PART 22
of the dfk audiobook translation
@cnka
Narrator (audiobook):
Uli gathers all his courage and steps in front of the assembled class.
Uli: „I want to say something!“
Uli: „I can't take this anymore! You all think I’m a loser. But I’m not! I’ll prove it to you tomorrow at 3 at the city wall. That I’m not a loser!“
The class mutters among each other. Uli jumps down from the desk and leaves.
The Externs walk past Uli's friends and yell another "Loser!" at them.
Narrator (audiobook):
Meanwhile, Jo has checked her phone. She is shocked.
Jo: „They’ve deleted everything!“
Matze: „What, seriously?!“
Jo: „All of our work, our film! Everything we’ve shot, this- oh, I’ll kill these pigs. We need to take revenge, we need a plan!“
Martina: „Jo, I don’t know. What’s the point of that?“
Jo: „They have destroyed everything! Our entire film, everything we’ve worked on! You can’t be this indifferent to it.“
Martina: „I’m not indifferent to it. I just have more important things to do. I need to study.“
Jo: „Study? Are you really serious? Your only problem is if Bökh likes you!?“
Martina, yelling: „Boah, Jo, ey, you have no idea at all! Just shut the hell up for once!!“
Narrator (audiobook):
Martina storms furiously out of the room. So does Jo shortly after.
Jo: „There’s really nothing but idiots here! Shitty jerkwater town!!“
[Note: this is the best translation of "scheiß Kuhkaff" I could find...]
Narrator (audiobook):
A helpless Matze is left behind.
Matze: „So much for 'us Internals stick together'.“
SCENE CHANGE
[Note: I can translate the song lyrics if you want to.]
Narrator (audiobook):
The next day. Matze walks into his room and meets his friend, who is about to leave with a helmet and climbing ropes.
Matze: „Hi, Uli.“
Narrator (audiobook):
But Uli ignores Matze and gives him a bodycheck before he storms out of the room.
Narrator (audiobook):
It’s not an easy time. Everyone seems to be fighting their own small battle. Not just the kids, but also Robert. The meeting with Justus has stirred him up a lot and torn open old wounds.
A montage of different characters while the song plays.
Martina lies on her bed with her school books and cries.
Robert is on a walk along the lake.
Matze plays with a little boxing toy and eats biscuits.
Narrator (audiobook):
Jo seeks conversation with the Nichtraucher and knocks on the door of his wagon.
(knocking)
Jo: „Can I come in?“
Narrator (audiobook):
Shortly after, Jo is playing on Robert‘s piano. He sits next to her and listens.
Jo plays the last chords of the song on the piano.
Jo: (sighs)
Jo: „I feel like I don’t belong here.“
Jo: „Like, in Kirchberg.“
Jo: „I mean, they’re all little Spießers here.“
Nichtraucher: (chuckles quietly)
Jo: „The Externs anyway…“ (sighs) „And the Internals are shit too.“
Nichtraucher: „Yeah?“
Jo: "Yeah, I mean, you’re better off on your own too after all. Don’t meet Bökh and stuff..."
Nichtraucher: (heavy sigh)
Narrator (audiobook):
Robert sits down on the couch and lights himself another cigarette.
Nichtraucher: (long sigh)
Nichtraucher: „You know, Jo- life is like that sometimes. People disappear and then they’re just gone.“
Jo: „How? Something like that has a reason. Why did you never want to see each other again?“
Nichtraucher: (sighs.) „His mother was sick. Very sick. It wasn’t easy back then either, a friendship with an Internal. It was complicated.“
Silence.
Jo: „What happened?“
Silence.
Nichtraucher: „My wife died.“
Silence.
Jo: „Oh.“
Silence.
Nichtraucher, quietly: „Justus knew her as well. But he didn’t get in touch.“
Silence.
Nichtraucher, almost whispering: „Maybe he didn’t care.“
Music softly fades in.
Jo: „I don’t believe that.“
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I assume you’re a big fan of science fiction stuff.👀
Funny you say that. Sci Fi is hit or miss for me, but that's probably because I have some standards for what I expect out of it.
I love the visual effects of sci fi movies that are well done, especially solarpunk settings! If I had enough brain to consistently build a world of sci fi gadgets, I would probably do it more in fics (and then never get any done).
I will say, what gets me is if people show things in science that are very much...not possible (looking at you Grey's Anatomy and that horrendous episode about "growing hearts" that ABSOLUTELY is not how tissue engineering works). Makes me groan.
I think what usually comes with sci fi is philosophy and ethics, and honestly? That's probably what I like the most. Thinking of "should we?" or "if it's already in place, what to do" things like that.
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can't wait for your thoughts on Rhett's tattoo since y
Urgh why did this ask come half-dead I needed to know your trail of thought
He better talk about it in the next ear biscuits or ELSE 😑
I promise to make a post if I see something significant there!
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