Adolf, the Nazi pig
Adolf the Nazi pig is a popular figure from the German comic author Walter Moers . It is a satire on Adolf Hitler , whom Moers brings to the present after 50 years of living in the Berlin sewer system. After a first short story in the satirical magazine Titanic , three volumes with Adolf were published between 1998 and 2006. In it, the character tries grotesquely naivety through modern life that is alien to her, but fails again and again because of her racial hatred and inexplicable outbursts of anger that break out.
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For the first time in 1997 Moers drew a two-page short story in the German satirical magazine Titanic, a comic called An evening with several symbols with "Adolf, the Nazi pig". One evening the author receives a visit from Prince (“Pränz”) in his apartment, a little later the completely dejected Adolf appears, and finally Michael Jackson (“Meikel”) also shows up, they get drunk together. As the story popularized, Moers, who calls Hitler one of Germany's greatest pop icons , set it up in 1998 with a full comic book called Adolf. I'm back! away. In the story, Adolf meets Göring (now a woman), Alfred Biolek and extraterrestrials, among others , before he succeeds in preventing Princess Diana , who was only faking her death, from unleashing the Third World War. The comic has now been translated into three languages.
Just one year later, Moers pushed back with Ach I'm back! a continuation of the story about the "Nazi pig", in which Adolf travels through the past with a time machine. However, he could not build on the success of the debut.
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Seven years later, Moers had a third volume followed. Based on the previous year’s feature film Der Untergang , the story Adolf - Der Bonker , published in 2006, describes the last days of the “Nazi pig” in the Führerbunker. However, Moers changed the concept of the narrative. Instead of classic comic drawings as in the first two volumes, the third volume is designed as a play. Moers 'drawings only illustrate the characters' dialogues. For the marketing of the book, the author produced a short video clip as a DVD supplement to the book in collaboration with the animated film maker Felix Gönnert , in which Adolf sits in the bathtub of his bunker and braces himself against the threatening surrender. The clip is underlaid with a riddim by the German cabaret artist and songwriter Thomas Pigor , who also sings Adolf's voice in the English and French versions of the video.
After the video found its way onto the Internet, it quickly began circulating through forums and blogs. It was viewed more than 2.5 million times on the YouTube platform , 3.6 million times on MyVideo and also included in the program of the German music broadcaster MTV . In early September 2006 the recording was released as a single and hit the German charts.
Volumes
- Adolf. I'm back! Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 3-8218-2959-1 .
- Adolf, part 2. I'm already back! Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-8218-2952-4 .
- Adolf - The Bonker. A tragic comedy in three acts. Piper, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-492-04646-0 .
literature
- Alexandra Tacke: De / Festing Hitler. Playing with the masks of evil . In: Erhard Schütz, Wolfgang Hardtwig (Hrsg.): Nobody gets away. Contemporary history in literature after 1945 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-525-20861-8 , pp. 266–285 (comparison of Der Untergang and Adolf - Der Bonker ).
- Gabriel D. Rosenfeld: Hi Hitler! How the Nazi past is being normalized in contemporary culture . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2015 (see on Moers p. 314 f.).
- Wiebke Brauer: Moers parody: shrinking cure for Hitler . In: Der Spiegel , July 4, 2006.