From the "taz" of 24 October 2004:
By Matthias Heine
From the perspective of the citizens of the nobility had always been a caste of proles in velvet and silk. Each Castle was a "Big Brother" container in which incompetent idler could be paid for them, that one could watch them when bleeding. Therefore, one can interpret the duties of the feudal lords who had formerly paid every subject, dismiss it as a kind of early TV fee.
are respect, the cyclically for scandal caring romances between princes and members of the sub-proletariat - such as recently the liaison between Ferfried Prince of Hohenzollern and the luxury widow Tatjana Gsell - not an outrageous and unnatural violation of the strict marriage rules of the nobility, like us whose excited Tradition Keepers try to persuade. Such pairings are close to the nature of things. Between the two layers, the parasitic on the body of the producing classes from above and from below, there was always an active market. The proverbial noble penchant for kitchen staff is not the exception but the rule of propaganda only fogged. For DC and DC gsellt gladly.
The only difference between yesterday and today is that the needle had to lose before the bourgeois revolutions more. To justify their privileges, he must maintain his aura of a blood-related features to the people. Therefore, they tore himself together and made sure that misalliances were not publicized and the supposedly godly Hierarchy into question. A horny as King Ludwig I of Bavaria, which was driven with the dancer Lola Montez and luxury prostitute publicly so great and so far that it popular uprisings forced to abdicate in 1848, remained the exception.
the way a lawyer: Foffi of Hohenzollern |
And many are trying to convert coins now in a bit of money and fame. Poor nobles were already in the twenties, the concept of "Celebrity" in advance. They brought the underworld with how to market earn free celebrities. Today Zlatkos, Naddels Stahnke and act on the same business principle. The same colorful leaves of the live exposure willingness of the nobility and the TV-created celebrities out of the lower layer. And this is confirmed a sociological law: Trading partners and people who belong to a similar social sphere, mate happy. What is the engine, besides strengthening the position in the market for media attention: Ferfried and Tatyana or ... Beep, censor ... Luder and his changing - it is always so to speak two one-person, multiply by a merger of their value to exchange gossip. Particularly amusing is when then ennobled by adoption Filour as Frederic of Saxony-Anhalt, the media-transmitted blue-blooded clichés much more equal than most of its real-noble peers.
It is no coincidence that aristocrats like the Queen, in fact or office, dignity and a Assets to risk, at least try to discipline themselves and their brood. But apparently, it is possible the old lady only for a short time, their clan of new embarrassments to hold. Missions, such as the state visit to Germany next week and are a welcome opportunity for Elizabeth to the family curse of inherited insanity, at least to escape for a short time. This curse can be traced back to that ancestor of the Queen, which the British imported in 1716 from the still infamous for its particularly irresponsible princes Hanover, King George I was a fat loser, his German mistresses zuschacherte the English nobility. His Great-grandson of George III. was mentally ill and provoked by his amateurish political waste of the American colonies. When the British royal family in 1917 his German family name Saxe-Coburg-Gotha changed patriotic in Windsor, you probably hoped to erase the memory of this kind disgrace.
But the scrap genes are invincible. The further the Royals are removed from the throne, the less reason they have, himself together and the more uninhibited they let the pig: This was true of Charles' brother Prince Andrew ("Randy Andy"), who in the eighties including the Pornostarlet Koo Stark and copulated verkumpelt is still regarded as the godfather of her child with that of breast-Queen. And that applies recently for the young Harry, the, the latest paparazzi photos as a red-faced prototype of swigging, violent British Lads: is he in any case not very glamorous high school also cheated have and beats are as happy as his distant cousin Prince Proll Ernst August in Lower Saxony . Probably he pukes then subsequently onto the road.
Again, amazing that can really only one who still believes in the fairy tale of the divine. Because at the origin of each flag is a crime: The old aristocracy is based on a band of unwashed illiterate louts, that in the early Middle Ages to the brutal and ruthless sword slammed than their competitors. And the younger gentry recruited from unscrupulous upstarts that have been rewarded with the title for having emperors and kings as efficient at squeezing the subjects helped.
When, after a millennium aristocracy gradually filed a civil opposition to speak, similar to the arguments against the prince to his word to those with which today criticize cultural critic, the trash-caste of the TV celebrity: Lessing's Prince Hettore Gonzaga of "Emilia Galotti" Desportes, or from "The Soldier" by Lenz men are perfect for the jungle camp: Lazy, stupid, brash, impulsive control, uneducated but bursting against self-consciousness. What are Lady Milford, Adelheid von Walldorf and Gwendolyn Thurneck of Lessing, Goethe and Kleist as a career for another greedy Hofluder? The Thurneck owes its beauty even implants and surgery - like any zurechtgeschnippeltes Starlet of the present.
One for all: Nigel Hawthorne as a mad King George III. |
to the poor Stephanie, but also to Princess Gloria's early mega embarrassment or Lady Dis fatal penchant for garrulous grooms and useless Playboys, one should remember, when, once again some noble public claims that his equal is to some extent by birth an expert on issues of good style. Since then, good manners back in fashion, has so many blue-blooded attempt to earn extra money by writing etiquette guide, offering relevant courses or treat in newspaper columns, the problems of "stylish starvation".
But we can not be blinded by their chatter. These figures may indeed impressive invent stories about why someone who loosens the knot of his tie, or at the table "Guten Appetit!" wishes, is not give satisfaction. But then they go out and pee on the Turkish Expo pavilion. They impregnate the obscenities entertainer Desiree Nick and do not even pay child support then. Or do they stick their noses in the Silicon Valley between the breasts of any insurance convicted swindler and then swarm in "Colorful" by their "alabaster body."
We always knew that we were under a "noble family" have something obscene to imagine.
This article is on 25 October 2004 under the title "Adel addressed" in the "taz" appeared. Because one of the princes stated therein legally resisted it, that I have his ex-lover and women who betrayed him happy times with boy band, singers and other B-celebrities as "slut", he is no longer in the archive . see I am reminded of the text - in the light of today's Guttenberg affair considered - in almost prophetic. I have in any case made about the "bourgeois" virtues of the Minister never illusions.
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