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"Zehn kleine Jägermeister" (German: Ten Little Huntsmen/Jägermeisters) is a song by German punk rock group Die Toten Hosen. It was released in June 1996 as the fourth single from the album Opium fürs Volk. It is the band's biggest hit, reaching number one on German, Austrian and Swiss charts.

"Zehn kleine Jägermeister"
Single by Die Toten Hosen
from the album Opium fürs Volk
Released10 June 1996
GenreReggae rock, pop punk
Length4:45 (album version)
4:21 (single version)
LabelJKP
Songwriter(s)Andreas Frege
Wolfgang Rohde
Hanns Christian Müller
Die Toten Hosen singles chronology
"Bonnie & Clyde"
(1996)		 "Zehn kleine Jägermeister"
(1996)		 "Alles aus Liebe (live)"
(1997)

Content


It's a drinking song, and the fact that drinking songs are a tradition for Die Toten Hosen is ironized on the album version as an interview in the beginning and end of the song.

The song's title and theme are a parody of "Zehn kleine Negerlein" (Ten little negroes), which is a song about how out of ten characters only one was left in the end; the parody lies in the improbable manner of their removals: killed by smoking cannabis, died for an inheritance, killed in a road accident, killed by the husband of a date, imprisoned for avoiding taxes, killed by a policeman, killed in a military drinking game, killed by mad cow disease, and finally rejected for asylum.

The chorus also makes use of the German translation of the Unus pro omnibus, omnes pro uno: "Einer für alle, alle für einen", as well as alluding to the board game Mensch ärgere dich nicht.


Music video


The music video was directed by Ralf Schmerberg and drawn by Andreas Hykade. It is an adult-animated illustration of the lyrics that depicts deer as Jägermeisters. During the chorus, the liquid's path through the mouth is shown. Along the way, the band members are seen drinking.

The video follows the lyrics and is divided into sections beginning with a group of Jägermeisters performing a dance routine. Their number decreases verse by verse, as they each get into different situations which always end with a violent death of one of them. At the end of the video, the only surviving Jägermeister invites nine new Jägermeisters. ("Drum lud er sich zum Osterfest neun neue Meister ein")[1] This differs from the original album lyrics, which end with the death of the second-last Jägermeister, followed by the refrain.[2]

The video was censored by MTV Germany due to containing illegal drugs, nudity, and realistic weapons.[3]


Track listing


  1. "Zehn kleine Jägermeister" (Rohde/Müller, Frege) − 4:21
  2. "We Love You" (Jagger/Richards) − 3:10 (The Rolling Stones cover)
  3. "Der König aus dem Märchenland" (The king from the fairytale land) (Breitkopf/Frege) − 4:15

Charts


Chart (1996) Peak
position
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40)[4] 1
Germany (Official German Charts)[5] 1
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[6] 1

Year-end charts


Chart (1996) Position
Germany (Official German Charts)[7] 12

References


  1. Zehn kleine Jägermeister Music Video on YouTube (in German), 2008-04-14, archived from the original on 2008-11-04, retrieved 2016-11-07
  2. Die Toten Hosen – Zehn Kleine Jägermeister (in German), retrieved 2016-11-07
  3. Wiencek, Thomas. "Die Toten Hosen - Zehn Kleine Jägermeister (censored version)". www.youtube.com (in German). Archived from the original on 2021-12-15. Retrieved 7 November 2016.
  4. "Die Toten Hosen – Zehn kleine Jägermeister" (in German). Ö3 Austria Top 40.
  5. "Die Toten Hosen – Zehn kleine Jägermeister" (in German). GfK Entertainment charts. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
  6. "Die Toten Hosen – Zehn kleine Jägermeister". Swiss Singles Chart.
  7. "Top 100 Single-Jahrescharts" (in German). GfK Entertainment. Retrieved August 7, 2015.

На других языках

[de] Zehn kleine Jägermeister

Zehn kleine Jägermeister ist ein Lied der deutschen Band Die Toten Hosen, aufbauend auf dem Kinderlied Zehn kleine Negerlein. Die musikalische Bearbeitung stammt von Wolfgang Rohde. Der Text ist eine Zusammenarbeit von Campino und Hanns Christian Müller. Das Stück wurde von Jon Caffery produziert und vom bandeigenen Label JKP am 26. Januar 1996 als Schlusslied des Albums Opium fürs Volk veröffentlicht. Zehn kleine Jägermeister erschien am 6. September 1996 als Single und erreichte Platz eins der Charts in Deutschland,[1] Österreich[2] und der Schweiz.[3] In Deutschland wurde die Band für mehr als 500.000 verkaufte Exemplare der Maxi-CD mit Platin ausgezeichnet.[4]
- [en] Zehn kleine Jägermeister

[ru] Zehn kleine Jägermeister

«Zehn kleine Jägermeister» (рус. «Десять маленьких охотников») — четвёртый сингл немецкой панк-рок группы Die Toten Hosen с девятого студийного альбома группы, «Opium fürs Volk». Вышел в сентябре 1996 года и стал самой успешной песней группы, заняв первые места в хит-парадах Германии, Австрии и Швейцарии.


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