Der Schlangemann

Der Schlangemann is a freely available 7 minute short film in pseudo-German made by Andreas Hansson and Björn Renberg in Umeå, Sweden, 1998-2000. The film is in the form of an advertisement for a toy called Schlangemann, a Ken doll with an interchangeable penis in 3 sizes: normal, large, and gigantic. Der Schlangemann received the audience award for best short film at the 13th Annual Horror and Fantasy Film Festival in San Sebastián, Spain, November 2002.

Quotes

• Der, die or das? But Gehen Sie hier often? Wollen Sie mit mir Tee trinken? (Do you come here often? Would you like to drink tea with me?)
• Die Himmel ist schön, Du bist schön. (The sky is beautiful, you are beautiful)
• Aber ich habe eine Motorsåg! (But I have a chainsaw!)
• Ich bin Adolf, Du bist Eva (I am Adolf, you are Eva)
• Supergut! (Supergood)
• Schlangemann, der Multi-Mensch (Schlangemann, the multi-human)

Scientific work

• In 2008 a couple of students got a generated publication titled "Towards the Simulation of E-Commerce" (SCIgen) with Herbert Schlangemann as the author accepted on an international conference. The author was asked to submit a CV to the organizers and on the basis of a fake CV was then invited to be a session chair . The paper was available for a short time in the IEEE Xplore Database but has since been removed . Read the official Herbert Schlangemann Blog for details.
• In 2009, the same incident happened and Herbert Schlangemann's latest fake paper ""PlusPug: A Methodology for the Improvement of Local-Area Networks"" has been accepted for oral presentation at another international computer science conference.

External links

• Archive of the movie

References

• kdawson (24 Dec 2008). "Software-Generated Paper Accepted At IEEE Conference". slashdot. VA Linux Systems Japan. Retrieved 05 May 2009. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)

• Peter-Michael Ziegler (26 Dec 2008). "Dr. Herbert Schlangemann - oder die Geschichte eines pseudowissenschaftlichen Nonsens-Papiers (in German)". heise online. Heise Zeitschriften Verlag. Retrieved 05 May 2009. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)