Assignment Due 3/7

"It's All a Swindle" (Alles Schwindel), by Mischa Spoliansky and Marcellus Schiffer (1931)

English                                                                                German

Papa swindles                                                               Papa schwindelt,

Mama swindles                                                          Mama schwindelt   

Grandmama's a lying thief                                          tut sie auf blob ihren Mund!

We're perfectly shameless                                             Tante Otilie,

but we're blameless                                                       und die Familie

after all it's our belief                                                     und sogar der kleine Hund!

Nowadays the world is rotten                                         Und besieht man’s aus der Nähe:

honesty has been forgotten                                              Jedes Band und jede Ehe

fall in love but after kissing --                                        jeder Kub in dern Betriebe

check your purse to see what's missing                        und sogar die grobe Liebe!

Everyone swindles some                                               Und die ganze heut’ge Zeit ja,

my son's a mooch and so's the pooch                              sogar die Ehrlichkeit!

I chose these lyrics because what it states is true, we live in a world where is difficult to trust anyone.  Most of the time, people lie and take advantage of others, therefore it is hard to trust someone. According to the song, everyone is swindle, including parents, governments, and family. Sometimes we cannot even trust our own decisions, or what we do. I believe the singer may have had a difficult time during her childhood growing up because of the lyrics meaning. Parents are those that you supposed to trust, but she said both parents were deceptions. At the moment it was a period of time were bad things happen, such great depression. On the other hand, I think it is impossible to go through life without trust; it will make your life miserable. I think God create the world base on trust and forgiveness.  People may not trust anyone for a reason, but this does not mean that you have live in a world with fear.  We live in imperfect world, but have to find a way of survive.

"Chuck Out the Men" (Raus mit den Männern), by Friedrich Hollaender (1926)

English

The battle for emancipation's been raging since history began

Yes, feminists of every nation want to chuck off the chains made by man

Hula girls and housemaids and wives in Maribou

hear all our voices thunder in protest

Anything that men do women can do too

and more that that we women do it best

German

(für Claire Waldoff)

Es geht durch die ganze Historie

ein Ruf nach Emanzipation

vom Menschen bis zur Infusorie

überall will das Weib auf den Thron.

Vin Hawai-Neger bis zur Berliner Range

braust ein Ruf wie Donnerhall daher:

Was die Männer können, können wir schon lange

und vielleicht ’ne ganze Ecke mehr.

These lyrics represent the oppression the women suffer during this time and the struggling for liberation. For the author it is enough, women fight for emancipation since early years.  In the song the author expressed her desire of being free to have the right to do anything, she sound more feminist.

According to the society the role of women is stay at home take care of the house, children, and husband, while the man is the head of the house. Female are physical disable therefore we do the light works while male are more strong and more dominating role. During the period of time women those not have freedom of right as it is today. Gender role is a set of social norms the people should follow, but we live in world were women can do the same jobs of men. There still some countries were women do not have the right for speak or work.

Paragraph 175 (Society - Homophobia) A national prohibition, \was added to the Reich Penal Code in 1871.

The paragraph 175 is a provision of German code, meaning homosexual acts is a crime. Men having sex with men or animal is a crime. They would lose their civil rights. In 1933 when the Nazi’s take control they reform the law. The Nazi’s create three parts of the law in 1935 after the murder of Ernst Roem. The first one is Paragraph 175 mean who have sex with another man or permits himself to be used by another male for sex should captivity. But is the male is minor the court may abstain from penalty. Second, Paragraph 175a a male can be imprisonment if he abuse or obligate another male to have sex with the intention of his own pleasure. A male over 21 years of age who seduce males under 21 can go to jail.  The last part is Paragraph 175b mean the any human who have sex act with animals is imprisonment and loss of the civil rights.

 This article relates to the lecture because it was period time were morality and norms play an important role in the society. According to the Bible and some people belief, man should not have sex with the same sex. God create a women and men to reproduce. I think the people have the right to choose their own way to live. We should respect people choice if they not harm others.