Posted on 08/01/2018 6:29:17 AM PDT by Red Badger
NATZ, Italy — By the time Frei.Wild took the stage at Alpen Flair, a three-day music festival in northern Italy, the sun had disappeared behind the forested peaks of the surrounding Alps. Most of the 20,000 audience members had traveled over 100 miles from Germany to see the band. The crowd was overwhelmingly white and largely male, and many fans shouted along as the band launched into one of its most controversial songs, “Südtirol.”
The song celebrates Frei.Wild’s home region of South Tyrol, where the festival was taking place, a largely German-speaking enclave that was passed to Italy from Austria-Hungary after World War I. “I won’t tolerate any criticism of this sacred land, our homeland,” the band’s heavily tattooed singer, Philipp Burger, sang. An eagle like the one on the region’s flag flashed on a large screen onstage.
Frei.Wild (pronounced FRY-vilt) has become one of the most contentious and successful bands in Germany, where its lyrics about loving one’s homeland have resonated with people who want to challenge the postwar taboo against public expressions of national pride. The band sings in German, and its music is a punk-inflected variant of “deutschrock,” a form of German rock music. But a South Tyrolean identity allows the group to voice nationalist sentiments in German, for a largely German audience, while partly avoiding the backlash that a German band would encounter for making similar statements.
The band’s most recent album, “Rivalen und Rebellen,” (“Rivals and Rebels”) went to the top of the German-language charts in Germany and Austria this spring, and it is the second best-selling album in any language in Germany this year. Many of the group’s tour dates, which included stadium audiences as large as 12,000 people, were sold out.
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The members of Frei.Wild, from left: Jonas Notdurfter, Christian Fohrer, Philipp Burger, and Jochen Gargitter. Critics say the band has fostered anti-immigrant sentiment and right-wing nationalism in Germany.CreditFilippo Massellani for The New York Times
VIDEO AT LINK........................
Anschluss in Italy?
Sing a song of islam….
Ceded after WWI.............
I watched some climbing videos about Reinhold Messner. Turns out his father specifically named all his children with names that couldn’t be translated into Italian because they were changing all the Birth Certificates in Tyrol to Italian names. Interesting.
Sounds like they are the German version of Lynyrd Skynyrd...............
The song celebrates Frei.Wild’s home region of South Tyrol, where the festival was taking place, a largely German-speaking enclave that was passed to Italy from Austria-Hungary after World War I.
South Tyrol should be part of Austria.
An interesting region. One minute you’re ordering schnitzel in German and the next you’re ordering pasta in Italian.
Conservatives have to watch out for Nazi coded sentiments. They try to walk the line but invariably step over it.
Antisemitism goes waaaaay back in Europe, past the Middle Ages. Not just in Germany.........
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Yes, zactly... So Germans, don’t tell us there’s a big conspiracy of Jews in the U.S. trying to hold you all down. We’ll pull our Jewish conspiratorial troops out of Germany and put them somewhere else like a true Allie in Poland....
Germany will be too busy putting down the Muslim rebellion from within to pay much attention to what WE ARE DOING..................
Most Antisemitic people have never even met a Jew.
They only parrot what they have been taught by their elders.
Antisemitism is not genetic, it is a learned behavior.................
Very similar to the Lefts hatred of Conservatives.
Most have never met one.
“why are you chaining yourself to them with this big natural gas pipeline deal? “
Ask Angie.
I think what a lot of European countries lack is a lot more federalism (which we need to restore more of as well).
Unity in our “democratically” organized multi-party modern states should be a unity in diversity and Liberty, where we are joined essentially in our right to Liberty, and so much so that we respect, and do not try to crush, diversity. We stay “united” because we share and respect the Liberty that belongs to each other.
Within that, pride in one’s identity drawn from a heritage is NOT, or need not be, a call for separation, and is consistent with respect for our diversity.
More federalism and less unitary states is what is needed.
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