Waldorf & Statler on Blogging

Was sind Blogger? Wenn sie mehr betrachten als ihren eigenen Bauchnabel machen sie nichts anderes als das Rentnerduo Waldorf und Statler aus der Muppet Show: Blöd in der Loge rumhocken und die Abstrusitäten auf der Bühne des Lebens kommentieren. Als Hommage an die beiden werten Herren From the Balcony dokumentiere ich einen kurzen Dialog der beiden schlauen Rentner, der vielleicht als Motto über meinem ganzen Blog stehen könnte:

-This show is awful.

-Terrible.

-Disgusting.

(Pause.)

-See you next week?

-´Course.

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About Thomas Ernst

Thomas Ernst is Professor of Modern German Literature at the University of Antwerp. He also works at the University of Amsterdam and holds a venia legendi on Media and Cultural Studies/German Studies at the University of Duisburg-Essen. His research focuses on the construction of identities, images of Germany and Europe, multilinguality and transcultural spaces in Austrian and German literature; on experimental and subversive Austrian and German literatures in the 20th and 21st century; and on the digital transformation of media and its cultural effects (literature and social media; intellectual property rights; digital publishing). His publications include books on “Popliteratur” (2001/2005), “Literatur und Subversion” (2013) and numerous papers that have been published in international magazines and book series with peer-review. At the moment, he is working on a monograph on literature and social media.

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