Das sehr lesenswerte, in Teilen gar brillante Blog “Ich werde ein Berliner” bespricht deutsche (oder genauer: berlinmittedeutsche) Eigenheiten in unregelmäßigen Abständen. Zuletzt wurde ein Blick auf die gute alte “Tatort”-Krimiserie und “Tatort-Parties” geworfen:

“A new episode of Tatort is aired every Sunday. It is Germany’s longest running crime drama, a bit like a teutonic version of “Law & Order,” just a lot slower and less exciting. That’s the reason Tatort didn’t have a huge following among young Germans until about 10 years ago.

In fact, Tatort is so slow, tedious, and deliberately low-key that one 1.5 hour episode feels like a whole day going by. Halfway into it, you’ll want to inject caffeine into your eyeballs just to make it through the next minute. In good German film-making tradition, everything about it feels painfully over-endeavored and every single character is stock beyond the worst stereotype. But that’s, like, sooo not the point, Auslander. German people love Tatort for its realism and dedication to pick up controversial topics and social developments to base its stilted plots on in a really contrived way. … weiter lesen