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[octarinespill]

Angela Jerich - Alone at Home

Now I will feed you

[hotvintagepoll]

You know what I think would be fun? A Mambo No. 5 mini poll. The only thing is, while the shadow realm contains at least one each of Monica, Rita, Sandra, Mary and Jessica - and we could have Cristina Gaioni for Tina - we don't have an Erica. A conundrum.

[kwebtv]

Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna - USA - December 7-8, 1986

Biography (2 episodes)

Running Time: 195 minutes total

Stars:

Amy Irving as Anastasia "Anna" Anderson

Olivia de Havilland as Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna

Rex Harrison as Grand Duke Cyril Romanov (His last screen appearance)

Jan Niklas as Prince Erich

Nicolas Surovy as Serge Markov

Susan Lucci as Darya Romanoff

Elke Sommer as Isabel Von Hohenstauffen

Edward Fox as Dr. Hauser

Claire Bloom as Czarina Alexandra

Omar Sharif as Czar Nicholas II

Jennifer Dundas as Grand Duchess Anastasia

Christian Bale as Tsarevich Alexei

Andrea Bretterbauer as Sonya Markov

Sydney Bromley as Herbert

Arnold Diamond as Dr. Markov

Carol Gillies as Sasha

Julian Glover as Colonel Eugene Kobylinsky

Rachel Gurney as Grand Duchess Victoria

Betty Marsden as Princess Troubetskaya

Tim McInnerny as Yakovlev

Angela Pleasence as Clara

Julia Koehler as one of the three sisters

[princesssarisa]

Sleeping Beauty Spring: "Dornröschen" ("Briar Rose")/"Sleeping Beauty" (1955 German film)

This West German film is one of many cinematic fairy tales to come out of Germany in the 1950s and the early '60s, and one of several to be dubbed into English by Childhood Productions as fodder for Saturday "kiddie matinees" in America. Having already seen two of that company's other dubbed releases, Fritz Genschow's Cinderella and Erich Kobler's Snow White, I looked forward to seeing this Sleeping Beauty, knowing that like the other two, it would probably be fairly corny, but still charming. I was right.

Like the same year's West German Cinderella, this Sleeping Beauty was directed by Fritz Genschow, who also co-wrote the script with Renée Stobrawa. Both Genschow and Stobrawa appear onscreen too, as the King and the castle housekeeper Miss Hustlebustle. (Just as they both appeared in Cinderella as the heroine's father and the Fairy Godmother.) The cast also features Angela von Leitner as Princess Briar Rose and Gert Reinholm as Prince Charming.

In the opening scene, with her husband away on business of state, the lonely Queen wanders the castle grounds longing for a child, until she discovers a mysterious tower in a remote spot. Unbeknownst to her, this is the home of the Wicked Fairy, who gives the Queen a potion that will let her conceive child, on the condition that she invite the Fairy to the christening as a godmother. In truth, the child born from that potion will be evil and ugly. But a magical statue of a frog comes to life and prevents the Queen from drinking it, urging her instead to bathe in a lake enchanted by twelve good fairies. The result, of course, is the birth of a lovely little princess, and the twelve good fairies are invited to the christening. The good fairies are beauties in white robes, each with a headdress of enormous flowers on her head; by contrast, the Wicked Fairy wears black robes and a headdress decked with dead plants. The death curse she places on the princess is softened to sleep by the Rose Fairy.

Sixteen years later, the castle celebrates Briar Rose's birthday. Extensive comic relief is provided by a bevy of mischievous little kitchen boys, whom the cook, Mr. Puddingbowl, struggles to keep in line, while also pursuing a December/December romance with the housekeeper Miss Hustlebustle. Meanwhile, the Wicked Fairy disguises herself as an old woman and approaches Briar Rose, inviting her to come to her tower for a special birthday present. Briar Rose declines at first because her party guests are arriving. But at the ball she finds herself courted by a buffoonish suitor, Prince Suchabore, the son of King Bubble and Queen Babble. To get away from him, she sneaks off to the tower, where of course the "old woman" is waiting with a spindle.

As the Wicked Fairy spreads her curse through the castle grounds, the court doesn't physically fall asleep; instead they all freeze in place like statues, with some of them posed in comical positions for the next hundred years. (Mr. Puddingbowl about to box a kitchen boy's ear, another boy swinging on a string of onions, one man just about to sneeze, etc.) The twelve good fairies then surround the castle with a protective hedge of rosebushes. Many princes over the years try to fight their way through the thorns – we see a montage of them in their assorted colorful, exotic costumes – only to die and transform into red roses on the hedge.

At long last, however, Prince Charming arrives, and he learns the story of Briar Rose from a group of peasant children singing a folksong about her. (One based on the real German children's song "Dornröschen war ein schönes Kind," sometimes known in English as "There Was a Princess Long Ago.") Then from an old man, he gains a flute to summon the twelve good fairies. When he makes his way through the briars and is led by the magic frog to the tower, the Wicked Fairy conjures up a herd of hideous monsters to stop him. But the Prince's sword and the twelve good fairies' magic defeats them and the Wicked Fairy disappears. Prince Charming wakes Briar Rose with a kiss, the royal court unfreezes with no idea that a hundred years went by, and all live happily ever after.

As I expected, this is a slightly clunky Sleeping Beauty. But it's an endearing one all the same, filmed in lush green settings, with pretty 18th century-inspired costumes, and with enjoyable creative touches that don't detract from its basic faithfulness to the Grimms' tale.

I do wish I could see the original German version of the film and not just the English dubbed version, though. Like Childhood Productions' other dubs of German fairy tale films, this dub adds excessive voiceover narration by Paul Tripp, as well as fairly charming yet forgettable songs by Milton and Anne Delugg.

An essential Sleeping Beauty this isn't, but it's still an enjoyable sample of 1950s German fairy tale cinema.

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[blunt-force-therapy]

This is Angela Davis in 1972, visiting East German leader Erich Honecker

Honecker's government was responsible for the kidnapping, torture and killing of political dissidents, funding of both far-left and far-right organisations in West Germany including the Red Army faction and neo-Nazi groups, and provided funding for the PLO and PFLP, who organised nassacres such as the one that occured during the Munich Olympics. Honecker's government also upheld the "shoot to kill" order against anyone trying to escape from East Germany, so of course Angela Davis went to provide her condolences to a border guard killed by an escapee and praised his service in "protection of the socialist homeland"

She also visited the Soviet Union and mingled with the highest levels of the CPSU leadership, including a close personal friendship with Valentina Tereshkova. The USSR is responsible for countless human rights abuses, massacres, kidnappings, torture and killings of political prisoners, systematic discrimination and violence against Jews, Tatars, Koreans, Central Asian peoples and Ukrainians, and the occupation of nearly half of Europe, imposing the same abuses in such countries

If you listen to Angela Davis' passionate cries against racism, consider that she had no problem with racist human rights abuses enacted by her socialist comrades from overseas. Is this hypocrite who you really want to side with?

“In a racist society, it is not enough to be non-racist. We must be anti-racist.” - Angela Y. Davis

[alexlacquemanne]

Novembre MMXXIV "November Who"

Films

Daleks' Invasion Earth : 2150 A.D. (1966) de Gordon Flemyng avec Peter Cushing, Bernard Cribbins, Ray Brooks, Andrew Keir, Roberta Tovey, Jill Curzon et Roger Avon

Family Business (1989) de Sidney Lumet avec Sean Connery, Dustin Hoffman, Matthew Broderick, Rosanna Desoto, Janet Carroll et Victoria Jackson

Le Distrait (1970) de et avec Pierre Richard et Bernard Blier, Marie-Christine Barrault, Maria Pacôme, Catherine Samie, Micheline Luccioni, Paul Préboist, Tsilla Chelton et Robert Dalban

Elvis et Nixon (Elvis and Nixon) (2016) de Liza Johnson avec Michael Shannon, Kevin Spacey, Alex Pettyfer, Johnny Knoxville, Colin Hanks, Evan Peters et Sky Ferreira

Scandale à la cour (Olympia) (1960) de Michael Curtiz et Mario Russo avec Sophia Loren, Maurice Chevalier, John Gavin, Angela Lansbury, Isabel Jeans, Tullio Carminati et Milly Vitale

Monsieur Aznavour (2024) de Grand Corps Malade et Mehdi Idir avec Tahar Rahim, Camille Moutawakil, Gulia Avetisyan, Bastien Bouillon, Marie-Julie Baup, Lionel Cecilio et Hovnatan Avédikian

Les Sentiers de la gloire (Paths of Glory) (1957) de Stanley Kubrick avec Kirk Douglas, George Macready, Ralph Meeker, Timothy Carey, Joe Turkel, Adolphe Menjou et Wayne Morris

L'Alibi (1937) de Pierre Chenal avec Louis Jouvet, Jany Holt, Erich von Stroheim, Albert Préjean, Margo Lion, Fun-Sen, Véra Flory et Génia Vaury

L’Exercice de l’État (2011) de Pierre Schoeller avec Olivier Gourmet, Michel Blanc, Zabou Breitman, Laurent Stocker, Sylvain Deblé, Didier Bezace, Jacques Boudet, François Chattot et Anne Azoulay

Drôle de missionnaire (The Missionary) (1982) de Richard Loncraine avec Michael Palin, Maggie Smith, Phoebe Nicholls, Trevor Howard, Graham Crowden, Denholm Elliott, Michael Hordern et Rosamund Greenwood

Les Félins (1964) de René Clément avec Alain Delon, Jane Fonda, Lola Albright, Sorrell Booke, Carl Studer, André Oumansky, Arthur Howard et George Gaynes

Docteur ? (2019) de Tristan Séguéla avec Michel Blanc, Hakim Jemili, Solène Rigot, Artus, Franck Gastambide, Fadily Camara et Lucia Sanchez

La Séductrice (A Good Woman) (2004) de Mike Barker avec Scarlett Johansson, Helen Hunt, Tom Wilkinson, Mark Umbers, Stephen Campbell Moore, Milena Vukotic et Roger Hammond

Graine de violence (Blackboard Jungle) (1955) de Richard Brooks avec Glenn Ford, Anne Francis, Margaret Hayes, Vic Morrow, Sidney Poitier, Warner Anderson, Louis Calhern, Rafael Campos et Jamie Farr

Peter Gunn, détective spécial (Gunn) (1967) de Blake Edwards avec Craig Stevens, Laura Devon, Edward Asner, Albert Paulsen, Sherry Jackson, Marion Marshall et Helen Traubel

Doctor Who : Le Fandom Français (2019) de Julien Cadart Serizel, Pauline Cadart Serizel et Thomas Pouchin avec Alexandre Blondel, Carine Boxho, Nino Bréant, Mathéo De Lima, Marie Devigne, Romana Doc, Julien Evrard et Antony Fromaget

Séries

Doctor Who Season 20, 1 Series 1, 4, 6, 9, 12, 14

Mawdryn Undead - Father's Day - Terminus - The Doctor's Daughter - The Daleks - Enlightenment - The Curse of the Black Spot - Sleep No More - Praxeus - Rogue - The King's Demons - The Five Doctors

Psych Saison 3, 4, 5

Noël au balcon, tout le monde en prison - Six pieds sous la mer - Sale temps pour Lassiter - Au feu le médium - L'Enfer du vendredi - Plus menteur, tu meurs - Mardi 17, le retour de Jason - Une soirée avec Mr Yang - Mission Canada - Famille, je vous aime - Petits arrangements avec le Diable - Presque cent dollars pour un Shérif - La Peur des balles - Meurtre à Bollywood - À qui le tour ? - La Nuit du Loup-Garou - Y a-t-il quelqu'un pour sauver Shawn ? - En avant soldat ! - Sensations trop fortes - Rendez-vous dans sept ans - Le Groupe de Réflexion - À vos masques… - Dans le ventre de la bête - Mr Yin présente… - La Guerre débridée - La Botte secrète - Soucoupes flippantes - La classe qui tue - À toute vitesse - Un duo vintage - Mer agitée - Alter ego - Partir un jour… - En cabane au Canada

Friends Saison 3, 4, 5

Celui qui avait un tee-shirt trop petit - Celui qui courait deux lièvres - Celui qui avait un poussin - Celui qui s'énervait - Celui qui avait un truc dans le dos - Celui qui voulait être ultime champion - Celui qui allait à la plage - Celui qui soignait les piqûres de méduses - Celui qui ne voyait qu'un chat - Celui qui avait des menottes - Celui qui apprenait à danser - Celui qui avait une nouvelle copine - Celui qui fréquentait une souillon - Celui qui poussait le bouchon - Celui qui était dans la caisse - Celui qui savait faire la fête - Celui qui draguait au large - Celui qui posait une question embarrassante - Celui qui gagnait les paris - Celui qui se gourait du tout au tout - Celui qui n'avait pas le moral - Celui qui jouait au rugby - Celui qui participait à une fête bidon - Celui qui avait la chaîne porno - Celui qui cherche un prénom - Celui qui faisait de grands projets - Celui qui va se marier - Celui qui envoie l'invitation - Celui qui était le pire témoin du monde - Celui qui se marie : première partie - Celui qui se marie : deuxième partie - Celui qui avait dit Rachel - Celui qui embrassait - Celui qui a des triplés - Celui qui accepte l'inacceptable - Celui qui rate son week-end - Celui qui a du mal à se taire - Celui qui emménage - Celui qui avait des souvenirs difficiles à avaler - Celui qui s'était fait piquer son sandwich - Celui qui avait une sœur un peu spéciale

Astrid, Raphaëlle et Alexandre Ehle

Œil pour Œil

Dans l'ombre

50,47 % - Le chat noir - La riposte - Élu par la foudre - Danse sur un volcan - L'odeur de l'essence

Opération Trafics

Procédure exceptionnelle - Drôle de pastis - La Bataille de l'or - La Sainte Famille - W… comme Watteau - T.I.R

Astrid et Raphaëlle Saison 1

Puzzle - Hantise 1 - Hantise 2 - Chaînon manquant - Chambre close - Fulcanelli - L'Homme qui n'existait pas - La Mort et Compagnie - Invisible

Les enquêtes Caméléon

Trou de mémoire - Un panier de crabes - Les Gens d'en face

Cat's Eyes Saison 1

Tamara - Sylia - Alexia - Quentin - Gwen - Prudence

Les Enquêtes de Vera Saison 13

Délit de fuite

Spectacles

Portishead : Roseland NYC Live (1998)

Tant qu'il y a de l'amour (2019) de Bob Martet avec Marie-Anne Chazel, Patrick Chesnais, Valérie Bègue et Laurent Gamelon

Play the Blues: Live from Jazz at Lincoln Center, Wynton Marsalis and Eric Clapton (2011)

Charles Aznavour : Au Carnegie Hall (1995)

Charles Aznavour : Symphonique au Théâtre du Chatelet (1981)

Mascarin (1973) de et avec Michel de Ré et Micheline Dax, Alain Lionel, Arlette Didier, Francis Lax, Jean Péméja et Virginie Vignon

U2: Rattle and Hum (1988)

Amy Winehouse: Live at Porchester Hall (2007)

Doctor Who at the Proms (2013) avec Neve McIntosh, Dan Starkey, Matt Smith, Jenna Coleman, Carole Ann Ford, Peter Davison, Nicholas Briggs, Ben Foster et Murray Gold

Grand Concert de la fête de la Sainte Cécile (2024) par l'orchestre d'harmonie d'Albi et l'orchestre cadet de la fédération du Tarn

Santana: Supernatural Live (2000)

Nina (1979) de Jean Laurent Cochet avec Jacques Sereys, Louis Velle, Rosy Varte, Yves Marchand et Gérard Pollet

Livres

Doctor Who : Il était une fois un Seigneur du Temps de Dan Slott, Christopher Jones, Matthew Dow Smith, Mike Collins et David Guelou

Les contes de l'infini de Flavia Valerio, Pauline Cadart Serizel, Rémi Germain, Marion Lemaître, Manon Segur, Robin Brou, Julien Cadart Serizel et Marie Valerio

Doctor Who : Le douzième docteur, tome 2 : Fractures de Robbie Morrison, Brian Williamson et Mariano Laclaustra

Doctor Who : L'Armée oubliée de Brian Minchin

Les Daleks envahissent la terre de Terrance Dicks

[korrektheiten]

„Ernstfall für Deutschland“ ein General beschreibt, was Krieg mit Russland bedeutet und wie man ihn verhindert

Norbert Häring: »20. 11. 2024 | Genau zu einer Zeit, in der die Kriegsbesoffenheit deutscher Politiker und Medien einem Höhepunkt zustrebt, erscheint ein warnendes Buch von Brigadegeneral a. D. Erich Vad. Der war von 2006 bis 2013 militärpolitischer Berater von Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel. In seinem Buch „Ernstfall für Deutschland – Ein Handbuch gegen den Krieg“ entwirft er […] http://dlvr.it/TGHhvH «

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[theatermachtpolitik]

[Als noch 1988 „Für Revolution ist gesorgt!“ in München war](https://raete-muenchen.de/als-noch-1988-fuer-revolution-ist-gesorgt-in-muenchen-war "https://raete-muenchen.de/als-noch-1988-fuer-revolution-ist-gesorgt-in-muenchen-war")

Vor 35 Jahren gab es schon ein Projekt Räte und Revolution 1918/19 zum Jubiläum von 70 Jahren, und viele meinten, das wäre doch gar kein wichtiges Datum … und dann wurde doch eine neue Stelle im Kulturreferat daraus, für Geschichtsarbeit, die bis dahin eher vermieden worden war. Wir warwen der Meinung, dass schon viel zu lange in München die alte Nazi-Propaganda auch im Geschichts-Unterricht verbreitet worden war, und dass die Personen und Vorgänge auch mal richtig gewürdigt werden sollten.

Mit dabei war einer, der in der Gruppe INTERPRETEN damals für die erste NEUE VOLKSMUSIK brillierte, auf einem Wagen mit JAY LYBEL, Schauspielerin, früher mal ANGELA-DAVIS-Darstellerin im Musical, die als Sprecherin fungierte: „Für Revolution ist gesorgt!“ – Erwin Rehling, Andi Koll & …

Erwin Rehling, der Schlagzeuger, wurde grade vom Österreichischen Rundfunk zum 70. gratuliert, die Landschaft um Wasserburg zählt halt doch mehr zum Salzburger Land: <https://oe1.orf.at/programm/20240204/748969/Erwin-Rehling-Sprach-und-Klangkuenstler>

Der Bayer Erwin Rehling, geboren 1954 und aufgewachsen in der Gegend um Wasserburg am Inn, erzählt in vielen Arbeiten von eben diesem Leben. In seinen beiden im Mandelbaum Verlag erschienenen Klangbüchern „Neues von früher“ und „Ois ned glong – eine Landjugend“ vertont er mit „widerspenstiger Musik“ autobiografische Texte im Dialekt über die „aufstaubenden Erinnerungswirbel“ seiner Kindheit und Jugend im Dorf.

Unser Zug mit etwa 10.000 Leuten von der Theresienwiese zum Marienplatz (Das Patriarchat in den Müll!) mit Kollision der Feier zu 350 Jahre Mariensäule oder so, mit Kardinal etc. und über den Odeonsplatz dann zum damals noch existierenden Mathäserbräu, wo Kurt Eisner am 8.11.1918 die Revolution und den Freistaat Bayern ausgerufen hatte, mit einer Veranstaltung, auf der u.a. Dieter Hildebrandt aus dem 37-seitiegen Auflagenkatalog des KVR vortrug …

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Die Erich-Mühsam-Gesellschaft e.V. mit Sitz in Lübeck

Die Gustav Landauer Initiative n.e.V. ging 2019 aus der Denkmalinitiative hervor. Sie widmet sich neben der Errichtung des Denkmals für Gustav Landauer der wissenschaftlichen Erforschung und Popularisierung der Leistungen und Nachwirkung Gustav Landauers, seines Werkes sowie seiner Mitstreiter*innen, libertärer Geschichte und damit verbundener Bildungsarbeit.

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«La llengua del Tercer Reich», de Víctor Klemperer: un clàssic de la filologia ara en català

Traducció de Lola Fígols Escrit per Francesc Viadel Acaba d’aparéixer en català La llengua del Tercer Reich. LTI. Apunts d’un filòleg. La traducció l’ha fet Lola Fígols, gràcies a la qual ja hem pogut llegir en català autors com l’activista afroamericana Angela Y. Devis, l’assagista Khoei Saito o clàssics com Jürgen Habermas o Erich Maria Remarque. El llibre no podia arribar en un moment més…

[orangerosebush]

From: The Heart of Man: Its Genius for Good and Evil by Erich Fromm, cited in the 30th-anniversary edition of Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed (trans. Myra Bergman Ramos with an introduction by Donaldo Macedo)

Necrophily/biophily as a dialectic in Fromm's text reminds me of another Lu Xun short story -- 'A Madman's Diary'.

Let us turn to when the narrator’s friend has come to talk about his brother. The eponymous madman has recently recovered from his bout of ‘madness’, successfully taking up an official post in another city. During the meeting at the beginning of the short story, the friend presents the narrator with the diary his brother kept while mad (a diary written in vernacular).

During his campaign to persuade people to stop cannibalizing one another, the mad brother is institutionalized. As he spends his days milling around the institution, being jeered at by the other villagers who have come to laugh at his madness, he's left with just his thoughts and then a few historical texts that were left in his room. There’s one specific moment when he’s left with a history book and the words start to swim, transforming simply into the phrase “eat people” over and over again.

Toward the end of his madness, the mad brother realizes that when his sister died during childhood, he and his family likely consumed her. It is at this point that his hope becomes simply to “save the children” — essentially, the madman concludes that cannibalism is so entrenched in the town around him, the only hope for change is with the children who have not yet been born into this system.

But Lu Xun uses a very interesting word when describing cannibalism.

After all, what is more exploitative than eating another person? To quote Angela Carter in The Sadeian Woman: An Exercise in Cultural History:

“Cannibalism, the most elementary act of exploitation, that of turning the other directly into a comestible; of seeing the other in the most primitive terms of use.”

To me, cannibalism is such a moving way to articulate oppression in coded terms, as it is pure necrophily — possession is the only thing that is understood by the necrophilous person, and when what one wants to forcibly possess is the strength (or labor potential) of another person, to possess necessitates a literal or figurative killing. 

During a scene before the madman loses hope in changing the cannibalistic community in which he lives (or rather, this system that encourages men to consume each other’s lives in the figurative sense), the madman makes the following plea to his brother:

“Wanting to eat men, at the same time afraid of being eaten themselves, [the people here] all look at each other with the deepest suspicion. . . . How comfortable life would be for them if they could rid themselves of such obsessions and go to work, walk, eat and sleep at ease. They have only this one step to take. Yet fathers and sons, husbands and wives, brothers, friends, teachers and students, sworn enemies and even strangers, have all joined in this conspiracy, discouraging and preventing each other from taking this step.

[…]

If they eat me, they can eat you as well; members of the same group can still eat each other. But if you will just change your ways immediately, then everyone will have peace. Although this has been going on since time immemorial, today we could make a special effort to be good, and say this is not to be done! I'm sure you can say so, brother. The other day when the tenant wanted the rent reduced, you said it couldn't be done.”

Notice how the brother is revealed to be a landlord here — yes, he is a cannibal, but here we see how it is more in the figurative sense, as he refuses to see his tenant as a man who needs support to maintain access to his home, and rather only cares for the money that he can extract from the tenant.

The madman is unsuccessful in convincing his peers to change. After all, the story opens with his brother giving the narrator his diary as a kind of spectacle to laugh at. But nonetheless, we are left with the words of the madman, “Although this has been going on since time immemorial, today we could make a special effort to be good, and say this is not to be done!”.

Here I think we can see echos also of Lu Xun's paradigm of the Iron House, which I will include below.

FROM: Brown, Carolyn T. “The Paradigm of the Iron House: Shouting and Silence in Lu Hsün’s Short Stories.” Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews (CLEAR), vol. 6, no. 1/2, 1984, pp. 101–19. JSTOR.

From: Lu Xun: Selected Works (1956), Volume I, trans. Yang Xianyi and Gladys Yang.

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[ulrichgebert]

Und was ist eigentlich mit Dear World? Hier das vergleichsweise neue Dear-World-Poster in unserer Hausmusen-Wand.

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