It’s back – the anxious question whether one should laugh about Hitler. A novel adaptation is time to rise: In “He’s back,” the fear of lust-occupied scenario is played out, what would Hitler returned to the present. The film has just come to the cinema, and what it is superficially funny, is the time machine effect: The Hitler from 1945 must learn to deal with a computer, set up an email address suddenly, and he will star in Youtube. That he was a rabble-rouser, and racist mass murderers, as irrelevant. So if you want to accuse some of the novel as the film of David Wnendt, this harmlessness: Hitler becomes the x-any off-the-time-Fallen, a comic figure like all the knights or aliens in other comedies helpless in the stranded presence.
But with this heavy-handed humor is Wnendt does not last long on. He hunts Hitler actually in reality, can castle actor Oliver Masucci realistically Hitler outfit with black mustache and uniform on German citizens going on. And suddenly it comes to satire – from the bitter varieties. For since Hitler stands then on a training field and chatting with a nice young woman who unfortunately nodding all the time when Hitler tells her that German Shepherds are not likely to mate with dachshunds. The purebred German Shepherd would still be lost. Or the disguised Hitler takes place in a Sylter fish restaurant, and soon calls the Lord next to him, better to build again a labor camp in Germany. Of course, a laughter remains as stuck in your throat. But that has always been the best form of comedy: those who unmasked, revealing secretly shaken. Laughter is then an exemption, you laugh the discomfort away. But the critical impulse is set. How it works also political cabaret. That is enlightenment with comic funds.
For Sigmund Freud result the force of a joke from the strength of emotion which is bypassed. Emotions like anger or indignation about a person or an event are replaced by laughter. That is why humor is not harmless. That is why humor can be a weapon. The knew the Nazis when they equal vorgingen with the seizure of power against comedian and satirical magazines such as the “Simplicissimus”. And so it is naturally legitimate to reverse this weapon again and turn against Hitler. And so try most satirists, who venture into the brown swamp to make Hitler laughable to underscore the ludicrous his ideology and demonstrate the Neurotic his person. It then produced films like Dani Levy’s “Mein Führer”, in which the Dadaist of German humor, Helge Schneider, a wholly miserable Hitler mimes. One who can not even applying the voice, to proclaim the “total war”. Laughing is to understand the audience, that Hitler was not the demon who seduced the people alone. Since the humor aimed at the banality of evil.
But Hitler was not the only culprit, yet he was just banal. He was also the Hetzer and racist who “Mein Kampf” blatantly spread its ideology in the murder of Jews began inexorably to the factory and the world plunged into war. So it is quite understandable that people queasy at satires about Hitler, if they, indeed obscene perceive as inappropriate, made small to see these mass murderers in jokes. Perhaps it is this discomfort that moved some Hitler cast, to distance themselves from their roles. Helge Schneider as wanted before the theatrical release of “Mein Führer” of “Hitler’s nonsense” to know nothing more. To him, the film by Dani Levy’s average had fallen to harmless. To show Hitler only as a weakling, had him too profane, he was at that time on record.
Even Charlie Chaplin distanced himself years later by his yet so valid Hitler parody “The Great Dictator” from 1940. “Had I known of the terror in the German concentration camps, I would, The Great Dictator ‘not bring about, would I can not make fun of the murderous madness of the Nazis,” he wrote in his autobiography. It just had so prescient created a character who not only is just a cheap copy, but exposes the nature of the fanatic
Nevertheless, even comedian of his rank appear to recognize a boundary -. A degree of horror and barbarity, the nevertheless deprives the comedy. Since it can not accept the later generations so loose and quote Tucholsky, whose “Satire must all” long been a truism is. There are limits, even of humor, but the need to pull the humorists. Also, not every political joke equal subversive. Even the Nazi era was indeed spotted in secret about Hitler. But these “Flüsterwitze” were only brief relief of the oppressed. And so even for a stabilizing system.
Worse than cheap Oho-jokes about Hitler are the serious overtures that are only meant well. You always run the risk of ending up in kitsch and empathy to arouse sympathy for the wrong side. Just as Oliver Hirschbiegel’s “Downfall” in which Bruno Ganz so masterfully gives Hitler the last Führerbunker-hours that is equivalent to an involuntary parody. At best.
Even Hitler there should be no taboos genre, but by increased demand for quality. Satire has to be able to do everything. This is a badge of freedom. And they must decide what they can better themselves. That is their responsibility
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