# Need help finding German song... slam poetry... thing

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 24, 2008, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-finding-german-song-slam-poetry-thing/474352 "2008-11-24T23:23:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2008, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-finding-german-song-slam-poetry-thing/474352/1 "2008-11-24T23:23:34Z")

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I watched this in German class two years ago, and it was (intentionally) ridiculous, it was basically a music video with really weird, mostly rigid movements. I remember a black guy dressed in sweatbands with an afro, and three other people (the “singer” being the German). The DvD had a really satirical “making of” video with all the people from the song, and a video of him performing it as slam in an NY (I think) poetry club. It honestly reminded me of something the Talking Heads would do… if they were even MORE insane than they were.

All I remember about the poetry/song itself is that it was comprised entirely of “heit” and “keit” words.

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**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2008, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-finding-german-song-slam-poetry-thing/474352/2 "2008-11-25T21:01:25Z")

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Anyone

[[First and only bump]]

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**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2008, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-finding-german-song-slam-poetry-thing/474352/3 "2008-11-27T05:28:14Z")

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Found it, for the zero of you interested, welcome to the mindfuck:

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/J3p4_lfJQpg/hqdefault.jpg "Torsten Kretchzmar: Entschlossenheit") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3p4_lfJQpg)

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**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2008, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-finding-german-song-slam-poetry-thing/474352/4 "2008-11-27T06:47:58Z")

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Yes, a tad odd.  
But clicking on some of his other work linked nearby, this particular clip could be considered mainstream.

I bet this video would be a hit at a meth rave.

Tweakheit.

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**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2008, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-finding-german-song-slam-poetry-thing/474352/5 "2008-11-27T06:55:34Z")

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He also has [Dunkelheit](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coac8kftciM) (with animated video!)

I guess you could call it Heitvernarrtheit