Han Sen's autobiography was probably the most prominent occurrence in recent years. The 1998 movie "Drei Chinesen mit dem Kontrabass" does not contain any other reference to the song save its title. In the following year, crime fiction writer Lisa Pei published a whodunit under the same title, in which a bass-playing teacher is a murder suspect. A 1997 picture book by Luis Murschetz plays on the question of what the Chinesemen were actually talking "about". In 1981, cartoonist Hans Traxler included the parody "Anton Dvořak mit dem Kontrabaß" in his volume "Leute von Gestern". Visual artists have also picked up the topic, such as the Cologne-based Rune Mields, whose 1992 work bearing the song's title played on the contrast between Chinese arts such calligraphy, ripe with meaning and tradition, and the anarchic, childlike playfulness of the song. Yueyang Wang, a Chinese audio artist living in Germany, dealt with a more delicate facet of the lyrics in one of her installations, namely its supposed affinity to xenophobia. While there is no explicit textual evidence for this interpretation, the very absurdity of the lyrics leaves ample space for speculations. More or less easygoing reinterpretations have emerged in popular culture since the "Medium-Terzett" hit the charts with their version in 1968. The anti-nuclear movement of the 1980s appropriated the song for its purposes. After the declaration of independence of the micronation "Republik Freies Wendland" sit-inners blocking the transportation of radioactive waste to the repository facility at Gorleben repeatedly intoned the tune, twisting the lyrics to a national anthem of sorts: „Zwanzigtausend mit dem Wendenpass / saßen auf der Straße...“ ("Twenty thousand with a Wendian passport/ sat on the street/" etc.). In 1998 and 2000 two of German hip hop's most prominent acts mangled the song in their tracks, first Fischmob in "Polizei Osterei" and two years later Fettes Brot in "Da draussen". The song also appeared in TV ads, first in a campaign for "Maggi" instant ramen, and most recently in a spot for the dairy company "Müllermilch". The version used in the dairy ad, sung by Mia-Sophie Wellenbrink and entitled "Fruchtalarm" (literally ""fruit alert"") even reached #17 in the German single charts in September 2005.