Lilli goes over to the gramophone and puts on a record.
As usual she chooses her favourite “Neunundneunzig Rote Husaren” by Nena and her band.
As the music plays Lilli flicks through Herr Schneider’s catalogue and finds the figure she is looking for-
Essential reading before Saturday and the coming game next week. Lilli closes her eyes listens to the music and dreams of horsemen riding through the cobbled streets…
Lilli is a thoroughly, modern woman.
ReplyDeleteShe is indeed .
DeleteAlan Tradgardland
Is that Lilli Marleen by any chance?
ReplyDeleteTaking your lied, either way, it seems like a cue a popular German song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIO5lfJ9dhs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjXC4N1HXf0
Sadly not but merely an imaginary young woman in an imaginary place casting bleisoldaten with her family for fun. This is the more the sound of Nena and her orchestra-
ReplyDeletehttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8N5FDUgpE
Alan Tradgardland
Go Lilli.
ReplyDeleteNot uncommon for the wives and daughters to do outwork painting from home of tin figures in Germany, but casting them was less usual. Same for Britain’s Ltd painting by women in the factory and out workers.
Surprised ... I was expecting a 1920s German Weimar era recording of Ninety Nine Red Balloons / Hussars in this Postmodern Jukebox style https://youtu.be/5CPbg9ljE4M
A shop where you can just go and buy the mould you want...
ReplyDeleteLilli sounds like a keeper :) Is Lilli in fact Nena - I suspect so!
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