ArenaNet:International cultural references/Germany
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There are some famous rock/pop bands in Germany that a lot of people know (even abroad). Just to mention a few commercially very successful ones:
- Die Toten Hosen (Translates to "The Dead Trousers")
- Die Ärzte (Translates to "The Doctors")
- Die Prinzen (Translates to "The Princes")
- Xavier Naidoo
Some famous comedians:
- Harald Schmidt (Political)
- Stefan Raab (Makes fun of anything T_T)
- Michael Mittermeier (Standup)
- Helge Schneider (Famous for weird songs like "Katzenklo" (translates to "Cat litter pan) and "Das Mörchen Lied" ("The little carrot song")
Other cultural phenomenas:
- Thomas Gottschalk and the show he does, called "Wetten, dass..?", which roughly translates to "I bet that..". Basically its a show people go to, to perform weird bets as in..."I bet I can make a truck stand on beer glasses with all 4 wheels, without them breaking.". There are always some international stars at the show who have to place bets on whether or not the person in question can achieve this. If the star gets it wrong, they have to do some, mostly embarrassing task of some kind.
- Fasching/Karneval/Fastnacht is the German equivalent to Carnival. Its starts on the 11/11/XX and ends on "Ash Wednesday". The festivities reach their Zenith some time in February. Some schools even have a holiday in February for that reason.
- A few years ago there was this social marketing campaign supported by any form of media, called "Du bist Deutschland" ("You are Germany"), aiming to create a more positive feeling within the country. "Du bist Deutschland" is a sentence anyone knows over here, and some kind of reference to that would surely put smiles on a lot of peoples faces.
...Hmm there was another thing I was going to add, perhaps it will come back to me later. ^^ 0xLunarEffect 23:01, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
Oh, not to forget the classic philosophers/composers/writers like Händel, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Goethe, Schiller, Grimm, Marx, Nietzsche, Kant, Schopenhauer... 0xLunarEffect 23:15, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
- Don't forget about Otto von Bismark. He was instrumental in the unification of Germany(edit The first one.).--SirFranz 02:49, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
- A note to OxLunarEffect and Sir Franz: I work with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, and I tell guests to our concert hall -- which is renowned for its acoustics and its exceptional earthquake safety -- "If there is an earthquake, pray that you are at Benaroya Hall]. Preferably listening to Brahms." He's a heartfelt favourite of mine, as you can see. ;) -- Gaile
03:00, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
- I may do just that, the only time I was in Seattle was on a army cadet trip so i didn't have much time for the tourist thing (got to climb on tanks and APCs at the army base though). I don't know how widespread its use is but my Oma makes a slave made of Comfrey(Comfrey is used for a variety of ailments such as broken bones and acne). --SirFranz 06:09, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
- Ah, Brahms, how could I forget -_o . Hehe, classical music during an earthquake gives the crescendo(sp?) a whole new dimension xD LunarEffect 22:05, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
- I may do just that, the only time I was in Seattle was on a army cadet trip so i didn't have much time for the tourist thing (got to climb on tanks and APCs at the army base though). I don't know how widespread its use is but my Oma makes a slave made of Comfrey(Comfrey is used for a variety of ailments such as broken bones and acne). --SirFranz 06:09, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
- A note to OxLunarEffect and Sir Franz: I work with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, and I tell guests to our concert hall -- which is renowned for its acoustics and its exceptional earthquake safety -- "If there is an earthquake, pray that you are at Benaroya Hall]. Preferably listening to Brahms." He's a heartfelt favourite of mine, as you can see. ;) -- Gaile
