South Tyrol (song)
| South-Tirol | |
|---|---|
| Free wild | |
| publication | 2003 |
| length | 3:50 |
| Genre (s) | German rock |
| Author (s) | Philipp Burger |
| album | Where the sun shines again |
Südtirol is a song by the band Frei.Wild from 2003. It is the third track on the album Where the sun laughs again .
Creation and publication
The lyrics were originally written by Philipp Burger for the right-wing rock band Kaiserjäger . At the last concert of the band there was a mass brawl between German and Italian speaking neo-Nazis in the audience, whereupon Philipp Burger left the band and founded Frei.Wild. Frei.Wild adopted the song in their repertoire. It first appeared in 2003 on the album Where the sun laughs again . In 2009 it was re-released on Hart am Wind . The video on South Tyrol (2003) was the first video that Frei.Wild officially published.
criticism
The lyrics of South Tyrol , especially the lines “ South Tyrol , wrested from your brothers, shout it out, let everyone know. South Tyrol, you are not lost yet. Your enemies should burn in hell ” , led to criticism and the accusation against the band of being nationalist or right-wing populist . Dirk Wilking , managing director of the Brandenburg Institute for Community Advice, names the piece South Tyrol as an example of the right-wing extremist attitude of the band: “In the song" South Tyrol ", for example, Italy is clearly attacked: South Tyrol should no longer belong to Italy , they want something more German . It is a classic model of the right-wing extremist scene that the geography of the states of Europe is called into question. ”The journalist Thomas Kuban also sees the text of the song“ I do not tolerate criticism of this holy land that is our homeland ”as a nationalistic and ethnic message.
The band itself denies these allegations and claims to represent no particular political direction. Singer Philipp Burger stated: “We never made it a point to be Italian. History got us that. And as German-speaking South Tyroleans, we also make German-language music for German-speaking fans. "
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Rechtsrock: Die neue Reichskapelle , Zeit Online from May 10, 2012; Accessed October 27, 2012
- ↑ a b c Thomas Kuban: The legacy of the "Böhse Onkelz". "I do not tolerate criticism of this holy land". Süddeutsche Zeitung , February 22, 2012, accessed on February 23, 2012 .
- ↑ No free game! ( Memento of the original from May 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , publikative.org of October 26, 2012; Retrieved October 27, 2012
- ↑ Frei.Wild-appearance causes trouble , 20 minutes online from May 7, 2012; Accessed October 27, 2012
- ↑ There's a lot of trouble from the mountains by Andy Dallmann ( Memento of the original from November 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Interview in the Sächsische Zeitung on December 23, 2010
