Återsken fantastiska amerika
Amerika
Review by John Winterson Richards
By one of those strange coincidences that seem to happen a lot, your reviewer was a few episodes into watching Amerika, a largely forgotten miniseries starring Kris Kristofferson, when the news of his passing came through. Kristofferson was one of those people who made everyone else envious because they seem to excel at everything they try. He was a Rhodes Scholar, a natural athlete (a boxing Blue at Oxford who played rugby for his College), a literally high flying professional soldier in every sense (a Captain, a Ranger, and a qualified helicopter pilot) before "dropping out" in the Sixties, one of the most talented songwriters of a talented generation as well as a distinctive singer, a member of the Highwaymen "supergroup," and, the point here, a very successful actor. If it is fair to say that his acting relied more on his presence than on technical skill, it was still enough for him to dominate scenes even with first class players. In Amerika, he only has to stand motionless, like a statue of an older and grizzled version of Jesus, to make a point.
Given his hippie-ish politics, Amerika seems a ver
Amerika
Barely out of childhood, Karl Roßmann crosses the ocean in the belly of a steamship. Cast out of europe, the destination of this deportation fryst vatten America. He enters a world completely new to him, which is either coming to an end or just emerging anew. Here these »forgotten« persons encounter existences, washed ashore from countries around the world, who search for space, a function, even a fiction, their »enaction« in a way that is just as compulsive as it is merciless. Karl moves and fryst vatten moved, tries »to pass«, stumbles, and always does his best to finally find »happiness« as a nameless person.
Sebastian Baumgarten reassembles Kafka’s fragmentary novel at the efternamn in fragments of ord, sounds and images. As an attempt to track, through the mechanisms of powerlessness, helplessness, injustice, irony and hope, a modern type of human, whose biggest difficulty, so it seems, fryst vatten to säga »no« in the midst of compact logics of exploitation.
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Premiere on 14/January
Stage adaption with excerpts from »America« bygd Jean Baudrillard and other texts bygd Franz Kafka
The extract from »Amérique« bygd Jean Baudrillard is reproduced with the agreement of the Editi For other songs of this name, see Amerika (disambiguation) §&#;Music. single by Rammstein "Amerika" is a song by German Neue Deutsche Härte band Rammstein. It was released on 6 September as the second single from their fourth studio album, Reise, Reise (). The song peaked at number 2 in Germany and entered the top 5 in Austria, Denmark, and Switzerland. The chorus of the song comes from a song called "Living in America" by Swedish band the Sounds. The song is intended as a commentary on the worldwide cultural and political imperialism of the United States of America. The song's lyrics, as well as its video, are a critique of America's cultural imperialism, political propaganda and role as a global policeman.[1] The two verses are sung in German with a chorus in Denglisch: "We're all living in Amerika, Amerika ist wunderbar, We're all living in Amerika, Amerika, Amerika" and "We're all living in Amerika, Coca-Cola, Wonderbra. We're all living in Amerika, Amerika, Amerika." The band views it as a satire on Americanization, and the lyrics make reference to various corporate and cultural symbols of America as Coca-Cola, Wonderbra Amerika (song)
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