Do Austrians Hate The Sound Of Music? 

im austrian and I have literally NEVER watched thatfilm or ever even heard of it til last year

I am austrian and i watched THE LORD OF THE RINGS about 15 times and i even went to the moviesets over there in NZ, but i never heard of THE SOUND OF MUSIC until today. LOL

Your "Oachkatzlschwoaf" ist on point!

As an Austrian that has never seen Sound of Music I went to Canada to study for a semester. It was crazy how many women wanted to show me the movie and so I watched it a couple of times as part of fi(lmgu)cken. I can also answer the question, why no one in Austria cares about that movie: First of all when it came out not a lot of Austrians spoke english well making the songs hard to understand. But mostly, it is about a family that successfully left Austria during WW2, where folks in Austria either stayed (liked to stay, had to stay) or died making the whole story not relatable for people in Austria. I do know the cartoon of the singing family Trapp though that was aired during my youth. Also, I did the "best" sound of music tour in/around Salzburg and the operator said that many people from SE Asia burst into tears when they find out that Edelweiß is not the Austrian anthem and Austrians don't even know the song at all. See ya

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Important to note: "The Story of the Trapp Family Singers", as told in Maria von Trapp's original memoirs of the same name and published in 1949, led to a few musical and movie adaptations. The first of these was an actual German-Austrian production called "Die Trapp-Familie" (1956), which fit local sensitivities much better and was more successful than the later "Hollywoodized" productions. Apart from dealing with the, back then, VERY sensitive Nazi issue and the obvious language barrier while the earlier film was shot in local German, locals never really got the hang of some of the changes that made things less authentic. I mean, "Schnitzel with noodles", do I need to say more?? In any case, if you're a fan of the international hit musical, go watch the original film from 1956 for some interesting perspective of how locals perceived the story, and if you're Austrian, go an watch the Sound of Music at least once, even if it's just for being able to make small talk while being abroad.

I'm Austrian from Salzburg and I have read a bit about this movie but I haven't seen it. I think I never will

Even if the most of the english speaking world does not beleive this ... most (like 97,6%) of us NEVER heard of this movie or "Trapp Family" 🙂

Learned about this movie when I went to the US decades ago. They couldn't believe that I as an Austrian don't know it. Have then tried to watch it, but quit about 10min into it 😀

Du solltest dir mal richtige österreichische Heimatfilme reinziehen ... Peter Alexander und so 😅 Das kennt man bei uns, läuft seit Jahrzehnten jede Woche in ORF2.

I think I would care about a movie filmed in my town, if it was done by people from the area who give an authentic representation of what my hometown actually is like. But that is not the case for the sound of music.

But there's of course one huge good thing about that movie: it sent Millions of tourists to visit Austria

I am Austrian, saw Sound of Music in 1987 dubbed in Spanish when I was 21 living in Chile for a year. I thought, hang on, this is about Austria, and some tunes sound familiar...gotta investigate this. Fun Fact: my oldest daughter later grew up in Australia (NOT Austria) watching it every day as a toddler. Her mum was named after Maria. Fun Fact 2: I live in NZ and love your insights into Austrian culture.

I think there are 500 movies of this style in Austria, the 501st, isn't considered important. Just in USA, they have only this one, and they know how to market it.

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I am 36, from Berlin and I never ever heard about this Movie at all.

No it´s not "a thing"....for many reasons. For instance .. It was filmed in the 60ties and at that time there were tons of "Austrian postcard alpine view movies" which were called as genre "Heimatfilm" produced with Austrian + German actors who had "Star Cult" at that time in Austria and in Germany and therefore nobody gave a shit about a - at that time locally totally unknown - "Julie Andrews wearing a Dirndl while singing in English" in such an alpine postcard view "Heimatfilm" movie setting = "That was simply not right at that time for the locals" especially when there were tons of such local Heimatfilm productions with local Movie Stars speaking + singing in local German language in the local alpine setting... That is as absurd as then expecting from US citizens watching at that particular time a German Western filmed in the US in German language with unknown German actors in a US cinema instead of contemperary JohnWayne + Audie Murphy Western movies,...just saying. For instance It was originally a Broadway musical and the music was composed by American composer Richard Rodgers and the text was written by Howard Lindsey + Russel Crouse..who might were contemperary "Musical composer Broadway stars + Musical Broadway writer stars" in the US but are "absolutely no names" in Austria + Germany who have their own huge musical traditions for centuries. So the Musical was also never shown at that time in the theatres as well. And the "von Trapp Family" was also just solely localy known in the negligible Salzburg area but they were absolut "nobodies in the rest of Austria" besides there were a whole bunch of such "folklore singers at that time in whole Austria" and the Trapps were just "1 out of uncountable many" ...and "their fame" was exclusively then just abroad in the US simply because over there they were "1 of a kind". So "the theme of the movie/Musical" = "The von Trapp family" was no "theme" for Austrian or German contemporary cinemagoers because the Trapps were totally unknown. And later in the "TV-era" it wasn´t shown on TV either...simply because of the reason I already mentioned above = "there were tons of local film productions of the same kind" = so why paying fees to Hollywood in order to broadcast something what is just "a US copy" of a "Heimatfilm" when they can broadcast "home made productions" which are also "authentical in language" and cost basically no fees/very small fees in direct comparision in order to broadcast. Long story short "The Sound of Music" is just "a thing" in English speaking countries foremost because it was an English spoken movie....which comes across very odd for the people "of that time" actually living in that "movie-setting"

Hi Johnboy, I am Austrian currently living in Colombia. To be honest, of course I do know the movie but never watched it. But I found your video that entertaining, it made me download the move and I will watch it tonight. As to your theory that people are not interested in movies made in their hometown ordealing with it, it simply is not the case. Typically, I watch every movie frommy hometown Vienna and even more so as Ihave been visiting and living abroad in 60 countries for most of my life. Keep up your excellent work, you are a much better Austrian than I am, passt scho!

being from austria i had no idea until i was 28 years old and my boyfriend from england told be about it. now i actually like it 😂👍🏼

My wifey and I actually love musicals, but since we have moved to Westerwald one year ago we havent watched any "german" movies together, except your videos. But sounds of music could be a game changer, and i'm gonna make a last try to show it to her, because we need some positive vibes for these rainy days what we have now :)

I am Austrian and when I traveled in the US, I was told about Sound of Music the first time. It‘s a nice movie but it‘s funny that Austrians don‘t know this movie at all. I guess the translation didn’t work out well and Austrians didn’t watch it. Thank you for the video. Austrian Kiwi caught a good point

im austrian - it took me 17 years of my life and running tino an american exchange student before i even knew the movie existed. And i havent watched it and dont intend to - im now 38

I grew up 40km away from Salzburg (in Upper Austria) and only found out about Sound of Music when I moved to the city as an adult and saw the tourists.

Guads video moi wida, moch weida so Great video, keep on😂

Most Austrians outside Salzburg don't even know that "Sound of Music" exists. I heard about it when I was 20, still the worst movie I've seen in my whole life.

The original from 1956, is "The Trapp Family", Sound of music is a hollywood remake 9 years later. If the original isn't a big hit, people don't tend to watch the remake at all. I can hardly remember, if it was ever on TV.

As a Bavarian growing up 40km from Salzburg away and also going a couple times to Salzburg in my life (mostly for shopping, museums, Christmas market and cheap gas) I've never heard of this movie till I went to the USA for my exchange year. I spent my exchange year in Cincinnati, Ohio, the pure Midwest spirit city. Almost every person I talked to and explained that I grew up between Munich and Salzburg, they asked me if I know `The Sound Of Music`. At least like 70% of the people, especially older ones and mid-agers. But also of course people in their twenties asked me and I had to disappoint them by asking them back : "What is the `The Sound Of Music`?" Oh please don't call me uncultured because of that. I know at least the real famous movies by their name at least the German and Austrian ones. But the `The Sound Of Music` was something I've really never heard about. The Americans were so surprised, so I asked some of my friends and also my family who grew up here in the Chiemgau but they also didn't know what `The Sound Of Music` is. Sooooo I really really appreciate your video a lot and I'm already a fan of your videos for quite a time. Please continue!! Also I really like your German with the Austrian accent! It's amazing!!

I literally learnt about the existence of it in NYC! Americans all the time asked me about it until I googled it lol

It's like assuming the Mama Mia! Movie had any importance to greece. I think even Mary Poppins is more popular in Germany or Austria, Musicals of the 60ies in English are generally not a great hit. It stands in a row with "Hello Dolly" or "Funny Girl", and that's just special interest. The only thing becoming an everygreen was actually "Fiddler on the roof". A few sad songs are much more emotional.

I believe the only reason I grew up watching and loving the sound of music (growing up in austria) was that my dad who is from New Zealand watched it as a kid but I heard many austrians say they don't know or don't really like it I think it might be more popular and more known in english speaking countries but I don't fully know why exactly. It's a great iconic movie :)

Hello, Salzburg born girl here, There is an old austrian/german movie called "die trapp familie" that was made a few years before the sound of music. The musical was actually based on this film, and if you watch them one after the other, you see all those similarities. All but the songs, because the "sound of music" team did not get the license to use traditional austrian music. That explains the fact that most austrians do not know the songs. People know the old austrian movie.

The house at 3:17 also features in the film although the other side of the house is another filming location

First time i heard of it was when i was 28. some Chinese tourists asked where they can find the tour bus. I first watched it on a plane to asia

The end-cart kills me... ;))

You can´t hate something unheard-of......

I am Austrian and I heard of the film the first time in New Zealand by Kiwis!!...I was 25 then :) Instead we know Sissi..all three parts...hopefully you have seen it by now??!! :)...I lived some time in London and the Brits do not know "Dinner for one"...

very simple awnser, we have no strong feelings about it either way, i saw bits its basicly just like every "heimatfilm" we have and there are 1000ends and they are all interchangable.....

Austrian here, I only know that this movie exists because my sister worked in a hotel in Salzburg and there were a lot of tourists who booked sound of music tours.

passt scho! Di you really research the history of this musical film in Austria. I think it was banned in Austria becasue it depicted too many Austrians as Nazis, and that was one of the reasons no-one knows it. As an Austrian who has been confronted with it eternally since I left Austria (to go to Australia, of all places, then Singapore, then the UK) - I have yet to be able to watch it all the way through without falling asleep. So there ..

I studied English at Vienna University in the early 2000s. Our professor, who wss American, showed us some snippets of Sound of Music. She had the whole class lying on the floor laughing in no time....

I'm from Austria, known about the movie for a long time, maybe saw some snippets but never cared to watch it or care about it at all xD

never heard of the film within 40 years :D

You can't hate what you don't know it exists

We watched the movie in English class, as our teacher suggested that as Austrians sooner or later when talking to foreigners the movie will come up. And she was right

austrian here, i learned about the movie only in my teens when my english was good enough to delve into the english speaking side of the internet. i'm aware of SOME of the things from the movie and also the odd song due to references in media or internet memes, but so far i've never actually watched it 😂

As an Austrian I learned about the existence of Sound of Music on a school trip to Ireland when a bearded Dubliner peeked out from behind his hedge and tried to interview us about the Trapp family

Connecting The Sound of Music with Austria is very much an American and Asian thing. Among Europeans, the Sissi films with Romy Schneider from the 1950s (a sentimental, heavily fictionalized movie trilogy about Empress Elisabeth of Austria) seem to be better known.

I am Austrian as well and used to live together with an opera singer from the u.s. and took part in the first GERMAN performance at the festspielhaus, so i took my guitar and taught her the lyrics 😂 that's how i got introduced to 'the sound of music' 😅

I discovered "Sound of music" because of a memevideo some years ago. Never heart about that movie before. Maybe I should finally watch it.

Ich kenne "Sound of Music" nicht, aber immerhin weiß ich, dass es ihn gibt ^^ Habe mich gerade gut bei diesem Video amüsiert. Passt scha!

I had to watch this in school so many times 😭

I know this movie and I have seen it (I come from Sweden but live in Vienna since ten years). I am not particularly interested in the movie, but I am interested in movies that was shot where I live or used to live. In Vienna I have done the "Third man tour", which also happens to be one of the places where Falco did the video for "Jeanie". I also love the Nordic noir-series "The Bridge", because I lived in Malmö for many years (and frequently visited Copenhagen via the bridge). I also love "Riget" by Lars von Trier. Some friends used to live close to that hospital, and I have passed it many times. It is simply fun. :)

Am from tyrol as well and did know the movie since beeing a child. It is a solid movie but also do not understand the hipe non Austrians make about it. Been confronted with sound of music a lot during my time in the USA. They either asked me about mozart, sound of music or falco back then!😅

honestly, there is not much a thing here about that movie itself - I have only gotten to know it myself when I moved abroad 😅 we austrians tend to rather watch the nostalgic austrian movies about Sissi and Franz, depicting a more glorious time - those are definitely classics and known by most austrians, yet probably barely someone abroad (apart from germans, of course) is familiar with that since it's a non-hollywood production. you could have asked for the "trapp family" too, perhaps that would have rang more bells ...

It's a great movie, I'd recommend it to everyone :) Saw a stage production when I was little. Don't remember much, though :D

Sound of Music, The Third Man, These are movies that Austria is famous for and we Austrians have never seen them

I am Austrian, it took us 30 years and a trip to the US to watch Sound of Music. Since we had never heard of it and everyone talked so excitedly about the movie we (finally) watched it. But we all know the Sissy movie 🫶

I just saw you in a Belgian Beer pub in Salzburg

Omg the two from tyrol are my best friends 😂❤ she just told me and I had to look it up 😂 Ps: we love your videos ❤

Austrian here. My parents visited the US in the late 80s. Literally everyone they met asked them about Sound of Music when the Americans found about where they were from. My parents also had no clue about the movie, and I think the general Austrian population had even less clue about it, compared to today. I heard that this is partly because of dealing with the atrocities that were committed by the Nazis which were addressed in the movie. At the time when the movie came out, there wasn't the level and quality of remembrance culture and education about the Shoah which we have today. At that time many Austrians woudn't recognize Austrias responsibility in all of this catastrophy and refuse to talk openly and honestly about it. It took quite some time until the education caught up to an adequate level.

i saw you filming while walking around Leopoldskroner Weiher

ironically, being Austrian, i heard about "the sound of music" for the first time when i was in NZ in 2010

I watched sound of music and loved it 😅 I would love to visit all these places ❤️

I am 63 old Man from Austria and the first time i heard about Sound of music is approximarely 5 years ago.

the only Sound of Musik I know is Falco's song

I have watched the musical live when I was a kid and I hardly remember anything. I know that I liked it though. Passt scho!

I think you got the archbishop info wrong, as far as I remember he didn't have 17 wives, he had 17 children (or 15). He built the palace for his mistress, although she may have been his wife except that wasn't allowed. He was very open about his relationship and expected celibacy to be abolished "any day now" because he was on good terms with the pope.

"That's what the arch-bishy did!" 🤣

What is the lord of the rings💀

I'm German and I know about this movie. From the English language memes.

i never saw that film and have no idea why everyone knows it

True Detective!

I'm a Dutch man and it is a very well known film in the Netherlands.

In German its called: "Meine Lieder meine Träume". Maybe that was the Problem. 😂

I Love it!!! And I'm mexican❤

It’s very interesting - the movie is about a real event. A girl who wanted to become a nun is asked by her abyss to work with a widowed father a baron with 10 children as a gouvernante. They felt in love and married. Short time later they have to flee from the Nazi regime to the US. They struggled a lot because they had no money. Randomly a producer heard the family singing and was very amazed - so he wanted them to perform on stage. They got very famous. Today the family Trapp is still in the US and own a huge hotel. Love from 🇦🇹

You should have asked more older people, since the movie is old af 😂 I'm Austrian and I too didn't know about the movie until I got to know a friend from Peru who told me about it 🤣

Haha, didn't even know it existed until my then (American) GF told me about it...😂

Hab den Film das erste mal nach meiner Hochzeit mit meiner amerikanischen Frau gesehen 😂

We can't hate what we don't know

If you hear them Jodel, you know that Austria must be the root of music haters. 😂

I have never heard either the German or the English title. Now I've looked up the international significance of this movie. Wow. It's an American movie, maybe that's the problem? I've only seen a small excerpt and now I'm wondering: What does "Heimatschmonzette" mean in English?

honestly i am austrian and have never heard about this movie in my life. bist du deppat

I like your elephant shirt.

the reason why austrian don't know sound of music: at the same time an austrian movie about the Trapp family was played and so there was not much interest in an american movie

I think the point is it was a Hollywood movie (so a little cheesy for real austrians) and it changed the real story in lots of ways. So austrians back then didn't like it and now have forgitten about it. And my granny told me it wasn't even shown in all cinemas because of the displayed Nazi flags that the people didn't want to see. It had only been 20 years from WW2 back then, you know? They didn't want to be reminded.

I wonder if you said it on purpose or if you fell into a typical trap for german speakers when you said: "And right now i stand before one of the greatest landmarks of that film".

Never seen it, or heard of it.

I am Austrian and I saw the movie very often and I love it. I can also sing along. When it was released the topic was not popular in Austria at all, thats why it never became popular. Besides the german-version is very bad sung. It is a shame, that iconic Julie Andrews was dupped. A real crime!!!

As an asian, I never even knew it happened in austria. When I watched the movie as a young child I just lnew they had to leave and was just pursued by the authorities. The stage show is kind of diferent from the film. It gives more meaning to "edelweiss" and teaches you solfege Also jonnyboy getting used to hairline jokes

Austrian here, I know every single song and most dialogues. I hate the Nαzιshit, but I love the music.

Do australians hate waltzing matilda? 😂😂😂😂

I watched the Sound of Music last year for the first time and haven’t heard of it before. It’s not very well known in Europe. Maybe the Brits know it but not many people on the continent 😏

I never saw the movie and only found out it existed because of the memes😂

Ich kenn den Film nur weil meine Schwester ein Praktikum in Australien gemacht hat und die Gastmutter den Film in den 3 Monaten 4 Mal angeschaut hat😂

I know the sound of music as an ai parody done with the face and sound of arnold schwarzenegger.

i was in mexico and told people that i am from austria, they asked me about sound of music and i was like "what the hell is sound of music?" 😂

never heard about "the sound of music"

Passt scho... Lord of the Music?

I knew it