Spaßbremse

While we work on putting together some great new episodes for 2022, here's a premium episode we first released on the Patreon back in November to tide you over. On this episode, producer Isaac joins Michelle and Ted to talk about the Nazi history of some notable German companies. You can listen to parts 2 and 3 of this series by subscribing to our Patreon. For some of our sources cited on this episode: Bayer From the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Victor Grossman in People's World on 22 September 2016: Bayer-Monsanto merger can't erase Nazi chemists' past  Hugo Boss Abridged version of the company's own history, published in 2011 From the BBC on 21 September 2011: Hugo Boss apology for Nazi past as book is published  Dr. Oetker From Deutsche Welle on 22 October 2013: Another German company reveals its Nazi past  Zafar Hassan for VICE on 18 October 2013: Will you boycott Dr. Oetker now you know it has a Nazi history?  Finally, the horrifying photo of the Dr. Oetker headquarters in Bielefeld decked out in a swastika and a portrait of Hitler himself, from Bielefelds-Westliche.de. Music by Lee Rosevere. Art by Franziska Schneider. Follow Spaßbremse on Twitter: @spassbremse_pod.

After a few more mugs of Glühwein, we round out our twelve days of Christmas market scandals with some Schwabenhass and culture wars. Thanks so much to Nathan for joining us on this episode to share his expertise as a local entrepreneur and thought leader. For more of Nathan, you can find him on Twitter at @nthnashma. You can also find his second-hand furniture curation and recommendations at @furnforall.  If you'd like to read up on the scandals discussed in this episode:  Polizei löst illegalen Weihnachtsmarkt auf - über 100 Besucher - https://www.kn-online.de/Kiel/Steuerbetrug-auf-Weihnachtsmarkt-Kiel-Gluehwein-floss-am-Finanzamt-vorbei Weihnachtsmarkt Kiel: Glühwein floss am Finanzamt vorbei - https://www.kn-online.de/Kiel/Steuerbetrug-auf-Weihnachtsmarkt-Kiel-Gluehwein-floss-am-Finanzamt-vorbei "Da ist er ja, der Nazi-Nikolaus!" - https://www.sueddeutsche.de/bayern/muehldorf-da-ist-er-ja-der-nazi-nikolaus-1.3259629 Schwabenhass in Düsseldorf - https://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/inhalt.weihnachtsmarkt-vor-breuninger-dependance-schwabenhass-in-duesseldorf.2e7ff1b6-beab-4763-8b22-d79b9b024b8d.html Rassismusvorwurf: Weihnachtsmarkt ohne "Zwarte Pieten" - https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/blackfacing-in-potsdam-rassismusvorwurf-weihnachtsmarkt-ohne-zwarte-pieten/12476260.html Hetze im Netz: Warum heißt der Weihnachtsmarkt jetzt "Lichtermarkt"? - https://www.nw.de/blogs/games_und_netzwelt/21978505_Hetze-im-Netz-Warum-der-Weihnachtsmarkt-jetzt-Lichtermarkt-heisst.html -  We also have an announcement about an upcoming live show! We will be teaming up again with our friends at Corner Späti for a live show on January 9 to celebrate(?) the new traffic light coalition and Scholz cabinet. We had planned on having the show at Donau115, the same bar in Neukölln where we hosted our election night live show, but recent restrictions in Berlin mean we'll likely have to move the event online. Watch this space! - Thank so much to everyone who has already started supporting us on Patreon! We'll still be publishing full-length episodes twice monthly available on our main podcast feed, but Patreon supporters will also get access to a couple bonus episodes per month. It's a tough time out there so we totally understand if you don't have the capacity to support right now, but if you're able we'd really appreciate you becoming a subscriber. All the details here: www.patreon.com/spassbremse Follow Spaßbremse on Twitter (@spassbremse_pod). Music by Lee Rosevere. Art by Franziska Schneider.

To celebrate the holiday season in true Spaßbremse style, we convened a panel with Nathan (@nthnashma) to walk you through the twelve days of Christmas market scandals, from selling Glühwein to minors in Frankfurt to tax evasion in Kiel. We were drinking some Glühwein (mit Schuss!) ourselves and as we went through the twelve days we went on more and more tangents, so this episode only gets through days one through six. You can look forward to days seven through twelve of Christmas market scandals on Christmas Day. If you want to read more about the scandals discussed on this episode yourselves:  Glühwein für 13-Jährige! - https://www.bild.de/regional/frankfurt/weihnachtsmarkt/gluehwein-fuer-13-jaehrige-33654140.bild.html Wiener empört über Gebäck-Schwindel auf Weihnachtsmarkt - https://www.heute.at/s/wiener-empoert-ueber-schwindel-gebaeck-auf-weihnachtsmarkt-100174643 Vergaberecht beim Weihnachtsmarkt missachtet - https://www.wz.de/nrw/krefeld/krefeld-vergaberecht-beim-weihnachtsmarkt-missachtet_aid-53940451 Die Konkurrenz der Glühweinkönige - https://rp-online.de/nrw/staedte/duesseldorf/duesseldorfer-weihnachtsmarkt-konkurrenz-der-gluehweinkoenige_aid-64352431  31.000 Euro Miete für Lagerung von Weihnachtshütten - https://www.heute.at/s/wiener-empoert-ueber-schwindel-gebaeck-auf-weihnachtsmarkt-100174643 Der „Romantische Weihnachtsmarkt“ in Regensburg bleibt geschlossen: Söder teilt gegen Veranstalter aus - https://www.merkur.de/bayern/regensburg/regensburg-romantische-weihnachtsmarkt-corona-soeder-gericht-schliessung-veranstalter-zr-91169264.html - Thank so much to everyone who has already started supporting us on Patreon! We'll still be publishing full-length episodes twice monthly available on our main podcast feed, but Patreon supporters will also get access to a couple bonus episodes per month. It's a tough time out there so we totally understand if you don't have the capacity to support right now, but if you're able we'd really appreciate you becoming a subscriber. All the details here: www.patreon.com/spassbremse Follow Spaßbremse on Twitter (@spassbremse_pod). Music by Lee Rosevere. Art by Franziska Schneider.

A short preview of our fourth premium episode, where we round out our three-part series about German companies during the Third Reich.  To listen to the full episode, support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/spassbremse If you're not able to support us monetarily right now, we totally get it! We'll be back in a few days with another full-length episode for the main podcast feed.

This week, Ted (@ted_knudsen) interviews TU Dortmund transport researcher Giulio Mattioli about German transport and climate policy in light of the recent traffic light coalition agreement and the COP 26 climate summit.  To hear more from Giulio, you can follow him on Twitter: @giulio_mattioli. He also has a recent book chapter out on transport poverty and car dependence.  Co-hosted by Michelle (@shhellgames) and produced by Isaac Würmann (@wuermann). Thank so much to everyone who has already started supporting us on Patreon! We'll still be publishing full-length episodes twice monthly available on our main podcast feed, but Patreon supporters will also get access to a couple bonus episodes per month. It's a tough time out there so we totally understand if you don't have the capacity to support right now, but if you're able we'd really appreciate you becoming a subscriber. All the details here: www.patreon.com/spassbremse Follow Spaßbremse on Twitter (@spassbremse_pod). Music by Lee Rosevere. Art by Franziska Schneider.

What's with the bizarre obsession that some Germans have with Indigenous people from North America? Every year, thousands of Germans gather to dress up and play "Indianer"—or at least their imagined, naive stereotype of what it's like to be a First Nations person—complete with appropriated powwow dances, regalia, and living in tipis. On this episode, Ted, Michelle, and Isaac go through some of the darker history of this phenomenon, and Ted and Isaac interview Drew Hayden Taylor, a Canadian writer from the Curve Lake First Nation. A few years ago, Drew made a documentary for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation called "Searching for Winnetou," in which he visits some of the "Indian hobbyist" communities in Germany to see firsthand what it's all about.  You can find Drew Hayden Taylor's documentary "Searching for Winnetou" here: https://www.cbc.ca/cbcdocspov/episodes/searching-for-winnetou And you can learn more about Drew and his work on his website: http://www.drewhaydentaylor.com/ There's also a great documentary from the New York Times called "Native Fantasy: Germany's Indian Heroes" that you can find on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcuyYUgFMd0 On this episode, we cited from the following sources:  "The Role of the Romantic West in Shaping the Third Reich" by W. Raymond Wood: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25668974?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents "Germany's Obsession with American Indians is Touching—And Occasionally Surreal" by Red Haircrow for Indian Country Today: https://indiancountrytoday.com/archive/germanys-obsession-with-american-indians-is-touchingand-occasionally-surreal "Why Germany can't quit its racist Native American problem" from Deutsche Welle :https://www.dw.com/en/why-germany-cant-quit-its-racist-native-american-problem/a-52546068 "Karl May museum returns Native American human scalp" from Deutsche Welle: https://www.dw.com/en/karl-may-museum-returns-native-american-human-scalp/a-57181103 Produced by Isaac Würmann. Thank so much to everyone who has already started supporting us on Patreon! We'll still be publishing full-length episodes twice monthly available on our main podcast feed, but Patreon supporters will also get access to a couple bonus episodes per month. It's a tough time out there so we totally understand if you don't have the capacity to support right now, but if you're able we'd really appreciate you becoming a subscriber. All the details here: www.patreon.com/spassbremse Follow Spaßbremse on Twitter (@spassbremse_pod). Music by Lee Rosevere. Art by Franziska Schneider.

A short preview of our third premium episode, where Ted, Michelle, and Isaac talk about the Nazi history of three more German companies. To listen to the full episode, support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/spassbremse If you're not able to support us monetarily right now, we totally get it! We'll be back in a few days with another full-length episode for the main podcast feed.

To celebrate (???) the traffic light coalition agreement and Christian Lindner's ascension to Finance Minister, we're unlocking our first Patreon Premium episode, in which Ted and Michelle talk us through Lindner's rise to prominence. We also released an episode on Oct. 31 (15 - Zombie-Ideologien und das Inflationsmonster) in which Ted interviews Dominik Leusder from the London School of Economics and Dezernat Zukunft about what a Lindner-led Finance Ministry might look like (god help us all). Give it a listen, if you haven't already! It's also worth noting that the coalition agreement announced plans to repeal Section 219a of the Criminal Code, which prohibits doctors from advertising abortion services. To learn more about that, and other ways abortion remains criminalized in Germany, check out our most recent episode (16 - Weg mit §218!), in which Michelle inteviews Kate Cahoon of the Bündnis für sexuelle Selbstbestimmung and Stephanie Schlitt of Pro Familia. This episode's reading is courtesy of Politico: Christian Lindner - The Radical from their 2018 list of "the 28 people who are shaping, shaking and stirring Europe." To see some of the incredible Lindner photos mocked on this episode, check out the biography page on his website. You can find the oft-mentioned TV spot from 1997 about the young Lindner's ad business on YouTube. Produced by Isaac Würmann. Music by Lee Rosevere. Art by Franziska Schneider. Follow Spaßbremse on Twitter: @spassbremse_pod.

This week, Michelle (@shhellgames) digs into the criminalization of abortion in Germany. In a Spaßbremse first, she interviews two (2!!) fantastic guests — Kate Cahoon (@katecahoon) of the Bündnis für sexuelle Selbstbestimmung and Stephanie Schlitt (@StSchlitt) of Pro Familia. SIGN THE PETITION TO REPEAL §218 Get involved with the “Weg mit 218” campaign: https://wegmit218.de/ To learn more about the Bündnis für sexuelle Selbstbestimmung, you can visit their website: https://www.sexuelle-selbstbestimmung.de/ or follow them on Twitter @ProChoice_DE And for more about Pro Familia and their counseling centers, you can visit: https://www.profamilia.de/ or find them on Twitter @profamilia_bv Check out Kate’s article in the Local DE from 2018 here Read the Euronews article Michelle and Ted (@ted_knudsen) discuss here.  Produced by Isaac Würmann (@wuermann). Thank so much to everyone who has already started supporting us on Patreon! We'll still be publishing full-length episodes twice monthly available on our main podcast feed, but Patreon supporters will also get access to a couple bonus episodes per month. It's a tough time out there so we totally understand if you don't have the capacity to support right now, but if you're able we'd really appreciate you becoming a subscriber. All the details here: www.patreon.com/spassbremse Follow Spaßbremse on Twitter (@spassbremse_pod). Music by Lee Rosevere. Art by Franziska Schneider.

A short preview of our second premium episode, where Isaac joins Michelle and Ted to talk about the Nazi history of some notable German companies.  To listen to the full episode, support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/spassbremse If you're not able to support us monetarily right now, we totally get it! We'll be back next week with another full-length episode for the main podcast feed.