My German wife and I recently went to a free performance held at the Staatstheater in Hannover, Germany. It was a pretty spontaneous decision, and we had absolutely no clue what we were about to see. The show was called ‘Empört Euch,’ and it turned out to be a weird-as-hell vaudevillian performance featuring: people in fat suits; Eric Cartman singing about minorities at the water park; a unicycle-riding, shotgun-toting Teletubby; three idiots dressed up as twirling ladybugs, a frightening, spastic pantomime, an eardrum rupturing cover of the Tom Waits song, “The Black Rider;” and finally, a concert by a scary ‘bastard pop’ group.
WARNING: Video contains a few F-bombs.
If you’d like to learn more about that band playing at the end, check out Rainer von Vielen.
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Oh God, My Wife Is German. 
When my university was preparing a bunch of mostly-very-sheltered college kids to take off on our various Studies Abroad, they gave us just one phrase to deal with culture shock- “It’s not good, it’s not bad, it’s just different”. That was very, very… different.
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Haw haw!
Do you have any stories from your trip abroad?
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I have a couple. I was a poor kid and could only afford a 2 month trip, and that was stretching it.
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I think we need to blog about this trip, Amber. Maybe in our Guest section. Seriously.
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Looks both bizarre and fun! They coming to the states anytime soon? ;)
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Probably! The band at the end rocked pretty hard, I have to say.
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Random, but sometimes those are the best nights out.
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Hilariously weird. Love the pogoing up the front, circa 1978, to the scary music.
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Sometimes you get what you pay for….
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You should’ve ‘shroomed it; would’ve been great.
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Haw haw!
Oh God no.
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Interesting and bizarre…love the warning/spoiler about the F-Bombs…these days when celebrities are exposing themselves on TV or almost (think Janet Jackson and/or Miley Cyrus), and a frustrating father shoots his daughter’s laptop on You-Tube, I’m thinking a few F-bombs are pretty tame in comparison! :) Thanks for the post.
kennedy/tb
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Thank you for reading, Tenacious! And yeah, I would hate to get someone in trouble for watching one of our videos at work. Of course, they kind of have it coming if they’re watching one of our videos at work… :)
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LOL! You never fail to provide a much-needed giggle, Mister Oh God My Wife is German…
:)
TB/Kennedy
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Awesome! Glad to hear it, Tenacious. Kind words like these keep me blogging.
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WELCOME! Have a most fantastical day! :)
Kennedy/TB
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So, all in all, an unforgettable performance? Sounds like an experience!
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That was pretty surreal. I’d chalk it up to being a German thing, but if your wife had no idea what was going on either, I don’t know.
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This was quite weird to watch – but I had tons of fun listening to your comments – and I could imagine you were quite amused… tell me when I’m wrong. *grin*
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Totally amused! Thanks for checking it out, Raani!
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