Individual whistles that get louder and louder and finally increase to a piercing concert of whistles.

This is how Böhse Onkelz fans unreservedly agree - a counterintuitive way of expressing one's happiness, especially in a stadium.

Close physical contact is unavoidable in front of the stage, so that in the roaring crowd, beer showers become another means of expressing happiness.

Black and white dominate the interior of the Eintracht Frankfurt stadium, many fans are shirtless, their bare skin stands out from the darkness of the crowd.

Actually, a lot is the same as in the Eintracht games, whose fans love to sing “Black and white like snow/ You beautiful SGE”.

But somehow, despite this absence of true colors, Eintracht games are more colourful.

42 years of provocation

Even before the entrance, a member of the Böhse-Onkelz team referred to the almost four-year-old FAZ article "Black and white is also a sea of ​​color": We shouldn't write such crap again - black and white aren't colors at all - a foretaste of the evening ahead.

The long-haired idols take the stage while a firework bang causes the whole stadium to jump.

It's the only surprising thing about this performance.

Tens of thousands of fans came to the Waldstadion on Friday to be part of the rescheduled anniversary tour to mark the fortieth anniversary of Onkelz.

Just one day later, the spectacle is repeated at the same place on this Saturday evening.

The band had already performed in the Centennial Hall on Wednesday.

It's now 42 years since the Onkelz "provoked" - to describe it in their harmless words.

Stanzas like "Come my little / You shall be my victim tonight / I'm looking forward to your horrified face / And the fear in your cry" are performed and repeatedly justified as ironic and deliberately exaggerated.

Stephan Weidner, bass player and singer, however, destroys this argument with his introduction to the corresponding piece "The Nice Man": "The nice man was always censored, but he was ahead of his time." The cheering of the crowd is great.

Likewise the band's staging as honorable lawbreakers who dare to say anything.

Irony and conviction blur.

The fiction becomes a realistic violent fantasy.

It is obvious that authentic distancing from one's own right-wing extremist past looks different.

But no one seriously expected it.

After all, precisely this blur is part of the commercialized core of the brand, which has little to do with system-critical punk.

This is also underlined by a biographical episode of the lead singer Kevin Russell: His handling of the traffic accident he was responsible for, including the escape from the accident, near Frankfurt on New Year's Eve 2010 is exemplary.

In court, Russell was unreasonable.

Instead, he grimaced and taunted the two young men who had suffered serious injuries and barely survived.

Against this background, his later letter of apology seemed anything but credible.

This approach must be taken into account when assessing the Böhse Onkelz, because it rubs off: On their website, they explain the origin of the "scandal song" "Turks out" that Weidner and Russell have always attracted violence.

"Provocation to the extreme" was exactly her thing.