss, wenn ich einst gross bin, / Da kannst du dann froh und glücklich sein. / Der blaue Himmel schaut auf uns herab, / Sagt dir jeden Tag, wie lieb ich Dich hab. / Und alle Wolken zieh’n so schnell vorbei, / Am Traumschloss für uns zwei / Ich bau dir ein Schloss, du wirst schon sehen,
Bald bin ich schon gross, dann zieh’n wir ein / Wo Blumen für Dich im Garten stehen, / Da wird jeder Tag ein Sonntag sein. / Der blaue Himmel schaut auf uns herab, / Sagt dir jeden Tag, wie lieb ich Dich hab. / Und alle Wolken zieh’n so schnell vorbei, / Am Traumschloss für uns zwei, / Am Traumschloss für uns zwei. -
Thanks David. Another very nice TV series. „Bewitched“ was broadcast under the title “Verliebt in eine Hexe”. As far as I know, the series was also released later than “I Dream of Jeannie” and was not as successful as the latter series.
Fables, the moral sisters and brothers of fairy tales.
Animal Farm is a dystopian fable by George Orwell, published in 1945. The content is the uprising of the animals of an English farm against the rule of their human owner, who neglects and exploits them. After initial successes and incipient prosperity, the pigs increasingly take over and eventually establish a tyranny worse than the one the animals tried to shake off.
George Harrison probably referred to this fable in his song “Piggies” and also to Orwell’s later work “1984”.
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Hi Jung, which one do you think? 🙂
Right! My absolute favourite: „Leise rieselt der Schnee“. A soulful song with which I associate many, very beautiful childhood memories: The scent of the fir tree. The Christmas plate with home-baked biscuits and sweets. Colourful, glittering Christmas tree decorations. Glowing candles on the Advent wreath. The record player playing my favourite Christmas songs. Roast goose on Christmas Eve and of course the beautiful presents under the Christmas tree. And outside, rieselte leise der Schnee, transforming the landscape into a white winter fairy tale.
It is one of the best-known Christmas carols in the German language. It was written by the Protestant pastor Eduard Ebel (1839-1905) in Graudenz in 1895 and published under the title „Weihnachtsgruß“ in his volume „Gesammelte Gedichte“. The composition of the melody is also often attributed to Ebel, but this information is uncertain and apparently unproven, especially since Ebel’s own publication only contains the text. According to other sources, the melody is a folk tune that Ebel himself possibly adopted for his song.
(Source: wikipedia)PS: I would like to see Mona and Lisa do it completely in German. For me, “Leise rieselt der Schnee” conveys a different feeling than “Snow falls softly at night“. I also love “Walking in the Air”. Especially the video. (and many, many others…)
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Austria meets oriental fairy tales
And then I have some funny entertainment from Austria David. The group was called “Erste Allgemeine Verunsicherung”, short: EAV (“First general uncertainty”). They were very parodic and actually made fun of all kinds of topics. Even if their songs seem silly at first, they were very politically active and were often uncomfortable for politicians (The former Austrian President Kurt Waldheim even threatened to sue after the song “Wann man gehen muß / When you have to go”, but he had to withdraw it). If you want to have a closer look: „Ba-Ba-Banküberfall”, “Märchenprinz”, “Küss’ die Hand schöne Frau”.
lyrics:
- Deep in the Sahara on a dromedara / a German explorer rode through the date grove / the mummy’s boar saw a girl named Laila / a magical excitement rippled through his bones / he called out “Tell me who are you that makes me drunk? / come and heal my wounds” / she said “I am Laila the Queen of the Night” / And then she was gone. / Like a mirage so near and yet so far / like a mirage abracadabra and she was gone / He follows the songs where the dates hang / the mirage called Laila and did not see the danger / an old Bedouin sat on a dune / bit into the zechine and spoke “Inshallah / oh Effendi they call me Hadji Halef Ibrahim / free yourself from their spell / or you will die” shouted the muezzin / and the old date stealer was gone / Like a mirage so near and yet so far / Like a mirage abracadabra and she was gone / The Effendi was crawling more dead than alive / under the hot sun through the desert sand / “By the beard of the prophet, now I must depart” / he said and raised his hand once more / and he saw the mirage on the horizon / then he died in the land of the Arabs / the vultures above him cawed “Inshallah / finally a carcass again” / Like a mirage so near and yet so far / Like a mirage abracadabra and it was no longer there / like a mirage so near and yet so far
Like / a mirage abrikadabri and she was gone
- Deep in the Sahara on a dromedara / a German explorer rode through the date grove / the mummy’s boar saw a girl named Laila / a magical excitement rippled through his bones / he called out “Tell me who are you that makes me drunk? / come and heal my wounds” / she said “I am Laila the Queen of the Night” / And then she was gone. / Like a mirage so near and yet so far / like a mirage abracadabra and she was gone / He follows the songs where the dates hang / the mirage called Laila and did not see the danger / an old Bedouin sat on a dune / bit into the zechine and spoke “Inshallah / oh Effendi they call me Hadji Halef Ibrahim / free yourself from their spell / or you will die” shouted the muezzin / and the old date stealer was gone / Like a mirage so near and yet so far / Like a mirage abracadabra and she was gone / The Effendi was crawling more dead than alive / under the hot sun through the desert sand / “By the beard of the prophet, now I must depart” / he said and raised his hand once more / and he saw the mirage on the horizon / then he died in the land of the Arabs / the vultures above him cawed “Inshallah / finally a carcass again” / Like a mirage so near and yet so far / Like a mirage abracadabra and it was no longer there / like a mirage so near and yet so far
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Thanks for the tip David. It looks entertaining and fun. I’ll take a closer look at it. Slowly I’m becoming a specialist in U.S. television culture here… . Robin Williams also became known to us through the series “Mork and Mindy”. I didn’t immediately know which series was meant, because the title in our country was “Mork vom Ork”. (All English-language books, movies and TV series have different titles here, so I often have to look up the original names first). I loved “Mork vom Ork“”, i.e. “Mork and Mindy”, as well as the series “I Dream of Jeannie” (German title: ” Bezaubernde Jeannie”). Very nice entertainment.
https://youtu.be/ND1MXF-svtQ?t=34
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Hi Jacki, thank you for your many memories and suggestions. I know Dr Who, of course. Unfortunately, I’m not familiar with the other programmes.
Kunstmärchen („Arty“ Fairy Tale / Fantastic tale)
The German writer E.T.A Hofmann wrote the book “The Golden Pot“ (Der goldene Topf) in 1814. A story with fantastic and surreal elements. Hoffmann himself referred to this literary genre, which was widespread during the Romantic period, as an “art fairy tale“. I personally like this term very much. He and other writers of his time were thus the forefathers of the modern fantasy literature.
J. R. R. Tolkien also wrote several humorous fairy tales. Even before Peter Jackson filmed the trigoly “Lord of the Rings” again, the Swedish musician Bo Hansson published an album in 1970 that he not only named after Tolkien’s masterpiece, but also tried to musically retell the journey of Frodo and Sam from the Shire to Sauron’s kingdom. -
Hi Jacki,
my favourite outdoor video is “June”. I really like the intense yellow rape field and then the blossoming fruit trees. That’s what the fields and nature look like in our country. It all reminds me very much of spring and early summer My favourite season. And the song has a very beautiful melody.
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Im nin’alu daltei n’divim daltei marom lo nin’alu:
“Even if the gates of the rich are closed, the gates of heaven will never be closed”
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Thanks Tom, I wish you the same. But I hope we’ll hear from each other again before Christmas.
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Yes David, you are exactly right, the name “Schloss” for the building is derived from „abschließen“, „zuschließen“, „einschließen“ or even „wegschließen“.
(here is a short article on this topic:)
Where does the name ” Schloss” for the building come from? Does it have anything to do with the padlock?
The large „Schloss“ actually derives from the lock as we still know it today in the meaning “device for locking”, as a padlock for example.
The term “Schloss” in the sense of building appears in the 13th century and, like “Klause” or “Kloster„ (Monastery), denotes a closed, fortified building or also a closing building, for example a blocking fortification for a valley or a road.
The meaning of being fortified is gradually receding. Now the term denotes the sophisticated building of the Renaissance princes, then of the nobility and finally and later the ostentatious buildings of wealthy citizens.
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Based on the Fairy Tale „Schneekönigin“ by Hans Christian Andersen
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Hi Jacki,
I would like to tell you a little story (because that’s what I like to do). During my time at school, my art teacher let me feel that I was not artistically talented. Because I don’t know the classical drawing styles: I can’t draw a potrait or a still life. But I have always known that I like to “work” with colour. I like taking photographs and making films. A few years ago, rather by chance, I got to know some people who drew and painted. And one woman from this group even had a small studio and sold her pictures. She taught me a bit about how to use colours and different drawing tools and I started to paint pictures myself. My kind of paintings: not representational, but just shapes and colours that blend into each other. I can’t describe it exactly, but you have to see it. And with one of my paintings, another woman said: I would even hang that painting in my living room at home. That comment made me quite proud and I didn’t really care why she liked this picture. The important thing for me: she liked it. I don’t know if my art teacher’s drawings have ever hung in anyone’s living room. Probably not. What I want to say is: why don’t you take it easy with your way of drawing or even writing poetry? And if someone like me comes along and says: “Hey Jacki, your painting reminds me of Warhol”, then that’s a good thing, because I like some of Warhol’s prints, even if I find the guy quite strange. Whatever you paint or write, it will always trigger associations or feelings in other people. And as long as there are positive and good feelings that are reflected back to you, that’s great. It doesn’t matter if your pictures remind me of old Warhol or someone else. What I wanted to tell you is that I like your picture very much and I like your way of drawing. Why I do so it is my own business and not at all important for you as an artist. Don’t try to be what others might see in you, just be what makes you feel good.
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Hi Jacki,
when I wrote that your drawing reminds me of Andy Warhol, I meant it as a compliment and not as a criticism. The intense colours of your drawing remind me of Warhol’s “Marilyn Monroe” colour prints. I’m sorry if you misunderstood. I like your picture very much because it conveys an artistic style and I’m serious now.