Mittendrin - André Greiner-Pol und Flake (3)

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[1990] Freygang plays 'Europa';
lyrics by Key Pankonin -

'What a beauty is
This perfect world
Germ-free, hygienic,
In good health

Everything's sparkling
Clean and tidy
All that smells
Gets covered up

Look here, Mother Earth
Now you're being lynched

In every bucket of water
There's arsenic and lead
And every bit of fresh air
Gets you high

Look here, Mother Earth
Now you're being lynched'

[...]

[pirate-'Radio P' announcer] Radio P on 106, the first Free Radio of East Berlin! Tonight Ichfunktion will be playing in the Eimer, starting in 10 minutes from now.

[Aljoscha Rompe] We are here at the Wydok Club, located at Schönhauser Allee 5.

[Girl] Wydoks is an association of independent people who are simply acting against being ruled by some kind of 'money people'. One of our actions was standing for the local elections.

[2001] [AGP] I was sitting with Aljoscha in the Rechenberg. He said 'We have to make a political party now, and we'll need a name'. So we began scribbling hieroglyphics on beer-mats.

[F.] [reading] 'Who are the Wydoks? Where they came from no-one exactly knows. At some time they turned up on the territory of the former GDR, and settled on the formerly publicly owned soil -

we're asking everyone to take over houses, as long as they're still publicly owned, as they belong to you! This is your last chance, this is OUR last chance of being autonomous and stay that way. We need our own concert-halls, cafés, pubs, and cinemas. We need our own law-firms, in order to take action against the net of intrigues around us. And we need our own deputies.'

It's hard to believe that we had seriously assumed having our own cafés and pubs would allow us to make things different. That was naive and charming at the same time.

[AGP] 'Alternative Leftist List' on top, followed by 'Wydoks Autonomous Action', then 'Diabetics' Association'...

[F.] Pretty much involved!

[AGP] ... and us on No.2. We found all of that very amusing.

Tacheles (-squat) was also involved. I stood there on a rostrum, speakers' corner-kind of thing. People gathering around found it extremely funny that I was standing there, the rock musican.

[F.] But it lead to nothing, as people all had their own worries at the time - so why be interested in the Wydoks? We got 2,200 or so votes.

We originally did not intend to be incorporated into the Federal Republic of Germany, but rather have an autonomous, odd country of our own. Until the spring of 1990 we still believed that this would somehow come true.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Feeling
• B.
• Flake
• Rammstein
• Freygang
• Pankonin
• Aljoscha
• Rompe
• Die
• Firma
• Wydoks
• Eimer

[leon2108]

Gibt es das Lied in dieser Version bzw. den Film wo Freygang auf dem LKW rocken irgendwo komplett?

[waragainstheus]

"Europa" von Key Pankonin... auf der Firma-CD "Kinder der Maschinenrepublik" von 1993; vermutlich noch im Fachhandel erhältlich. Aber dann eben von der Firma, nicht von Freygang. Eventuell auch auf einem der Alben der "Ich-Funktion" enthalten.

[Ninja4GodHugAttackXD]

my last name is Greiner

[mandragora78]

*nochmal angucken musste*

Geil auch, wie er verzweifelt versucht sich das Lachen zu verkneifen beim Vorlesen des Wydoks-Textes. *lol*

[mandragora78]

Tolle Interviews, sehr interessant! Beim Flake fällt mir immer auf, dass er richtig aus sich herausgeht, wenn er über die vergangenen Zeiten spricht, ganz anders als in den "typischen" Rammstein-Interviews. Da sieht man ihn sogar richtig oft lachen... sollte er öfter tun!

[JAZMINPISACO]

Flake no solo es hermoso y talentoso, sino que tambien es interesante y tan inteligente...

mmm, como lo amo!!!

[Riyo1]

this trilogy was very informing! and thank you so much for the translations to the side, that was very helpful. My German vocabulary isn't good enough to understand more than half of their dialogue.

Thanks again!!

Long live Flake!!! lol He never seems to age... XD

[AnniEngel33]

nunca de verdad

nunca habia visto esa faceta en la vida de mi amado Flake

bueno ahora se un poco mas de él

=)

vielen danke!! ^^

[xGothicBootsx]

Thanks for uploading this.