Molvanîa

The book Molwanîen. Country of defective smile (English Original title: Molvanîa: a Country Untouched by Modern Dentistry; literal translation: Molvanîen: an untouched by modern dentistry country) of the Australian authors Santo Cilauro, Tom Gleisner and Rob Sitch is a parody of a travel guide. It was published in 2004 by the publisher Hardie Grant, the German translation was published in 2005 by Heyne Verlag. The parody became an international bestseller. The International Tourism Exchange in Berlin drew the German edition as part of the ceremony of the "ITB Book Awards 2006" with a special price.

Content

The authors wanted to write a parody of a travel guide and simultaneously process all the bad travel experience in Europe, without offending an existing country. Drawn Up in the style of a professional guide, the book provides tourist advice and background information about the fictional country Molwanîen, a post-communist Southeast European state. The detailed description discloses Molwanîen immediately as decrepit, ugly country with quirky, dumb inhabitants; For this purpose, all common negative stereotypes about the Balkans and the former Eastern Bloc are troubled. Trying to make Molwanîen as a holiday yet tasteful, fails miserably: With every promise of " sight " ( the smogverhüllte capital Lutenblag with its Stalinist architecture, " one of the world's oldest operating nuclear reactors ", etc.) reveals the guide the country's only always more than one tourist nightmare.

Actions on " Molwanîen "

• Highlights of Molwanîen project was the presence at the International Tourism Exchange in 2005 and the attempt to participate in the Euro Vision Song Contest. Here should be the " country star" Zladko " ZLAD " Vladcik 2004 with the techno - ballad electronics - and occur Supersonik 2005 with the grim - rock song "I Am The Anti- Pope " / The Conclave.
• The airline Condor contributed their part to the molwanischen awareness by offering 10,000 free flights on 1 April 2005 after Molwanîen and exhibited remarkably genuine online tickets. The April Fool's joke was resolved a day later.

Molwanîen other authors

• In 2006, the book was published balance sheet flowers in Molwanîen. The struggle for the perfect accounting in an unknown country under the pseudonym Sebastian Hakelmacher in Dragonfly Publishing. In the book, the actual circumstances of accounting in modern companies are disfigured beyond recognition and satirized.
• 2009 is reported by the approval of a rocket-powered vehicle in Molwanîen in the issue of the magazine vintage market (4/ 2009). The author describes the authorization process in this country to circumvent the strict regulations in Germany. In the article there is the annual April Fool's joke.