Two days at the Biathlon World Championships in Oberhof are enough for a line of text to get so stuck in your head that it hurts. The World Cup organizers don’t miss an opportunity to let the song “The train has no brakes” with the refrain and anaphora “The train, the train, the train has no brakes” roar through loudspeakers. The reason may be that the German delegation intends to increase their motivation with this piece of music, at least they let it play when they arrived on the opening night and danced the polonaise to it. unbridled.
All in all, it’s a very, very great collection of songs, at least if you like to deal with sound material from the Ballermann milieu. The work can be placed in a similar artistic sphere as the official World Cup song “OO-Oberhof” with the refrain – including anaphora – “OO-Oberhof”, which the creators presented on the opening night. In Thuringia they can pat themselves on the back: they are by no means inferior to the Upper Bavarian town of Ruhpolding, where the artist Mickie Krause performed in mid-January – also on the occasion of biathlon races. One of his masterpieces is considered by followers to be “Keep your hands off things without alcohol”.
Trailers and trains, it all fits well into the picture. After all, the organizers of the supporting program for biathlon races in Germany do a lot to create the highest possible average level. In Oberhof, this also includes operators of drink stands with international flair. The Finnish mulled wine “Glögi” with cocoa and cranberries comes with 18 percent alcohol, the Greek variant “Rakomelo” with honey even has 25 percent alcohol. But it doesn’t necessarily need such inspiration, because it hurts in the head anyway from trains without brakes.