The second and third generation of immigrants behind the camera has given German cinema a new lease of life and goes way beyond depicting what it is like to be a foreigner in another society, as was the case in the 70s, 80s and 90s. By Margret Köhler...
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otto's moggy
otto's moggy stops
otto: off you hop moggy
otto's moggy hops off
otto: hoho
otto shops for gloss
otto shops for hobnobs
otto hollers: mogs mogs
otto hopes
otto's moggy knocks
otto: mogsy mogsy
otto's moggy stops
otto's moggy pops his clogs
otto: no mogs no
Alistair Noon
joe's dog
joe's dog moans
joe: go, dog, go
joe's dog goes
joe: o’o’
joe loves horse
joe got old
joe holds on
joe: dog... dog...
joe hopes
joe's dog knocks
joe: come dog come
joe's dog comes
joe’s dog honks
joe: o GOD! o GOD!
Jan Köhler
Hugh's pug
Hugh's pug chews rug.
Hugh: oh you.
Pug chews anew.
Hugh: shoo pug shoo.
Hugh rues.
Hugh boo-hoos,
Fills tissues.
Still no news.
Hugh's pug: ug ug.
Hugh: yahoo.
Hugh's pug spews bug.
Hugh: eugh.
Lucy Powell
Hugh's Pug
hugh's pug huffs
hugh: hush pug hush
hugh's pug puffs, hush
hugh: youyou...
hugh buys lunch
hugh buys much
hugh puzzles
hugh: pug pug
hugh shrugs
hugh's pug lurks
hugh: burge bug budge
hugh's pug runs
hugh's pug pukes
hugh: ughugh
Anja Wedell
pat´s pet
pat´s pet frets
pat: stet pet stet
pat´s pet scats
pat: chatchat
pat gets sprats
pat gets gnats
pat´s set
pat: pet pet
pat sat
pat´s pet ratatat
pat: let pat pat
pat´s pet jets
pat´s pet wets
pat: splatsplat
Klaus Stadtmüller
scott´s mops
scott´s mops plots
scott: off mops off
scott´s mops hops off
scott: oddodd
scott got stock
scott got grot
scott knots
scott: mops mops
scott sobs
scott´s mops bops
scott: tot mops tot
scott´s mops hobnobs
scott´s mops gobs
scott: blotblot
Klaus Stadtmüller
doug's pug
doug's pug rubs
doug: pug yuh bug
doug's pug scuds
Doug shrugs
doug drums up lunch
doug munches
doug's pug lusts
doug: pug pug
doug's pug fusses
doug's pug tugs rug
doug: come pug come
doug's pug comes
doug's pug chucks
doug: ofuckofuck
Alexander Sager
bob's dog
bob's dog strikes
bob: move boy move
bob's dog moves on
bob: attaboy
bob buys coke
bob buys fruit
bob harks
bob: here boy
bob hopes
bob's dog barks
bob: here boy here
bob's dog comes
bob's dog barfs
bob: ogodogod
Deborah Cohen
pop's mops
pop´s mops sobs
pop: hop mops hop
pop´s mops toddles along
pop: oh oh
pop courts snobs
pop stocks socks
pop plots
pop: mops mops
pop hopes
pop´s mops knocks
pop: come mops come
pop´s mops lopes
pop´s mops drops
pop: stop stop stop
Edith Werner
Otto's pug
Otto's pug defies
Otto: away pug fly!
Otto's pug hops by
Otto: Oh my!
Otto collects his coal
Otto hits the fruit bowl
Otto listens, smug
Otto: here pug! here pug!
Otto: shrug
Otto's pug knocks
Otto: trot in, pug, trot
enter Otto's pup
Otto's pup throws up
Otto: oh no! Oh no!
Gordon McAllister
fritz's spitz
fritz's spitz sits
fritz: speak spitz speak
fritz's spitz grits teeth
fritz: teehee
fritz gets kitts
fritz gets bits
fritz sprints
fritz: spitz spitz
fritz frets
fritz's spitz yips
fritz: quit spitz quit
fritz's spitz quits
fritzt's spitz shits
fritz: it's icky
Mary Collins
Doug's dog
Doug's dog s down
Doug: do dog do
Doug's dog drowns
Doug: d'ho!
Doug digs dough
Doug digs ducks
Doug draws
Doug: dog dog
Doug doubts
Doug's dog knocks
Doug: draw dog draw
Doug's dog draws
Doug's dog dumps
Doug: Damn
Peter Thaler
iggy's spitz
iggy's spitz tricks
iggy: git spitz git
iggy's spitz gits quick
iggy: see see
iggy picks nits
iggy picks figs
iggy peers
iggy: spitz spitz
iggy grieves
iggy's spitz kicks
iggy: flit spitz flit
iggy's spitz flits
iggy's spitz sicks
iggy: tee hee tee hee
Roderick Cox / Birgit Herrmann
Rudi's poodle
Rudi's poodle dawdled.
Rudi: move Poodie move!
Rudi's poodle skidaddled.
Rudi: poodle-schmoodle.
Rudi brewed stew.
Rudi cleaned the loo.
Rudi: Poodie, Poodie,
Poodie, where are you?
Rudi wished he knew.
Poodie came in view.
Rudi: here Poodie, Poodie!
Rudi's poodie spewed.
Rudi: you floozy Poodie!
Steph Morris
Molly's collie
Molly's collie dilly-dallied
Molly: go play in the holly, collie!
Molly's collie trotted off.
Molly wasn't mollified.
Molly chopped logs.
Molly polished knobs.
Molly watched.
Molly: Collie, Collie!
Molly: melancholy.
Molly's collie knocked.
Molly: come collie!
Molly's collie lolloped in.
Molly's collie vomited.
Molly: codswallop, you trollop!
Steph Morris
peter's pug
peter's pug paws
peter: heel pug heel
peter's pug pads off
peter: 'sbetter
peter hauls coal
peter peels fruit
peter harks
peter: pug pug
peter reels
peter's pug barks
peter: here pug here
peter's pug peeks
peter's pug pukes
peter: poor fur rug pug
Tom M., Berlin
POPS' PUG
Pops' pug do da mug-on
Pops: no Mugs go
Pops' pug do da hop-gon'
Pops: o my o my o
Pops fetch pot
Pops cop a cup
Pops all'ear
Pops: PugsyMugsy
Pops high'ope
Pops' pug arf ! arf !
Pops: here Mugs hear !
Pops' pug do da fall
Pops' Mugs retchbarf
Pops: o my o mylordy
R. T. Lustyg
Otto's pug
Otto's pug'snacious
Otto: off Pug go
Otto's pug bugs off
Otto: alone so
Otto holds bone
Otto cups nuts
Otto cocks ear
Otto: Pugs! Mugs?
Otto slopes hopes
Otto's pug boo!arfs!
Otto: hear here
Otto's Mugs comes
Otto's pug poopbarfs
Otto: oopsSIRIOUS
Roman Tychyn
otto's grotto
there was a young rascal named otto
who trained his pet pug in a grotto;
fetching apples and coal
was the primary goal,
but when puggy puked, omigodno!
Peter Dreyer
wayne’s weimaraner
trouser-humping mutt
get yo’ rear in gear; quick butt!
phoo fruit, coke blunder
but dogs come back to chunder--
oh, shi-i-i-it!
Peter Dreyer
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Romanian literature is still a tiny niche in the German book
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Come cruising in the park they say is dead. In his
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