“Jeanny”, the world hit of the late Austrian rocker Falco, is being filmed. German public broadcaster MDR and Austrian public broadcaster ORF, which will produce the thriller, announced this on Thursday. The news is remarkable because when the song was released in 1985, the song was banished by a string of Austrian and German radio stations because of its evocative lyrics.
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Falco released the album “Falco 3” in 1985. This includes “Rock me Amadeus”, which becomes a hit in the aftermath of Milos Forman’s popular film “Amadeus”. The song even reached the number 1 position of the US Billboard Hot 100, the only German-language song to succeed in this today.
In December the third single from the album will be released, “Jeanny Part 1”. Many German and Austrian radio stations boycott the song because of the lyrics. At first sight, that text is quite ambiguous. Falco seems to have a fascination for a girl, Jeanny, and according to a series of channels he wants to kidnap and murder her. That is not said literally in the song, but for German stations the ‘crazy and dirty tone’ on which Falco brings the song is enough to boycott “Jeanny”.
Nevertheless, the song is picked up everywhere and Falco scores a world hit with it. Years later, the singer himself speaks of a misunderstanding. According to him, it is not about a rapist, murderer or kidnapper. Jeanny is written from the point of view of a stalker who gives free rein to his thoughts.
MDR and ORF are going to shoot the film “Jeanny, Das fünfte Mädchen” together, starring Manuel Rubey. In 2008 he already played the role of the singer for the biopic “Falco – Verdammt, wir leben noch!”
Falco was killed in a car accident in the Dominican Republic in 1998.
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