His first contact with film came in 1921, in which he helped director Arnold Fanck on one of his mountain films. The main actor could not perform the stunts required, and so Trenker assumed the leading role. He gradually assumed more roles on set, and by 1928 was directing, writing and starring in his films. By this year he had abandoned his job as an architect to concentrate on art and married Hilde Bleichert, with whom he had four children.

The main theme of Trenker's work was the idealization of connection with the homeland and pointing out the decadence of city life. This loosely played into the hands of Nazi propagandists, who seized upon the nationalistic elements of his work. However, Luis refused to allow his work to subverted as such and eventually moved to Rome to avoid further governmental pressure. This, though, was not to be and after a pair of documentary films Trenker returned to Bolzano to quit making movies.

After the war Trenker was accused of fascist opportunism but eventually the charges were dropped. In the mid 1950s he again able to make movies, though by 1965 he had switched mainly to the documentary form, focusing mainly upon the Austrian Tyrol.

[T]he arrangement and lyrics are nearly identical. Instead of Hitler and Mussolini and Jesus Christus, this song covers some (at the time of recording) contemporary Germans and Austrians. Like actors (Harald Juhnke), publishers (Axel Springer), sportsmen (Niki Lauda, Toni Sailer) etc ... some i cannot understand. Probably they are dead already. But the ones i recognize have been very important or still are. Only some have to do with right wing stuff, like Axel Springer. Others had plane crashes or were just terrible people on TV every day.

Instead of "Dance the Mussolini" we have verbs that go with things these people were famous for, like "drink the Harald Juhnke", coz he was an alcoholic.

All DAF fans can for sure enjoy this bootleg :)

Obviously it is an answer to "Tanz den Mussolini" by DAF. Arrangement and lyrics are nearly identical.

Istead of Hitler and Mussolini and Jesus Christus, this song covers some (at the time of recording) contemporary Germans and Austrians. Like actors (Harald Juhnke), publishers (Axel Springer), sportsmen (Niki Lauda, Toni Sailer) etc ... some i cannot understand. Probably they are dead already. But the ones i recognize have been very important or still are. Only some have to do with right wing stuff, like Axel Springer. Others had plane crashes or were just terrible people on TV every day.

Instead of "Dance the Mussolini" we have verbs that go with things these people were famous for, like "drink the Harald Juhnke", coz he was an alcoholic.

All DAF fans can for sure enjoy this bootleg :)
- drx (guest) 1-31-2007 3:25 pm

Thanks, drx. My Google translator has the title as something like "Rise high Luis Trenker"--is there a better way to say it?
- tom moody 1-31-2007 9:42 pm

"Steigen" is in this case a short form of "climbing" as in mountain climbing. Luis Trenker was always on the mountains in his films. But it is really not literally that you should climb up this person, it's just what this person is usually doing and you could do the same. While in "Dance the Mussolini", Mussolini is used like the name of a new fashionable dance, here we have a more in-depth instruction on how exactly to overcome Luis Trenker. The fun about these two songs is that DAF version sounded decadent and insane and proclaimed the shockwave surfing dont give a fuck way of dealing with things while at the same time sounding like military instructions ... and this version is very small and bringing up stupid details that are totally unfitting to cause an uproar or a revolution or just anything. It's very nerdy and funny but i do not know if it is possible to explain such a joke :)
- drx (guest) 2-01-2007 1:40 pm

You've explained it well.
"very small and bringing up stupid details that are totally unfitting to cause an uproar"--lol.
- tom moody 2-01-2007 7:53 pm