pootle
Mar 5 2007, 12:09 pm
A poster as seen pinned up at Fraunhofer U-Bahn station:
QUOTE
"dear s,
just read your ad in the
süddeutsche zeitung - actually I wonder why you are asking for conversation. are we germans so unpolite not to talk to strangers?
actually, we like americans very much - and we love to talk english (i suppose you come from the states). especially my generation (I am 39 years young) tends to talk english as much as possible... well, you will see, we're much more openminded than it is said in the world ... :-)) are you in germany already? were you wanna go? how long you stay? - quite particular questions, arent't they? ;-)) well it would be lovely to get to get answer from you.
take care
Julian"
Has anyone got a clue what this is about? Any of the hardcore Süddeutsche readers here?
Katrina
Mar 5 2007, 12:19 pm
It's a marketing campaign to drive people towards their Anzeigenmarkt (classifieds). I like the one about the guy looking for a gal he met once (thought Grinner had paid for it at first ha ha ha). Not sure if the typeface differs between the ads but the main thing is that they all mention the Süddeutsche-Anzeigenmarkt in some form and sound like letters/emails sent to the SZ/advertisers about small ads.
Very cute how that ad in English includes many common mistakes Germans would make in written English, quite endearing really.
Will let the marketing experts do the analysis though.
Jules Winnfield
Mar 5 2007, 12:24 pm
I wonder why the part about liking Americans has been enlarged? Maybe because anti-Americanism is so rampant that highlighting something like that is bound to attract attention...
BadDoggie
Mar 5 2007, 12:29 pm
The SZ marketing department is in high gear right now. They've bought space on the U-Bahn TVs but not normal ads. Instead, when a train comes in and the screen switches to the "Achtung! Zu kommt", an SZ ad which looks like a Windows pop-up message appears. I think this one's pretty stupid since most people associate such pop-ups negatively since they're such an annoyance.
woof.
Catastrophe
Mar 5 2007, 12:36 pm
Hi Katrina,
sorry your answer is incorrect. Please try again.
Hint: Have a look at the SZ from saturday, feuilleton, first page.
Wee Mun
Mar 5 2007, 12:39 pm
KATRINA IN "INCORRECT" SHOCKER
Katrina
Mar 5 2007, 12:41 pm
Come on, it can happen. Just not that often. And it isn't any big shakes to bow to better information, now is it?
But if Catastrophe would care to enlighten us all, that would be a fine thing. Especially as you have to pay to view the Feuilleton online.
Small Town Boy
Mar 5 2007, 12:45 pm
No, apparently we all have to go out and hunt down a copy of Saturday's paper. Apparently that's easier than him just telling us.
QUOTE (Small Town Boy @ Mar 5 2007, 12:45 pm)
Apparently that's easier than him just telling us.
Seems to be a female Catastrophe (comma omission intended
). Intent on disproving the advert in question by showing that Germans are not that friendly after all? I hope I'm wrong.
tom_a
Mar 5 2007, 2:07 pm
At
Giselastrasse U-Bahn station, there is a similar poster, but that one refers to "Die Zeit" newspaper... (don't remember the exact wording, but it was somewhat cryptic as well)
MonksTown
Mar 5 2007, 2:23 pm
It's certainly an unusual way of making contact in Fraunhofer U bahn Station...
brokenm
Mar 5 2007, 6:02 pm
There is another one near Richenbachplatz. With a girl from Germany responding to a boy from the SZ. I believe Katrina may be correct afterall. It seems too contrived that so many people are responding to SY ads on posters throughout town, and all of them have as many questions in the response which seems to demonstrate a use of SZ as a forum.
Catastrophe
Mar 6 2007, 10:01 am
I'm dissapointed. Really. I thought you could do better than this.
But I have to admit that there was a mistake in my first hint. Shame on me.
Here's another one:
http://www.juedisches-museum.muenchen.de/cms/?L=1
Katrina
Mar 6 2007, 10:10 am
QUOTE (Catastrophe @ Mar 6 2007, 10:01 am)
I'm dissapointed. Really. I thought you could do better than this.
Even worse, I'm disappointed. You could just show your knowledge instead of sending folk on a
wild goose chase?
The
Jüdische Museum opens on March 22nd.
Now would you kindly explain the connection please?
The press room is not open to the public.
Small Town Boy
Mar 6 2007, 10:11 am
Yep, people have better things to do with their lives than play your little games, so just tell us what you know - if anything.
Moonboot
Mar 6 2007, 10:14 am
QUOTE (Catastrophe @ Mar 6 2007, 11:01 am)
I'm dissapointed. Really. I thought you could do better than this.
But I have to admit that there was a mistake in my first hint. Shame on me.
Here's another one:
http://www.juedisches-museum.muenchen.de/cms/?L=1yes Catastrophe, could you kindly leave out all your senseless cryptic and tell us what you mean please?
perdido
Mar 6 2007, 10:19 am
Fuck that, Americans are bitches and I gladly point that out to them*
*Except JJ and Cookie they are cool.
dont ya wish your boyfriend was cool like me...
Katrina
Mar 6 2007, 10:29 am
Here we go:
Speaking Germany.deQUOTE
Sharone Lifschitz won in 2004 the 1st prize in an international art competition organised by QUIVID, the “Kunst am Bau� (Public Art) programme of the City of Munich for the new Jewish Museum Munich.
The London based artist will realize the project “Speaking Germany�. The project reassesses German-Jewish relations as a contemporary, personal, individual context, as a topic of conversation and as a springboard for dialogue. It will be presented from December 2006 to May 2007 in various public spaces in the city of Munich. In March 2007, with the opening of the Jewish Museum, a text installation by the artist will be unveiled, on the museums glass façade.
The website dedicated to project “Speaking Germany� will go online on 6 March 2007.
Except the content isn't there yet.
So quite an interesting bit of information that we all could have had days ago, if someone could have been bothered.
But if I'd like to do a puzzle, I'll buy
Take A Break thanks.
boomtown_rat
Mar 6 2007, 2:36 pm
quite accurate the use of little emoticons a bit too often -
as can be seen on this TT ad from a German
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