Talk:Schtonk!

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"Subtitled Der Film zum Buch vom Führer ("The film about the Führer's book"), "

I think there is a problem with the english translation of the film title. The german version is intentionally gramatically bad german, but the english translation is in standard english, thereby not representing it accuratly. More literally it could be: "The film to/about the book from/of/about the leader"

195.93.66.10 09:56, 10 Jun 2004 (UTC)

The phrase "Der Film zum Buch" is actually pretty common in Germany. It means "The film based on the book" rather than "The film about the book". It also works in reverse. Novelisations of famous movies are often referred to as "Das Buch zum Film". --Millard73 16:54, 6 June 2006 (UTC) I should add that in this case I woulnd't change the English translation. It's a German pun, conventionally meaning that the film is "based on" the book but of course literally meaning that is is the film about the book. --Millard73 16:57, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Nonetheless the German subtitle is still bad grammar, intentionally used by the makers instead of "Der Film zum Buch des Führers". This hints to the fact that the magazine Stern is commonly regarded as low quality press.--94.217.253.96 (talk) 15:19, 18 December 2015 (UTC)


 * The real pun is the term "Buch vom Führer", which can be translated to "Book from (better: written by) the Führer or "Book about the Führer". Actually everybody thought the fake diaries to be covered with the first meaning and it later turned out to be the second. BTW, Millard73 is right, the term "Buch zum Film" is very colloquial in german and "Film zum Buch" parodizes that term. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.22.184.237 (talk) 01:05, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

The word "Schtonk"
It is not quite true that Schtonk has no meaning in German. Actually it is the Jewish pronunciation of Stunk which is derived from the verb stinken, thus "to stink". So Schtonk in this context simply means shit (Scheiße in German). The word Stunk in modern colloquial German speech means trouble. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 80.141.219.91 (talk) 16:31, 21 January 2007 (UTC).


 * Stinken is a frequent translation of the English (to) suck, e.g. "Life sucks!" – "Das Leben stinkt!". -- kh80 03:45, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Bavarians don't say "Gstonk", they say "Gstank".--94.217.253.96 (talk) 15:19, 18 December 2015 (UTC)