In 1980 werd Rainer Werner Fassbinders versie van Berlin Alexanderplatz voor het eerst uitgezonden op de Duitse televisie. Een beeldenmarathon van ruim vijftien uur schetst het leven van een man die niet aan zijn noodlot kan ontsnappen. Fassbinder bleef trouw aan de tijdsetting van het bronmateriaal: Alfred Döblins roman (1929) en de eerste filminterpretatie daarvan (1931) situeerden hoofdpersoon Franz Biberkopf al in het Berlijn van het interbellum. Anno 2020 eert regisseur Burhan Qurbani, die dit jaar zelf óók veertig wordt, de veertigste verjaardag van Fassbinders cultepos met een eigentijdse bewerking.
I wrote an extensive paper on pop star Billie Eilish and her song all the good girls go to hell. If you are interested, you can read it right here. I wrote it in the context of my research master in Religious Studies at Utrecht University and my interest in music, popular culture & the transformations of western culture, identity politics, symbolism and transgression.
Kind van de Duivel A moral response to an ‘offensive’ song
‘’Ik ben een kind van de duivel, mama jij hoeft niet te huilen. Feesten alsof elke dag hier mijn laatste is hoop dat je deze draait op mijn begrafenis.’’
When the Dutch rapper Jebroer released his single Kind van de Duivel in 2017, generous airplay of Dutch and Belgian radio stations coincided with considerably high chart positions in the Dutch single top 100 and the Top 40.[1] The lyrics and the clip, however, aroused quite some controversy among confined groups of Christian people, who responded to the song’s glorifying references to death and the devil.[2] Performances by Jebroer in Hardinxveld-Giessendam and Ouddorp were cancelled after protests of local residents.[3]
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