Dani Levy's new film "Mein Führer" is getting lots of attention lately. The basic question everyone seems to be posing is, are we allowed to laugh about Hitler? H-German has already collected a bunch of reviews and I saw this interesting essay today about watching the premier of the film with neonazis in the audience.
The Medienrauschen essay also brought up Serdar Somuncu, with a YouTube link to an MDR story on one of his shows last summer in Saxony, at which he invited the rightwing group protesting at the theatre to come up to the stage. Fascinating to watch.
Somehow I've never heard of Somuncu, but I'm trying to catch up. He's Turkish (or Turkish-German? I wasn't sure) satirist whose performances take on all comers: Germans, Turks, Nazis, you name it. What I've heard so far is very funny; his site has a few samples from the new cd. I think it's worth a listen.
Anybody seen the Levy movie yet?