Schadenfreude Schadenfreude Schadenfreude (; ; 'harm-joy') is the experience of pleasure, joy, or self-satisfaction that comes from learning of or witnessing the troubles, failures, or humiliation of another. It is one of four related emotions or concepts. Schadenfreude is a complex negative emotion. Rather than feeling sympathy towards someone's misfortune, schadenfreude evokes joyful feelings that take pleasure from watching someone fail. This emotion is displayed more in children than adults, however adults also experience schadenfreude, they are just better at concealing their expressions. "Schadenfreude" is borrowed from German; it is a compound of "Schaden", "damage, harm", and "Freude", "joy". The German
Different from the Others a short time after the premier, conservative Catholic, Protestant, and right wing anti-semitic groups started to protest and disturb the public screenings. This initiated a wide public debate on censorship. The constitution of the Weimar Republic initially assured freedom of speech and expression, but there were special qualifications created for cinema in response to "Different from the Others" production and screenings. According to those special articles, films which qualified as obscene or dangerous to young people had to be censored. Hirschfeld organised screenings of the film for members of Weimar National Assembly, Prussian State Council, Landtag of Prussia, and government