Monday, March 21, 2011

Mixed reactions to the 'gay' themed Tatort episode

Mixed feelings among critics provides the broadcast yesterday "Tatort" episode "Murder in the First Division," in which turned a lateral column of the plot to a gay professional football player and his outing.

In this exuberant praise of the "star" the episode in its online edition: Ulrike Klode editor praised writer, director and drama of the image sequence. "Tell a murder of a Hanover-96 player and the subjects 'homosexuality in professional football', 'hooligan violence' and 'managers, who are also foster fathers' handle, could go wrong very easily. But it has been possible action and dialogues of the "crime scene" from degenerating into stereotypes ", Ulrike Klode writes in her criticism.

An opinion shared by the colleagues of the "daily" apparently not: "If, despite DFB president Theo Zwanziger has outed verbal efforts to less homophobia in football, no Bundesliga player, this is due, at least according to this 'crime scene', also realizing that it is it would have immediately to do with Charles Lindholm, "Steffen Grimberg etched tradition for the left hand. For him, the result of a "pretty weak match" was.

On the Facebook page of the "crime scene" is the result not many friends, "I'm still shocked at how bad this scene was. Clichés until you drop," says one user. "The Lover of the player comes with champagne in the bathtub and hear Marianne Rosenberg," says another. And another comment on the episode is not very good: ".. I could not look an embarrassment has only been missing that the team would be run with a pink tutu to support their gay club mates Thus come out not a.."

Within the community, opinions are also divided. The GGG.at community enjoyed the scene the most part. In the comments on our Facebook page users praise the topic as "well prepared". The largest German-language online media "queer.de" is also the opinion of the crime "did not go beyond clichés": "A man is gay and suspect because he has an AIDS ribbon as a key ring, shaking Norbert sheet on the presentation of the figures head. He also criticized that gays in the series were "far too often" described as "homosexuals".

The bottom line is the criticism of the "crime scene" that is as varied as the reactions on the topic: Outside of the gay and lesbian community, the result is praised for her bold approach to a controversial issue in large part - who knows how gay and lesbian life is really found the result but still fast bland and clichéd.

Source: GGG.at

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