Chain-link fence
| Chain-link fence | |
|---|---|
| Stefan Raab with Truck Stop | |
| publication | November 12, 1999 |
| length | 3:12 |
| Genre (s) | Country |
| text |
Jens Bujar and Stefan Raab |
| music | Jens Bujar and Stefan Raab |
| album | TV total - the album |
Mesh-Wire-Fence is the title of a number one hit that was created in 1999 in cooperation between Stefan Raab and Truck Stop .
background
On October 12, 1999 the housewife Regina Zindler appeared with her neighbor at the time, Gerd Trommer, in the court show Judge Barbara Salesch on Sat.1 . At that time, real arbitration cases without actors were shown on the show. The reason for this negotiation was a neighborhood dispute in the Saxon town of Auerbach in the Vogtland district . Zindler asked Trommer to remove a crackling pea bush that was overgrown on his property and that was damaging her chain link fence . Salesch came to the conclusion that the damage was not significant, which is why Zindler's lawsuit was dismissed.
Zindler and her “neighborhood dispute” became known throughout Germany when the television presenter Stefan Raab totally attacked him on October 18, 1999 on his TV show . There he was amused, on the one hand, by the bizarre nature of the procedure and, on the other hand, in particular by the Vogtland dialect of Zindler and her pronunciation of the words "chain link fence" and "Knallerbsenstrauch".
Song by Stefan Raab
In that broadcast on October 18, 1999, Raab presented a self-composed song in which he used video takes with Zindler and her words " Chain Link Fence " and "Knallerbsenstrauch" as the original sound in the verse and chorus. The response to this raw version was so great that Raab decided to produce the song, which was written together with Jens Bujar, in a country style with the help of the band Truck Stop . The original recording of the words "chain link fence" and "Knallerbsenstrauch" from the court broadcast by Zindler was added . A maxi CD was created with the title Maschen-Draht-Zaun , which was released on November 12, 1999. A music video also followed . The title went straight to number 1 in the German charts at the end of November 1999 and was able to maintain the top position for another six weeks in a row. In total, the title sold around a million times. Regina Zindler received a voluntary share of ten pfennigs per CD sold.
Mesh-Wire-Fence is Raab's only number one hit as an artist. As an author, he achieved this success again in 2004 with Can't Wait Until Tonight ( Max Mutzke ).
Media attention
As a result of the clips on TV total, the topic also became interesting for the tabloid media ; TV teams from all over Germany besieged the properties of the warring parties Zindler and Trommer. The fact that Trommer replanted the shrub and was filmed did not diminish the attention. After numerous onlookers besieged Regina Zindler's property and damaged the fence, she could not withstand the psychological pressure caused by the public attention, sold the property and moved to a quieter prefabricated housing estate in Berlin-Lichtenberg. But later she returned to Saxony.
Charts and chart placements
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Awards for music sales
| Country / Region | Award | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Awards for music sales (country / region, Award, Sales) |
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 Germany (BVMI)
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 3 × gold
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750,000 |
 Austria (IFPI)
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 platinum
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50,000 |
| All in all |
1 × gold 1 × platinum |
800,000 |
literature
- Andreas Hepp: Stefan Raab, Regina Zindler and the chain link fence: A popular media event as an example of how media communication is organized , in: Andreas Hepp, Marco Höhn, Waldemar Vogelgesang (eds.): Popular events. Media events, game events, fun events , 2nd, revised edition, VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2010, ISBN 978-3-531-15770-2 , pp. 37–112.
Web links
- Zeit online: Leben: Once upon a time there was a fence
- MDR: Regina Zindler (56) from Berlin - Unter uns ( Memento from March 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- MDR: Once upon a time there was a crackling pea bush - Boulevard ( Memento from February 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- RP Online: Regina Zindler has accepted the penalty order
Individual evidence
- ↑ fair-news.de: That's right! “Judge Barbara Salesch” is celebrating its anniversary ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - Retrieved June 6, 2011
- ↑ Chain link fence: Now comes the book to the song. spiegel.de, January 21, 2000, accessed April 19, 2019 .
- ↑ Karina Lübke, Children's Court , 2009
- ^ Regina Zindler (56) from Berlin . In: MDR . Archived from the original on March 11, 2009. Retrieved January 18, 2009.
- ↑ https://intouch.wunderweib.de/regina-zindler-das-macht-der-maschendrahtzaun-star-heute-72035.html
- ↑ a b c chart sources
- ^ German annual charts 1999
- ↑ German annual charts 2000
- ↑ Austrian annual charts 2000
- ↑ Swiss annual charts 2000
- ↑ Germany 3x gold
- ↑ Austria platinum
