CATEGORY: Offstage
Holy Land; Impressions!
JEWDYSSEE fun! Beltz Interview
unplugged in Berlin, für RTL Documentation mit Bärbel Schäfer. Ausstrahlung 13.08.12
1 Guy, 60 Languages, Amazing!
A moment before the interview started, Muhamed Mesic was having an oversea conversation with a work colleague in Spanish. “We have some legal issues with the government of Guatemala; they run their affairs there like in Iraq or Syria”, he switches to a perfectly formulated Hebrew and then apologizes: “Sorry for my bad language. I haven’t spoken Hebrew since 2009”. The truth? One cannot notice. Apparently this is how it feels like when you speak more than 60 languages, not including a holding few academic degrees in Law, Judaism, International Relations and Japanology. And all these before even turning 28.
Jewdyssee on the boat! BR Interview for the upcoming album “5773″ July 13th DEBUT ALBUM IN STORES!!
Die neuen Juden
Wir fahren mit der Straßenbahn. Wir sitzen auch ab und zu im Kaffeehaus. Wenn man richtig hinschaut (und zuhört…), kann man uns sogar beim Wiener Schnitzel naschen erwischen. Beinahe echte Wiener sind wir schon geworden. Und neuerdings, man trifft uns sogar in der Synagoge. Jawohl, meine Damen und Herren: Die Wiener-Israelis haben das Judentum wieder entdeckt! Aber bevor wir einen feierlichen Kigel backen und die Gläser erheben, müssen wir noch einiges gestehen, ja uns sogar entschuldigen.
Viennese Cowboy in the Middle East
Click here for the Hebrew version
The two brown horses gallop lightly on the famous Viennese Ringstrasse. Calmly, ignoring all the cars driving by, from left and right. “This part is called Karl-Lueger-Ring, after the former Mayor, who happened to be a big Anti-Semite. Last week I heard that the city is going to rename it – justified I must say”, the carter explains, surprisingly in Hebrew! Well, not an academic Hebrew, “but good enough for the kitchen”, he admits.
The amazing story of Marko Feingold
When I asked Marko ‘Max-Mordechai’ Feingold, the President of the Jewish Community in Salzburg, about his feelings after lying a “Stolperstein” carrying the name of another Nazi-victim, the old man just put his hands on the left chest, as saying: “my heart stops beating for a moment”. This was the 150th time his heart lacked this very heartbeat since he initiated the project in his hometown in 2005. Not the healthiest thing to do when you are a Holocaust survivor and you approach the age of 99. But Feingold does not care.