Kein Schwein ruft mich an

A cult comic ballad about loneliness, waiting beside the telephone, and feeling completely forgotten by everyone else.

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Max Raabe

Formal Standard German and precise articulation make it easy to hear negation, modal constructions, the pronoun man, and dry everyday humour.

What the song is about: waiting for a call that never comes

Kein Schwein ruft mich an turns loneliness into dry comedy. The narrator sits by the telephone hoping for attention, while the rest of the world appears to have forgotten him entirely.

Learning German with Kein Schwein ruft mich an: negation and telephone phrases

The theatrical pace separates each word, so the negation is especially clear. The phrases kein Schwein and ruft mich an provide a memorable way to study kein, the accusative pronoun mich, the separable verb anrufen, and informal German humour about a small personal disaster.

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