MLT Club Member Jürgen
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And once again, thank you to everyone who has contributed to this topic and, of course, to everyone who has diligently read along. And when these guys perform live, we’ll all meet at their concert.
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Well Jung, a profound topic. Here we are, sitting around the sacred fire, thinking about our own inevitable journey. Basically, you’re taking up the question of the meaning of life. Yes, we’re all in the same boat. Some row faster, some row slower, and some row in the wrong direction. Why we do it exactly, no one really knows. But it is a beautiful, transfigured idea that we do it to help each other and to be there for each other to achieve common goals. When I first asked myself the question about the meaning of all this, I was a teenager and I came to the conclusion that the meaning of life must lie in itself. So all that I do every day, what I make of my life, how I deal with other people, that gives my life a meaning. I don’t know how the „creed“ (Glaubensbekenntnis) of Albert Einstein is to be understood exactly, I find his terminology very old-fashioned, but I think he probably means that we humans are to be understood as part of a whole and as such also find fulfillment. By giving love, we can receive love and if we help each other, we will also receive help. And as long as we live we will always be dependent on other people, because we are part of it all.
What I see, feel and experience every day is only a small part of the world, my own idea of reality, my own little microcosm. We probably can’t change the world as it is, but we can make sure that the people in our microcosm feel comfortable, respect them, pamper them and make sure that we are all doing well. And I fully agree with you: sympathy is the bond that holds us together and empathy is the bond that unites us. The art of understanding, giving, forgiving and sometimes being selfless. And you are right: art, music and literature are essential threads of these two bands.
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Thank you JP. These childhood memories are something beautiful and they also have something comforting about them when life sometimes doesn’t mean well for you.
Do you also have the tradition of Christmas markets in the U.S. or Canada? In our country, Christmas markets are set up in almost all larger cities. In the middle of the city, on a large open space, small villages of wooden huts and Christmas trees are created. The huts serve as stalls selling Christmas decorations, candles, wooden toys and pottery. Some traders also bake bread in old stone ovens, following even older recipes, and of course there are plenty of food stalls offering sweets, mulled wine or mead and everywhere the scent of roasted almonds and glazed baked apples is in the air. Some Christmas markets also have a small ice rink where you can skate or a stage where live bands play Christmas music. This is also the transition to the next Christmas video: Wonderful Christmas Time. When I heard the song for the first time many years ago, it took me a long time to like the original song by Paul McCartney. In the meantime I like the song very much. Unconventional but still original. Mona & Lisa’s rendition is smoother and softer than the original song. In combination with the music video, I have taken the song to my heart.
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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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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
