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April 14, 2008

Obscene German Opera Laughs at 9/11

German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen famously described the Muslim atrocities of 9/11 as "the greatest work of art ever." Now some other members of the German creative community are commemorating the event with art of their own:

A German opera house is to unveil a provocative new production staged in the ruins of New York's World Trade Centre. It features naked pensioners and Mickey Mouse masks, Hitler salutes and Elvis impersonators.
The self-consciously outrageous September 11th staging of Verdi's 'A Masked Ball' has been dreamed up by Austrian director Johann Kresnik. He has described the concoction as a populist critique of modern American society, aimed at showing up the disparities between rich and poor[…] though the production looks unlikely to win many prizes for the nuance of its message, Mr Kresnik has succeeded in his other aim, selling out the Erfurt opera house for the premiere.

Come on, Germans. You lost the war. Grow up and get over it.

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High culture in what's left of Germany.

On a tip from Pam.

Posted by Van Helsing at April 14, 2008 11:10 AM

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"It features naked pensioners and Mickey Mouse masks, Hitler salutes and Elvis impersonators."

Big yawn ... These "avant-garde" types sure are predicatable in their tedious efforts to be shocking.

Superfluous nudity - check
Hitler/Nazis - check
Elvis - check

The last one could be any American pop-culture kitsch - Marilyn Monroe is probbly the most obvious, but Elvis will do fine.

Posted by: forest at April 14, 2008 11:46 AM

Germany hasnt been the same since the release of "99 Red Balloons". Though Nena was pretty hot back then. Shes pumped out some kids since then and isnt as hot.
________________________________

You and I in a little toy shop
Buy a bag of balloons
With the money we've got
Set them free at the break of dawn
'Til one by one, they were gone
Back at base, bugs in the software
Flash the message
"Something's out there"
Floating in the summer sky
99 red balloons go by

99 red balloons
Floating in the summer sky
Panic bells, it's red alert
There's something here
From somewhere else
The war machine springs to life
Opens up one eager eye
Focusing it on the sky
Where 99 red balloons go by

99 Decision Street
99 ministers meet
To worry, worry, super-scurry
Call the troops out in a hurry
This is what we've waited for
This is it boys, this is war
The president is on the line
As 99 red balloons go by

[Instrumental Interlude]

99 Knights of the airway
Ride super-high-tech jet fighters
Everyone's a Silverhero
Everyone's a Captain Kirk
With orders to identify
To clarify and classify
Scramble in the summer sky
As 99 red balloons go by

As 99 red balloons go by

99 dreams I have had
In every one a red balloon
It's all over and I'm standin' pretty
In this dust that was a city
If I could find a souvenier
Just to prove the world was here
And here is a red balloon
I think of you and let it go

Posted by: Anonymous at April 14, 2008 12:20 PM

Seems Germany is prone toward extremist thought and criticizing and disrespecting America. They must have applied for the hate America position that France vacated with their new President.

Posted by: HoosierArmyMom at April 14, 2008 12:51 PM

But, but, but they love David Hasslehoff!

Must think of good Germans....Heidi Klum, that guy who used to live next door to me...um...does Dwight Eisenhower count?

Posted by: avalon at April 14, 2008 1:27 PM

I'm sorry but do the people who make this crap ever visit America or do they just flip on there tv to CNN?

Posted by: Eric at April 14, 2008 5:05 PM

They're just PO'd that America doesn't speak German.

Posted by: pocomoco at April 14, 2008 7:23 PM

lack of empathy -> Nazi atrocities

lack of empathy -> making fun of the murder of 3,000 people

same sociopathology, new forum. Germany hasn't changed in many, many hundreds of years.

Posted by: mega at April 14, 2008 8:47 PM

Avalon, for those who are fellow 'Smallville' fans, Germany was also the birth country of Allison Mack (Chloe on the show). But, yeah, it's been getting more screwed up lately as a country.

Posted by: Adam at April 15, 2008 5:59 AM