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Flix setzt auf Wiedererkennen und bezaubert den Leser mit seinem leichten, augenzwinkernden Erzählton. [G] Flix uses experiences readers can recognise and enthrals them with his light, tongue-in-cheek narrative style.

Im Laden selbst verwirrte mich das Ambiente zutiefst: warum sieht eine erfolgreiche deutsche Handelskette des Westens aus wie der Ostblock vor 1989? Und das ohne jegliche Ironie? [G] The atmosphere inside the store disturbed me deeply. Why would a successful German retail chain in the West want to look like the pre-1989 Eastern Bloc? And it wasn't even being tongue-in-cheek about it.

Natürlich weiß Schulz, dass sein "Beharren auf das Geheimnis und die Kompliziertheit von Theater" seinem Publikum einiges abverlangt und spricht deswegen auch augenzwinkernd von der "Zumutung Kunst". [G] Naturally, Schulz knows that his "insistence on the mystery and complexity of theatre" demands much of his public, and therefore also speaks, tongue-in-cheek, of "an art of extravagant demands".

Viele Jungkreateure der Berliner Szene verarbeiten Nostalgisches und Spießiges selbstironisch bis witzig - ganz im Sinne der hippen "Ostalgie". [G] Many young creators in the Berlin scene take a tongue-in-cheek approach to nostalgic or bourgeois material, very much in keeping with hip "Ostalgie".

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