Maschendrahtzaun
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Maschendrahtzaun is a country music song by Stefan Raab. The inspiration for this song comes from his TV show TV Total, where short (often involuntarily) humorous clips from other German TV shows are shown.
For this song the law court show "Richterin Barbara Salesch" (Judge Barbara Salesch) was shown, where the plaintiff, a woman with an East German accent, accused her neighbour because a common snowberry bush (Knallerbsenstrauch) was growing into her wiremesh fence, hence damaging it.
In the show the woman tried to make her speech more credible by using lots of officialese and to accentuate important passages.
However the coloring of her dialect and her insistence to always specifically describe her fence as a wiremesh fence and the neighbors bush as a common snowberry bush added to the hilarity. Since the rhytmic accentuation of the "Maschendrahtzaun" it seemed suitable for the inclusion into a song. The two main points of the songs hilarity are the sheer banality of the lawsuit and the plaintiffs thick saxon accent, which is routinely ridiculed in german comedy. The two buzzwords "Maschendrahtzaun" and "Knallerbsenstrauch" expose the main phonetic distinctions of the saxon dialect very heavily.
The song tells the story of a lonesome cowboy and/or sherrif in English, with the audio sample of the woman saying "Maschendrahtzaun" and "Knallerbsenstrauch" inserted fittingly into the song.
