History Music / DieArzte

!! ''Die Ärzte'' and their songs provide examples of:

* WrongGenreSavvy: The former bass player Sahnie reportedly considered himself to be TheFaceOfTheBand. The response of Bela and Farin was to kick him out, without any backlash.

* TroubledProduction: The production of "Auch" was this. After a break of four years, Bela reached out to his band members and they reconciled.

* FreudianExcuse: Subverted in "Schrei nach Liebe" ("Cry for love"), where the lyrical subject refuses to accept a [[ThoseWackyNazis neo-nazi]] skinhead's tragic childhood as a valid excuse for her
hate and violence.

* FreudianExcuse: Subverted in "Schrei nach Liebe" ("Cry for love"), where the lyrics subject refuses to accept a [[ThoseWackyNazis neo-nazi]] skinhead's tragic childhood as a valid excuse for their hate and violence.

* FreudianExcuse: Subverted in "Schrei nach Liebe" ("Cry for love"), about a [[ThoseWackyNazis neo-nazi]] skinhead.

Aus Angst, Hass, Titten und dem Wetterbericht[[note]]Most people get their education from BILD [(in-)famous German yellow press newspaper]\\

Aus Angst, Hass, Titten und dem Wetterbericht\\[[note]]Most people get their education from BILD [(in-)famous German yellow press newspaper]\\

Aus Angst, Hass, Titten und dem Wetterbericht\\
[[note]]Most people get their education from BILD [(in-)famous German yellow press newspaper]\\

-->Die meisten Leute haben ihre Bildung aus der Bild\\

(Most people get their education from Bild\\

of fear, hate, tits and the weather forecast)

-->Your violence is just a silent cry for love
-->Your jackboots long for tenderness
-->You never learned to articulate properly
-->And your parents never had any time for you... ASSHOLE!
%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.
* HeavyMetalUmlaut: Their logo is a parody of this; it's an A with ''three'' dots on top of it. (Their name actually ''needs'' an standard two-dot umlaut above the A to be proper German). The three dots are most likely based on the fact that the band has three members

* ''They've given me Schrott! - Die Outtakes'' ("They've given me Scrap! - The Outtakes" 2019)

* ''[[SelfTitledAlbum Die Ärzte]]'' (1986)[[note]]As of 2015, still on the index list of the German Federal Department for Media Harmful to Young Persons, and thus unavailable in Germany. In defiance, the band released the Mini-Album ''Ab 18'' ("For 18 years old and above"), which subsequently was also indexed.[[/note]]

* FilkSong: The "Grotesksong", a parody (or is it?) of filk protest songs.

--> ''Lass mich dein Sklave sein."'' [[note]]Whatever you order me to do I will, I'll kiss the top of your shoe and when you give me the lash I know that you love me too. I can't be saved anymore, flay me with your whip and enchain me, from today on I'll be all yours. Please please let me be your slave[[/note]]

* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: The tabloid BILD according to "Lasse redn".

** Their video to '3 Tage Bart' is in the style of boy bands like Take That.

** 'Fafafa' was done in style of Die Fantastischen Vier, the biggest German Hiphop-act at that time

* SelfParody: Their spoof album "Jazz ist anders - Economy Version". It contains all the songs from the original album "Jazz ist anders" but in amateurish and unfinished versions, altering the texts, singing with modified voices, playing 20 seconds of the song and then discussing why they don't want to play the song anymore, resulting in one member shooting the other two, killing them on record. [[spoiler:He sings the rest of the songs alone and cries over his actions.]]

Formed in 1982, they broke up briefly in 1989, reuniting in 1993. They have released 14 studio albums, six live albums and seven compilations until now, and managing to get three of all of them [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Department_for_Media_Harmful_to_Young_Persons indexed]] in Germany. Farin and Bela are for all intents and purposes the face of the band but their current bass player (the third in band history and with them since 1993) also sings a handful of songs and has written a couple, usually one or two per LP. The two former bass players have been even more marginal to the band with their second bass player never even officially being part of the band (Their second bass player was featured in the manner of "Die Ärzter with..." or similar ways). Bela and Farin are both from Berlin whereas Rod was born in Chile and came to Germany because his parents ran afoul of the UsefulNotes/AugustoPinochet regime. Die ärzte are famous/notorious for their elaborate three hour live shows that include antics like giving encores at festivals and spending most of the time bickering at each other in puerile humor and heavy Berliner dialect. There is even one semi-official release of just the things they said on live concerts that weren't their songs. Improvising changed lyrics to their songs is also a thing they like to do.

* ''Hell'' (2020)

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Usually averted, the band rather gets banned than being subtle. Some crap they got away with:
** How in the name of all [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saumagen Palatinate Saumagen]] did they get away with a song about how Chancellor Helmut Kohl beats his wife?! Germany has laws against libel, too!
** "Mein Baby war beim Friseur": They correctly speculated that the often mentioned "German Federal Department for Media Harmful to Young Persons" had no idea what "fisting" means.
** A rare subtle (ha.) example below under SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion.
** From a live album, to the public: "GIVE US YOUR KARMA! (less loud) Karma is a whitish liquid..."

* TroubleProduction: The production of "Auch" was this. After a break of four years, Bela reached out to his band members and they reconciled.

Formed in 1982, they broke up briefly in 1989, reuniting in 1993. They have released 13 studio albums, six live albums and seven compilations until now, and managing to get three of all of them [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Department_for_Media_Harmful_to_Young_Persons indexed]] in Germany. Farin and Bela are for all intents and purposes the face of the band but their current bass player (the third in band history and with them since 1993) also sings a handful of songs and has written a couple, usually one or two per LP. The two former bass players have been even more marginal to the band with their second bass player never even officially being part of the band (Their second bass player was featured in the manner of "Die Ärzter with..." or similar ways). Bela and Farin are both from Berlin whereas Rod was born in Chile and came to Germany because his parents ran afoul of the UsefulNotes/AugustoPinochet regime. Die ärzte are famous/notorious for their elaborate three hour live shows that include antics like giving encores at festivals and spending most of the time bickering at each other in puerile humor and heavy Berliner dialect. There is even one semi-official release of just the things they said on live concerts that weren't their songs. Improvising changed lyrics to their songs is also a thing they like to do.

* MonsterMash: 'Monsterparty' has the protagonist attending a party at [[{{Dracula}} Dracula's castle]] where he meets Film/TheInvisibleMan, Film/KingKong, FrankensteinsMonster, Film/{{The Wolfman|1941}}, [[DemBones a skeleton]], [[Film/{{Jaws}} the Great White Shark]], The {{Mummy}} and [[Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial ET]]

* HoYay: ''Rock Rendezvous'' claims that Farin and Bela have the hots for each other but were just too shy to tell. It gets even worse when Rod plays the homosexuality-and-religion card, just to be told that he gets sodomized as well since "who refuses avances of his superiors flies out of the band". [[WildMassGuessing Sahnie?...]]

** "Schrei nach Liebe" begins with a [[TheSweet musical shout-out]].

* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: On ''Zusammen'fassung'' they thank everybody...and Dagmar. [[OverlyLongGag Das war harter Stoff.]]