![]() ![]() The real problem, of course, is the assumption that displays of feminine sexuality are indicators of sexual availability. The subtext whispers: “Hide your butt cheeks, hide your breasts, because people cannot learn to respect women if they are sexual creatures.” But the report’s implication that videos full of sexily writhing bodies are responsible for both rape culture and racism is fundamentally misguided. The recommended solution: compulsory age ratings, and increased cautiousness when it comes to what music video “choose to portray”. It goes on to suggest that by reducing women to eye candy, music videos create “a conducive context for violence against women”. Most recently, the poetry collection “Gemeinsame Sprache” (Dörlemann, 2021) was published, in which the poem “Schwarze Tauben fliegen auf” dedicated to Endo Anaconda can also be found.Going further, the report cites experimental research where viewers who watch hypersexualised music videos become more tolerant of racist and sexist attitudes some even are more likely to excuse a rapist’s actions. Regularly performs throughout Europe, the U.S., Africa, Russia, South America and Japan. Jürg Halter, born 1980 in Bern, writer, lyricist and spoken word artist. He has been honoured with various Swiss and international awards throughout his career, such as the Salzburger Stier (1995), the German Cabaret Awards (1995) and the Swiss Music Awards (2017).Įndo Anaconda released twelve studio albums and three live albums, selling over 250,000 records. He became known mainly as the singer of the Bernese band Stiller Has – not only in Switzerland but also in nearby countries. My heart is bleeding – Endo Anaconda forever! The poet, composer and musician Endo Anaconda was born Andreas Flückiger in Burgdorf in 1955. ![]() ![]() There is no way out because the damn universe is everywhere. The universe in which we, the living and the dead are all and remain seekers. May Endo now fly somewhere out there, through the universe, light as a feather, whistling new and old melodies. And because someone like Endo deserves more than applause and memorial minutes, we should laugh for him now, laugh at us, for us. Yes! Let’s be gratefully disturbed, poetically animated, that we knew and know him among us. Perhaps Endo would call out at this point: “Laugh a little! Laugh already! I want to see you laugh for crying out loud!” Then he himself would burst into his hearty, smoky, finely rattling laughter. Endo allows injury to happen, shows his wounds, unasked – beautifully spoiled. Endo is a generous, tender, warm embrace. He loves his three children, he loves women, he loves people. Always too little or too much, but never enough.Įndo is exorbitant. Endo’s black humor shines in the darkness. His art, his poetry is existential, in the most beautiful as well as in the most self-destructive sense. But the dialect is also a prison – Bern is everywhere? – No, thanks.Įndo’s poetry is worldly rich, he lives it and it lives him. Tom Waits, Jim Morrison, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Biggie or Leonard Cohen would envy him for many a songtext. ![]() Endo shines as the maladapted in the midst of the adapted. Endo has a historical awareness of our abysses. But never with condescending, self-important gestures, because he knows that he, like all of us, is part of the problem of humanity. He not only notices that there is a lot wrong with our society, he can also name and poeticise it in song lyrics, columns and conversations in a stubbornly precise and painfully accurate way. Endo is a highly sensitive and attentive person who interferes with wisdom. He is a prancing troublemaker, Endo disrupts operational establishment passionately, he rocks the scene as a genuinely post-pubescent operations disruption on stilts. Life sometimes turns out to be a ghost train and Endo appears as an impressive ghost wave rider – he also swings as a singing dandy, merry as a hare, cigarette in the corner of his mouth, on the road in his red convertible on a never-ending tour somewhere between Bern, Trub, Venice, the Alabama Hills, Olten, Vienna and Wallisellen.Įndo acts as a comforting warm-hearted alpinist against adverse life and evil old age. Since Endo has died, but is far from being dead, I can only write of Switzerland’s greatest dialect poet in the present tense – Endo Anaconda will forever remain as young as well as “alterswild” (name of an album by Stiller Has, “old and wild”). ![]()
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