Goldene Kamera speech

[midori]

I've done a translation for that speech... I love the speech! ;D (I also post the German version for the ones of you who are interested and might find it useful... also you can check if I translated it ok. )

Bill was being sarcastic here and gives us a lovely short summary of the headlines the band made in Germany in the past. ;D


Ja also, ähm ja, vielen, vielen Dank. Wir freu’n uns sehr, dass wir heute Abend hier sein könn’. Ähm… wir haben anlässlich der Goldenen Kamera uns hingesetzt und haben, ähm, so’n bisschen über die letzten zweieinhalb Jahre nachgedacht. Und, ähm, ich hab’ mir hier so’n paar Notizen gemacht [looking on his card]. Also, wir sind auf jeden Fall mindestens vier gute Gründe keine Kinder zu kriegen und, ähm, mein kleiner, putziger Bruder… in den viel zu weiten Hosen, hier neben mir, hat in der ersten Woche, in der wir Durch den Monsun veröffentlicht haben erst mal schön mit 25 Mädchen gepoppt. [laughter] Danach haben wir uns… [applause starting] … zusammen… [more clapping] … danach haben wir uns dann zusammen mit dem Jugendamt ordentlich besoffen und haben erst mal in den meisten Hotels irgendwie Verbot bekommen. Und, ähm ja, dann hat noch irgendso’n Opa durch die Gegend geballert und wir wurden von der Bundeswehr gejagt. Daraufhin hab’ ich mir erst mal schön meinen Kajalstift nachgezogen und bin ins Internet gegangen und hab’ dann gesagt wie stockschwul ich doch wirklich bin und ähm, ja, dabei wär’ ich dann noch fast an Magersucht krepiert und trotzdem sind wir heute Abend hier! Oder vielleicht auch gerade deswegen. [lots of clapping, whistling and woman next to Dieter Thomas Heck, his wife, I pressume, (if my lip-reading is correct) saying „wunderbar“(= wonderful) and smiling] Der Dank geht auf jeden Fall zu 100% an unsere deutschen Fans, die die ganze Zeit bei uns waren und, äh ja, so klischée-mäßig das jetzt auch klingt, sie haben uns das alles möglich gemacht. Auch all die Sachen, die außerhalb von Deutschland passier’n. Also vielen, vielen Dank. Es macht uns unglaublich stolz. Danke schön.

Yes well, erm yeah, many, many thanks. We’re very happy to have the chance to be here tonight. Erm… on the occasion of the Golden Camera we sat down together and, erm, have thought about the past two and a half years a bit. And, erm, I’ve taken down some notes [looking on his card]. Well, we certainly are at least four good reasons not to have any children and, erm, my little, cute brother… with the way too wide trousers, here next to me, firstly has been nicely nailing 25 girls within the first week after we released Durch den Monsun. [laughter] After that we… [applause starting] … together… [more clapping]… after that we then got proper plastered together with the youth welfare office and somehow just got banned from most hotels. And, erm yeah, then above all some gramps fired all over the place and we’ve been pursued by the German Armed Forces. Thereupon I neatly re-applied my eyeliner to begin with and then went on the internet and said how utterly gay I really was and, erm yeah, thereby I nearly kicked the bucket [because] of anorexia and yet we’re still here tonight! Or maybe just because of it. [lots of clapping, whistling and woman next to Dieter Thomas Heck, his wife, I pressume, (if my lip-reading is correct) saying „wunderbar“(= wonderful) and smiling] Thanks definitely goes 100% to our German fans who have been with us all the time and, er yeah, as cliché as this now sounds, they’ve made all of this possible for us. Also all the stuff that’s going on beyond Germany. So many, many thanks. We’re incredibly proud. Thank you very much.

[princess666anne]

Thank you
Wow, he talks about so much yay
I like sort of planned speeches

[julia]

It's subtitled on youtube too =)

Gahh I love it how he takes the **** out of the media lies!

xxx

[gemz]

does any one know if there is a video of bill saying his speech on the internet anywhere???

[gemz]

i looked for the speech just now and found it !!!!

yay

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cQaoZgdrwA

[liz]

Thanks for the translation Midori ;D Way to go Bill!!! I love they way he took a swipe at the media - very public, and done in a funny , clever way. Now that`s what I call taking one for the team!!! Bout time to. These guys have put up with so much. I don`t think I`ve ever read such hateful remarks about a band , as I have about TH. It just makes me even prouder of what they are achieving by standing strong together against all the rubbish people say about them. Can`t really say much else - proud of them, excited for them, love them!! ;D

[THkidd]

MIDORI TO THE RESCUE!! ahahaha lol... thanks midori your rock!!
ahahahahaha lol (:
hes taking teh piss out of the media...?? i didnt realise... i just thought he was being funnier than usual!! i was peeing myself with laughter lmaaaoooo!!

[sarah]

hahah bill's really funy i love th
above all bill

he looks so funny we had to be so glad ¡¡

thankxxx midori ^_^

[midori]

You're welcome guys. I just had a look at the subtitled youtube clip and have two "problems" with it... the use of the two "f" words because Bill just did not use them like that and to me they portray a wrong tone of his speech.

[liz]

Yeah I watched it too, and I was a bit `hmmmm` .... Of course, I don`t speak German, so I wouldn`t know any better from a translation point of view. But it didn`t seem quite right in a couple of places ...

[Skye.]

im sorry
i never say this but he
PWNZ
it completely
totally owned
what a ledgend.

*claps and whistles*

[B.eckii ♥]

i agree with my wife.

that was great.

x3

[midori]

The more I think about it, the more I'm bothered by the use of the "f" words in that youtube clip. If Bill had really used them, that would've degraded the whole speech in my opinion. Of course I know there are always different ways of translating and interpreting things but using words like especially the one to describe a gay person would've just been highly inappropriate and offensive.

I often juggle around with lots of words because I'd like to keep the mood of what was being said. I'd hate it to lose its "spirit". That's not always easy, e.g. the way he uses "schön" a couple of times. "schön" is often used as one of those "filler words" we like to use in our daily German and are hard to translate. Yet, even as a filler word "schön" can have some kind of a subliminal meaning which I tried to keep. Then there is "putzig". I laughed so much when Bill used it for Tom. It gets translated as "cute". Personally I find "cute" isn't cute enough. *lol* To me, "putzig" is such a cute word itself, it should be translated as something like "über-cute". That's probably just me though.

My grandma rang me today and as we were talking she mentioned that she saw Tokio Hotel on TV last night. Apart from pictures in newspapers she never them before and especially not performing. She said that granddad and her thought the music was too loud and therefore, they couldn't hear Bill well enough. According to her they didn't understand a word of what he was singing... she barely remembered the "1000 Meere" part. Now, my grandparents are not that old (67 years) and not really deaf so that made me smile, espcially considering that it was playback. She said the music was just too noisy and it wouldn't be their cup of tea. ;D

[Kiah[TH<3]]

Lol

I love older people, they are too sweet. My nan saw a picture of Bill and she was like..."...He looks a bit wild dear...." XD

Yeah, i didn't like all the f words =/ It's a very weirdly translated.......

I love how the german language has about fifty meanings for one word and different moods lol Confusing as hell though. I hate how ganz and immer always seem to be thrown about. I'm like "Wait whaaaat! Slow dowwwn Ich verstehe NICHT damnit" XD

[liz]

but using words like especially the one to describe a gay person would've just been highly inappropriate and offensive

Yeah, that was the part that fazed me on that particular translation. I immediately thought ` hmm, surely he wouldn`t have said it quite like that..?! `