Olaf Schubert is a brilliant humorist, but many of his jokes are difficult to translate because he uses a lot of wordplay that even a native speaker has to think twice about.

@beotho

4 ай бұрын

that is right. And i like Olaf most when he is at "Heute Show"^^ genius dude he is

@marcusplatzer1667

4 ай бұрын

I thought exactly the same, but you were faster😅

@Nikioko

4 ай бұрын

Most of his jokes are hidden in subclauses.

@dinocatgaming2127

4 ай бұрын

Ah yes, the Buddhistische Standesamt😂

@Rainbow_Pirate

4 ай бұрын

Yeah, and also he's a fast talker. Some jokes were not even translated although they could've been just for this reason, for example he says "Thuringia is 80% forests, and the rest is trees."

Olaf Schubert has a rather word-focused humor, that doesn’t translate very good in English. He’s a very regular guest at the Heute Show.

@bema1908

4 ай бұрын

And that's why there aren't a lot of videos of Olaf Schubert with English subtitles.

@xenia6103

4 ай бұрын

Absolutely, I also feel like the subtitles on this were worse than on many other comedy videos he watches. It was both translations and timing wise not great.. I do however think he should watch more of Olaf Schuberts things :)

@bema1908

4 ай бұрын

@@xenia6103Olaf Schubert is a great comedian. But if you don't speak German it's useless without subtitles. ;)

@Delibro

4 ай бұрын

Though Olaf is funny as hell, I would not recommend to watch it as a foreigner, as most of his comedy is the way he speaks, behaves, old or never used words that are that hillarious, his dialect and so on. There are many other comedians that are not THAT hard to translate.

@nikolagericke938

4 ай бұрын

​@@xenia6103for example he said K wie Konstanze and it was translated as constants... 😂

Olaf also has a strong Saxon accent, which is in itself funny to most other regions. This coupled with his often hilarious and highly satirical and ironic wisecracking and word playing is comedy gold

@bernardoesperanto3194

4 ай бұрын

Attirbful -- Yes, and he uses outdated words as in "Flachs/rakete". Flachs just means (harmless, innocent) joke (in modern German Witz, Witz/chen). A "Flachsrakete" therefor is a quick joke shot like a rocket.

Olaf is actually very bright and plays with his German on a very high level. That, and his (at times & on purpose) very strong east-german accent, together with a weird/absurd sense of humor & delivery make him stand out. But really difficult to translate without loosing like 70% of the actual humoristic content.

Yeah, the translation was not so great, but its also difficult with his way of talking. He likes to drop hints in the language that only Germans understand. Also he is not so worried about PC, as you see. I think he has not so much in common with Pispers, since Pisper was solely focused on political issues. Schubert does that too at times, but also deals with human nature in general. Someone else you should check out is the big bloke with the black thingy on his head who is sitting on the sofa: Torsten Sträter. He is a master of the German language and one of the wittiest people I know. He started his career as a poetry slammer and is now probably the biggest name in German comedy.

@karsten_m

4 ай бұрын

+1 for Torsten Sträter.

@PropperNaughtyGeezer

4 ай бұрын

The attempts to translate Olaf adequart fail due to the available vocabulary in English.

@TVirus91

2 ай бұрын

Absolutely! At the moment Sträter is my favourite german comedian!

Olaf Schubert is playing a very strong comedy roll and almost never falls out of it. He's on stage for decades now, always wearing that yellow&black vest and still getting better every year. You also see Torsten Sträter in the Video (the guy with the woolen hat), he's also definetely worth a look!

@caschdiify

4 ай бұрын

Torsten rocks! I like him a lot!

@karinbauer3504

4 ай бұрын

I.d prefer Dieter Nuhr over Torsten Sträter

@kreativjunkie8053

4 ай бұрын

​@@karinbauer3504Ahahaha - deffo nope 🤗 (Greetings from No-AfD voter)

@AmadeuShinChan

4 ай бұрын

Anna Mateur is quite the banger as well.

@einflinkeswiesel2695

3 ай бұрын

@@karinbauer3504 please don't compare Torsten Sträter to Dieter Nuhr. Sträter doesn't deserve that

the "IQ around room temperature" joke is something Americans likely won't fully get. With room temperature being 68-72°F on average, it's just dumb. In metric, we're talking about 20-25 IQ. It is much more insulting in metric than it is in imperial 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@gedeuchnixan3830

4 ай бұрын

slightly above, so around 30 IQ 😂

@marvinkem3201

4 ай бұрын

@@gedeuchnixan3830 I mean, I think on both scales you need some special home^^.

@Mr.Marbles

4 ай бұрын

@@marvinkem320170 iq is just classified as a slight learning disability. Still 14% of the population

@Drachselhuberjoschi_1

4 ай бұрын

🤔obwohl 72 auch nicht intelligent ist...

@primaitalia6586

4 ай бұрын

The translation simply translates F to C degrees haha. I can not anymore. 😂😂😂😂

Olaf is a very smart guy. His jokes were delivered through sometimes very strange jokes but still very funny. I like him a lot.

Apolda is a small Thuringian town not far away from Erfurt, Thuringia's capital.

Olafs brilliancy, sadly can't really be translated in other languages

@allessagendelerche6343

4 ай бұрын

fact

Olaf is one of a few "faux awkward" comedians, that use their looks and mannerisms to focus your attention on topics that you would normally not discuss in a humoristic/sarcastic way. And he is very good at it. Because of this, I am pretty sure that most Germans (me included) often don't get all of the jokes on the first or even second time hearing them. And I can't even begin to think, how many of his nuances get lost in translation.

That sleeveless vest is called "Pollunder" in the German language. And wearing it that way, that alone is a statement. Not only a fashion statement, lol😂. Olaf is the best👍

The funniest part of Olaf Schubert is the kind of antiquated language he uses for his role. He uses a language that was often spoken by civil servants in the former GDR, where he was born and grew up.

Thüringen is east germany & Apolda is an insignificant small town in Thuringia

It's not possible to translate Olaf, he's a total work of art!

Reminds me of an old joke: Jimmy asks his father how society works. Dad goes "Well, look at our family: I am the economy, I bring in the money. Your mother is the government, she manages the money. Our au pair works for us, she's the working class. Everything revolves around you, you're the people. And your little baby brother is the future!" Later that night Jimmy is woken up by his brother crying, he needs his diapers changed. He spots his father in bed with the au pair, his mother is asleep, so he goes back to bed. Next morning he says to his dad: "I think I understand now how society works. The government sleeps, the economy is screwing the working class, the people are ignored, and the future's covered in shit!"

Olaf's pull over of themes is brilliant and his checkered sight on things is sometimes weird but always funny. 🙂

@Delibro

4 ай бұрын

Those puns! 😂

Olaf is very well known. He also regularly appears on the heute show.

@sebastianfranke8545

4 ай бұрын

Weil die heute Show ja auch das wichtigste Medium und Olaf's größter Erfolg ist🙄😂

5:00 That's the subtle difference between a satirist and a comedian

Da wird die Waagschale zum Katapult. Herrlich. Kannte den Auftritt gar nicht. Der würde heute so wohl nicht mehr durchgewunken 😂

He's a genius.. I know Hon since many year and saw him live last year. He's really unique imo and have a dreamt sense of humor 😂

Olaf is a genius and highly intelligent. His middle name is 'understantemanet'

Olaf is one of the very best comedians here in germany :D Please more! ❤

The Humore is quiet Dry. It is something to think annytime. I like this Guy. ^^

He is an absolute Legend

@jones_da9005

4 ай бұрын

Bro you created your account like 15 Minutes ago and then self liked your commentary

"The scale pan become a catapult." I have to remember it for work when it comes to weekend work again. Another one of his is: "The capitalist economy is an exchange of work for money and, as with most exchange business, you often get screwed."

In fact, Schubert is a genius in wording!

you gotta react to more of Olaf Schubert, he's awesome

yeah translating this is a nightmare, alot of his humor comes fromt he way he phrases things, i couldnt do that in german let alone translating it :P

You should check out the "Gipfeltreffen" ;-) Sträter, König & Schubert - brilliant

@wizzNarts

4 ай бұрын

I am so sorry but I am not using telegram (and never will) - any other way to get in contact?

your channel really is some uncommon still really great crossover

I love the humor of Olaf Schubert, it's so on point. He does appear on the Heute Show as guest act from time to time which is always hilarious

Olaf Schubert is great ... at everything he does! :)

Olaf is now difficult for foreigners. On the one hand, he speaks a saxon dialect, on the other hand, he is very educated, speaks quickly and uses unusual phrases and sentence structure. Grammatically correct but unusual. I'm afraid a lot of the humor is lost if you're not a native German speaker. These "Pullunder", large checkered, diamond pattern, were actually worn over a collared shirt in the past. In the worst case scenario with abow tie. As a kid! In the late 70s you could get class wedges at school for this. By the way, the one with the black bobble hat among the guests is Thorsten Sträter. Also a very good comedian. Mostly tells stories from his life, somewhat (heavily) embellished and with very good word joke and a really great speak voice..

Olaf is the best 😂

@clash8181

4 ай бұрын

Nah, he's cringy and not funny at all

I can´t get enough of your scottish accent. Sounds so friendly for me as a Saxon.

One of my german favs...

@markusjentzsch7932

4 ай бұрын

obviosly the translation is a 1/10.

6:49 On the left: Roland Kaiser (German crooner), on the right: Torsten Sträter (excellent German comedian 😊)

Coming from Erfurt (the Capital of Thuringia) the start is quite funny, although we only have approx. 20% wood. Apolda is a small town in Thuringia northeast of Weimar/northwest of Jena

Hello Mr. Mert, I try to explain at least a little. Thuringia is a federal state of the former GDR. Every native speaker immediately hears where he comes from and that he was born in the East. He also uses some words that were used almost exclusively in the GDR to describe economic relationships. Explaining the resulting subtext and the German reception would fill a book. btw. Your geographical location is 100% accurate. warm regards

its not possile to translate Olaf Schubert, but he is one of the best!

I like Olaf. And how he plays with words. Even tho it´s hard to translate.

M= Mandy. Mandy was a popular name for girls/women in the former GDR. Nowadays Mandy stands for a rather silly-billy.

Olaf rocks! I think that not all of his jokes are translatable.

If you type East German man into a search it should just show his picture 😂 He is great in using that stereotype when he does his analysis and in his delivery.

I Love Olaf Schubert, amazing guy

Olaf on the question "lights on or lights out?" - "Of course, the woman determines that very much on her own, by the looks of her."

Olaf is really good. You should definitely watch more of him...

1:29 Thuringia is GDR (East Germany) 2:13 Apolda District town in Thuringia

I am German and I have been for 59 years! In my lifetime, Olaf has been the greatest comic genius that has ever existed in Germany. Others are Otto, Loriot, Dieter Hallervorden etc.

He's also a regular guest in the "heute show" :)

i'm surprised you got anything with those horrible subtitles. But i think you know a few words of German (or more). Einer der besten Auftritte von Olaf Schubert.

I Like your scottish accent ! And Olaf Schubert has an accent as well which makes him unique within the Comedian Szene in Germany!

Olaf it the most genius german comedian. greets from Germany.

he also has many funny roles in the Heute Show

Hm. As a Thuringian, what else can I say about that? ;) I like the Thuringian sausage better than the North Korean sausage. :D

Olaf Schubert is one of the best.

You should learn the german language. Olaf is one of the best in germany. Often guest of the 'heute-show' and 'Die Anstalt'.

Olaf is the best german comedian imo

Thuringia (Thüringen) is one of the German states ("Bundesländer"), which formerly was part of the GDR and today is the only Bundesland in Germany with a First Minister ("Ministerpräsident" in German) from the Linkspartei, which is a merger of the (western German) WASG and the (eastern German) PDS, which was the successor party to GDR's communist party (SED).

Apolda is a small town in thuringia

One of my favorite comedians, but as others already mentioned: it is hard to translate his jokes into English, especially without custom subtitles. I hope there will be an other video with decent translation that you can show us, maybe one of his many appearances in the heute-show?! :D

Just because he on my mind, watching this: Fredl Fesl ! He combines comedy with music. Even more difficult to understand, 'cause he's doing much of it, talking in bavarian accent. But a genius, for sure! (And I'm from the far north of Germany.) Heinz Erhardt was one of our best, ever. Loriot(Vicco von Bülow) is also legendary. And Jürgen von der Lippe is still rockin'.)

he is one of the big ones, one of the godfathers of comedy. he can make comedy without even planning it. for e.g he takes whats in the todays news and makes comedy out of it because he is such a experience one.

"Apolle Apolle, Bockwurscht Bier und Wolle!" Apolda is a little town in thuringia.

I really like him. I think, quite a substantial part of his humor gets lost in translation. Also a little knowledge about his „cultural origins“ makes his show mire funny, too.

0:30 A sweater vest (obsolete Westover) is a sleeveless garment that is a hybrid between a vest, of which it has the sleeveless shape and the way it is worn, and the sweater, of which it has the closed, buttonless shape.

I will try to answer your questions. Olaf Schubert is from the east part of Germany. The formaly GDR. Thüringen was also a part of the GDR. Apolda is a town in Thüringen.

Thüringen is a state in east-central Germany. For a long time it had a coalition government of two different socialist parties. (red-red). It is mostly rural and not only famous for being very forested but also for its Thuringian style Bratwurst sausages. The joke at the end linking up Thüringen to North Korea was that "Würstchen" (little sausage) is a colloquial mild insult for a " little squirt". In Scots that would be almost equivalent to a wee nyaff.

Was hat der Typ mit uns Deutschen ? Spioniert er uns aus ? 🤔 Wir sind doch so harmlos und nett 🤗 😤😡😱🤯

Olaf is one of my favourites, with his word acrobatic. But his humor is quite unpolitical and doesn't really hurt.

my questions is not “Who is Mert?“ but “Where is Mert?”…. Three weeks now without a video… Unusual! What’s going on? Hope you’re okay!

With this comedian, you have to bear in mind that he grew up under the socialist influence of the GDR. This is why he is so popular in East Germany. The people there understand his humour best. He uses phrases that everyone had to learn by heart at school. His definition of capitalism at the beginning of his speech was actually what I also had to learn. He also uses a distinctive Saxon dialect in combination with the look of a looser. These are attributes and prejudices that West Germany has always made fun of. There are a lot of dialects in Germany, but the dialects from the East are very unpopular outside their area and the target of degrading jokes. I think it's good that after all these years it has managed to be recognised in the West. In fact, there are really very few East German comedians who are recognised nationwide.

As Thuringian I really can laugh about it 😂 Apolda is a small Town.

Thuringia is in East Germany (former GDR). It's the home of Olaf ...that's why he choose this state. 😉 Apolda is a small city in Thuringia nobody knows. 😀

@D3nnisPro

Ай бұрын

And the only state where the far left Party (Die Linke) has the most votes.

I don't want to repeat here what has already been said by various people. I would just like to add that Olaf Schubert is in some ways comparable to Rowan Atkinson, as his type of humour is characterised by the fact, that he uses language in different facets and often makes ambiguous statements or uses words in a deliberately ambiguous way, which is sometimes difficult to understand, for people who do not speak German as their mother language.

Our Humor is direct and instant. Its feeling you get punched in the face. Lol

Thuringa is the only german federal state that had a prime minister from Die Linke (The Left) Party, which is the most left bigger party in germany.

Unlike Mittermeier Olaf´s doesn´t translate that well, there´s a lot of fine detail humor you can´t get because those wordplays as well as pronouncing things in a certain way are specific to the german language. And what makes him extremly funny is his brialliance in combination with his apperance plus bodylanguage.

I have to warn you that the automatic translation in the subtitles was a bit lacking. A few things were mistranslated and many of the puns simply didn't work in English.

I love Olaf Schubert, one must know that he always is sooooo cynic and sarcastic, you mustn't take him too seriously. As a woman, I can still laugh about it, since I know he's just exaggerating. You can tell him even more apart from guys like Mario Barth when you know more of his programms. It's just so good haha.

The sleeveless vest is called "Pullunder" in German. And it is by far the most controversal item of clothing ever. Because it can be both: The tacky proof of gaudiness of the average German post-war "Spießer" or the trendy cult of oldschool coolness :-) I like it!

What we learned about capitalism here: Some get gifts, some get money, and the others just get f****d. Also, you don't get enough money from the state, and you will be replaced by a younger worker.

He choses the small federal land of Thuringia because it has a communist gvmt. (it's in former East Germany), so he can parallel it with North Korea. The capital of Thuringia is called Erfurt and Apolda is a small town east of Erfurt. Hence the joke "you can go from North Korea to Erfurt via Apolda". Btw.: I like your channel (and you as a highly likeable person) very much and don't miss an episode. Thank you for your time. 😇🥰

He's THE reason why you should learn German 😂

One of the Best!!!!

Oh nice. Olaf Schubert is not easy to take. He's very inteligent but many jokes get lost in translation. He's from Saxony (East Germany) and his hard saxon accent is a joke by itself. You can compare it with your scottish accent. (High German-Saxon, Oxford English-Scottish). He is also part of the 'Heute Show' from time to time. I absolutely love him. Because he represents us East Germans and fool all other Germans who think we're dumb or treat us like 2nd class people.

@alicemilne1444

4 ай бұрын

I'm Scots. I love the Saxon accent. My father was in Saxony as a student in the 1930s and acquired a Saxon accent (from around Chemnitz) on top of his own Aberdonian one. He had to "retrain" to learn a High German accent before he became a German teacher. He taught all us kids German too and used to tell us great stories about his time in Saxony. He really appreciated the Saxon comedians of the time. Saxon and Scots humour is often very similar: ein Bisschen schräg, sarkastisch und sprachlich erfinderisch.

1:33 The context is "Asterix & Obelix" comic books. Everyone knows the small Gallic (France) village, that is not surrendering to Rome. And the joke is, that Thüringen (Thuringia/East Germany) & North Korea are both not in France, even though he said "Gallic".

He's from the former East and his dialect is Saxonian. As someone born in the Ruhrgebiet where our humour is more like Pispers', the humour here is very different. It seems to me that the jokes here are more coded but everybody knows the code. While we come across with barbs and daggers.

Olaf comes from Dresden and makes his jokes in Saxon dialect. The humor is very East German. Like Scottish and English

Olaf Schubert - Das Wunder im Pullunder

I guess room temperature in Fahrenheit wouldn't actually that bad ^^

Apolda is a village near Weimar and the name of the county adjacent to the City of Weimar. Very rural. Like Buttcrack, Arkansas, rural.

Thüringen is an eastern German state with a great polarization between right and left, where both sides kind of try to create a socialist setting. But I don't know much about the state. I'm from lower saxony. What I know is, that the people coming from Thüringen are some of the nicest in Germany. People from the eastern states often tend to create a familiar feeling, rather than the western - especially the southern states.

Olaf Schubert is a comedic genius! He also is a regular on the heute show in case you didn’t know, I recommend you check that out!

The fun is the subclauses.

Actually Olaf Schubert is a regular guest on the Heute-Show. :)

Erfurt and Apolda are cities in Thuringia. Thuringia has a left-wing government, something you find only in states of the former GDR.

@TheUlli1964

4 ай бұрын

Im afraid it wont we left wing in the future anymore after the elections.

Thanks again for your video. I appreciate your interest in german comedy, music and culture. I hope my comments are useful to you. The "little village"-thing refers to the french cartoon-series "Asterix", where a small village resists the roman empire. And he refers to the governments, North Korea with real communism and Thuringia with a "red-red-government", what means two german parties SPD (social democrats) and LINKE (drifted into a social liberalism and gave up its origin positions to stand for the workers, the poor, the not wealthy people (- hat's what the formerly stood for) - Average room temperatur in Celsius - that means around 20 degrees.... youtube translation 08.32 is wrong - it's not "material start" it's "matriarchy" Olaf Schubert normally works very word-focused - in this video the most punchlines worked. For example the female names he chosed stand for different social origin. Something that is difficult to understand for non-native-speakers. Other performances maybe difficult to understand for non-native-speakers, because the punchlines won't work in english. Olaf Schubert polarizes - a lot of people like him but he has also a lot of haters because he can be very offensive. Artistic freedom is a blessing, although today an artist can quickly find himself in the inquisition of cancel culture with just a single sentence. For me Olaf Schubert is a real treasure of modern german culture along with some other comedeans you featured on your channel such as Volker Pispers, Max Uthoff, Claus von Wagner, etc. Another interesting artist for you could be Sebastian PuffPaff

olaf schubert often has segments in the heute show that youve seen before. many germans know him from there.