I love German culture

Heino Heimatfilme umpa umpa music.

This quickly deteriorating into the worst of German culture

Photo is from a community theater in San Francisco. I think they were doing Stalag 13.

Taboo # 7 wrote: Going back to the first list, what the hell does Hindenburg have to do with German culture?

With all due respect, the guy was a figurehead for the crippling Weimar Republic whose inability to maintain a nominal democracy in the wake of financial instability led to the rise of Adolph Hitler, the worst muthafucka who ever lived. For that, Hindenburg deserves a place in history as a pawn of the evil that visited Europe during 1933-1945.

Give him a break - he was an old man barely being aware of what was going on in 1929-33 BUT he was a succesful general during WWI on the Eastern Front.

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Taboo # 7 wrote: Going back to the first list, what the hell does Hindenburg have to do with German culture?

With all due respect, the guy was a figurehead for the crippling Weimar Republic whose inability to maintain a nominal democracy in the wake of financial instability led to the rise of Adolph Hitler, the worst muthafucka who ever lived. For that, Hindenburg deserves a place in history as a pawn of the evil that visited Europe during 1933-1945.

Give him a break - he was an old man barely being aware of what was going on in 1929-33 BUT he was a succesful general during WWI on the Eastern Front.

Like I said, a figurehead during that time. His aides and advisors should have known better. But I'll grant you he was a successful general (mostly because Ludendorff was at his side during the 1917-1918 campaigns, though)

Taboo # 7 wrote:

But his blimp exploding was fucking awesome, I'll give you that :D

And made for a great album cover

Actually, it was a rigid airship...... :D ;) :D

Günther Grass Thomas Mann Heinrich Böll Bertolt Brecht Friedrich Schiller

Klaus Kinski

Werner Herzog Roland Emmerich Wolfgang Petersen

James Thomas wrote: Not forgetting the truly inexplicable KELLY FAMILY

They're irish...

Bere wrote: Günther Grass Thomas Mann Heinrich Böll Bertolt Brecht Friedrich Schiller

Klaus Kinski

Werner Herzog Roland Emmerich Wolfgang Petersen

Ja ich forgot about Kinski and Petersen :) Good choice and Böll too

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Ja ich forgot about Kinski and Petersen :) Good choice and Böll too

Wie kann you forget Kinski :D ?

Bere wrote: Günther Grass Thomas Mann Heinrich Böll Bertolt Brecht Friedrich Schiller

Klaus Kinski

Werner Herzog Roland Emmerich Wolfgang Petersen

Herzog and Petersen - good choices!

Ronald Kirsch wrote: Heino

This is quickly deteriorating into the worst of German culture

Heino rules!

Errrm, I meant Franka Potente rules! :D

The Love Parade

What, we've made it this far and no one's mentioned 99 Luftballoons? ;) My family on my father's side is from Germany.

Is Yello from Germany?

Ah well, my fave German import, for the last 20 year or so...

As far as I know Yello are from Switzerland

Star Wars! hehe

vejayes wrote: Star Wars!

I beg your pardon?

Henry Kissinger How I'm missing yer You're the doctor of my dreams With your crinkly hair and your glassy stare And your machiavellian schemes I know they say that you are very vain And short and fat and pushy but at least you're not insane Henry Kissinger How I'm missing yer And wishing you were here

Henry Kissinger How I'm missing yer You're so chubby and so neat With your funny clothes and your squishy nose You're like a German Par-o-quet All right so people say that you don't care But you've got nicer legs than Hitler and bigger tits than Cher Henry Kissinger How I'm missing yer And wishing you were here!

Taboo # &, where did you pick up that piece of rap?

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I wrote it............

Nah, Eric Idle of Monty Python fame is the creator of that little ditty . I merely swiped it from the "Monty Python Sings" cd booklet with the lyrics to all their songs :D

Kissinger: A German war criminal for the 1970's...

OK, I'm absolutely serious about this one:

Sauerkraut!

Mmmmmmmmmm.....

Spotnick wrote:

twist wrote: I always thought Marx offered a good way of viewing industrial society but failed to offer a solution.

Or you can simply state it was applied the wrong way.

Works for the ants though

well said. marxism has never really been applied as marx had envisioned. marx was an economist, but certainly not a sociologist--therein lies his main problem.

did any of you boys mention claudia schiffer or heidi klum? if not, i'm surprised.

AgentWood wrote: did any of you boys mention claudia schiffer or heidi klum? if not, i'm surprised.

No, but I mentioned sauerkraut! :D

Surprised? ;)

AgentWood wrote:

Spotnick wrote:

twist wrote: I always thought Marx offered a good way of viewing industrial society but failed to offer a solution.

Or you can simply state it was applied the wrong way.

Works for the ants though

well said. marxism has never really been applied as marx had envisioned. marx was an economist, but certainly not a sociologist--therein lies his main problem.

did any of you boys mention claudia schiffer or heidi klum? if not, i'm surprised.

I did like Claudia a few years back. As a matter of fact I still have a couple of her old calenders somewhere.

But both her & Heidi have gone of and dated strange men.

Otto Inspector (Kommisar) Rex Udo Jurgens Roberto Blanco Mike Kruger Underberg Karl May Boris Becker Desiree Norsbusch Trio Nena Christmas trees

Ronald Kirsch wrote: Otto Inspector (Kommisar) Rex Udo Jurgens Roberto Blanco Mike Kruger Underberg Karl May Boris Becker Desiree Norsbusch Trio Nena Christmas trees

Udo Juergens is austrian.

Anyone mentioned the following musicians?

Kraftwerk Rammstein Scorpions (I hate them) Sven Vaeth Paul van Dyk Peter Maffay Herbert Groenemeyer Marius Mueller-Westernhagen