Techno Viking

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Techno Viking is an internet phenomenon based on a video from the Berlin Fuckparade on July 8, 2000.

history

The approximately four-minute video was published by artist Matthias Fritsch in 2006 on YouTube under the title Kneecam No.1 .

It shows several people dancing on the parade, including a young woman with a light blue wig. This is initiated by a young man who walks through the group of dancers. Then a muscular man with a bare chest, dressed only in shorts and boots, enters the picture. He sharply rebukes the bump and sends him away. Shortly afterwards the group moves to the music and then dances on the street. Another man steps into the picture and hands the dancer a bottle of water, from which he drinks and then continues dancing to the background music of Can-D-Music and Winstan vs Noia. The photo was taken in the Berlin district of Mitte in the Rosenthaler Straße area at the intersection of Gipsstraße / Weinmeisterstraße ( Lage ).

The video was quickly linked in smaller forums and video websites. In 2007 it was presented on the break.com website, with the new name “Techno Viking” reaching more than 10 million views within 6 months. It then went viral , reaching over 40 million views and over 3000 video responses in 2013, including numerous parodies and mashups of the original clip .

Fritsch later researched hundreds of video responses as well as images, emails, forum discussions and blog posts, which he collected in an 8 gigabyte archive. He published selected contributions from it in the form of an installation. Fritsch also presented the results of his research at festivals and conferences. In 2015 Fritsch published a video documentation on the history of Techno Viking ("The Story of Techno Viking"), in which the emergence of memes as an internet phenomenon using the example of Techno Viking and also the legal perspectives and the handling of copyright and Personal rights are discussed in the Internet age.

The identity of the dancer is not publicly known, although there has been much speculation about his real name. Those involved in the process appear blackened on photocopies of the judgment. This is generally stipulated by state press laws and specifically confirmed by the Federal Administrative Court.

Legal processing

According to statements by Fritsch, he was asked by the lawyer of the dancer pictured at Christmas 2009 to stop the further distribution of the clip. In the meantime, Fritsch placed several text comments in front of the YouTube video, but the video behind it is still unchanged. Fritsch also publishes and links many images and graphics of Techno Viking and his own “Technoviking Archive” on various websites. The now several thousand copies and adaptations by other users cannot be controlled by Fritsch.

On January 17, 2013, a court hearing began in the Berlin district court for failure to further distribute the video.

The reviewer Wolfgang Ullrich argued that the original video was an artistic work and that the freedom of art should be valued more than personal rights. The court did not follow this, and justified "In the absence of special artistic image processing, the protection of personal rights comes to the fore". Since the person pictured did not want to be a public person at any time, no exception can be found here, as his specialist lawyer Alexander Paschke pointed out.

On May 30, 2013, the Berlin district court ruled that the dancer has the right to refrain from distributing the video and the merchandising articles because he has not expressly consented to the publication. The nodding into the camera that can be seen in the video is not sufficient to accept consent. The court sentenced Fritsch to pay a license fee of around € 8,000. A claim for damages of a further € 10,000 was rejected.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Matthias Fritsch: The Technoviking Archive , Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe, accessed on January 22, 2013
  2. ↑ Astrid Herbold: Youtube: 20 million clicks for the 'Techno-Wikinger' in the Tagesspiegel from July 23, 2010
  3. ^ Nana Heymann: Internet star - Techno-Viking sued the maker of his film. In: Der Tagesspiegel. DvH Medien, April 4, 2013, accessed April 5, 2013 .
  4. ↑ a b c Judgment of the Berlin Regional Court of May 30, 2013, Az .: 27 O 632/12 (PDF; 278 kB)
  5. ↑ Does the press have the right to be informed about the names of those involved in the process . Wilde Beuger Solmecke Lawyers. October 6, 2014 .: "BVerwG, judgment of October 1, 2014 Az. 6 C 35.13"
  6. ↑ Youtube: KNEECAM No.1 - the original Technoviking tape from 2000 ( Memento of October 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 29, 2013
  7. ↑ subrealic.net: TECHNOVIKING ARCHIVE , accessed on January 29, 2013
  8. ↑ hfg-karlsruhe.de/~mfritsch: TECHNOVIKING TRANSMEDIA , accessed on January 29, 2013
  9. ^ The Technoviking Trial: Copyright and Internet Memes at netzpolitik.org, accessed on January 22, 2013
  10. ↑ All Heil Technoviking! The technoviking is suing its creator. ( Memento from January 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) at zeitjung.de, accessed on January 22, 2013
  11. ^ Süddeutsche.de: Die Rache des Technoviking , accessed on January 29, 2013
  12. ↑ winfuture.de: 'Techno Viking' is suing its creator , accessed on January 29, 2013
  13. ↑ dailydot.com: German court to decide the future of Technoviking , accessed on January 29, 2013
  14. ↑ Memes and Copyright: Art historian explains why “Technoviking” is art . t3n, May 21, 2015
  15. ↑ a b Dennis Kogel, Richard Diesing: The history of the greatest German meme: What the fame did with the techno-Viking . Motherboard / Vice.com . July 27, 2017 .: "Lawyer Alexander Paschke to Motherboard:" He just doesn't want to be a public person, he never was ""