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. 
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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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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