Hi guys, guten tag - more exciting news. Guess what? Limpeh has just scored a nice role in a German TV series
Alarm für Cobra 11 - Die Autobahnpolizei - the filming will take place in Köln (Cologne in English) in mid-December and it will be my nice little pre-Christmas treat.
After having worked in a German speaking environment very recently in Hamburg, I am jumping right back into the deep end by landing a German speaking part in a long running German TV series! I was walking through Covent Garden with an old friend from Singapore today when I got the news and I was so excited I was jumping up and down! I could barely speak and had to hand my phone over to him so he could read the email on my phone! Oh I was glad to have been able to share that moment with a dear old friend.
Anyway, celebrations over - I then received the script in German by email and good grief, there is so much I have to memorize and of course,
it is all in German, with only one line in English. Great. Have you ever tried memorizing anything in a language you are not fluent in? It's hard enough in English. I have just under 4 weeks to do that! I am quite excited, I have a feeling that I must be the first actor from Singapore (well, even if I have long given up my pink IC) to have ever scored a major role in Germany like that. OK the hard work begins, wish me luck people :)
Herzlichen Glückwunsch! What inspirational news, you have no bounds to what you can do! Wish you success in the TV series and put on a performance! Bis Später
ReplyDeleteVielen dank! I know I cannot become fluent in German in 3 weeks but what I can do is memorize the script to a very high standard so when I turn up I am 100% ready.
DeleteIt's my first step into the German market. I have auditioned for various parts for German TV/film over the years and have never thought that my German was good enough - I can speak German but I have simply never studied it the way I have studied say French, Spanish or Welsh. I can understand a lot but when I make sentences, the grammar is wrong and I mispronounce words. Hopefully at the end of this stint, I will be a lot more confident with my German and I will put in a lot more effort into studying German now that I have gotten my foot in that tur :)
Oh and that one line in English has been deleted, now it's all in German!
DeleteCongrats! I wish you success.
ReplyDeleteGood for you!
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of Germany, I wonder what they think of the Andreas Von Knorre and Elton Hinz case.
ReplyDeleteOh it is hard to feel sorry for those two - as someone who is well traveled, one of the golden rules is that you always observe and respect the local culture. When I was in Hamburg last week, sure I saw graffiti everywhere and it was no big deal. I had to walk under a bridge to get from my hotel to the centre of town and good grief, that whole area under that bridge is covered with graffiti and it just felt kinda normal - like yeah it's just all part of the German industrial urban landscape. No one bats an eyelid but that is clearly not acceptable in Singapore.
DeleteI may have been more sympathetic if their graffiti was a bit like Ernest Zacharevic's (you can see his work in Penang) but good grief, may they face the full wrath of the law in Singapore.
I believe you contradicted yourself when you condoned Ernest Zacharevic's graffiti. Vandalism is not acceptable in Malaysia too, so it's inconsistent to express sympathy for Zacharevic but not Knorre et al.
DeleteThe U.S. fought hard for Michael Fay, Switzerland didn't seem to care for Oliver Fricker, so that's why I wonder what Germany's reaction might be...
It is not as simple as what the law states - remember Singapore's very own Sticker Lady http://limpehft.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/free-singapores-sticker-lady.html - now what she did was illegal but there was a certain tongue and cheek quality to her work which won her many fans. Many Singaporeans actually liked the kind of work she produced and despite the fact that she broke the law, she did have a lot of support locally in Singapore. So it is not just about what the law states - the locals can react quite differently if it is a kind of graffiti that has some kind of artistic merit (ref: Banksy), in contrast with what these German vandals did to the MRT train which just had no artistic merit whatsoever.
DeleteMoral of the story? Well there are several!
1. If you want to be a graffiti artist, then make sure your work is good enough to qualify as art - otherwise you're just a vandal who is going to end up in big trouble.
2. Singaporeans and Malaysians are not just brainless clones who blindly follow the law - they are intelligent creatures who are able to judge each case on their individual merits. As for Ernest in Penang, many locals there have grown to love his work and it is one more thing for tourists to look at. Heck, my British friends who like this kind of art have made the effort to track it down in Penang and the locals just love the fact that they can now have another revenue stream in the tourism sector (think of the T-shirts, souvenirs like key chains and mugs etc they can make based on these iconic artworks). So you see, it's not just what the law states, but how the locals react.
3. Oh and I doubt Germany would help these two. But let's see.