The kangaroo chronicles

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The Kangaroo Chronicles are four collections of texts by the German author , songwriter and cabaret artist Marc-Uwe Kling . The term stands pars pro toto for all four collections published so far, although in fact only the first volume is called Kangaroo Chronicles . The publisher, however, markets all volumes under the title Kangaroo Works . The first texts were initially broadcast from 2008 onwards in the weekly podcast Neues vom Kangaroo on Berlin Radio Fritz . In 2009 a first selection was published in book form under the title The Kangaroo Chronicles: Views of a cheeky marsupial by Ullstein Verlag in Berlin . The second volume, The Kangaroo Manifesto , followed in 2011, and the third (officially last) volume, The Kangaroo Revelation, followed in 2014. In autumn 2018, the last part so far, The Kangaroo Apocrypha, was published . All four volumes were also published as audiobooks by Verlag Hörbuch Hamburg . The volumes of the kangaroo chronicles are among the greatest successes of contemporary literature in the paperback - and especially the audio book sector, and have been in the upper echelons of bestseller lists for years . The first three volumes had sold over 2.5 million copies in print at the beginning of 2018, by autumn 2018 at least 1.7 million kangaroo audio books had been sold, and at the end of 2019 it was announced that the first audio book alone had sold over 1 million times would have.

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The Kangaroo Chronicles (2009)

At the beginning of the plot, a kangaroo stands in front of the narrator's door and wants to borrow some eggs because it wants to make pancakes. He is amazed at the encounter with the speaking animal, but lends him the eggs. Shortly afterwards the kangaroo rings again because it is still missing salt, milk and flour, oil and also a pan, only to then stand in front of the door again and resignedly say: “No stove!”. The first-person narrator asks the kangaroo into his kitchen, and a short time later the animal moves into the author's previous living room, surprising him more than asking for his consent. The two now form a shared apartment . The kangaroo does not have a regular job and only answers when asked about its profession: “I am a communist ! Mind? ”Therefore, the first-person narrator, a small artist , has to pay for the kangaroo's livelihood.

The chronicles essentially consist of the conversations and experiences of the two main protagonists. They are told in short, self-contained chapters with a lot of verbatim speech , whereby the chapters repeatedly tie in and build on one another. For example, the narrator pulls a book out of a stopper sock . In a previous chapter it was mentioned that the books no longer slide off the crooked shelf because they are now stuck in stopper socks. Such connecting elements, in which past punchlines are cited again , similar to a running gag , and which require knowledge of what has happened so far in order to understand, appear again and again.

In the individual chapters, a picture of this unusual flat share emerges like a mosaic . The topics of conversation between the two range from media and language criticism to problems of the state and capitalism as well as questions of faith; from contemporary protest culture to Karl Marx , Bertolt Brecht , the RAF and the Viet Cong , d. H. it's about "God and the world". Towards the end of the book, a penguin moves into the apartment across from the shared apartment . He introduces himself as a representative for frozen food and immediately arouses the kangaroo's suspicion (“Something is damn fishy about this wrong bird”).

The location of the action is Berlin and occasionally the Berlin area. Occasionally, Kreuzberg and places like the Kottbusser Tor subway station are mentioned as locations .

The Kangaroo Manifesto (2011)

The second volume follows on from the events at the end of the first volume. The reader learns about a fictional “Ministry for Productivity” that wants to take action against unemployment with its “Initiative for more work”. Meanwhile, a rivalry develops between the kangaroo and the penguin. The kangaroo hangs z. B. his punching bag so that it hits the wall of the penguin when it is being used; the penguin in return sets several alarm clocks on the wall to the kangaroo to disturb it. The fictional editor of the first-person author gives the kangaroo the idea that the penguin is his antagonist who wants to carry out a “capitalist world deterioration plan”. The two protagonists get to know the brothers Jörg and Jörn Dwigs, who founded the right-wing populist party Security and Responsibility (SV), at an award ceremony - the kangaroo chronicles were nominated for a prize in the “Book with a talking animal” category . The kangaroo decides to found the anti- social network with which it will carry out anti-terror attacks against "the system" from now on . The SV will manage to get into the Berlin government in the next elections and is planning to divide all foreigners into one of two categories: productive or unproductive . This division is carried out by the fictitious “Ministry of Productivity”, in which the author, the kangaroo and other members of the anti-social network break in shortly before the end of the second part in order to destroy the database there. The kangaroo, who suspects the penguin at the head of the campaign, is deported as "unproductive" at the end of the book.

In the second part, in addition to the loose short stories, an overarching plot develops, whereby the individual chapters remain understandable independently of one another. While the stories of the first volume tell the typical everyday life in Berlin - except for the speaking kangaroo - in the second volume institutions and actions are created that are not real, but would be conceivable.

The Kangaroo Revelation (2014)

The third volume is divided into two parts, the first and second books of Revelation .

At the beginning of the first part, the first-person author has been alone for several months and has fallen into a depression, but the kangaroo will soon return. Since it is now officially illegal in Germany, it always disguises itself. As it turns out, the penguin is no longer in his apartment. The first-person author and the kangaroo set themselves the task of finding the penguin. You are not following any particular strategy, you are looking in many different places, but each time you just miss the penguin. After the editor asked for more “grandeur”, the protagonists continue their search abroad. This is what the second part is about. You come to Ho Chi Minh City via New York , Toronto , Brussels , Seattle , Caracas and again Toronto . It turns out that the anti-social network now has sections all over the world. In Ho Chi Minh City, the two found a penguin factory. To find out what is being produced there, they follow the goods by ship. You land on an island in the Aegean Sea that was sold to a company following a proposal by a German politician. The kangaroo develops the theory that the penguins want to turn the entire world into an airport. You will find the headquarters of the penguins, where small penguins are bred. They can only barely escape to the Australian outback with the help of a renegade penguin. There they meet a group of kangaroos who, independent of the anti- social network , also fight against “the system” and the penguins. Then follows an appendix in which many opponents of the kangaroo, e.g. B. Dwix, appear again to be hit by counterterrorism attacks. The book ends with the opening of the first penguin airport being sabotaged by the kangaroo.

The first part is similar to the Kangaroo Manifesto , so it contains individual completed episodes, but in the second part the stories are very much based on one another. Towards the end, the chapters build on one another and no longer have a separate, self-contained plot. In the kangaroo revelation there are many elements that are known from fantasy novels , which are also discussed at the plot level. In the third volume there are also many elements that recur within the book, for example that all people the first-person narrator and the kangaroo meet abroad speak German “by chance” and this is underlined in each case.

The Kangaroo Apocrypha (2018)

A fourth volume was published in October 2018. The volume contains more than 30 different stories which, according to the author, are not sorted chronologically. However, chapters that build on one another, such as those containing the character Dietmar Kötke, are arranged chronologically. Some stories take place during the kangaroo chronicles , some after the end of the kangaroo revelation . Some stories have been published earlier and have now been rewritten for the kangaroo.

The title kangaroo apocrypha is based on the actual apocrypha , biblical books and similar writings that were not included in the canon, and therefore refers to short stories that did not "make it" into the kangaroo trilogy.

Figures and Organizations

main characters

The narrator

The protagonist of the chronicles is a first-person narrator named Marc-Uwe, whose identity is explained as follows: He is an educated, critical and reflective young intellectual , a representative of the Berlin cabaret scene. Born and raised in Baden-Württemberg, he lived alone in his apartment until the kangaroo moved in. Other friends are not mentioned, and only together with the kangaroo does he get to know other people in Berlin, which suggests the interpretation that he had not lived there for too long before meeting the kangaroo. Occasional money worries are just as much a part of his everyday life as unexpected performance opportunities or prices for his art. With his band or alone he goes on tour regularly, which he reports to the kangaroo after his return; he reads his poems to him and shares his thoughts, plans and ideas with him, whereby the kangaroo proves to be a ruthless critic. Occasionally there are arguments and discussions in which the two are equals. The kangaroo wins more often, as it tends to ruthlessly use unfair and malicious means, but occasionally trips itself up.

The kangaroo

The kangaroo has in his own words the Vietnam War on the side of the Vietcong fought and came after the end of the war with his mother as contract workers in the GDR . Later, however, it turns out that during the Vietnam War it only waved to the last American helicopter as a small baby from its mother's bag. The first-person author claims to be a full-time communist, but reports as unemployed in the course of the story. It is a ruthless critic of capitalism and fights for a just world order, bread for all and the ban on so-called music television , for which the “Jewish-Bolshevik World Conspiracy e. V. ”founded. But all these endeavors logically fail because of the kangaroo's insignificance in world events and because of its laziness . His stance critical of capitalism is often counteracted because the narrator can bear it financially and also uses him as a test subject for his unfair business methods (such as forced ringtone subscriptions).

The kangaroo loves schnapps chocolates, schnitzel rolls and pancakes with minced meat, as well as the band Nirvana and films with Bud Spencer , but preferably without Terence Hill . It is well-read and argues radically and consistently, but at the same time often behaves childish, defiant and stubborn, it steals ashtrays at every opportunity and is occasionally malicious and devious. In tricky situations, however, the kangaroo selflessly helps its roommate. It always carries a huge amount of things in its bag. It often takes a long search to find what it needs and then pulls out books, bolt cutters, newspapers, stolen ashtrays and much more. The red boxing gloves worn in the bag are more often used, which are usually found accurately.

It is working on its unpublished major work, which, according to the kangaroo, bears the two main human driving forces in the title: "Opportunism and repression". Occasionally it quotes shorter passages from it.

The kangaroo as a fictional character - even if the author repeatedly asserts its existence in interviews - functions as the author's alter ego , as a being that is not bound by the usual norms, which can therefore pronounce and do what the author normally does in real life would be denied, and thus uses a stylistic device that is known and frequently used in literature. It is possible for the kangaroo to insult officials or to kick small dogs out of the way and talk shop about their flight characteristics as a matter of course. Jörn Dwigs, the founder of a fictional right-wing populist party , can pee on the leg at a standing reception because he has just decided to take expressions literally. From these freedoms of the kangaroo comes the comedy of the chronicles . In addition, the kangaroo can also pronounce unconventional truths, similar to the child in the fairy tale The Emperor's New Clothes . The kangaroo is often an almost child-headed character, cunning and sometimes malicious, but ultimately ready to reconcile with the author, preferably if he loses in the process.

The kangaroo has traits that can be interpreted as typically female as well as typically male. The sex of the kangaroo cannot therefore be clearly defined. Only female kangaroos have a permanently attached pouch, and the kangaroo uses its pouch in the course of the three volumes as a kind of chaotic handbag in a clichéd manner, but in the course of the third volume it indicates that the pouch could only be stapled on. When asked about the sex of the kangaroo, the author claimed in the interview that the kangaroo was "bi-trans-metro-sexual".

Friends of the main characters

Axel Krapotke

Krapotke is a somewhat stupid young Bundeswehr soldier who appears for the first time in the second part and later joins the " anti-social network". He is often excluded from the rest of the group and often leads the kangaroo to spectacular outbursts of anger, for example because the rules for Mau-Mau are too complicated for him.

Friedrich-Wilhelm and Otto-Von

Friedrich-Wilhelm and Otto-Von are two brothers of Turkish descent whose parents, according to Friedrich-Wilhelm, "exaggerated a little with the will to integrate". They are part of the "anti-social network" founded by the kangaroo and in this, alongside the kangaroo and the narrator, the key figures. Friedrich-Wilhelm occurs much more frequently; We learn about him that he is a medical student and that he found a friend between the second and third part and that he has a son named Bartholomäus with her. Otto-Von appears mainly in the second volume. He runs a small shop called “Snacks and the City”, which initially sells kebabs and fruit, but then, according to a business idea by Otto-Vons, only sells cheap beer. In the course of the book it expanded and developed into a chain of stores.

God

God is a female member of the "anti-social network" founded by the kangaroo. Her real name Maria is mentioned for the first time in the chapter "Swedish Scientists" of the kangaroo apocrypha, as well as that she has successfully completed her studies in humanities. Your code name in the network is often used for a running gag (the characters talk about God and use sentences that can be related to both them and the religious figure). The protagonist falls in love with her during the action and is therefore often nervous and stammered in her presence. God himself doesn't seem to have any particular interest in him, however. As mentioned during the plot, God lives in a council house and has a young son named Jesus with her boyfriend who owns a cell phone shop. Another running gag is Gott's frequent career changes, all of which show precarious working conditions (“I collect shitty jobs like other people surprise egg characters!”).

Herta

Herta is the owner of the pub of the first-person author and the kangaroo. She is evidently a former East Berlin resident, for example because she discriminates against West Germans when it comes to setting up their pub toilets; she also has a distinctive Berlin dialect . After she had to close her corner bar in the second volume because a resident complained about noise pollution, she opened an illegal trendy bar at home , which was mainly run by members of the anti-social network to which she also belongs (her nickname is "Amazon Queen"), and by Spanish tourists being visited. Her motto in life is: "There are sone and such, and then there is still another, but these are the worst."

Sarah

Sarah is a young backpacker who the protagonist and the kangaroo meet several times on their world tour. Sarah is an extremely excited person who utters large masses of text at a very high speed. Words like "amazing" and "awesome" as well as the phrases "It's kind of like ..." and "You know ..." are particularly common in their vocabulary. The reason for this are tablets that her psychiatrist has prescribed for her (an allusion to a previously performed gag between the protagonist and his own psychiatrist). Sarah seems to be interested in the protagonist during the plot. B. invite you to a concert; however, he seems to find her a little too over the top. As it turns out in the course of the story, Sarah also comes from Germany, whereupon the dialogues that were previously conducted in English switch to German.

Antagonists

The Penguin

At the end of the first book, the penguin moves into an apartment opposite the author and the kangaroo, in which the kangaroo has lived for some time. Shortly afterwards, the kangaroo declares him a "cosmic antagonist ". From the second part on, the kangaroo and penguin try to mutually and a. to terrorize by noise . In the third volume, the author and the kangaroo follow the penguin around the world in order to thwart its “capitalist world deterioration plan”. It turns out that there is not just one but thousands of penguins. Their leader is a large emperor penguin .

Jörg and Jörn Dwigs

Jörg and Jörn Dwigs are twin brothers. They first appear in the Kangaroo Manifesto . Jörg is an asylum judge, made famous by a rejection rate of 100%. Jörn is a bank director and finances the right-wing populist party “Security and Responsibility” (SV), which you founded yourself. As an author, he wrote the book “I'm not a racist, but”. Jörg Dwigs is an allusion to the Austrian right-wing populist Jörg Haider ("Haider is now called Dwigs, nothing else will change!"), Who was chairman of the FPÖ for many years .

Schmidtchen

Schmidtchen is a patrol officer who would like to arrest the kangaroo, but is rhetorically inferior to him and therefore forgets his justified suspicions as soon as he enters the apartment and engages in a discussion with confusing arguments of the kangaroo. It is only used in the Chronicles, twice.

Other characters and organizations

The anti-social network

The anti-social network is an "anti-terror organization" founded by the kangaroo. She turns against "the terror [...] of the media and the government [...] and the economy". The name arose because, according to the kangaroo, the systems that call themselves social are in reality anti-social and therefore a social organization must call itself anti- social . Based on real structures in such organizations, each member and each assembly can give themselves a meaningless title; there are no hierarchies. The actions carried out by the network, so-called anti-terrorist attacks, can also be given any name.

The psychiatrist

Since the first volume, the author has been making regular appointments with his psychiatrist and reporting to him about his experiences with the kangaroo. Its existence is always interpreted by the psychiatrist as a delusion on the part of the first-person author, until the latter brings the kangaroo to an appointment. The psychiatrist then suffers a psychological breakdown, goes into treatment himself, suppresses the existence of the kangaroo and continues to try to convince the first-person author of its non-existence. Another running gag is that the psychiatrist tears various statements of the first-person author out of their context and interprets them as romantic advances. His reaction is not necessarily averse, but he always asserts that his professional ethics prevent him from getting to know patients privately.

Form and language

The first part contains 81 short stories , all of which (except for chapter 21, which deals with this topic metafictionally ) are told in the present tense . They are between one and six pages long. Some chapters end with text passages from “Opportunism and Repression”, a basic social science work by the kangaroo. The dialogue between the kangaroo and the chronicler dominates. The conversations in everyday colloquial language are interspersed with dialect expressions, foreign words , foreign language sprinkles and idioms as well as footnotes by the author or the kangaroo. Some episodes are preceded by quotations, as is sometimes the case in the literature. These derive their comedy from the absurdity of their incorrect assignment; for example from Marx / Engels :

"The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains."

- Heidi Klum

Or from Kant :

"Always act only according to the maxim by which you can also want it to become a general law."

- Silvio Berlusconi

The author names the British comedian group Monty Python and the comic characters Calvin and Hobbes as his humorous role models.

genus

The works of the Kangaroo Chronicles are not actually chronicles , but satirical episodic novels . The books are rich in allusions and intertextuality , puns , punch lines and running gags . All four books have numerous pop-cultural references and contain homages to feature films (including Star Wars , The Lord of the Rings , Fight Club ) and literature ( The Wandering Whore ). The allusions to the Viet Cong, the GDR, the history of communist ideology and its various currents, to politics and contemporary history, require a certain amount of historical and general knowledge, which is a broad reception of the chronicles , which are also heard by children, but never in the Stood away.

The individual texts show the characteristics of a short story : a straightforward, episodic course of action, a limited number of characters with a strong tendency to typify, a purposeful beginning and a concise ending constructed as a punchline, a stylistically concise and suggestive language as well as a move towards the extraordinary in terms of content. However, in contrast to the typical short story, each narrative situation is distinctly multi-perspective, or more precisely: biperspectival, due to the almost constant presence of both protagonists. The entire work has the character of a poetry slam due to its joke elements and lecture compatibility. A fable character is created by the animal protagonists with human characteristics and the critical-educational attitude, which also has the effect of satire .

reception

The kangaroo chronicles were largely positively received by the features section : The Süddeutsche Zeitung described the author as the “new high-flyer of the German cabaret scene”, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung rated the columns as “eloquent, amusing and fast-paced”, and the radio station Deutschlandfunk Kultur praised it ". Kling writes subtly exaggerated and radical right" in the opinion of Elisabeth von Thadden in the weekly newspaper the time has Kling everything "that the social philosophy of social criticism has to offer: the kangaroo wants political participation ( Jürgen Habermas ), fusses for recognition ( Axel Honneth ), needs love ( Eva Illouz ) and absolutely resonance ( Hartmut Rosa ), it seeks justice ( John Rawls ), wants to abolish the system (nobody represents any more), declares the biological gender difference to be irrelevant ( Judith Butler ). It wants to treat animals like humans ( Martha Nussbaum ) and suffocates ambivalence ( Zygmunt Bauman ). "Sophie Weigand praised in literatures ," Social criticism has never been so funny and so pointed at the same time, this reading is not only alternative but also completely unrivaled. It's a satirical bible, the holy scriptures of the anti-social network. ”The satirical magazine Titanic , on the other hand, criticized Kling for wanting“ first of all to make one joke after the other and not hurt anyone. Which is why the politics of his books are just as harmless, unmotivated and largely meaningless as the whole thing. You have to have a childlike disposition to be inspired by something like that. "

Adaptations

Stage / theater

A first theater version of the kangaroo chronicles by Isabelle Chastenier and Benjamin Muth was staged in 2015 at the Eduard-von-Winterstein-Theater in Annaberg-Buchholz. This was followed by guest performances a. a. in Berlin ( bread factory ), Dresden (Johannstadthalle) and Freiburg ( Wallgraben-Theater ). In 2016, Hans Schernthaner adapted the book for the stage. Under his direction The Kangaroo Chronicles were performed at the Altona Theater , the cast consisted of Stephan Möller as Marc-Uwe and Robert Zimmermann as Kangaroo.

Movie

In October 2018, filming began on the theatrical version . The film was produced by X-Film and ZDF . Directed by Dani Levy . Marc-Uwe Kling was responsible for the script. The film was due to hit theaters in late 2019, but the theatrical release was postponed to March 5, 2020.

Board games

In Kosmos several games of Marc-Uwe Kling, the themes and characters from the published kangaroo chronicles pick up. These include the card games Halt mal kurz (2016) and Game of Quotes (2017) including the expansion More Game of Quotes (2019) . There is also the dice game dice-flat share. A kangaroo game (2019) developed by Johannes Krenner and Alexander Pfister . In addition to Kling, game designers Inka and Markus Brand were responsible for the game Die Kangaroo Escapades (2019) , which belongs to the Exit series by Kosmos Verlag .

calendar

Marc-Uwe Kling used the principle of incorrectly assigned quotations , which is introduced in the volume Das Kangaroo Manifesto (2011), for several tear-off calendars that were published by Voland & Quist . There are The Wrong Calendar (2012), The Wrong Calendar 2 (2018) and The Terrible Calendar (2016), all of which are (incorrectly) assigned to Donald Trump . The calendars are not officially linked to the Kangaroo Chronicles , which are published by another publisher, but they also saw numerous editions.

parody

In 2020 an anonymous parody of the kangaroo chronicles was published under the title The Elephant Epics. Instead of a communist kangaroo, an elephant plays the main role here, who is a citizen of the Reich and adheres to conspiracy theories .

Trivia

In June 2018, during a house search following the protests against the G20 summit in Hamburg 2017 , six CDs with the kangaroo chronicles were confiscated. Marc-Uwe Kling responded by sending the defendant all the radio plays he had produced.

Awards

  • 2010 German Radio Prize in the "Best Comedy" category for the radio column News from the Kangaroo .
  • 2013 German audio book award in the category "The special audio book / best entertainment" for The Kangaroo Chronicles. Live and unabridged
  • 2018 Audiobook Award for The Kangaroo Chronicles (7 × Gold), The Kangaroo Manifesto (2 × Platinum), The Kangaroo Revelation (2 × Platinum), The Kangaroo Apocrypha (Gold)

expenditure

pocketbooks

Hardcover / slipcase

Audio books

  • The kangaroo chronicles . Audiobook Hamburg, Downtown, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-86909-017-7 (2 CDs).
  • The kangaroo manifesto . Hörbuch-Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86909-075-7 (4 audio CDs).
  • The kangaroo chronicles . Live and unabridged. Audiobook Hamburg, Downtown, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-86909-108-2 (4 CDs; 291 min).
  • The kangaroo revelation. Live and unabridged. Live recording, recorded in the Mehringhof Theater Berlin . Hörbuch-Verlag, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-86909-135-8 (6 audio CDs).
  • The kangaroo apocrypha . Hörbuch-Verlag, Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-95713-149-2 (4 audio CDs).
  • The kangaroo hodgepodge. Hörbuch-Verlag, Hamburg 2020. ISBN 978-3-8449-2470-1 (free audio book to start the filming)

literature

  • Thomas Wegmann: Between Youtube, stage and book: narrative prose in the age of its multimodality. In: Text talk. Interferences between orality and written form in contemporary literature, Wilhelm Fink 2018, pp. 321–334.

Web links

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