Alison Bechdel on German TV

[JanMelet]

What a bizar story,great.

[Dracapalley]

Could you add Engish subtitles to this video? It would be great to know what is being said.

[ekydami]

I love the irony and humour in Bechdel's writing, and as a dyke, I very much appreciate her honesty and self-knowledge which she generously shares through her work.

[TubbyWilliams]

Deutsche Deutsche Uber Alles!

[yourassisontheline]

herrischer, gefühlskalter Vater, der auch noch homo ist - das Ergebnis ein talentierter Junge der sein Geschlecht verleugnet oder umgekehrt. Ich finde es irgendwie eigenartig wieso besonders Lesben immer auch so aussehen müssen und wieso sie auch immer da so einen Vaterkomplex haben, der ihr persönliches Männerbild zerschellen lässt. Wirkt irgendwie zu deterministisch, beinah wie ein soziologisches "Opfer"

[lieberso]

Es ist wie es ist.

[lieberso]

Thank you very much. I love Alison Bechdels Work very much. I've read her "Dykes to watch out for"-Books again and again. They're so good drawn and full of interesting topics. I'll sure will buy her family story asap.

[idnwiw]

Part 8: Now Fun Home gets published also here -- the story of a self-discovery, a true story witch passes of like a movie. --- The End ---

I am sure there is room for much improvement but I hope it gives you an idea what it was about.

[jaguarnoelle]

It does, thank you. :)

[idnwiw]

Part 7: Only now, by her work on Fun Home she coped with her father's death. The funeral back then was so surreal and meaningless. That here is a better way to remember my father.

Fun home reads like a novel of John ??? -- simply great American literature, narrated in precise language, elaborate pictures and bitter-sweet humour.

"Maybe one of my greatest regrets is that my father never took me along to a gay bar."

[idnwiw]

Part 6:"At the age of ten I developed a compulsion neurosis. One can see that in my diary. My handwriting became more and more obscure and I made these strange signs. It became worse and worse."

Alison Bechdel is 19 when her mother wants to get a divorce because she can't take her husbands double life any longer. Two weeks later Bruce Bechtel gets run over by a truck. The police says it's an accident - for Alison Bechdel its suicide.

[idnwiw]

Part 5: It was as if a baseball bat had hit me." The today 47 year old lives in Vermont for 17 year, she moved there due to love. That love disrupted during the work on Fun Home. (She says) she had been too manic, dug always in her unhappy past, in all her old photographs, letters, diaries. Main setting of the story is her family's house. It gets re-fashioned again and again by her father. He puts all his love into it, love he can't or doesn't want to give to his family.

[idnwiw]

Part4: Bechdel worked for seven years on the book, and it portrays also her sexuality, her coming out. Eventually she dares writing her mother that she is lesbian. She will never forget the response to her letter. "After a few weeks have passed I talked to her on the phone about it and she said directly that that wasn't an unknown situation to her. And then she told me that my father had had affairs. Affairs, I thought -- with women? No, she said, with men and boys.

[idnwiw]

Part3: "I want to find out how we become who we are, and what separates ourselves from other people." Her difficult relation to her father, who is often domineering and emotionally cold, takes the center stage in this "graphic novel", which became over night a best seller in the USA. Until then, Alison Bechdel was at best known to insiders, with Fun Home she made it from the "underground star" into "main stream".

[idnwiw]

Translation part 2: Doing the shopping and fetching the mailings -- mostly fan mail. When coming back (home) she does, what she has done for 25 years -- often for 14 or 15 hours a day: She paints comics -- in which always she plays the leading part. "I am writing about the self because I am kind of obsessed by myself." Fun home, that's the drawn memories of her childhood and youth in rural Pennsylvania. A true story, with a gloomy family secret.

[idnwiw]

I'm trying a translation -- a lot of "denglish" = German grammar in English words, but it's the best I can do and it's very near at the original. I needed to re-translate the originally English interview-parts because I couldn't understand them - the German was too loud. To be consistently I re-translated all the interview-parts, even when the original was longer or different.

Once a week Alison Bechdel leaves her house in the woods of the US-federal state Vermont and drives into the village.

[toolgirl150]

This was wonderful! Can't under stand german - but you can get the gist. And uncensored! LOVE IT! NEVER would the US show those panels!

[KittyHerder]

Thanks for posting that. I saw AB's video of the German film crew. Its nice to see the other side of it.

[jaguarnoelle]

That looks great. I wonder what they're saying. :)