some people don't seem to understand what he's talking about, so just to explain: he isn't talking about actual borders, he's talking about xenophobia/racism

We are all Balkan

exzellent, 1minute and he explain the real world😎

Un témoignage, un documentaire sur un temps d'enthousiasme, de renouveau a Bayreuth. Patrice Chéreau et Pierre Boulez ont bouleversé pour la troisième fois depuis l'existence de ce festival, les représentations de l'œuvre de Wagner.

Bolivian would say that all world except Yura village is Balkan

Caucasus is the new Balkan for Europe

I think Croatian military border which stopped existing during the 19th century was what separated the Balkan from not Balkan.

Too bad hes a commie.

In Hamburg we say everything south of the Elbe river is Balkan xD

Peter Hofmann and Jeanine Altmeyer were the most beautiful Wälsungen twins ever ❤

This is the "pitch corrected" one. Right?

Boulez was a horrible conductor. If you want to change the music of the composer, you are overstepping your job as someone who has the one and only task to lead the orchestra playing as exactly as possible what the composer wrote. His Wagner cycle was an affront to Wagner!

Thanks for this upload!

I'm Greek and i don't call my country balkan !!

And then you go to the iberian peninsula and every country outside the peninsula is balkan and we're the true rulers of the world

What is Eastern Europe? - German will say that their country is West Europe and to the east is Eastern Europe. - But Poland would say they are not Eastern Europe, but they are Central Europe, and east of them is Eastern Europe. - According to Belarus, there are no Central Europe and say that they are the border between East and Western Europe. - But in the when you go far enough to Russia, they will say that all of the country in the east of Germany is Eastern Europe. They will even claim that former East Germany is actually a buffer zone between East and West Europe.

send this to him if you are intellgent: @szizekian come to china meet me face to face , begging me i to teach you, I'm a succed Nietzsche I can play philosophy in any way i want. You have to begging me suppose you are saveable

Saw the Chereau Ring live at Bayreuth 1978-1980 and remains the greatest production of the Ring I I have ever seen and that takes in many Rings. Now on a beautiful Blu-Ray

Slavoj’s intellectual discussions are second to none, especially geopolitical. What he says in the video, the way he says it, might seem superficial at first, but there is a deeply rooted human psychology message that he is trying to convey. Brilliant

Post modern karl marx

It can be read in a billboard “Rauchen Verboten” (no smoking allowed) in 28:40 Patrice Is smoking 😂

Greeks are Balkans as much as British are European. For geographic reasons mainly. And MAYBE for historical/cultural reasons a little bit. Mostly for geographic reasons

Sorry for being witty, but as a Greek I TRULY believe that the Greeks are not Balkan. At least, lets say we are the best of the Balkans or an extra-ordinary category of Balkan. And that's due to the fact that the Greeks undeniebly contributed by far the most in the formation of the European and the Western civilization (Europe and America and Australia etc). We had a great civilization. Everhbody has its own vreat civilization. But, lest face is: somw civilizations are STARS. Like Chinese, ancient Egyptians, Romans and a few more... The Greeks were AWESOME and the proof for that is that still today so many countries copy the ancient Greek civilization modus vivendi: eg science, philosophy etc Its not that we Greeks are better than Slavs...nowadays...Nope. Thats not the case. Its just... Our ancestors did a GREAT JOB. FREAKING AWESOME JOB! Maybe in 2250 Slavs will have their own chance in History. Maybe the historians of 3.400 AD will talk about the Great Slavic Civilization that overshadowed everybody ever since. I am sorry to tell you this... But I truly believe that the only one who can compare to the Greeks are the Anglosaxons. The did great. They outsmart us. They are no. 1 in the whole History of Humanity. Not Greeks. Not Chinese. Not Indians. Not Persians. The Anglosaxons! After 5.000 years people are still gonna talk about them. Modern Greece is a piece of sh@t ofcourse. We feel ashamed in comparison to ancient Greeks Thats the hard reality.

As an American, I wholeheartedly believe that the Balkans are everything to the east of the Atlantic Ocean

How does anyone believe all this crap? This Ring is set during the industrial revolution, with steam driven machines and other nineteenth century technology all over the place, and yet battles take place with swords and spears!! Maybe the most ridiculous of all: Hagen wearing a necktie and killing Siegfried with a spear...And you want us to find this perfectly normal?

I know just how enraged they get at being called “Eastern Europe”, didn’t know Balkan was also a problem.

It's such a shame they didn't have better singers in this fantastic production.

Thank you for the upload! My grandparents were able to see this is Bayreuth back in the day, and they actually really liked the staging. It makes me wonder what all these critics would have thought about the "flying harmonica" staging of the MET's Walkurie from a few years ago. Remember that one? Ultra-minimalist. Also, Chereau's vision of the Ring Cycle meets Industrial Age corruption reminds me a LOT of similar themes in another Ring story: Tolkien of course had parallels of modern (over?)industrialization with the corruption of Isengard. So staging the Cycle in this way is not completely out of the realm of possibility. It seems rather like the best kind of art: uniquely creative but still rationally tied to the original material.

WEum um Himmels Willen hat man für dieses Jahrhundertereigniss eine 3klassige Besetzung gewählt?

We Romanians also say that Europe civilisation started from Romania and that we are not Balkans either.

In sweden the version of this is the southernmost part and west coast are somewhat social and amicable places whereas everything else is stone cold quiet robot land.

British are the only one.

Actually Zizek said some true BULLSHIT - namely that Serbs claim not to be Balkan. Serbs actually fully embrace being Balkan because they are secure in what and who they are and are proud of it. They do not see Balkan as a negative at all, and in no way feel themselves inferior (ethnically, culturally or historically) to western europe. This same attitude also goes for the Greeks to some extend: being proud of either being South-East or Balkan and feeling zero inferiority to the west. The rest of the Balkans however, have inferiority complexes towards the west and have actually internalized western racist stereotypes towards them and eastern europe. They now pretend to be something they are not nor will they ever be.😂 You see the same phenomenon with Czechs, Slovaks, Poles and Hungarians pretending to be "central europe" and "half german." They will never be that.

As an Argentine, I think Balkan is everything north of Paraguay and east of Uruguay.

Zanmljiva mi je karta Jugovine od Žižeka, nema autoceste, nema granica republika, Bjelovar je neka selendra kojom se dolazi samo iz Križevaca i nema dalje. Tema Balkan je već stara otrcana, Žižek ju samo obradio. Cijeli svijet je Balkan-balkon.

Poor Bayreuth, it doesn't deserve to be in this state under Katharina. The decadent fourth grade of trash culture

They all look horny in chereaus production lol

Thank God Wagner was not a jew.

Even inside Germany itself there's this division. We "Prussians" in the North don't really consider Bavaria part of the civilized world. They're too religious and in some ways backwards, they are part of the "weird mountain guys", together with Austria. Bismarck once said "The Bavarian is the missing link between human and Austrian". In Bavaria itself, the northern part of the state, there's a region called Franken/Franconia, around Nuremberg, the people there get very angry when you call them Bavarian, because they really are closer to the neighboring states Hesse and Thuringia in terms of culture and dialect and just happen to not get their own federal state after WW2 and have to stick with Bavaria now. Even inside Cologne, there are jokes between people who live on the left and right bank of the Rhine river. The Romans founded Cologne (as a colony, hence the name Colonia -> Cologne), but the Empire's border went precisely along the Rhine, so that left-Rhinish Cologners are either civilized or weak, and right-Rhinish Cologners barbarians or part of the strong resistance, depending on who you ask of course. I also know that there's a division between northern and southern France too, but I'm not French. All I know is the North prefers butter and the South olive oil.

real "post the most racist joke ya got" energy here, i love it ❤

this is a true representasion of human stupidity and superiority complex

Literally no ones says these

Actually it starts in Syldavia. Although the Syldavians says it starts in Borduria.

Ero presente in sala quella sera....una meraviglia !

I saw this video about a year ago and I didnt comment. The term "Balkans" *did not existed* in the area prior the Ottomans and when we speak about the "Balkan Peninsula" this was named by *a mistake* made by an early 18th German geographer, who confused the span of the Balkan mountains considering them dominant in the wider area. "Balkans" is an Ottoman term which is not being accepted by all. The reasons why this ~500yo term is not being accepted by for example the Greeks (and as a Greek myself I can argue on this) is because *on one hand* the Greeks have their own name for this area which *predates* the term "Balkans" by *3-4,000yo (if not more),* and on the *other hand* this term "Balkans" is being used for vastly political and cultural reasons which does not apply to Greece; *while there's also one more* reason, a more devious one *for all peoples of this area that includes the Greeks:* it is being used by foreign politics, politicians and diplomats as a slang word, in order to describe some uncivilized and primitive kinds of people which stand as an example to avoid. These the latters should be reminded that each and everyone of them played a small or bigger part into actually making a mess of this area for close to a century and even as we speak, and all this time *they stand aside laughing.* Anyways, the term Balkans is not just a toponym and it may refer to one's history or not. As a Greek it does not refer to my history, culture and historical toponyms all of which *predate* any Ottoman term by many millennials. Im sorry Slavoj, you know you cant be 100% right in everything you suggest.

MAYBE THE REAL BALKAN IS THE FRIENDS WE MADE ALONG THE WAY

I just realized that todax it's 10 years ago that Chereau died. He was so young and brave when he staged the so-called "Jahrhundert-Ring". It wasn't a traditional production, but he managed to tell Wagner's stories in a very moving and human way! I wonder if back then many people understood his little joke concerning Loge: the brilliant Heinz Zednik looked and moved like Riff Raff from the Rocky Horror Picture Show 😉 That was quite deliberate, but back then most Wagner fans hadn't seen the movie. It's wonderful that this wonderful Ring is available today for everybody - especially since there weren't many great Ring productions afterwards.

Thanks for the documentary ! I love the Centennial Ring more than most other productions. Today it's hard to believe that this Ring stirred a storm of negative reactions 😊

Romania here. We are in Balkans because we are poor

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