Non ne avevo mai sentito parlare prima, ma sono un appassionato di magia, quindi sono andato a vedere dal vivo gli Ehrlich Brothers. Sono rimasto sorpreso da quanto fosse arretrata parte della presentazione. Ci sono voluti molta ispirazione (e trucchi magici) da David Copperfield. Faceva cose del genere negli anni ’90. Vedi ad esempio il suo trucco con le carte qui https://youtu.be/2wJRxu_lDds?si=AudoMEXLBEBu_h07 Good Trick, ma gli scherzi sessuali con gli spettatori sono ormai datati. Copperfield li abbandonò quando compì 40 anni, alla fine degli anni ’90. I fratelli Ehrlich sono sulla quarantina e fanno ancora questo nel 2024 – commentando il seno dello spettatore, chiedendo un bacio “se il trucco funziona”, chiedendo allo spettatore (donna) di guardarlo profondamente negli occhi mentre trova la sua carta ecc. La volta che ho visto questo genere di cose è stato quando un mio amico si è unito alla “scena degli artisti rimorchiatori” nel 2007. Per me è molto preconfezionato, datato e rabbrividire. Ma io sono un outsider che ha portato il suo background culturale dagli Stati Uniti e non guardo la TV tedesca. Quindi è normale commentare il seno di una donna che non hai mai incontrato prima o implorarla di baciarla sui media tedeschi?
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di stenlis
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You watch some washed up act and complain here for what purpose exactly?
While i don’t have a concrete answer for you, I can only imagine it might be due it being simply targeted at older more conservative audiences that are used to the old stuff and don’t want the “new hip” stuff
ehrlich brothers are cringe? wow that’s a big surprise
Germany is a bit behind the US in this regard.
Other side of the coin is that Germany is not quite as hysterical (a problematic word in this context, I know; sorry) about sexuality than the US is, so things like this are generally seen as less harmful than in the US (still bad taste though).
No, it isn’t particularly normal, you picked a bad show to go see. Why do people think that one random show represents all of Germany?
It is unfortunately still very common. German TV is geared towards old people and for them blatant sexism is normal, they totally freak out if you call it out because you dare come with the woke new idea of equality.
And you will find that in every TV show. I’ve recently watched an episode of Tatort and they took things like an equal opportunity commissioner in STEM academia totally out of context, made the female character reproduce sexism, disregard a female student under attack from a professor and laugh about her job with said sexist professor. My mother in her 70s laughed her ass off, I was horrified.
A lot of German comedians also built their entire careers and shows on sexism (Mario Bart and Oliver Pocher for example) and still draw crowds with it. Just don’t watch German TV aside from news, it’s horrible.
I had to google their names and I’m hitting 40 soon.
There are two parts of an answer to this:
1. The Ehrlich Brothers are like the Schlagerfestival of Magic. Their shows are geared towards a certain kind of audience. The kind of audience who would call us woke idiots for calling the jokes on the show backwards and sexist.
2. Many women in that particular demographic think the Ehrlich guys are sexy and attractive and actually like to be part of this kind of “jokes”. I would even go out on a limb and say they might lose fans if they changed their show to be more modern.
Source: A big part of my extended family belong to the core group of the Ehrlich-Brothers-loving demographic.
sounds 100% like classic german tv a la thomas gottschalk, so yes, kinda normal unfortunately
Dont tell OP about Mario barth
Who tf is the “Ehrlich Brothers” and what do they have to do with Germany in general? Never heard of them.
Let me google this quickly …
Ah I see. Coming from the darkest pits of trash TV in Germany. No, “magicians” nor this kind of it is well known in Germany nor liked in my bubble at least. Did not even know something like this exists anymore.
“Stuck in the 90s” + “Germany” = yes.
I’ve always found their performances to be “cringe”. A few years ago, they were trying to appeal to the younger audience, making their show annoying as hell. The tricks themselves are normally well done, but their patter, costumes, etc. are all really annoying.
That said, I’m old. I saw Sigfried & Roy perform in Las Vegas in 2001, and was very disappointed by their show as well. Again, the tricks were well done, but Sigfried and Roy both looked tired and almost bored during the show. It lacked “enthusiasm” given that I had paid nearly $100 for the ticket.
I would love to see Penn & Teller’s show before they retire … I’m hoping to get to Vegas to see them next year!
A Karen will love them
One person’s cringe is another person’s top tier entertainment. This goes for all kinds of cringe andall kinds of entertainment. I don’t think believing that “cringe” would be some kind of objective measure is useful.
So the simple answer really is: Apparently enough people like that kind of program that there is still money to be made with it.
You are going out of your way to be offended by proxy