GERMAN BRUTAL SATIRE Part 1 - Volker Pispers history of USA 1 of 5 REACTION
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- Hi meet Shady Shae the who started the "German Humour/ Satire/ Brutal Satire Reactions trend.
How the German Brutal Satire reactions started - My friends in London always say Germans have no humour so they wondered why I check out German content and frequent Germany on holidays so I decided to check out German comedy and was introduced to German satire by my followers.
I was so confused by the Satires, didn't know if I should laugh or what because of the intensity and seriousness of the issues being presented. The brutal nature of the truth being presented "pop and plain, straight in your face with a bit of humour" made me coin the phrase "German Brutal Satire".
Surprisingly other youtubers followed suit!
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Volker Pispers is brilliant. One of the best cabaret artists in Germany. It's scary when a smart person puts the stories in the right order.
100% agree! Hagen Rether is another good one.
Sad enough, he stopped doing it. - Don't know the reason for sure, but overall he explained all these things for decades and people just NEVER learned.
He was well aware of that and also said this in his program. That people just come to him, laugh, then go back and do the same shit again.
One 'joke' right at start of his program was, that when some day there is a revolution, they will show the entry cards to his program "Look! I was in the resistence! I laughed about the system!"
@@miriamweller812 he stopped because he spoke about the same shit for 30 years and nothing had changed since
@@miriamweller812 Yes, I remember myself getting a cold shiver and a glimpse of insight when I realized he was telling people the truth but they perceived it just as entertainment. I believe this is the real reason why he gave up political cabaret. It just seemed futile to him. Why make comedy if nothing ever changes?
If I remember correctly he once commented about his retirement from political comedy that reality has overtaken him - like he can't transform actual crazy developments fast enough as they occur because the speed of changes keeps rapidly increasing...
Thats what i love about him. He is quite the lefty and not always correct in his conclusions, but, he does the legwork and researches stuff and all the Facts he talks of are 100% True.
It's hard to follow his train of thoughts when you're not fluent in german history and politics. Heck, it's hard even if you are. You'll probably need half a day, and a second person explaining all the hidden twists and political background to get most of the 1 hour show. It's worth it though. In a nutshell it boils down to "Don't believe the simple answers. Check your facts, and most of all, never believe your country is ethically better than any other".
My parents had once been at one of this shows. My mother said ever so often the laughter of the audience didn't left their throats because the background was too scary. Another time they had to think about one of "jokes" for so long that he had been two states further. And my parents, at this time, were very interested in politics.
Because it's satire, not comedy. Pispers as a very intelligent and highly educated man and you have to be to do especially political satire.
@@miriamweller812 exactly, the fine but important difference. Volker being the king of satire, his preperation is always so deep. Great guy, doing an important job!
His late Shows have more of this "heavy"-stuff. And just before leaving the stage and end his career, he said "i'am telling people all the time, what happend in the land/world, but it would not change their minds..."
His famos critics are about sozial politics, kapitalism and war, and he never coose a side (east or west).
He always "attack" migthy people and their acts.
i watched pretty much every show from Pispers on youtube the over 2 hours ones too but i needed to make a break every little time because it is too much information even for me as a German!
The Truth is always disgusting and ugly but everyone wants its own truth because everyone is afraid of the truth (if that makes sense🙃)
You need to know a lot of the political background to understand the humor of Volker Pispers. He is taking all the known parts of history and forms the picture of reality. He is telling history - the bad on good. And by choosing the right words he adds the humoristic glasses, bearts, big eyes etc. to the painting, to show the grotesque. Humor is when you laugh nevertheless.
And his humor is pure brain and heart - no balls at all.
du sprichst mir aus dem herzen und hast es auch noch übersetzt. danke dir ganz dolle.
Sehe ich auch so! Ich hatte schon einen fetten Text geschrieben und dann dieses kurze Statement gelesen! Top!
You need to know a lot of the political background to understand the humor of Volker Pispers. Na ja , meine meinung ist :- wenn eine person dieser hintergrund nicht hat ist EIN IDIOT .nein ich bin keine deutscher (ich liebe die sprache
@@mamorot7110 Freut mich zu hören, dass du der deuschen Sprache innig zugetan bist.
Das Programm von Pispers ist gut gealtert - der Auftritt müßte rund 20 Jahre her sein. Wer über 35 ist, hat das meiste miterlebt - für jüngere Menschen, insbesondere welche die nur sehr wenig deutsch sprechen, finde ich es legitim, vieles nicht zu verstehen. Ich finde es gut, wenn Menschen auf Dinge, die ihnen unbekannt sind neugierig gemacht werden und dann den Wunsch haben, sich Wissen anzueignen. Daher finde ich deine Wortwahl in Großbuchstaben unangemessen. Ich wünsche dir einen angenehmen Tag und weiterhin viel Freude an der deutschen Sprache, die so wunderbar geeignet ist, Sachverhalte realistisch zu beschreiben, dabei klar die Meinung des Formulierenden zu transportieren, ohne auf diffamierende Äußerungen angewiesen zu sein.
Exakt auf den Punkt gebracht. Chapeau
I was at some of Volker Pispers' performances back then. The atmosphere in the hall was always the same. Volker relentlessly hits you in the face with reality. And just when you're laughing at his jokes about other countries and you're shaking your head at how other people can be so stupid, he holds the mirror up to your face with the next sentence. That's why there was never really any loud laughter. Because as soon as the mood got too boisterous, the next punch came and the subliminal question:" Why are you laughing at all?". In the end, however, Volker Pispers had to capitulate to the stupidity and inertia of humanity. The man could say what he wanted, we all nodded, laughed and carried on as usual.... That is true tragedy
thats why he "retired", he couldnt stand it anymore telling the people the straight truth and noone ceares. i mean i feel the same knowing all those things and then you look at the people out there worrying about their narcistic half nude insta post could get less likes than expected or what oxygen wasting youtuber hyped which useless scam product..it makes you simply lose faith in humanity (i never had that since i already know about too many things which makes me wish im not part of the same species.
I don't think it's fair to say that people don't care. It's more that… if you care, what are you gonna do? Where to go with what he's told you? Vote differently? Start riots? Revolution? Kill even more people in hope of having a better world when you're done?
As I already said:
German satire - you don't know whether to laugh or to cry.
es hilft schon sehr genau hin zu hören 😉
@@cf8651 Ich denke, er hört genau hin und versteht es auch..
Er lobt sogar die deutsche Satire. Du solltest richtig lesen, was er schreibt. ;)
@@Matt-mo9mp du hast mich missverstanden, das kann schon mal passieren also alles gut
Same with German humour
I'm German and yes, that is basically what German satire is, in a nutshell.. You get truthbombs that make your laugh getting stuck on your throat.
dear ShadyShae, Volker Pispers is no stand-up-comedian, he's a political cabaret artist. and political cabaret has a rich and long tradition in germany. yes, ShadyShae there are more points of views to human history depends on of the narration of your onw mass media/government.
Theres a big difference between what serious historians have to tell and, what victorious powers/mass media of the gouvernement are talking.
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The best political cabaret is when you laugh when it hurts most
Real History is only told by critical thinking people. ..
same i want to write. 😎✌
Now it's getting real. King of German Cabarett. It's a big loss, that he doesn't perform anymore. And yes, all the things he says are baseline true. Ofc pointed and sometimes exaggerated and told from a certain standpoint, but true. You would call him a "political cabarettist". Political cabarett has a tradition in germany, it is more than entertaining comedy, it is meant to put the finger into the wound and make you choke on your own laughs...
I would say Dieter Hildebrandt and Georg Schramm together with Volker Pispers are the kings of German Cabarett but yeah :)
@@6666Imperator Triumvirat of german Cabaret ;)
@@nachtalb8394 LOL! :D
@@6666Imperator you forgot Werner Finck, he was active from the 30ies well into the 1960ies My favourite quote from him after he got arrested by the Gestapo and relesed one day later in 1936. "Gestern waren wir zu, heute sind wir offen, wenn wir heute zu offen sind, sind wir morgen wieder zu". Und so war es.
@@steffenrosmus9177 I didn't know about him (also a long time before my time) but I'll check him out
greetings from germany 🇩🇪 😂 had some good laughs, about the niiiice cabaret and your reactions ❤
Mate! All i can say is German view on things is different from what I know... got me sweaty 🤣
@@ShaeDerEinzige even as a German when you are presented the facts you start to get sweaty, I remember that when I first saw his program many years ago, it was like someone opened a door to knowledge... :D
@@ShaeDerEinzige All what he says is the truth!
you can chek it!
This is not satire, this is disturbing ... this is ... the TRUTH!
OMG. Nobody actually asked for the truth, can I have my warm and cosy narrative back.
Pispers is a BOSS. Too bad he doesn't perform anymore. We'd need people like him urgently in these times ...
The Truth is always disgusting and ugly but everyone wants its own truth because everyone is afraid of the truth (if that makes sense🙃)
Volker Pisper is the GOAT. I`m German and when i watched this the first time, i didn`t know if i should laugh or cry, so i did both.
"Die Anstalt" 6 years ago could have come into his footsteps. Unfortunately, they have changed the pages. Now they do for the government satire, no longer against. Really a pity.
@@gegendenklimagemachtenmenschen They make fun of just about everything that deserves it in Die Anstalt, the government included.
The intended audience of Volker Pispers are people that already know the history. So the funny part is not the history itself but the way he talks about it. If the content is news to you, I understand how you might be shocked and don't see the humour in it. Another important thing to know is that Volker Pispers is very much on the left side of the political spectrum. That's why he jabs at conservative politicians so much (not that the don't deserve it).
Especially in the USA everything which seems to be "on the left side of the political spectrum" is the same as pure and always evil communism and communism is always bad and should be forbidden and banned and that doesn't apply to Volker Pispers in any way, as we all know especially in Germany.
Good explanation for british viewers.
Yep, mostly the political left is way more educated, so they actually understand satire...
He is pragmatic not left or right wing I would just say he is contra privatisation of infrastructure (social, health, education, security, traffic ...)
Nope. I totally disagree.
He takes a opposite position to the establishment and so called elite. Doesn’t matter if left side or conservative.
It’s in the good old tradition of political Cabernet to criticize the elite, the leader in politics and economics… not like today so called comedians like Böhmermann or heute show which are more into backing up the elite and targeting persons who dare to criticize them.
And I also disagree to the comment below that the left is more educated… a confirmation bias is not „educated“
Volker Pispers is a legend. Brutal honest. Never held back. He paused in 2016. Last year he announced that he won't return on stage, because some of his statements about viruses and conspiracies have been misinterpreted by certain people. He clearly distanced himself from these people several times and ultimately gave up. All of the points on US foreign policy are spot on. However, he was always very lenient when it came to Russian foreign policy. Theme Afghanistan or Chechnya. Or again currently Ukraine. They aren't any better.
" he was always very lenient when it came to Russian foreign policy"
Yes. He is free to have this opionion the porblem I see is that lots of people take this was Volker Pispers says at fact value and they think all is staged by the US now.
Yes, the USA influenced certain things, like Pispers said. Bt at the end Hussein, Bin Laden and all the others that were on the US side at one point had always the free will to do what they want. These people take shows like this and explain to you how the US and NATO are the reason for the war in the Ukraine, as if Putin had no free will or Russia had never done secret operations.
I enjoy Volker Pispers but it is of course alos not the whole reality what he is telling, just one aspect of the history.
@@helloweener2007 His statements may be simplified and perhaps politically colored, but each point was always well researched. It had to be, because he would have made himself vulnerable to false statements. Politicians were at least waiting in the wings to sue him.
But in Germany (unlike in America), you can't be sued for revealing the truth. #freeAssange
@@helloweener2007 Agreed. Cabaret is suppose to polarise. Nowadays it's quite worrying how monochrome society has become. Whether you are of my opinion which makes you my allied, or you aren't of my opinion, than you are the enemy. There's very little conversation in between.
@@helloweener2007 He mostly states his opinions on what actually happened given the information he gatheres, just as any other person does. The strange thing however is that a lot of his audience (funnily enough from very different political partys/affiliations) take what he says as face value, making him out to be some sort of political messiah speaking the truth and only the truth. I love his shows and watch them regularly, his fanboys/girls however are unbearable... Really shows you how easy it is to run peoples opinions in certain directions just because you're funny and rhetorically talented.
@@fipsvonfipsenstein6704 _"But in Germany (unlike in America), you can't be sued for revealing the truth."_ No but if it is inconvenient for the political leadership you might be branded a 'Reichsbürger' or Nazi even if you are on the left side of the political spectrum, with the full weight of official channels and state media behind it, to make your opinion invalid per default in the eyes of the lesser informed public.
I mean that is mostly true all around the western world these days but we were trendsetters in that regard.
You come to Volker Pispers to lough, you end up overthinking everything you know about the world and the worst thing is: No one can prove him wrong.
Volker Pispers is the GOAT of German Satire! 😃
For me Georg Schramm is a tiny little bit greater.
@@tomshublinski9054 Yes? Can you say why or is it a personal favorite? 😊
@@KimChi-iy7jd as I said:"for me" , yes it's a personal preference. It's the way Schramm uses language and his sarcasm hits harder.
But I grew up with Dieter Hildebrandt, so he is my personal GOAT. He was fighting to the end, not giving like Pispers and Schramm, whom both I deasrly miss.
@@tomshublinski9054 Thank you for your answer and the tip. I will check him out. Cheers! 💞
@@KimChi-iy7jd do you speak German ? I don't think you will find Schramm with subtitles.
Yeah Volker Pispers talks much more about the hard truth behind such Events back in History. Still wrapping it up with some good Jokes i think. I learned a lot from him. Sadly he stopped working on this kind of Stuff. Because he doe's this for more than 30 Years. Pointing out what goes wrong in Germany and other Parts of the World, the People like to laugh, but nothing changes. He is like exhausted to speak and speak and nothing changes for the better.... I hope its understandable my english is not so good. Have a nice Day readers and @ShadyShae London. And keep doing, i really like to watch you. Oh and dont listen to the guys, im not fluent with English and still even i can understand you. 😉
Please watch the whole speak of Pispers. It will be hard stuff, for german but especially for US people, but he just tells the history, with some added word plays. Pispers Explanation should be part of every school in USA and Germany!
I love Volker Pispers. He´s a german legend.
Only if all teachers of history would be like Volker Pispers, going to school would actually be fun and on top you would even remember everything with ease what's been taught😂🤓😁
Luckily I had one during the 1970ies who was like Volker Pipers and he llooked like his older brother as well.
hahah pispers about teachers is great too
And that still wouldn't be the case. Firstly, modern history lessons are supposed to be about the critical examination of history from the side of the students, not monologues about the viewpoints of the teacher. And a lot of the topics or adjacent ones are part of the curriculum and standard even in many text books, but it still doesn't work since the intrinsic interest in learning and understanding grows smaller and smaller. All to often you hear "oh I don't have to remember that, I have Google". Many students have bought into the societal view that school has the primary function of giving them the grades based on which they later on get to pick a job. And grades is the main driving point to learn. If it isn't important for the next class test it isn't important to know. And if it was important for the last class test many already forgot it.
@@carpediem5232 maybe you should tell that to modern teachers the most of them hold there monologs ( wich in fact are needet too ) but in a much more borring fashon than pispers did
@@gehtdichnixan3200 I don't know what country you are talking about, but in Germany and quite a big part of the EU that is not the case and what I said is standard part of the university courses you have to take to become a teacher and part of the standart state wide curricula. And if you think it is just the teachers that needed to hear that you didn't get my comment.
Big respect for this reaction. Even for germans its sometimes difficult to follow Volker Pispers retoric. But his jokes are very smart. Watching his shows is always worth it.
its not a joke its true
PLEASE do more Volker Pispers. He's as educational as he's funny. This is exactly what satire HAS to do: Being the pain in the as of the mighty. As we have the freedom of speech in Germany, and we mean it, he has not to have sooo much balls, by the way.
Piepers way of political cabaret doesn’t work anymore in Germany… he quit some years ago. Nowadays he would become the next victim of cancel culture.
Like a „popular“ German mainstream journalist says almost a year ago „we have freedom of speech, but sometimes you have to take the consequences“ which from my point of view was a clear threat.
@@AB-vm2nz There can be no threat for an artist who sells and can live from what he does. I think, most people didn't like his anti Americanism anymore. The people in Germany are more consensual orientated. I personally wished he would go on.
@@Ein_Schachdude … it’s the artist still able to manage his living when he got canceled?
And this ladys and gentlemen is the Art of German humor... With one word : efficient.
Yes, we can't get out of our skin....🤷♂️😎
If you don't know whether you wanna cry or laugh. Then it is German Satire.
This has nothing to do with German satire. German cabaret is in a class of its own. Anyone can answer satirically. But holding up a mirror to people by rubbing the background knowledge of certain historical events under their noses is something that only political cabaret can do... And sorry, for my bad english.
@@bjornalbrecht2399 rubbing under their nose ... sehr geil :D your english is not the yellow from the egg :D
16:26 The saying goes, "war must never again start from German soil."
Volker Pispers is the greatest, I saw him 4 times live on Stage... every Word he says is through!
Yes, I want more. Volker Pispers is the best.
Thank you so much bruv, can't wait to see your reaction.
Volker Pispers is a Legend, the biggest satirical genius we had.
I was on a Volker Pispers Show twice, your brain sharpened afterwards and your stomach hurts from laughing. He is the Best!
Thank you sir for watching this, i enjoyed it much. im a german and i loved to see Pispers. He is retired now. Yes he has balls. There have been hundreds of legal proceedings, due to his show and his sayings. and you know what he never looses one, because his facts are true.
First of all, thank you for introducing me to Volker Piepers. I hadn’t heard of him before. I think this clip is brilliant. So cheers!
This clip seems to shock you. You were looking forward to some comedy, some witty roasting of GB,… and got a shocking history lesson. You also said that he had balls of steel.
This history of US politics is not new to us in general. Although I did learn some aspects that were new to me. And that people criticise US foreign policy is not new or uncommon either. So there was no shock value for me.
However, the way he presents this events, how he condenses history to the bare bones and unmasks geopolitics is brilliantly exposing and entertaining in one. That is why people go to/ watch shows like this. It’s sharp, witty and funny. And it makes you think.
I know, people say, that Germans have no humour.
Considering the long history of political Kabarett in Germany, the form of comedy I prefer, I say:
We have humour- smart humour.
P.S. Honecker was the Head of State of the GDR (East Germany), where ,as you probably know, Merkel grew up.
Love your channel.
if you like Volker Pispers maybe you'll also like Dieter Hildebrandt and Georg Schramm. Especially there is one "sketch" by Urban Priol and Dieter Hildebrandt about the lifes of doctors who followed the Nazi beliefs after WW2 was over. Very interesting and delivered in a smart funny way. In terms of Georg Schramm I can recommend for example his sketch "Warum nicht!" which is a motivational speech while making fun of motivational speeches at the same time.
OMG I was searching for reactions to Volker Pispers for so long! Yesterday last time and now you upload this, thanks man!
Oh and maybe this is why many people thing Germans have a strange sense of humour. It's because it's brutal. Greetings from Germany :)
Glad you enjoyed!
Volker Piepers is brilliant. On other topics, he once said that you could read about it all. He only got what he told from newspapers and other official sources. I don't know to what extent this also applies to this content, but I am sure that it is no different here.
Basicly he camouflaged Hard Truth in Political Cabarett because saying things in this matter on stage is Protected under the Law. Saying things like he did without that camouflage he would sit in jail or something like that.
@@TheGouliat I don't know which country you live in. But in Germany, you are allowed to say everything he said. His sources are publicly available to everyone, as he has mentioned again and again.
@@TheGouliat If Volker Pispers would live in turkey, russia or china you'd be right. He'd for sure be imprisoned (best case). But he lives in germany - he can say whatever he wants without "camouflaging" provided he avoids racism, incitements to crime or similar.
Since he says nothing you can't prove right within a few minutes by using Dr. Google it's pretty amazing that even in Germany the majority remembers him as being funny. If everone sitting in his shows clapping and cheering would get his points and act according he would not have retired and we most likely had a different germany.
"Brutal" is the best description about Volker Pispers I ever heard.
He did not call Angela Merkel a terrorist, just a self-proclaimed terror expert. She was the head of the conservative opposition at the time while Gerhard Schroeder served as the head of the German government who, back then, refused to enter the war against Irak.
16:12 Actually it says "Germany must never start war again".. That's a phrase that came up after WW2.. He said it only slightly twisted, because Germany supplied weapons
He simply played with the phrases, the german word "ausgehen" has different meanings, f.e. "starting from a point" but also "running out", so he managed to turn the phrase in the complete opposite meaning by using the same words......that's real talent! I saw him several times live on stage and believe me, i'm still very happy about that fact.....!
Shady, my man. Love your reacts about german humor. I am german and i was in a Volker Pispers Show in 2005. He is lethal🤘👍🤣
That is the word!
In the past decade there has been a rising interest in german culture, politics etc., many channels there are, but you seem to really have an appetite for knowledge and you bring out something that germans are rarely aware of : how different and exotic they are themselves. Well point is, I enjoy the output of you sharing your input with us. Aaaaaaand subscribed. Love from Hamburg, Germany.
I am german and I love Volker Pispers! Nice that you like him, too!
To me he's one of the best German political Comedians ever. I miss him soooooo much it's just incredible. I would have so much liked to have his take-on on the Covid measures, especially in Germany. And actually I could imagine how he would roast Putin and his so-called "special military operation".
He's a genius because he knows his history, politics and facts. This is the foundation of his humour. He's funny but at the same time the basic facts are correct even if he sometimes may exaggerate a bit. Please do the other 4 parts of this too!
Haha..yes he might be roasting Putin but he would not forget to roast NATO and the Ukraine as well. You know that things are fishy when the German main stream media are all doing the same sing-along...
@@frankseydel9428 Yes, Volker was so objective that he would not just roast one side but all parties involved. And, I must say, it was always a very educational experience, too, in the way that I learned things I didn't know yet or that I had to be reminded of again. What's more he could explain complex things in a way that you could actually understand them. That's a rare trait!
So I do reply to my own comment because I stumbled upon a new sign of life from Volker Pispers today. There's a new video by him (albeit in German only dated from April 15th, 2022. It's about 12 minutes long (17.108 views so far) and is called
"Achtung SATIRE! - Volker Pispers über Putin und die Ukraine"
He's talking extremely fast so that even I as a German feel challenged to process the info fast enough as it is thrown at me at this maximum speed.
@@indiecarmayne Absolutely agree!
Respect! I m from Germany and love your show! Great Job!
Big up! Big up!
Pispers is the very best, I saw him live two times. In german with the knowledge of our politics and history it is sad and funny at the same time. The translation in this video is very good. Enjoy the rest of this theme, it`s one of his masterpieces. Unfortunatly there are no translations of the rest of his programms.
i like to watch, other people watching volker pispers for the first time
Volker Pispers has changed my view of things. I thank him for that! It's a pity that he hasn't performed for a long time.
Nice reaction from you to the video Bro! Greets from germany!
Hello shadyshae and greetings from frankfurt to London. I've been following you for about 2 months now and regularly watch your reaction clips. First of all, you are so likeable and you have such a warm way, it's just fun to see how much you enjoy Germany.Volker is already a very big one. As you have already noticed, he goes deep into the topic in a satirical way. Keep it up. I'm happy about every new clip of you
Ah thanks for the love, i appreciate your feedback and glad you enjoy my videos. I am having so much fun and hope to visit Germany soonest, say next month.
Really interesting way of life you have there.
@@ShaeDerEinzige I think you're real and I totally believe your reaction. What do you mean by „the way of life“ ?
@@ShaeDerEinzige Hallo ShadyShae wo würdest du deine Reise nach Deutschland beginnen und wielange wirst du bleiben ?
@@ShaeDerEinzige If you go, don't limit yourself to Berlin or Munich. Visit Stuttgart, Hamburg, Köln, Frankfurt, Bremen or other cities with at least about half a million people because life is very different in different parts. Smaller cities can be nice, too!
I'm so happy about living in Germany. The opportunity to listen to these legends of cabaret. I don't know much about the situation of cabaret and sartire in the UK, but my feeling while watching you is that the quality in Germany is an other, maybe better.
Volker Pispers is from my hometown and was the religion teacher of my older sisters 🤣
I would have never thought he was religious
Tatsächlich?
Religious??? 🤣🤣🤣
@@ShaeDerEinzige yea thats right he was a teacher at our local math-nat(ural science) gymnasium.
hey i'm from germany and i hope you'll watch the rest of it too. Volker is the best cabaret artist in Germany. And I find it very interesting to hear what people from other countries say and think about what he says. with best regards. Peace
Nice reaktion video and greetings from germany to you. Volker Pispers was once a high school teacher and tried to explain to the viewers what really happened in the story in an entertaining way. with simplified expression. Unfortunately, many people didn't seem to understand Pispers' teachings properly and often viewed Pispers as a comedian. I've seen him live and when there was no official recording, his choice of words was many times sharper! It's a shame he's not on stage anymore.
I'm looking forward to the next video about Pispers and your reactions. Greetings John.
If you think that this was madness already just you wait for the rest of this show! ;)
Pispers has been the top of the foodchain when it comes to german political cabaret.
And it's so sad that he quit. We could use some brutal Pispers wisdom right now!
Actually we need this Volker Pispers guy to say something about this Ukraine vs Russia situation!
I was telling someone that even tho I don't support Russia's invasion, I dont trust America either! Something dodgy going on here!
I wouldn't put him at the actual top, but in the group that's at the top of the foodchain, together with for example Georg Schramm, and let's not forget Dieter Hildebrandt 🙃
@@ShaeDerEinzige you want to know what is going on in Ukraine? Go watch RealLifeLore on Russia invading Ukraine.
Then look at the Skifska gas field.in Crimean waters, plus shale gas in the Donbass. Combined exceeding €3 trillion.
Both sides are dirty.
He already made comments about the Russia-Ukrain situation in a 2014 or 2015 program, search for it.....but maybe you wont like it.
Volker Pispers is a true legend!!!
This is a real history lesson he's giving us here!
Hard facts straight in your face....or simply: the truth.
When you asked: Is Volker Pispers still alive?
I laughed out so loud. :-))
Yes, my friend, he is.
As someone who grew up with Volker Pispers, he‘s my benchmark for good satire/kabarett.
The heute show is often pretty „nice“ in their jokes, Pispers is really hard, direct and honest. The translation of this is pretty good, but I think that a lot gets lost in translation, sadly.
The piece you are watching is from 2004 I think, so back then Merkel wasn’t as big as she is today and a lot of the references seem to be really dated today. I think the last DVD of his stage program bis neulich was published 2014 and they recorded his last performance in 2016 as an audio, but i am not sure if there are translated versions of those out there.
Also a lot of his references are best understood with knowledge of german politics ( e.g. Edmund Stoiber is a member if the CSU ( christian-social-union, the bavarian version of the CDU, very right, very conservative, very traditionalist) and he attempted to become chancellor, but failed. and because of his closeness to the catholic church ( which is kinda mandatory if you wanna be someone in the CSU) he is comparing him to Khomeini).
Also Schröder in todays context is a close friend of Putin and is threatend to be kicked out of the SPD because he is not willing to stop working for Gazprom. As chancellor he also demolished our social system and played a major role for Hartz4 and the fact that the german retirement system is nothing but a joke these days. what a legacy.
From what I researched about history, the things he says are factual, but what makes it so special is the way he contextualises everything.
Interesting in that regard is that i think it was 2013 when they published so far classified documents that show that the CIA and MI6 combined forces to get ridd of the democratically elected prime minister of Iran Mosaddegh after he kicked out the british oil company that was highly benefitting from selling Iranian oil while a lot of the population was starving ( post WWII the US and the british divided up the middle east and who would get what oil, not even really considering that its not fucking theirs to take 🤦🏻♀️ but I digress). After they got ridd of Mosaddegh, they installed the Shah that Pispers talks about. I think there is a translated version of a piece by Die Anstalt who explained it too, so once you recovered from Pispers you might wanna check that out.
But all in all one can say, middle eastern history is full of colonial fuck ups that led to the mess that it is today.
i love how you amediatly looked up the things and historicaly facts you did not understand i watched this video for the second time because i love how you take time to try to understand the things you did not understand amediatly #Respect #Greatings From #Germany ...
Man, you are brave to listen to Volker Pispers as a non german. :)
I absolutely admire that you open wikipedia a lot to get background information, to understand better. I believe, getting people to actively do that is all Volker Pispers was hoping for. Greetings from Germany.
Volker Pispers is a good option to show how far our freedom of speech goes. Cuase people like him that attack politics around the world including german politics are fairly normal satire over here.
Nice to meet you, ShadyShae😎👍
Greetz from good old Germany
Same to you! Greetings from London!
pispers is great but he usually makes the laughter stuck in your throught
blessed love from germany. nuff respect me bredda soon me back in england again
Love bredda
In Germany we say “Germany, the country where satires say more truth than all politics.” 😄
That's true for the US as well. Years ago, the inconvenient truth could only be heard in _The Daily Show_ presented by _Jon Stewart._ After Stewart's retirement from the Daily Show, this task is performed by _The Jimmy Dore Show._
Volker always delivered the hardest punches. Great guy, insane knowledge and fine humor added to the bitter truth he deliveres. That feeling you just had after watching him is the same feeling everyone i know is having after hearing him talk...you just get a bad feeling how everything in this world could come this far. He is relentless. Love from Germany!
We need Volker Pispers back on stage
Das Stimmt...mehr den je
I love Volker. He is sharp and brilliant when he talks about politics. I saw him ones live in my hometown. He gave the whole money from this evening away for charity.
The Hype is real
I like how you take time to figure things out and do a little recherche on it and share it with us :)
You have chosen a very brilliant political satirist (Politisches Kabarett), but Volker Pispers is no mere comedian. He is painstakingly honest and funny but damn serious at the same time. Serious topics and worthwhile watching, but you already need a pretty good understanding of politics and history to get him.
Volker Pispers is in retirement now. He was a former teacher, then he became one of the best German cabaret artist for nearly 4 decades. His cabaret program was never really changed in all these years. He was trying to teach the German audience in German Politics and American foreign policy, "in a funny way". His program was always grounded on the Truth of history books and newspaper articles. A law in Germany allows artists to freely practice their art form without being sued for it. Since Volker Pispers only referred to publicly available books and newspaper articles anyway, he could never be sued for his cabaret program.
Unfortunately, he was so successful that hardly any Germans ever questioned the deep background of his program themselves. And the Germans have not understood that the contents Volker Piepers reported on are all sad truth. There is a lot of USA propaganda in the German mainstream media, all Germans grow up with it as a matter of course. In Germany the Americans are always the good ones, of course still today.
Watch as much of Volker Pispers as you can, there is and never was a better caberatist who made jokes about the German politicians and the USA Presidents, like him.
Volker Pispers was one of the most sarcastic and cynical cabaret artists of Germany. It's so sad, that he has retired.
Volker Pispers "resigned" in 2016, announcing he would make a long break from cabaret. "Honestly", he said, "I don't know how long it will actually be". However in 2021 he confirmed that now, when it's been 5 years since beginning his break, he would not return to the stage again.
In my opinion he was definetly and by far the best german politcal cabaret artist, being not only the wittiest but also the most eloquent political satirist. He started as a school teacher but changed careers. His ability to narrate history and connect it to political reasoning is brilliant, thus connecting the dots which form the bigger picture.
I am confident to say that I am not the only person in Germany who misses his voice in the political theatre desperately. I for sure wished, he weould change his mind and come around to comment on the daily politics again.
If you were more of an observant person you might have noticed that towards the end of his career he seemed to get more and more aggravated, angry. As if he couldn't bear the fact that satire does not change the realities of life anymore. You should definetly watch his programm about capitalism (if you can get one with english subtitles), which was basically the last major programm change / expansion he did.
I'd subscribe to everything you've said, and like to add - yes, he grew notably more cynical towards the end, and I suspect that's why he stopped performing entirely. He often mentioned in his act how he's making cabaret against basically the same things for 20+ years and even went so far to satirize the fact itself by calling his ever-changing stage routine "Bis neulich..." (roughly: "See you yesterday...") for about a decade. So it's a fair assumption he just became increasingly frustrated and exhausted by the futility of his efforts so at some point, he just quit the stage because he either felt he had nothing valuable to add anymore, or people wouldn't learn or listen anyway. Pains me to say but I'm afraid that in the end, the last bitter punchline is he lost his humor.
@@Fiat_Lux_23 Thanks, mate. I couldn't have found a better way to put it. I absolutely agree. Sorry if I was unable to put it right, but english is not my native language.
@@Fiat_Lux_23 I actually met Volker Pispers once after his act and my friend and I talked with him for about 10 minutes. Must be like 15 years ago now, but Pispers definetly left quite an impression. Damn, this guy had both, a sharp mind and a sharp tongue. Can't tell you how often I thought he should return to the stage ever since. In my not so humble opinion his always witty and sarcastic remarks to the political life in Germany and the world are really really missed. I actually think his acts formed the opinions of quite a lot of people on the left and sometimes gave them a more concerted voice. No doubt he influenced my political opinion very much and I am not ashamed to admit that he motivated me to be as well informed as possible about political topics, before making statements about them. I'd love to stumble upon him in his hometown Düsseldorf and invite him to a beer or twelve. :D
@@beatus72 Kann ich ebenfalls nur unterschreiben, inklusive der Tatsache, dass Englisch auch meine Zweitsprache ist... 😜
... und yeah, ich glaube, eigentlich ist er bis zuletzt ein Lehrer geblieben, nur dass er irgendwann den Klassenraum gegen die Bühne und sein minderjähriges Zwangspublikum gegen eine freiwillige und zahlende Kundschaft eingetauscht hat. Naja, und dass seine Saat nicht völlig auf Zement gefallen ist bzw. er gar nicht so wenige Leute sogar ziemlich nachhaltig beeinflusst hat, dafür können wir hier wohl beide ein beredtes Zeugnis ablegen. Das isses auch, was ich ihm am liebsten heute noch manchmal zurufen möchte: "Nein, Volker, es war eben _nicht_ alles umsonst. Du wurdest gesehen, gehört, verstanden, hast einen großen Eindruck hinterlassen und für viele Menschen einen Unterschied gemacht."
@@Fiat_Lux_23 Geht klar. Nimm mich mit, wenn du ihn triffst, ich bin dabei. ^^
Ich vermute, ich erkenne ihn noch so gerade wieder. :D
Aber im Ernst, für mein Gefühl war er zuletzt so weit, dass er seine Bitterkeit auf der Bühne nicht mehr völlig raushalten konnte. Bei seiner Art von Kabarett blieb einem schon früher in jedem Programm das Lachen im Halse stecken, weil er eben immer bittere Wahrheiten bloßlegte, aber für mein Gefühl hat ihn das Ganze auch persönlich mitgenommen. Tat mir leid das zu sehen, ich hätte ihm und uns noch ein langes Bühnenleben gewünscht. Habe bisher niemanden gefunden, der ähnlich informativ und einfach gut ist.
Klaus von Wagner und Max Uthoff sind nicht schlecht, machen aber eine ganz andere Art Kabarett.
10:04 Not Merkel is a dictator, but Merkel is an dictatorship expert.
That's the magic of Volker Pispers.
He's firing shots while spitting facts in a way, nobody else can, while teaching about the mechanics behind economy and wars. You'll have much fun with the later parts. That guy is a pure genius and we kinda lost a great voice, when he decided to retire from performing on stage, because he makes it look so easy. Everybody can follow his words, even if you're not into this topics, and everybody is understanding it, because of his funny and kinda 'simple' style of explaining.
In additon:
This on stage performance is about 20 yrs old, when Schröder still was our chancellor, before Merkel was elected. He talks about Merkel as a dictator, but not in the same way the right movement in Germany, Nazis and conspiracy theorists do. His words sometimes get abused by them and he distanced himself from those movements, that became kinda powerful in the last 10 yrs, especially since Corona began.
You have to continue watching. And yes, if you get worried watching this, you are doing it right. I have no idea why the people where laughing, but when I saw this for the first time I was worried aswell. The americans who always to to look like heroes are as evil as the rest. They just hide it better.
Most laughs from the German audience occurred when Pispers roasted German politicians.
"Is Volker Pispers still alive?" 😂 Love that one
He sadly quit comedy forever
Hard to quit something you never started doing...
Habe den Kanal abonniert! Also, dass Volker Pispers es bis nach Amerika in einen privaten TH-cam Kanal schafft, zeigt mir die Exklusivität des Kanal's, spitze! Super sympathischer Influrenzer!
cons! you are offically red pilled now. Pispers has been a savage - and he did his job with all his heart. we can all only guess why he had to end his career... when you see his shows, you don't need a diploma to come to a conclusion. yeah, sometimes he wasn't accurate (e.g. US citizens aren't dumber than everyone else - he generalized too much) - but all in all he was to the point.
I miss his presence.
Intelligence is to a fairly large degree the availability of thinking tools (and how well you can use them). If you have acquired fewer than someone of equal "innate" intelligence, then you are less intelligent - and the education system in the USA is quite a bit worse on average in that regard, so how are US Americans _not_ dumber on average than many others in "the West" (let alone Japan...)?
@@Wolf-ln1ml Depends on massurement tools for sure.
You are right on Japan, the average IQ is 105. Germany's average is about 100 - US' average is 98. But guess which European Sates have the same or a lower IQ?
France 98, Hungary 98, Italy 97, Latvia 97, Spain 97, Poland 97, Russia 96, Croatia 95, Ukraine 95, Portugal 95, Ukraine 95, Ireland 94, Belarus 93, Gerorgia 92, Greece 92, Bulgaria 91, Turkey 89, Serbia 89
Compared to Singaporeans or Hong Konger Germans are dump as f*ck (both have an average of 108).
Long story short... it's debateable but all in all we have roughly the same intelligence, at least using IQ as an indicator.
Everything Volker said is absolute truth. You can look everything up.
Great respct that you did this Video! Maybe you now understand why most Europeans are despairing when they see what the US government.is doing in the Ukraine. Love and peace from Germany!
You're right, I found it like news!
Most Europeans?
@@spring_in_paris Well, maybe Not….
I assume more Europeans are despairing when they see what the Russian government is doing in Ukraine.
@@hurtigheinz3790 Well, maybe you are right. But the Video is about the US government. It is not about the American people or any other topic.
I hope you will upload the upcoming parts as well. iVery interesting.
Merkel wasn't that bad. She wasn't the best, like any other leader but she was fine and did many thing right.
Some of the things she was criticised for were out of her hands anyways due to our constitution/basic law (Grundgesetz), for example her completely open invitation for any and all refugees to come - _not_ letting them in would have been a violation of §1 already.
So yeah, while she was certainly far from perfect, Pispers is exaggerating quite a bit here (which is also fine since this is cabaret afterall 🙃)
I see differently. She has always failed with the great decisions. The only Chancellor in the history of Germany, who passed his country worse than he got it. With big distance. And what is declared here as humanitarian aid is nonsense. See the crime statistics, see paralelic cultures. See whoever is even clarifying to assimilate German culture. I do not know anyone in my family or friends or acquaintances. Greece rescue? Only burned hero. Atomic force on 0 to drive us now a lot of money costs. More money than many have. There are many other examples. So clearly, this woman was the largest possible accident for Germany. If you still want to discuss examples, call out. Lg
@@gegendenklimagemachtenmenschen What better actual decision could she have made? You've got the advantage of hindsight now, so it should be _really_ easy to come up with better solutions.
Oh, just remember to stay within the limits of our constitution and.. well, reality.
@@Wolf-ln1ml - I don't know if you were born into those decisions, I knew the moment they were made that they were wrong. And not just me. And not afterwards. It's not for nothing that Pispers makes the toughest jokes about her. Do you have any other specific topics you want to talk about?
I can tell you every fact he (Mr. Pispers) sayed is true.
Talked to him a few times backstage several years ago. He´s really a nice guy and very intelligent.
He once say´d: "The truth is so frightening, that the people react with laugh although they should react with horror"
(in german: Die Wahrheit ist so erschreckend, das die Menschen mit lachen reagieren obwohl sie mit Entsetzen reagieren sollten.)
Greetings from Germany.
more a historylesson than satire…
really nice you are reacting to this. I was born and raised in Germany. Pispers was one of my satire heroes. He's like Bill Hicks but with less drugs xD
Wow thanks Bro. I'm celebrating you!!! Much Love from the German part of Switzerland 🙏🙏🙏💚
Maybe check out also Lisa Fitz. She is Bavarian Comedian.
Ore Monika Gruber ❤️❤️❤️
Both are German Bavarian
When you laugh you learn bettet... This is ehy i love political Cabaret. It should hurt. So that we change the shit we do.
when you make sure he is still alive... im still crying tears 🤣
that super dark satire combined with the happy go lucky outtro feels like satire too :D
I am from Bavaria and it’s true. Not all of us but quite a lot of people
shady, thanks for watching Volker Pispers👍
Pispers is a living legend of German political "Kabarett". He is the master of the darkest humor and satire a British wouldn't even think of. His talent to link the worst geopolitical events with historical facts together for a general public, hidden under the belt of humor is priceless.
Thank you Shady for your beautiful energy, you talk how you talk, and i respect you becose you respect every country, culture so on🥰
Yes, he has balls, balls of steel, and what he is talking about is the damn truth that no one dares to say today.
Mate! This was so hard to swallow in!
@@ShaeDerEinzige I know bro, he was a political cabaret artist, but he has retired.
He assumes a lot of background knowledge about the political events in the world, but illuminates them and questions what really happened. Even in German, it is difficult for some to follow all his little allusions and comparisons with other personalities, but it is worth it if you make the effort.
Many people leave the auditorium after his performances thinking, damn, that was hard stuff, sometimes you had to laugh, but sometimes the laughter gets stuck in your throat and the AHA moment sets in. Shit man, the guy is right and reveals some things or shows with the finger on the point, what really happened, far from any propaganda. And there is no country and no government on earth that does not get their punishing blow.
Very often his own government and the chancellor (highest politician similar to a president) Schröder or Merkel got their verbal punishment. This man was simply mind-blowing!
I love your energy and your dedication to explore different styles of comedy! Big up ✌️
He's juggling Molotov's left, right, and center - and "accidently" dropping them 😅
In Germany, we differentiate between comedy, which is just a guy telling funny stuff on stage and political satire called Kabarett, which is sometimes very painful and pours salt in open wounds. Volker Pispers was one of Kabarett's masters (he ended his career on stage a while ago.)
Volker pispers is brilliant.
A very good cabaret artist. 😁
I think the reason why people might say you're speaking too fast is that they're not used to your accent. Advanced English speakers wouldn't have trouble following you, but for some who have not heard this accent before, it can be a bit difficult, I guess.
Also, it's quite funny that Schröder is listed as gas-lobbyist. Most Germans would probably remember him as former German chancellor, even though nowadays he is indeed just a lobbyist for Gazprom.
And Bavarians do like to stress that they're Bavarians rather than Germans. That is kind of true. I like to compare Bavaria to Texas in the US, also because the population is generally quite conservative compared to the rest of the country.
You came across the best cabaret artist of Germany.
15 years ago I saw Volker Pispers life in Düsseldorf.
My stomach hurt when I left the place from laughing so hard.
He is a genius.
With Volker Pispers you can learn something about History !
I love Volker Pispers, he is one of our sharpest and best satire Artists. He always fire on highlevel. Really love him
Greetings from Germany. Thanks for your great reaction to our humor and political comedy. We DO have humor, it just feels like running into a brick wall 😂
Volker Pispers is one of the most knowledged and intelligence Germans. I really love you watching this.