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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe"><span class="EP8xU" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">jonny</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:jonny.meibohm@arcor.de">jonny.meibohm@arcor.de</a>></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span class="HcCDpe"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">LL-L "Culture" 2008.06.26 (01) [E/LS]</span><br><br></span><div>
<span><font face="Courier New">Beste
Marcus,</font></span></div>
<div><span></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New">at first: another
excellent posting of yours! Worth to give a critical
answer...!</font></span></div><div class="Ih2E3d">
<div><span></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New">You
wrote:</font></span></div>
<div><span></span> </div>
<div><span><font color="#008080" face="Courier New"><strong>Back to the Northern identity: The Northern identity
manifests in memes like "Fischköppe" (Northerners being called, but also calling
themselves "fish heads"), or a "Rock attitude" (the Rocker subculture and Heavy
Metal are more widespread in Northern Germany than in the south of Germany, as
far as I could observe this). In metal and Rock Northern Germany has much in
common with Scandinavia. They (or "We") even identify them/our-selves with the
Vikings. Or think of Hip Hop bands like Fettes Brot or Fischmob performing songs
in Low Saxon. Like the song "Nordisch by nature". Northern identity pure. The
band Torfrock even combines Viking rock and Low Saxon. This Northern identity is
my hope (actually my only hope) for the future of Low
Saxon.</strong></font></span></div>
<div><span><strong></strong></span> </div>
</div><div><span><font face="Courier New">'Northern idendity'
and 'Low Saxon' are different things, as well as Hip Hop and Metal (the two of
them I never would write within one single sentence *s*).</font></span></div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New">Having been
in Wacken (meanwhile the world's greatest annual Heavy Metal festival, in
Schleswig-Holstein/Germany; you had mentioned it in a previous mail) for a
couple of times (continuously from 1996 with less than 5,000 visitors till 2002
with more than 50,000!) I didn't feel any smell of LS.</font></span></div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New">Groups like "In
Extremo" became famous with Middle <u>High</u> German textes, but our
"Torf-Rockers" never became part of the main actors there, as far as I
remember- they're still our 'local heroes'.</font></span></div>
<div><span></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New">Wacken (standing
for the "Mekka" and spirit of <em>true</em> Metal fans) is simply
international- you'll find people from Brazil, Southern- and Eastern Europe,
Japan etc. as well as the mentioned Scandinavians. I don't guess
that all these people feel themselves as "Vikings"- as well as I don't
;-)!"</font></span></div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New">The greater part of
Germany's most famous Rock/Heavy Metal bands are originating from the Western
regions ("Blind Guardian" from Krefeld [Lower Rhine area], "Accept", "Grave
Digger" and "Rage" from Essen [Ruhrgebiet], "Edguy" from Schwaben etc.).
Okay- "Helloween" comes from Hamburg, "The Scorpions" and some more from
Hanover.</font></span></div>
<div><span></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New">A 'Northern'
identity is something different and as I fear, not appropriate to save our Low
Saxon 'identity'.</font></span></div>
<div><span></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New">Die hard
;-)!</font></span></div>
<div><span></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New">Jonny
Meibohm</font></span></div>
<div><span></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New">(BTW: Next year I
have to visit Wacken once more with my youngest son- in a moment of
carelessnes I have promised it to him. Perhaps it will become a family
event with all my four sons- the oldest one is same aged as you
are...). <br></font></span></div><br><br><br>