English translation

East Friesland

• 1. literally: wheels, meant are most likely wind turbines which translate literally to wind wheels
• 2. this is alluding to shooting stars, which in German is a compound word of "Stern" (Star) and "Schnuppe" (a charred candle wick). "Schnuppe" here stands on its own at the beginning of the sentence though, where it can be read as an adjective, where it would idiomatically mean "to not give a damn"
• 3. This is a play on the idiom "Fressen und gefressen werden" (literally, "devouring and being devoured"), roughly equivalent to "dog eat dog". "Gefressen" is replaced with "verbissen", which literally means to have your teeth sunk into something, but idiomatically means to be stubborn, determined, dogged
• 4. probably a reference to "Die Geister, die ich rief" ("The spirits that I summoned"), which is the German title of the movie "Scrooged". The German punk rock band Die Toten Hosen also have a 2012 cover album with the title "Die Geister, die wir riefen" ("The spirits that we summoned")
• 5. could be a play on the idiom "fünf vor zwölf" (literally: "five to twelve"), equivalent to "the eleventh hour"
• 6. the original has the syllable "splitt" three times here, first in "Rollsplitt" (Loose chippings), then "splittet" (split) and then "Splitter" (splinters)
• 7. 8,000 meter mountain
• 8. the East Friesland / East Frisia region of North Germany is known to have extremely flat terrain