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Television, as we children know from the trash TV feature pages, ideally not only has entertainment value, but also fulfills an educational mandate.
This Friday evening it was that time again.
The nation could switch off its flat screen TV more cleverly than it had switched it on three hours earlier.
The insight of the week is: Your favorite dance columnist (if you don't remember, that's me!) Can now officially be called Nostradamus.
Last week, TV Germany was in a state of shock. The audience favorite, Nicolas Puschmann, had to leave the Ossendorfer Samba Festival of “Let's Dance” despite the considerable jury rating after adding the audience votes. Twitter was stunned, the right-wing patriot bubble was jubilant that Germany would not find a male dance couple as great at prime time as the basically left-fascist Kunterbunt-Bubble wanted to scream after Nicolas' first successes. Well, of course, this bubble also has a lot of time after the Merkel regime declared the Corona dictatorship and you can therefore no longer run Pegida. Nevertheless, the discussions were unpleasant.
And also completely pointless, because Nicolas is back today.
Ilse DeLange, Holland's best-known country singer after Sylvie Meis, has to break off her dance mission due to an injury and (so the rules say, even if homophobic gender star critics find it incomprehensible) the recently retired Nicolas moves up.
Later in the evening he will even make it safely into the round of the last five.
There is of course a fair on the comment column marketplaces of the rainbow haters.
Nicolas Puschmann, actor
Source: dpa / Rolf Vennenbernd
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The motto of the eighth decision show is: Magic Moments. Great feelings are guaranteed - and the country needs them too. The CDU, for example, which may have already experienced its magic moment of the year these days. After the election of Hans-Georg Maaßen as candidate for the Bundestag in electoral district 196 in Thuringia, the party seems to be facing an acid test. Almost four months before the federal election and shortly after the daily soap about the candidacy for chancellor and the mask commission paradox, an extremely inopportune time.
Maassen was head of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution for many years. Christian Polanc, meanwhile, helped prominent dance novices such as Sıla Şahin, Carmen Geiss, Nastassja Kinski, Susan Sideropoulos, Maite Kelly, Vanessa Mai, Nazan Eckes or the financial life insurance of Michael Wendler, Laura Müller to more or less great success with "Let's Dance". Fun fact: Polanc would have been the better head of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, while really only die-hard masochists would want Maaßen in "Let's Dance".
This year Polanc chose Lola Weippert as her dance partner and danced the divorce of her parents with her and the resulting particularly intimate relationship, especially with her sister.
There it rotates in the howling center of RTL viewers who love doctor novels directly more violently than at the time at Ricky at the legendary "Now the tears come again at the push of a button" press conference by Tic Tac Toe.
Or as Deeptalker and Pope Polanc says: "We have to bring the souls of celebrities onto the dance floor."
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The otherwise mostly euphoric Jorge González takes note of this surprisingly unmoved. He turns the magic moment into a mow-chick moment and shaves Lola in front of the cameras: "I miss the connection with your soul." In his red glitter jacket, he looks a bit like a Mafia boss from Las Vegas in the 70s Juror today exudes an aura as if anyone who contradicts him today should seriously worry about waking up next morning next to a horse's head. Whereby absurd things have already made it into beds at the Savoy Hotel Cologne. Fortunately, Motis Mabuse's verdict is somewhat more encouraging. She rejoices: “The main thing is that you leave your heart on the dance floor.” What exactly she means by that remains unclear.Maybe Lola Weippert showed her her organ donation card at the dress rehearsal?
Jorge González and Motsi Mabuse, members of the jury
Source: dpa / Rolf Vennenbernd
Victoria Swarovski can't believe it either.
She almost bursts the feather duster with anger, which she converted into a dress today (presumably after losing a bet against the nude cleaner who wipes through her twice a week).
Overall, the oval slit in the upper body area is a bit reminiscent of a vulva, but if anyone can wear it, it is Vicky, as fellow moderator Daniel Hartwich affectionately calls his Austrian colleague.
Keyword vulva: While Vicky is wearing her artfully arranged dress in the form of the female pubic area, town mayor Boris Palmer over on Facebook is trying to end Annelena Baerbock's ambitions for Chancellor single-handedly with racist bon motes about Dennis Aogo's sex organ.
Fun fact: Unlike Boris Palmer, Victoria Swarovski still has every chance of making a significant political career at some point.
How good her diplomatic skills are, for example, she proves week after week on “Let's Dance”, for example when she describes dance performances like Kai Ebel's without blushing or bursting into roaring laughter as “very good”.
Anyone who manages to stay serious with the movements of the Hawaiian shirt Ebel, which has come to life, reminiscent of a dance, remains calm when Alice Weidel speaks in the Bundestag.
Auma Obama's magic moment
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Auma Obama's Magic Moment revolves around her journey from Nairobi to Germany. In order to receive the best possible training, she studied in Saarbrücken, Heidelberg and Berlin. The land of Heinrich Böll and Wolfgang Borchert was considered to be the land of poets and thinkers. At that time, however, there were no lateral thinker demonstrations either.
Surprisingly, it is not Joachim Llambi who delivers the sensational moment of the week, but Renata Lusin, Rúrik Gíslason's dance partner.
During training, she smugly points to her breasts and explains: "That is the face." After the intervention of my roommates in my Berlin flat share, with whom I follow the events on the RTL dance floor this week, the video referee is activated and I recapitulate them Scene several times in super slow motion.
After looking closely from different camera angles, I correct my first decision: Renata does not mean her breasts, but her heart.
Which is a shame, because as the Little Prince said: "You can only see well with the breasts, the essentials are invisible to the eyes."
And what else was going on?
Rúrik Gíslason, who was largely unknown before “Let's Dance”, has now advanced to a longing for sleepless nights in half the republic after nine weeks of celebrity dance school. During the week he was even allowed to celebrate his dance debut as a single-player VIP in Germany's unjustifiably underrated late night show “Studio Schmitt”. This ZDF Neo format is named after its host Tommi Schmitt, a hobby podcaster who became known nationwide through a liaison with Caro Daur as an influencer man.
This week, too, his performance is better than Daniel Hartwich's hair.
Even “Magic Momentmal” Joachim Llambi seems to have taken a first aid course just to be on the safe side.
In any case, he shows surprisingly detailed knowledge in the field of respiration: "The samba breathed, the rumba lived." In addition to enzymatically catalyzed metabolic processes, "Let's Dance" and especially Mr. Llambi are of course always about eroticism.
And there are deductions for Rúrik in the P-Note: "With the rumba it was not right below".
Simon Zachenhuber, boxer, and Patricija Belousova
Source: dpa / Rolf Vennenbernd
Boxing legend Simon Zachenhuber then dedicates his Magic Moment to his mother, who sits proudly in the audience with an accurate Ross Anthony memorial hairstyle.
Points queen Valentina Pahde, on the other hand, receives spectacular support from a surprise guest.
Suddenly, twin sister Cheyenne is on stage.
Both also dance for their mother.
Quasi three pahdes for a hallelujah.
This is followed by the hotly debated appearance of Nicolas.
After coming back as a dancer, he interprets his coming out in front of his father in his magic moment.
On the area played by professional dancer Vadim Garbuzow.
In other words: Vadim becomes Vaddi.
Three dance duels to meet the minimum length
In order to keep the three hours minimum length for dance evenings at RTL with only six remaining couples, there are three more dance duels.
Valentina dances a Bollywood film against Lola.
Nicolas and Vadim (disguised as Erkan and Stefan) lose their street dance battle against Auma Obama and Andrzej Cibis and Rúrik Gíslason competes against Simon Zachenhuber in flamenco.
Lola Weippert, radio presenter, and Christian Polanc after their departure
Source: dpa / Rolf Vennenbernd
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This week the audience and the jury are unusually unanimous and so Lola Weippert has to leave the “Let's Dance” family in the end.
So next week only Valentina Auma, Nicolas, Rúrik and Simon are in the running for the Dancing Star.
I will of course report anyway.
See you on the dance floor!
Tanzmarie with jury member Motsi Mabuse
Source: Marie von den Benken
Marie von den Benken is on Twitter and Instagram as @Regendelfin, she is from Hamburg, model and author. She also writes every week on ICONIST about the big and small dramas on “Germany's Next Topmodel” and “Let's Dance” (to be seen every Friday on RTL and TVNow).
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