Taxi Sharia
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| Radio show | |
| publication | since 1998 |
| production | SWR3 |
| Contributors | |
| Moderation |
Sascha Zeus - Ützwurst Michael Wirbitzky - Easter wave |
| Website | |
Taxi Sharia - The Gray Has Four Wheels is a German radio comedy by SWR3 that was first broadcast in 1998. The series became a great national success and found many imitators in both German radio and television programs at the end of the 1990s.
content
In each of the episodes, which are shorter than two minutes, a Turkish taxi driver named Ützwurst, spoken by Sascha Zeus , and a passenger named Osterwelle, spoken by Michael Wirbitzky , appear.
In addition, the switches on radio repeatedly taxi office , which obviously not only listens in all that is spoken in the taxi, but otherwise is omniscient and Ützwurst usually just that reveals what would conceal Easter shaft.
The language levels of the driver and the passenger differ greatly: while the passenger uses a very elaborate code , the driver only speaks broken German. This often leads to misunderstandings, or the driver allows the passenger to participate in his strange worldview for another reason. Each episode begins with the driver asks “Where do you want?”. The final running gag is based on the fact that the taxi driver is a big Elvis fan and advocate of the Elvis-lives- theory and, towards the end of Osterwelle, picks up a keyword that has an unwanted connection with Elvis Presley and takes this as an occasion, regardless of Protests of his passengers to always drive to Memphis at the end ("Shut up! We're going to Memphis!"), As a voice from the off concludes smugly.
The final gag is exchanged in the later episodes: Now the passenger has to drink a raki at the driver's request , because a schnapps number allegedly appeared in the course of the conversation.
effect
The show was so successful that the SWR released a total of three CDs with episodes. The Südwest-Fernsehen also showed “Taxi Sharia” as a short film adaptation. Other radio stations received licenses from the SWR to broadcast the series, e. B. also a private broadcaster like Radio Hamburg . In 2000, a CD edition of the show was also nominated as “Comedy Production of the Year” for the ECHO .
criticism
Critics see Taxi Sharia as the first German comedy series to make fun of migrants, especially Turks in Germany , in a politically incorrect form by focusing particularly on linguistic deficits. This can be countered by the fact that comedy does not focus on linguistic differences and also makes fun of the non-migrant Osterwelle, who, in the opinion of the critics, is portrayed as a "teacher-tolerant, liberal-foreigner-friendly philistine" who emphasizes high German .
Sound carrier
- Where you want (CD 1)
- Drive Memphis - The new "Where do you want?" (CD 2)
- Around the world with 80 things (CD 3)
Individual evidence
- ^ Frank Heidemann, Alfonso de Toro: New Hybridities: Societies and Cultures in Transition . Georg Olms Verlag 2006, in it: Jana Domdey: "Sexy Kanake"? Ambivalent Use of 'Kanak Sprak' in 'Recent German Cultural Production, pp. 179–198.
- ↑ Inci Dirim, Peter Auer: Linguistics & Impulse - Turkish is not only spoken by the Turks, On the fuzzy relationship between language and ethnicity in Germany . de Gruyter 2004, p. 8.