Jožin z bažin
| Jožin z bažin | |
|---|---|
| Banjo band | |
| publication | 1977 |
| length | 2:31 minutes |
| Genre (s) | Jazz / Dixieland |
| text | Ivan Mládek |
| album | Nashledanou! |
Jožin z bažin (German Josef aus dem Sumpf , in the German variant " Schlemihl Emil" ) is a song by the Czech group Banjo Band . The song is one of the most popular by Ivan Mládek . Apart from the success in the Czech Republic and Slovakia , the title became known in Polish since 2007 through YouTube . In 2016, Joko and Klaas parodied the parody in their own program Circus HalliGalli and tried to reproduce the song in the original Czech language. Jožin z bažin was first recorded in 1977 in the album Nashledanou! (Czech for goodbye! ) published.
content
The text itself is a parody of medieval sagas and legends, where a brave knight frees a distant kingdom from an eerie monster and receives the princess and half the kingdom for it. In the case of Jožin z bažin , the text deals with the ogre Jožin, who lives in the swamps near the town of Vizovice and mainly eats Prague (“žere hlavně Pražáky”). The hero of the parody is passing through with his Škoda 100 and while drinking Slivovitz he learns from the chairman of the JZD , the agricultural cooperative in Czechoslovakia , that whoever catches the monster will get his daughter and half of the JZD. The hero sprays the monster with an agricultural plane (“práškovací letadlo”) and sells it to the zoo .
The author Ivan Mládek also wrote a German version ( "Schlemihl Emil" ), with slightly adapted content. So he changed the name Jožin to Emil and adapted some text passages to the new rhymes.
Development to the internet phenomenon
Thanks to Youtube, the video spread as an internet phenomenon from 2008 . In Poland in particular, numerous variants found their way onto the radio and television. The video also spread in Russia, here with reference to President Vladimir Putin . Joko and Klaas made the internet phenomenon known in German-speaking countries by showing excerpts and copied the video in October 2016. After that, it was used repeatedly as a running gag in the show .
The band Metallica covered the song in April 2018 at a concert in Prague's O2 Arena .
Individual evidence
- ↑ - Discogs
- ↑ Jožin z bažin hItem iv Rusku. V nové verzi škádlí Putina. In: tyden.cz, July 27, 2009 (accessed October 27, 2016, in Czech)
- ↑ HalliGalli emergency tape: Jokožin z Klaasžin (Jožin z bažin Parodie) - Circus HalliGalli In: youtube.com, October 24, 2016 (accessed October 27, 2016)
- ↑ Metallica zahrála v Praze iRozhlas April 3, 2018