It's quite genius. There are so many boring educational and safety films out there where you probably don't remember a tenth of it. The comical splatter makes this video so memorable!
When I did my FLT course in the UK our instructor showed us thus saying, "This isn't part of the course, but I've got to show you anyway. " Since then I've been recommending it to everyone.
Im 1976 erschienenen populärwissenschaftlichen Buch Das egoistische Gen wurde der englische Begriff meme von Richard Dawkins geprägt. Also, nein, Klaus ist nicht älter als das Konzept eines Memes.
Fun fact: The narrator was Egon Hoegen, a well known voice actor, who worked on "Der 7. Sinn" (The 7th sense), a long running series of traffic education clips on German television. Most Germans recognize his voice immediately.
Even today. It's way before my time on this earth but these are honestly timeless and known across generations. Even the tiktok youth of today is likely to have heard this voice in school, vocational/university, job or even driving school (my driving instructor is/was quite fond of the series you mentioned)
He also was the narrator in Need for Speed 2, who told you about all the cars in the showroom and did the countdown at start of a race. I knew him from that first, since I was born shortly after the 7th sense aired.
And the cherry on the cake is the voice of the narrator. This guy has narrated a TV road safety show for decades, so everybody knows his voice and connects it with instructional films. Yes, a real masterpiece.
@@derniederrheiner4518 yes, I seem to remember the voice from "Berufsgenossenschaft" clips on work place security, too. Although that may be a "Mandela Effect" memory by just projecting the "Der 7. Sinn" which I'd already seen repeatedly as a kid to those other security related clips seen later in my life
Egon Hoegen, einer der besten Sprecher der 70er. Er hat sogar die deutsche Stimme aus dem Off für die ersten Need for Speed Games (Strecken & Autobeschreibungen) gegeben. :)
When I made mine 2 years ago the guy told us..."I know all of you want to watch this film again but since probably everybody in this room has seen it by now we just skip it" I've never been so sad in my life :D
They also showed this masterpiece at the Cannes Film Festival (not kidding!). 😂 Watching your facial expressions, not knowing what you were in for, was priceless. 🤣
This is actually shown during forklift training, seen it over a decade ago. The over the top exaggeration of what could go wrong makes you never forget the lessons. This is educational genius.
did a forklift education almost 20 years ago. in our last training unit before the final exam they showed us this gem. everyone was pretty nervous then lol. thx for the flashback. had a good laugh
I was also trained to drive forklifts at the same time, but they never showed me that video. My guess is, my trainer and boss didn't want to show it, because - I kid you not - his name was also Klaus.
Fun fact: They used pig‘s blood in that movie because fake blood was to expansive. The actor of Staplerfahrer Klaus said he would never do it again because the iron taste of that blood was so disgusting.
The new rookies in our company , watch this vid at the first day, first day was always safety instructions. After the film , a forklift driver comes in to the class, "Hallo, ich bin der Klaus, ich bin hier Staplerfahrer" "hello , i am Klaus, the forklift driver" Everyone was scared and had huge respekt from this Day. We have no major incidents for decades.
There are at least 2 similar videos: Friseuse Claudia (Hairdresser Claudia). That one's about hair dressing and you probably can imagine, what might happen there. :D And the second video is called "Elektriker Horst" (Electrician Horst). Both of them can be found on TH-cam as well, but I don't know, if there are versions with English subtitles.
This movie is an absolute german classic made in 2000. The voice is also of a typical german speaker in the 80's and 90's explaining traffic situations and stuff. That video really spread around in the beginning of the 2000's in LAN Partys and stuff. I love it :D
My father showed that video to me when I was like 12 or 13, when he bought it on DVD. It was the first film we had on DVD and since we didn't have a DVD player and no PS2, we watched it on my father's PC, since he had had a DVD drive for years as part of his "future-proofing" of his office. A true classic.
Ah a Kult Classic. I saw that back in 2000 in the cinema. I was at the Fantasy Film Festival and this masterpiece was presented before the feature film. Starting as an educational film an escalating quickly.
Loved this. I bought that even on dvd those days😂😂😂 Actually it was not a training video, but a satire. Just it was so good that it was even used as training video.
I have this as the original DVD release in my collection. The film itself is 9:30 min., plus 75 min. of bonus features. Pure gold. The fact, that this was meant as a nothing but a parody, but for decades forklift drivers have seriously watched this at training classes, is hilarious.😂
Had to immediately click your video after reading the title! Staplerfahrer Klaus is a staple of german comedy condensed into an educational video! (pun intended) 😂
Morbid humor makes the safety briefing more memorable. The best way to learn is to be cheerful. I think the makers of the video knew exactly what they were doing. And I wouldn't be surprised if the workplace accidents depicted hadn't happened before. Yes, somehow it is a masterpiece.
I always had the impression that it was a parody and not intended to be used as training material but ended up in actual lectures because companies realized it would probably work better than conventional clips since the audience won't fall asleep during the ordeal.
Staplerfahrer Klaus is the over the top video of scenarios you can actually encounter in your work as a forklift driver but dialed up to 20/10 to bring the point REALLY across
This clip was CULT in many german companies. We laughed ous A... off when we watched this. There was a german security TV-series back then that was called "Der 7te Sinn" (the 7th sense) for cars and traffic that was very similar (except not funny though). If I'm not wrong (this is only a good guess) the narrator was the same one as in 7th sense, a guy called Egon Hoegen, but I'm only 90% sure. Greets from Germany as always!
We had one forklift at the research insititute where I did my master's thesis. The machine had been christened "Klaus" and had the name in large letters on either side.
This safety training is the stuff of legends here in Germany. The best part is the fact that they showed the complete, uncut, gory, bloody piece to the audience at every training where it was shown as well as where ever you could find it in the web. Needless to say that there where also skeptic voices if it comes to the violence within this movie but the creators insisted that this over the top violence level is needed in order to get the message across to the audience that safety at work is key here.
Finest security satire as a homage to the German security standard, which is sometimes exaggerated, but often exaggerated for a reason, as KLAUS proves here!
It's a long while ago, probably was a kid, when I watched this. While being quiet graphic, the short film was goofy enough, that it is just funny. A cult classic in germany.
The "Sicherheitsfilm" is a genre worth watching. When I did my PhD we had to renew our Laser-Safety-Education annually. The dean did not bother looking for the right VHS-Tape but lent out the tapes in a big basket alltogether. So we held a "Long night of the Sicherheitsfilm" with a lot of beer. 10/10 would watch again.
Yes, I was waiting for so many years for someone to react to this! The laughs I had together with my apprenticeship collegues to this video are priceless. I wish I could go back.
A Classic! I first watched this in 1998 or around there. And it doesn't get old, does it! Not every reactor would be able to appreciate this, I guess - but it certainly was Mert-worthy!
I'm pretty sure that some teacher showed us this in a lesson. Unfortunately I don't remember the subject. But the whole class died laughing. That's the proof that it is a piece of german culture. Even my father knows it.
@6.38 EVERY Worker in the world has a least 1 of those co-workers in the team ! In my first job we had this colleague, his name was Joachim, who always liked to take risks. During many events he always went and said "dont be afraid, it'll work out" and we always said "No, don't do that, it will end badly!" and it always ended disastrously. to which he always replied "oh shit, now we've messed up!" and we every time "what do you mean by WE ?" Luckily it mostly remained just bruises.
German here. Of course i have this flick in my movie collection on DVD. I laughed tears the first time i saw it because it was just freaking hilarious. The narrator is actually a very well known and an highly respected guy named Egon Hoegen, who was mostly known for his narration works for instructional segments about traffic safety in a PBS show called "Der siebente Sinn" (The seventh sense) and he could also be heard narrating the Car specs for every car in the very first "The Need for Speed" game. So his respectable reputation really gets you the first time you watch the movie and this really sells it to you and gets you off guard when things start to go off the rails :D
Ah yes Staplerfahrer Klaus. Also watched it in professional school. 😁 And not to forget the great voice of the narrator! This made Need for Speed 2 so awesome!
The weird meeting of comedic timing and horror tension you mention around 8:50 is why Jordan Peele is so good at making horror movies. And why this piece of ...graphic comedic work place security instruction... is truly legendary in Germany.
Ah, Staplerfahrer Klaus, a classic German education video. We had to watch this documentary as apprentices. I'm an extraordinary safe worker since then. Thank you, Klaus!😊✌🏼
Oh Dear, it was so much fun to watch your reaction. I was laughing so hard seeing your facial expressions and to know how weird and extrem the video will go on.❤ Actually I had forgotten how extreme and disturbing this parody of an safety instruction/training-video really was. This bring back some weird but funny memories. I started my training (Berufsausbildung) as an chemical laboratory assistant (Chemielaborant-in) in 2002. And our instructors (Ausbilder) show our class this video in the first weeks (Einführungswochen) of our 3 1/2 year working training as an door opener/introduction to the huge topic "safety" especially in an industrial working environment. Really, this video made us aware how important safety and following of safety instructions are. Just to point this out, we where in between the age of 16 to 23 at this time. So to show us this video would maybe be in other countries be unthinkable. Course, obviously it is really disturbing. But I would say this short film, that is obviously meant as an parody, made an impact at us young people. That how borrowing and repetitive safety trainings (Sicherheitsschulungen), job safety analysis( Gefährdungsbeurteilung) and so on often are, it's important to take this serious. Especially in an industrial working environment. And also we get an idea of the structure of real safety instruction videos. I mean is this not the essential core from good Satire or parodys? That you laugh, you maybe are disturbed but it also planted a little seed in your mind? I would say "Staplerfahrer Klaus" is parody at its best. So thank you for your reaction. ❤
OMG! It's so great to be here among like-minded people! We watched this film after our forklift license test when we were working as student assistants in logistics at Daimler. There wasn't a single accident!
4:53 - "No way man, I didn't think this would be so graphic!" Me, knowing what's coming in the next handful of minutes: **Smiles and takes a drag on cigarette**
I saw Staplerfahrer Klaus the first time in Cinema at the premiere, the makers of the movie were there and sold DVDs afterwards. It was part of "Fantasy Filmfest", so the audience was just right for Staplerfahrer Klaus... will never forget. It was the pre-movie and I don't remember the main movie... 😂
I love this video. We used to show it during my apprenticeship in a big industrial corp in Germany almost 20 years ago. 😂 But I love to see your face expression. Obviously you hardly can imagine, that this video was meant for serious Education purpose. 😂
Such a classic and so much better when you know the actual predecessor series "der 7. Sinn". It also manages to repeat the core message so well that every time I am about to do something risky, my mind says "Aber Klaus, du weißt doch". I hope you learned that as well from watching this, Matt 😅
Well recorded and commented on. An absolute masterpiece in many aspects. This kind of special creativity has become rarer in recent times. A rare commodity of parodic dramaturgy.
I don't know if the current youth knows this because there is just so much on TH-cam but the generations before all know this clip. It's a video you got shown somehow by somebody at some point, in my case back then on VHS. They'll smile and tell you just to go along with it without explaining what you'll see or why. It's deceptive because it starts exactly like actual instructional videos of that era including the same voice actors. It's a must-watch for any male youths, anyone with dark humour, horror-fans and of course people working in these places. Even my father knew this, who, coincidentally, is named "Klaus" and has worked forklifts before (although his primary job was cranes). It got what we now call "viral" and "meme" status even without the internet. It was the kind of video a supply teacher might show you late friday when he doesn't know the subject he is supposed to substitute (hoping nobody will tell the parents).
I can't believe you've reached your "Staplerfahrer Klaus" level of Germanization. 😄🥳🥇
next one should be Elektriker Horst :D
😂😂ich kanns nicht fassen
Never thought I would watch a reaction to this old masterpiece 😂
@@pflatzi3180 Danke, den kannte ich noch gar nicht. ;-)
This is absolutely next level 😂
I kid you not. I am a trained forklift driver and we HAD TO WATCH THIS FOR TRAINING 😂
The apex of cinematography: Producing a training video that leaves a lasting impression.
It's quite genius. There are so many boring educational and safety films out there where you probably don't remember a tenth of it.
The comical splatter makes this video so memorable!
When I did my FLT course in the UK our instructor showed us thus saying, "This isn't part of the course, but I've got to show you anyway. "
Since then I've been recommending it to everyone.
Same
Same (swiss)
His first "oh it's so graphic" was so hilarious knowing what was still to come
Get ready for a wild ride then xD
Same here. Was laughing so hard at his "so graphic"😂😂😂
i was giggeling every time he said it... :D
This is like 25 years old and still hilarious. It starts like a dry training film and ends in absurd gore without end.
@@derbasti8507 me too 🤣 I sounded like a maniac 😅
That video was already a meme in germany before the concept of a meme existed..
interessant
@@mats7492 ja, mein Bruder hat es mir damals auf VHS gezeigt
True. This circled on CD-ROMs on school yards long before many of us had working internet.
Im 1976 erschienenen populärwissenschaftlichen Buch Das egoistische Gen wurde der englische Begriff meme von Richard Dawkins geprägt. Also, nein, Klaus ist nicht älter als das Konzept eines Memes.
@@Nobody_Cares913 Das Konzet des Internet memes besteht seit den frühen 2000ern!
once worked for a company where all fork lifts had a "Sei kein Klaus"(Don't be a Klaus) sticker on the console 😆
Fun fact: The narrator was Egon Hoegen, a well known voice actor, who worked on "Der 7. Sinn" (The 7th sense), a long running series of traffic education clips on German television. Most Germans recognize his voice immediately.
Even today. It's way before my time on this earth but these are honestly timeless and known across generations. Even the tiktok youth of today is likely to have heard this voice in school, vocational/university, job or even driving school (my driving instructor is/was quite fond of the series you mentioned)
...he also did the voiceovers for the news-speaker in Starship Troopers 1.... ...."do you want to know more?" classic!
He also was the narrator in Need for Speed 2, who told you about all the cars in the showroom and did the countdown at start of a race. I knew him from that first, since I was born shortly after the 7th sense aired.
Jep we do^^ Tolle Stimme.
der 7. sinn is epic. always watched it as a kid. maybe thats why i am a safety fetishist, lol
And the cherry on the cake is the voice of the narrator. This guy has narrated a TV road safety show for decades, so everybody knows his voice and connects it with instructional films. Yes, a real masterpiece.
I mean, he also speaks on various corporate security videos.
@@derniederrheiner4518 yes, I seem to remember the voice from "Berufsgenossenschaft" clips on work place security, too. Although that may be a "Mandela Effect" memory by just projecting the "Der 7. Sinn" which I'd already seen repeatedly as a kid to those other security related clips seen later in my life
Egon Hoegen, einer der besten Sprecher der 70er. Er hat sogar die deutsche Stimme aus dem Off für die ersten Need for Speed Games (Strecken & Autobeschreibungen) gegeben. :)
Glaube in Starship Troopers hat er auch die Propaganda-Clips gesprochen? Kann das sein?
@@YenLoWangx Ja. Der Sprecher war auch in Starship Troopers. "Do you want to know more?"
I clicked on this so fast! 🤣Staplerfahrer Klaus is the back bone of Gabelstapler-education!
When I made mine 2 years ago the guy told us..."I know all of you want to watch this film again but since probably everybody in this room has seen it by now we just skip it" I've never been so sad in my life :D
Yes it is. In Germany there is no forklift-driver who has not seen this video, I hope.
"So graphic" on the knife :D
No idea what he's in for
My thought exactly - "Oh, you sweet, sweet summer child, you have no idea what you signed up for" xD
Mert at 4 minutes in : " I'm liking this already"
Me: "You are NOT prepared"
Forklifter Driver Klaus is a true legend amongst german plant workers.
Mert at 6:00: so grafic!
Me: you haven't seen anything 😂
I am a german nurse and this is even absolutely legend amongst german nurses.
"so graphic" at 5:48 is pure gold, when you know what's to come.
Haven't seen this in a hot minute. It's as good as ever, german humor in a nutshell.
They also showed this masterpiece at the Cannes Film Festival (not kidding!). 😂
Watching your facial expressions, not knowing what you were in for, was priceless. 🤣
It was the German entry on the subject "short film" and/or "satire/parody"
This is actually shown during forklift training, seen it over a decade ago. The over the top exaggeration of what could go wrong makes you never forget the lessons. This is educational genius.
Wie beim Struwelpeter
Also ab ungefähr 10 Minuten wird ja Edukationsweise nicht mehr so viel zugeführt. Danach ist nur ein Monty Python-Sketch übrig...
This brings back memories.
Can't believe it aged so well. It's still every bit as entertaining as it used to be 20 years ago.
An absolute classic 😂
I'm a safety trainer and HSE consultant in Italy and when I provide forklift training this video is MANDATORY.
Best Example for " that escalated quickly" ... 🤣🤣🤣
That's the kind of material Quentin Tarrantino got his inspirations from.
But never reached that quality!
Hey, be careful what you wish for! Quentin has wanted to make a really graphic series of parodies based on European PSA"s for years!😅
The amount of blood and gore make it look like a Quentin Tarantino movie 😂 Kill Bill meets work safety
the english subtitle "one doesn't even need to be handy in order to fix this." is even better than the original xD
This was shown as an unaccounced pre-movie in the cinema here. I don't even remember the main movie we went to watch, but I'll never forget this :)
At the FantasyFilmFest it was shown before Jason X. Crowd expecting a slasher movie to come went nuts.
@@svengang541 Thanks for the reminder - I´ve seen it - and it has been way better than Jason X ;-)
did a forklift education almost 20 years ago. in our last training unit before the final exam they showed us this gem. everyone was pretty nervous then lol. thx for the flashback. had a good laugh
Brittas boyfriend here, also forklift driver, saw it in training too.
I was also trained to drive forklifts at the same time, but they never showed me that video. My guess is, my trainer and boss didn't want to show it, because - I kid you not - his name was also Klaus.
this is so genius, Mert doesn't know what to expect, yet and I'm already rolling on the floor
Fun fact: They used pig‘s blood in that movie because fake blood was to expansive. The actor of Staplerfahrer Klaus said he would never do it again because the iron taste of that blood was so disgusting.
Never say that we germans don't have humour! We do have! 😂Absolutely legend!!
Only in the workplace.
German humor is no laughing matter.
Mensch, lass den running gag doch einfach laufen, du Banane!
The new rookies in our company , watch this vid at the first day, first day was always safety instructions. After the film , a forklift driver comes in to the class, "Hallo, ich bin der Klaus, ich bin hier Staplerfahrer" "hello , i am Klaus, the forklift driver" Everyone was scared and had huge respekt from this Day. We have no major incidents for decades.
There are at least 2 similar videos: Friseuse Claudia (Hairdresser Claudia). That one's about hair dressing and you probably can imagine, what might happen there. :D
And the second video is called "Elektriker Horst" (Electrician Horst). Both of them can be found on TH-cam as well, but I don't know, if there are versions with English subtitles.
Danke. Ich kannte Klaus, aber die anderen beiden noch nicht. Guck ich mir an 😊
Cool danke, wusste ich auch noch nicht, dass es noch mehr davon gibt.
ther is also one for sewage workers but cant remember the title
your expression changing at 6:59 was great! :D from a amused smile to a "WHAT AM I WITNESSING HERE?!" :D
a legend for decades
Yepp, this video is ANCIENT! I watched it back during MY internship and it was hilarious back in the early 90's. 😃
@@RustyDust101Me too 😂
@@RustyDust101 It's from 2000.
This movie is an absolute german classic made in 2000. The voice is also of a typical german speaker in the 80's and 90's explaining traffic situations and stuff.
That video really spread around in the beginning of the 2000's in LAN Partys and stuff. I love it :D
I have been shown this on a bad VHS tape in February 2000 (Truck driver education) so I guess it's much older
@@matthiashunstock4713 yeah but it becme the first viral video with faster internet and shortly after clip hosters as youtube became a thing
I think, every german Forklift Driver knows this Movie!😂🤣😂❤👍
I hope so!! 😂
And not only the fork lift drivers.
My father showed that video to me when I was like 12 or 13, when he bought it on DVD. It was the first film we had on DVD and since we didn't have a DVD player and no PS2, we watched it on my father's PC, since he had had a DVD drive for years as part of his "future-proofing" of his office.
A true classic.
Ah a staple of german internetculture
A sidenote: In swabian dialect stapeln l is called beiga. In scandinavian languages bygge means to build....
A STAPLEr! 😉😂
@@brittakriep2938In Scotland, "big" means build in the Scots language as well. Lots of Norse influence in Scotland.
@@ThePixel1983 : Der Stapler is the forklift, Stapel are for example a number of boxes over each other, and stapeln is the verb.
@@brittakriep2938 Ich weiß, don't ruin my pun! 😜
Forklift driver Klaus is very well known in German companies.
Nobody wants to be blamed for something like this, so hopefully everyone is careful.
i work in the IT field and i had to watch this video during training :D
Ah a Kult Classic. I saw that back in 2000 in the cinema. I was at the Fantasy Film Festival and this masterpiece was presented before the feature film. Starting as an educational film an escalating quickly.
It is an educational film. everyone who made a licence for these things have to watch it.
Loved this. I bought that even on dvd those days😂😂😂
Actually it was not a training video, but a satire. Just it was so good that it was even used as training video.
I have this as the original DVD release in my collection. The film itself is 9:30 min., plus 75 min. of bonus features. Pure gold.
The fact, that this was meant as a nothing but a parody, but for decades forklift drivers have seriously watched this at training classes, is hilarious.😂
Ich hab die gleiche DVD. Die geb ich nie wieder her. 😀
I liked it when he said ITS SO GRAPHIC for the second incident NOT KNOWING what was about to come 😅
There is no forklift driver in germany who didn't see that masterpiece!
Bought that DVD 20 years ago... a short summary "Well, that escalated quickly"
Your facial expressions during this video was pure gold man😆
This old gem.. was fantastic to see it again after decades.
Your shocked face in between was fantastic, too. ^^
YES!!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR WATCHING THIS!!!❤❤❤
Your reaction was priceless 🎉🎉
Had to immediately click your video after reading the title! Staplerfahrer Klaus is a staple of german comedy condensed into an educational video! (pun intended) 😂
You never forget that.
In the time of my education, it was a MUST, to see this. 😂
Greatings from a former german Staplerfahrer. 😄
Morbid humor makes the safety briefing more memorable.
The best way to learn is to be cheerful.
I think the makers of the video knew exactly what they were doing.
And I wouldn't be surprised if the workplace accidents depicted hadn't happened before.
Yes, somehow it is a masterpiece.
I always had the impression that it was a parody and not intended to be used as training material but ended up in actual lectures because companies realized it would probably work better than conventional clips since the audience won't fall asleep during the ordeal.
Staplerfahrer Klaus is the over the top video of scenarios you can actually encounter in your work as a forklift driver but dialed up to 20/10 to bring the point REALLY across
This clip was CULT in many german companies. We laughed ous A... off when we watched this. There was a german security TV-series back then that was called "Der 7te Sinn" (the 7th sense) for cars and traffic that was very similar (except not funny though). If I'm not wrong (this is only a good guess) the narrator was the same one as in 7th sense, a guy called Egon Hoegen, but I'm only 90% sure. Greets from Germany as always!
It's the same guy 👍🏻
@@phillyspecialcgn4698 yup- just read in the original video at the end- thx anyway
That's one of the best workplace security education videos in Germany, you never will forget what you have learned. 🤣🤣🤣
We had one forklift at the research insititute where I did my master's thesis.
The machine had been christened "Klaus" and had the name in large letters on either side.
This safety training is the stuff of legends here in Germany. The best part is the fact that they showed the complete, uncut, gory, bloody piece to the audience at every training where it was shown as well as where ever you could find it in the web. Needless to say that there where also skeptic voices if it comes to the violence within this movie but the creators insisted that this over the top violence level is needed in order to get the message across to the audience that safety at work is key here.
Finest security satire as a homage to the German security standard, which is sometimes exaggerated, but often exaggerated for a reason, as KLAUS proves here!
My father showed me that video when I was 8 years old and it traumatised me for several years...
At least now I can just laugh about it :)
It's a long while ago, probably was a kid, when I watched this. While being quiet graphic, the short film was goofy enough, that it is just funny. A cult classic in germany.
The "Sicherheitsfilm" is a genre worth watching. When I did my PhD we had to renew our Laser-Safety-Education annually. The dean did not bother looking for the right VHS-Tape but lent out the tapes in a big basket alltogether. So we held a "Long night of the Sicherheitsfilm" with a lot of beer. 10/10 would watch again.
„Schadensmeldung eines Dachdeckers“ is another awesome teaching Video
Yes, I was waiting for so many years for someone to react to this! The laughs I had together with my apprenticeship collegues to this video are priceless. I wish I could go back.
YES! finally someone does this!!!
You're the best. crossing fingers for a good translation
I have seen this video for the first time about 22 years ago when I started my apprenticeship. Still a great video! :D Glad you liked it.
I work in germany in a metal company and got an forklift license years ago. We watched this video too ;D
This German Cinematic Masterpiece is now 24 years old. Glad you found it 😂
A Classic! I first watched this in 1998 or around there. And it doesn't get old, does it!
Not every reactor would be able to appreciate this, I guess - but it certainly was Mert-worthy!
The movie was released 2000.
I remember we watched XVid Rips on LAN-Parties in th early 2000's.
It's odd... sources say 2000 or 2001, but I'm pretty sure to have seen it in early 2000 for the first time and it was not in a cinema
Hooray! This film is *ICONIC* ! 😂
12:04
It is amazing that you made it, and it so so fun to see how you appreciate it. 😁 "Bloody good"! 😁
The classic parody on safety training films.
We had this as a safety instruction video when I was an apprentice.. trust me, you'll never do it wrong after watching this! 😂
best german video production ever created
EIN KLASSIKER!!!! ich hab den film schon vor 20 Jahren geliebt!
The funny thing is that this film was meant as a parody of educational films of the 1970s and 1980s. But it is used as an educational film now.
Finally you reacted to it! Thank you very much!!! 😆
I'm pretty sure that some teacher showed us this in a lesson. Unfortunately I don't remember the subject. But the whole class died laughing. That's the proof that it is a piece of german culture. Even my father knows it.
Some say that German's has no Sence off HUMOR 😊
That's an error in translation. We only got no senf of humor.
@@Flamebeard0815 good one!
@@Flamebeard0815 Someone has to give his Mustard to that
We have the Sense of humor. You just have to know that the German word Sense means scythe.
I love the completely buffled "ok..." of yours, after a few seconds of silence, at 9:57, followed by "I see why this is recommended to me ...
@6.38 EVERY Worker in the world has a least 1 of those co-workers in the team ! In my first job we had this colleague, his name was Joachim, who always liked to take risks. During many events he always went and said "dont be afraid, it'll work out" and we always said "No, don't do that, it will end badly!" and it always ended disastrously. to which he always replied "oh shit, now we've messed up!" and we every time "what do you mean by WE ?" Luckily it mostly remained just bruises.
German here. Of course i have this flick in my movie collection on DVD. I laughed tears the first time i saw it because it was just freaking hilarious. The narrator is actually a very well known and an highly respected guy named Egon Hoegen, who was mostly known for his narration works for instructional segments about traffic safety in a PBS show called "Der siebente Sinn" (The seventh sense) and he could also be heard narrating the Car specs for every car in the very first "The Need for Speed" game. So his respectable reputation really gets you the first time you watch the movie and this really sells it to you and gets you off guard when things start to go off the rails :D
The guy who played Klaus is now the german voice for Bob from Bob's Burgers
Ah yes Staplerfahrer Klaus. Also watched it in professional school. 😁
And not to forget the great voice of the narrator! This made Need for Speed 2 so awesome!
If you've survived this antic classic video - then you're really GERMANIZED!
Old, but gold! I watched this in the early 90's already. 😂
It's the best ❤😂
its epic, we're still watching it from time to time, soooo freaking good 😂😂
As a German, I can say that this is the only kind of humor we have.
Do you need more?
@@oneukum No no, that's the best part about us.
~20+ years ago I've watched it with two friends, we almost died from laughter, because we could almost not breathe any more for half an hour. xD
The work saftey splatter vid 😂
Got to watch it 20 years ago. Impressive it's still known today 😊
Its actually the final exam of a bunch of film students from 2001ish.
I saw the video of “Forklift Klaus” back when I was training to become a forklift driver. Everyone who was there couldn’t laugh anymore.. Lol 😆😂🤣
A classic
The weird meeting of comedic timing and horror tension you mention around 8:50 is why Jordan Peele is so good at making horror movies.
And why this piece of ...graphic comedic work place security instruction... is truly legendary in Germany.
This is what we watch for fun in Germany.
Ah, Staplerfahrer Klaus, a classic German education video. We had to watch this documentary as apprentices. I'm an extraordinary safe worker since then. Thank you, Klaus!😊✌🏼
Mind, this just was my first day at job. ;-) Yeah, there were some minor issues..
Oh, they were able to sew the head back on? Good for you, man! 😁
🤣🤣
Oh Dear,
it was so much fun to watch your reaction.
I was laughing so hard seeing your facial expressions and to know how weird and extrem the video will go on.❤
Actually I had forgotten how extreme and disturbing this parody of an safety instruction/training-video really was.
This bring back some weird but funny memories.
I started my training (Berufsausbildung) as an chemical laboratory assistant (Chemielaborant-in) in 2002.
And our instructors (Ausbilder) show our class this video in the first weeks (Einführungswochen) of our 3 1/2 year working training as an door opener/introduction to the huge topic "safety" especially in an industrial working environment.
Really, this video made us aware how important safety and following of safety instructions are.
Just to point this out, we where in between the age of 16 to 23 at this time.
So to show us this video would maybe be in other countries be unthinkable. Course, obviously it is really disturbing.
But I would say this short film, that is obviously meant as an parody, made an impact at us young people.
That how borrowing and repetitive safety trainings (Sicherheitsschulungen), job safety analysis( Gefährdungsbeurteilung) and so on often are, it's important to take this serious. Especially in an industrial working environment.
And also we get an idea of the structure of real safety instruction videos.
I mean is this not the essential core from good Satire or parodys? That you laugh, you maybe are disturbed but it also planted a little seed in your mind?
I would say "Staplerfahrer Klaus" is parody at its best.
So thank you for your reaction. ❤
OMG! It's so great to be here among like-minded people! We watched this film after our forklift license test when we were working as student assistants in logistics at Daimler. There wasn't a single accident!
4:53 - "No way man, I didn't think this would be so graphic!"
Me, knowing what's coming in the next handful of minutes: **Smiles and takes a drag on cigarette**
I once showed this my Masterseargent at the Bundeswehr. A very calmed man, he laughed his ass off.... and couldn´t stop
I saw Staplerfahrer Klaus the first time in Cinema at the premiere, the makers of the movie were there and sold DVDs afterwards. It was part of "Fantasy Filmfest", so the audience was just right for Staplerfahrer Klaus... will never forget. It was the pre-movie and I don't remember the main movie... 😂
I love this video. We used to show it during my apprenticeship in a big industrial corp in Germany almost 20 years ago. 😂
But I love to see your face expression. Obviously you hardly can imagine, that this video was meant for serious Education purpose. 😂
Such a classic and so much better when you know the actual predecessor series "der 7. Sinn". It also manages to repeat the core message so well that every time I am about to do something risky, my mind says "Aber Klaus, du weißt doch". I hope you learned that as well from watching this, Matt 😅
Well recorded and commented on. An absolute masterpiece in many aspects. This kind of special creativity has become rarer in recent times. A rare commodity of parodic dramaturgy.
That Video was shown to us in the Berufsschule!😅
It is legendary!!!
I don't know if the current youth knows this because there is just so much on TH-cam but the generations before all know this clip. It's a video you got shown somehow by somebody at some point, in my case back then on VHS. They'll smile and tell you just to go along with it without explaining what you'll see or why. It's deceptive because it starts exactly like actual instructional videos of that era including the same voice actors. It's a must-watch for any male youths, anyone with dark humour, horror-fans and of course people working in these places. Even my father knew this, who, coincidentally, is named "Klaus" and has worked forklifts before (although his primary job was cranes).
It got what we now call "viral" and "meme" status even without the internet. It was the kind of video a supply teacher might show you late friday when he doesn't know the subject he is supposed to substitute (hoping nobody will tell the parents).