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lichtecht · 2 months

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PART 22

of the dfk audiobook translation

@cnka

Narrator (audiobook): Uli gathers all his courage and steps in front of the assembled class.

Uli: „I want to say something!“ Uli: „I can't take this anymore! You all think I’m a loser. But I’m not! I’ll prove it to you tomorrow at 3 at the city wall. That I’m not a loser!“

The class mutters among each other. Uli jumps down from the desk and leaves.

The Externs walk past Uli's friends and yell another "Loser!" at them.

Narrator (audiobook): Meanwhile, Jo has checked her phone. She is shocked.

Jo: „They’ve deleted everything!“ Matze: „What, seriously?!“ Jo: „All of our work, our film! Everything we’ve shot, this- oh, I’ll kill these pigs. We need to take revenge, we need a plan!“ Martina: „Jo, I don’t know. What’s the point of that?“

Jo: „They have destroyed everything! Our entire film, everything we’ve worked on! You can’t be this indifferent to it.“ Martina: „I’m not indifferent to it. I just have more important things to do. I need to study.“

Jo: „Study? Are you really serious? Your only problem is if Bökh likes you!?“ Martina, yelling: „Boah, Jo, ey, you have no idea at all! Just shut the hell up for once!!“

Narrator (audiobook): Martina storms furiously out of the room. So does Jo shortly after.

Jo: „There’s really nothing but idiots here! Shitty jerkwater town!!“

[Note: this is the best translation of "scheiß Kuhkaff" I could find...]

Narrator (audiobook): A helpless Matze is left behind.

Matze: „So much for 'us Internals stick together'.“

SCENE CHANGE

[Note: I can translate the song lyrics if you want to.]

Narrator (audiobook): The next day. Matze walks into his room and meets his friend, who is about to leave with a helmet and climbing ropes.

Matze: „Hi, Uli.“

Narrator (audiobook): But Uli ignores Matze and gives him a bodycheck before he storms out of the room.

Narrator (audiobook): It’s not an easy time. Everyone seems to be fighting their own small battle. Not just the kids, but also Robert. The meeting with Justus has stirred him up a lot and torn open old wounds.

A montage of different characters while the song plays.

Martina lies on her bed with her school books and cries.

Robert is on a walk along the lake.

Matze plays with a little boxing toy and eats biscuits.

Narrator (audiobook): Jo seeks conversation with the Nichtraucher and knocks on the door of his wagon.

(knocking)

Jo: „Can I come in?“

Narrator (audiobook): Shortly after, Jo is playing on Robert‘s piano. He sits next to her and listens.

Jo plays the last chords of the song on the piano.

Jo: (sighs) Jo: „I feel like I don’t belong here.“ Jo: „Like, in Kirchberg.“

Jo: „I mean, they’re all little Spießers here.“ Nichtraucher: (chuckles quietly) Jo: „The Externs anyway…“ (sighs) „And the Internals are shit too.“ Nichtraucher: „Yeah?“ Jo: "Yeah, I mean, you’re better off on your own too after all. Don’t meet Bökh and stuff..." Nichtraucher: (heavy sigh)

Narrator (audiobook): Robert sits down on the couch and lights himself another cigarette.

Nichtraucher: (long sigh) Nichtraucher: „You know, Jo- life is like that sometimes. People disappear and then they’re just gone.“

Jo: „How? Something like that has a reason. Why did you never want to see each other again?“ Nichtraucher: (sighs.) „His mother was sick. Very sick. It wasn’t easy back then either, a friendship with an Internal. It was complicated.“