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...countless delightful German compound words are broken up by official decree. Other new rules will govern where a comma belongs in a sentence, and use of the good old-fashioned ?, which will only follow long vowels and diphthongs, while ss will follow short vowels; so it's ich wei? (I know) but ich wusste (I knew). Alles klar? Not really. When Time asked Steffen Reiche, the Education Minister for the state of Brandenburg, to explain the ?/ss rule, he confessed: "Oh dear, I'm really confused." Most Germans are just as bewildered about how their written language...
...album reaches its climax on the sinister “Darts of Pleasure,” which oscillates wildly between decadent swagger and lovesick croon before sheer inertia flings it out of its orbit into a furious sing-along German coda—“Ich heisse Superfantastisch! Ich trinke Schampus und Lachfisch!”—which the band has compared to the moment of orgasm. In case you’re wondering about the German, guitarist/keyboardist Nick McCarthy spent his childhood in Munich...
There’s something intimate and oddly beautiful about Perpetuum Mobile. As vocalist Blixa Bargeld softly utters “was habe ich? / was habe ich nicht” (what do I have? / what don’t I have?) in “Selbstportrait mit Kater,” memories harken back to ’70’s Berlin when the then-young Bargeld and percussionist N.U.Unruh picked metal trash off the streets and, for the first time, beat out their existential angst on the overpass on the Autobahn. “Perpetuum Mobile?...
...show opens with an infectious cabaret number that launches the show as effectively as the Wilkomen number in Cabaret: "I'm known/ In all the wrong places / I'm one of those faces / You'll never forget." The score ranges from Brecht-Weill for the age of irony (Ich Bin Kunst), to disco with a touch of wit (?Tell me what you feel / I'll show you what to do / We don?t do sincere / Everything taboo"), to a haunting lament for the passing of Warhol?s 15 minutes (You?re Out of Fashion), along with a batch of soulful...
...most are second jobs). "It's really fantastic," says Anke Koch, 35, who works in an upscale Berlin restaurant. "I can work part-time and get health benefits for me and my baby. And I've got money in my pocket." Another reform helps the unemployed start businesses. Called "Ich AG" (Me Inc.), the government pays unemployed workers j600 a month to help set them up in business. So far, 43,000 people have started new businesses under the program. Some economists thought things were turning around last year, only to be proved wrong. And skeptics point out that...