The Blue Angel

Gueswende yerbanga

LEH 355 H02W 50910

Assignment DUE 3/8 The Blue Angel

I choose the first cabaret song "No Time" (Keine Zeit)

“Nowadays, a person doesn't have a second to spare.
Yet many even think the pace is too slow.
If you do business today, you go bankrupt before you have even started.
People don't want to waste time with the beginning;
they'd rather skip straight to the end.
In this day and age, you fall in love in the evening, are engaged at night,
and get married the next morning.
At noon you have a fight; by night you're divorced.
In negotiations between countries, before a treaty is evened signed,
it's already broken.
Because nowadays it is considered chic to be quick.”

In German:

“Man laesst sich weit und breit heut nicht mehr Sekunde Zeit heut.
Es geht im Gegenteil uns noch zu langsam fast.
Machst du Geschaefte heute, bist du bereits schon pleite, bevor du ueberhaupt noch angefangen hast.
Man moecht am liebsten, ja das soll’s geben, das Ende noch vor Beginne leben.
Heut verliebt man sich abends, verlobt sich bei Nacht und vermaehlt in der Frueh sich zufriede und am Mittag da hat man bereits sich verkracht und am Abend ist man wieder geschieden.

Findet heut zwischen Laendern Verhandlungen statt und die Herren haben alles besprochen, ja dann wird noch bevor unterzeichnet man hat, der geschlossene Vertrag schon gebrochen,
denn das findt man heut chick, denn wir sind ja so quick.
Es ist gleich, ob wir heute reell sind, denn die Hauptsache ist, dass wir schnell sind.”

According to me, “no time” as the tittle said means to not have time for something. Some events (necessary and unnecessary) are useful for us but we judge and classify them as unnecessary because of the lack of time. Also, some of us think that time are moving slowly:  we want everything in our life to speed up. The author here is criticizing us for always complaining our lack of time because by judging that we do not have time to wait for something, to think about something and take a good decision, in our rush we will take the wrong decision and after will kind of regret. For example, he said in the lyrics “In this day and age, you fall in love in the evening, are engaged at night, and get married the next morning. At noon you have a fight; by night you're divorced.” That means, you meet someone, you fall in love with that person in the evening, you do not even wait to know more about that person, you get married with the person the same next morning and the same night you are already regretting and want to file for divorce. In conclusion, the author is inviting us for our safety to take our time to thing about long and short-term actions before we make any reasonable decision.

I choose these lyrics because the topic is sometimes realist: time and the topic can be applied to us. Today, everything is based on time but we are all busy and we do not have time to think about what we are doing or what we want to do. For example: myself. I am not going to church every Sunday because I do not have time I said. But I know it is not about that, it is just an excuse for me. If God tell me to come every Sunday and take millions of dollars, I will be the first at church every Sunday. By listening this sung, I understand what the author wants from us: take our time, thing about your decision and take an action that you will not regret in the future.

 

I choose the second cabaret song "Night Ghost" (Nachtgespenst)

“When the housewife chains the hallway door at night, I’m standing right outside.
Without hurry, I file the chain away, and there I am.
As the daughter is putting on her nightgown, I enter her room.
I feel sorry for her.
I’m the night ghost, your sweet night ghost,
I wake you up each time you call me your darling.
Don’t be so scared, It's only me waking you.
And after you have been uncovered,
you will get tucked in again.
When I climb through the window,
I have no interest in taking your jewels,
Only your ivory skin appeals to me.
As a night ghost I don’t take any shiny jewels;
only enough for the return fare.”

In German:
 “Legt die Hausfrau nachts die Kette hoch, im Korridor, steh ich davor.
Mit der Feile ohne Eile, keck, feil ich se weg. Da liegt der Dreck.
Waehrend sich die Tochter gerade kleid, tret ich bei ihr ein, sie tut mir leid.
Ich bin das Nachtgespenst, dein suesses Nachtgespenst.
Ich weck dich, wenn du pennst, sooft wie’s du mich Liebling nennst.
Sei bloss nicht so erschreckt, du wirst nur aufgeweckt.
Und wenn du aufgedeckt, dann wirst du wieder zugedeckt.
Steig ich durchs Fenster ein, reizt micht kein Edelstein.
Nein, nur dein Elfenbein reizt mich allein.
Ich nehm als Nachtgespenst kein Steuckchen mit, was glaenzt.
Ich brauch wirklich nur das Fahrtgeld retour.”

According to me, this lyric describes how a woman (mother) can take care of her family. As a mother, she is so happy and proud of herself to take a look to her family.  She is anywhere at any time her family needs her. When the author said “I wake you up each time you call me your darling. Don’t be so scared, It's only me waking you”, that means she is like a ghost hunting her family, protecting them day and night. A mother does not want anything bad to happen to her family.

I choose this topic because it is a realist topic and can be applied to us. It explains the unconditional and incalculable love of a mother for her family. We can never count the love of a mother with her family, especially children. Like me for example, I have a daughter who is two years and two month older. She is everything in my life for me, I take care of her since her was a baby until now. I am ready to do everything for her. I love her so much.  I also chose this topic because it is talking about LOVE. All of us know what is love and no one can avoid falling in love one day. By listening this song, you can get more idea about what is love and how to take care of someone you love.

Paragraph 175: "A male who commits a sex offense with another male or allows himself to be used by another male for a sex offense shall be punished with imprisonment. Where a party was not yet twenty-one years of age at the time of the act, the court may in especially minor cases refrain from punishment."

This paragraph is a national prohibition added to the Reich Penal Code. This paragraph means that being homosexual man is prohibited by the law and the punishment will be imprisonment. The exemption of this law is the fact that if at the time of the act one of the parties is minor (under 21 years old), the court can specialty do not applied the imprisonment punishment.

This paragraph is relate to this lecture in the fact that they both talking about The Weimar Republic. Indeed, the Weimar Republic  is the “name given by historians to the federal republic and semi presidential representative democracy established in 1919 in Germany to replace the imperial form of government”. After -World War I German society controlled by the Nazi Party want to control Germany. Therefore, the Nazi’s come up with some new laws. One of the biggest new laws is the one in paragraph 175 judging sex offenders. This law gave to German judges the authority and power to judge all homosexuality acts between men, illicit sex acts with minor.

In addition to that, this paragraph is related to the lecture in the sense that in this paragraph we are learning about Germany homophobia after world war. Know, I know that the Germany under the Nazi’s party was again homosexuality. I have learn more about Germany through this lecture.