What is Germany famous/well known for?

Question

I'm doing a Mood Board for Food Technology, and I need ideas which signifies Germany. I've already done Apple Strudel, Gingerbread, Bavaria, Berlin, the Flag of Germany but I need lots more! It can be anything, as long as it's about Germany.

Answer 1

Cars: Mercedes, BMW, Porshe, Audi

Music: Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, Mozart

Science: Einstein

Litterature: Goethe, Schmidt

Fine art: Bauhaus

Football: 3 times world champions

Festivals: Oktoberfest

Castles: Neuschwanstein

Electronics: Siemens, Braun

Answer 2

I'm surprised that these weren't mentioned; Albert Einstein (only mentioned once), The Scorpions, Chocolate, hi-ways, the best and most efficient post office in the world, invention of the rocket and my personal favourite...Waldmeister (forest master-it's green) soda!

Answer 3

Let me write down something very important, too.

The book print was invented by Gutenberg in Mainz/Germany.

The Bible is there in a museum

Answer 4

The beer and bratwursts awesome.

Answer 5

are you for real? Beer and currywurst!

Answer 6

Food: Dresdener Stollen (similar to coffee cake), Lebkuchen (gingerbread), Weisswurst (delicious veal sausage that is poached in hot water, not boiled), Brathendl (chicken), Brez'n (giant soft pretzles), radi (thinly sliced radishes) and Beer.

Movies: Fritz Lang's "M," The Cabinent of Dr. Caligari (first psychological horror story), Nosferatu (first telling of Dracula)

Books: Hannah Arendt's "Adolf Eichman: The Banality of Evil" and Gunter Grass' "The Tin Drum"

Performers/Entertainment: Nena, Heino, Hanna Schygylla, Betten, dass? (Wanna Bett), krimis (crime shows)

Politicians: Konrad Adenauer (first chancelor of Germany after the war), Willy Brandt, Helmut Kohl

This culture is so vast and I'm so tired (been up all night doing an overnight as a housing monitor at a homeless shelter) that I can't think of too much more.

But certainly let's not forget, Albert Einstein, Werner v. Braun, Robert Koch, Martin Luther...

Did I say this culture is vast?  It's VAST!!

Answer 7

Beer, Bratwurst, Cars such as Porshe Mercedes BMW, People like Albert Einstein, many musical composers, Liederhossen, Castles Hope this helped!

Answer 8

Hello, I'm from Germany!

Someone has written Mozart was from Germany, but that's wrong. He was an Austrian. But there are a number of famous musicians (Johann Sebastian Bach, Georg Friedrich Händel,...). You can also do Angela Merkel (the Bundeskanzlerin), Schweinebraten (I think it's roast pork in English), the FC Bayern München (a famous soccer club), beer, poets like Goethe and Schiller, the Oktoberfest and sauerkraut. Famous cities are Berlin, München (Munich), Hamburg, Bremen, Garmisch-Partenkirchen (this is where is ski jumping every year on January 1st). Maybe you know Neuschwanstein Castle? It's very famous and really beautiful.

Answer 9

I live in Bavaria, and when I talk with people I mention the following-

Bratwürste

Leberkäse

Heferweissen

Wasa crackers

Allgau cheeses

Fitnesswurst

German Noodle Dumplings Spaetzle

Sauerbraten

Sauerkraut

German alps

Liederhosen and dirdls or trachs

Haselnuss-hazelnuts

Alpen schnaps

German castles

River Rheine

BMW, Mercedes Benz

Autobahn

Riesling

Birkenstocks and Reiker sneakers

German tarts

Edelweiß” - “Edelweiss

Geraniums

Advent calendars

German churches and cathedrals

Octoberfest

Liebherr cranes and engineering

Miele corporation

Siemens corporation

Rowenta irons

Diolen curtains

Melamin cabinets

Franziskaner Weissbier-Munich

Bitburger Brewery Bitburg, Germany. Hofbrauhaus am Blatzl Munchen, Germany. Kaltenberg Breweries Furstenfeldbruck, Germany Grafenwalder brewery

Dallmayr coffees

Ritter German chocolate

Michael Shumaker-don´t know if I spelled this right

Singers Herbert Grunmeyer, Anastasia, Sarah Conner, Xavier Nadu

Lufthansa

Bayern Munich soccer

There are so many other things, ánd I have a lot to learn!

Haribo golbaren candies

Answer 10

Germany gave birth to many great musicians.  How about using musical notes in your project or musical instruments, especially the harpsichord (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart).

Answer 11

Beer and sausage

Answer 12

I am from Germany so i know allot about it.Somethings about Germany are........... it is the birth place of the hamburger, hot dog or as they call it th frankfurter, automobile, motorcycle, printing press, alarm clock, Bayer aspirin, x-ray, whistling tea kettle, Fahrenheit degrees, helicopter, jet engine, detergent, cologne, shampoo, birthday cake and birthday cake candles, Christmas tree, groundhog day, mini schnauzer, German Shepard (duh!), duschund, poodle, great dane,and doberman pinscher.I don't know if this originated from Germany, but it is one of my fave foods... goulasch.(me no know if i spelt that right.)

Answer 13

to the one that said mozart is german: Mozart is NOT german but austrian.He was a Prolific Austrian composer and child prodigy; master of the classical style in all its forms of his time (1756-1791)

Answer 14

scat movies

Answer 15

Sausages , V.Ws. Mercedes , starting two world wars and Heidi Klum

Answer 16

Berlin (united city since 1989), forests, bratwurst,river cruises,lakes,architecture, BIER (beer),camping, skiing,hiking,health spas,churches,ballet,concerts, Alpine scenery, farmland,wine, shopping,Munchen (Munich) and FUSSBALL(Football) (Fifa World cup 2006 Host), 3 times Fifa World Cup, 3 times Uefa (European) Cup

Answer 17

beer, salami, n***s, berlin wall, haribo sweets, leaving the towls on the sun beds whilst on hoilday, nudist, ginger mushtases, bmw's, audi's, vw's and the tv show eurotrash,

Answer 18

Nazism, Beer, Autobahns, Wine, Sausages, Hurdy Gurdy music, Concentratio camps, Starting 2 world wars, Being a nice place (you'll know this if you've been there), Cars and much much more

Answer 19

The monk Martin Luther wrote his 95 Theses questioning the Roman Catholic Church in 1517, thereby sparking the Protestant Reformation.

In 1939, the growing tensions from nationalism, militarism, and territorial issues led to the Germans launching a blitzkrieg on September 1 against Poland, followed two days later by declarations of war by Britain and France, marking the beginning of World War II. Germany quickly gained direct or indirect control of the majority of Europe.

Answer 20

Germany produces wonderful hockey and football players like michael ballack, poldi and others (apart from bear , sausages , n***s and musicians)

Answer 21

Here are jujst a few:  spatzel, weinerschnitzel,Baverian Cream, white wine eg. Gewertzameiner, The Black Forest, Black Forest Cake, Daimler-Benz Actien Gesellschaft, Bavarian Motor Works AG, Audi AG, Bayer AG,Birkenstock, AGFA, Adidas shoes.

Answer 22

techno music

cars

no comedians

pinching sun loungers

hitler

adidas

Answer 23

Hello,

I am in Germany...more ideas:

Important German Renaissance painters:

Albrecht Altdorfer

Lucas Cranach the Elder,

Matthias Grünewald,

Hans Holbein the Younger and

Albrecht Dürer.

Important Baroque artists from Germany:

Cosmas Damian Asam

Peter Paul Rubens.

Caspar David Friedrich

surrealist Max Ernst

the conceptualist Joseph Beuys or

the neo-expressionist Georg Baselitz.

Lake Konstance is Germany’s largest lake and is shared with Switzerland and Austria

Elegant big-city charm, small picture-postcard towns, pagan-inspired harvest festivals, a wealth of art and culture and the perennial pleasures of huge tracts of forest, delightful castles and fine wine and beer are all there for the savouring.

Food:

When some people think of German food they think about sausages, sauerkraut, and of course beer.

Othe food that is well known are:



Spätzle (Egg noodles)

Kartoffelsalat (potato salad)

Sachertorte (chocolate apricot cake)

Gulaschsuppe (goulash soup)

Zwiebelkuchen (onion pie)

Bretzeln (pretzels)

Answer 24

SAUSAGES

Answer 25

Germany, aside from being known as a very clean country, is also known for its Octoberfest (beer, beer, beer, beer...) and gosh! Their good-looking guys!

Answer 26

You could show a beer stein..a wine bottle (Germany is one of the largest producers of wines and has the most beautiful vinyards)....pictures of both a Mercedes Benz and Volkswagen bug...a cukoo clock...the Nueschwanstein castle(which we all recognize because that's what the Disney castles-both at Disney World and Disney Land-are modeled after).... the Alps along with the Olympic symbol (Alpine skiing first began there in 1936 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen)...the German bands and dancers in their traditional dress....a picture of a soccer ball, etc. Good luck and hope this helps a little.------ I just saw that you are also asking for easily recognizable people, so what about Ann Frank (victim of the Holocaust and her diary became a famous book)...Henry Kissinnger....Claudia Schiffer....Katerina Witt (she won two Olympic gold medals for figure-skating)...and Nastassja Kinski (actress).

Answer 27

Kuckucksuhr (cuckoo clock or German clock)

Football

Handball (actual world cup winner)

Castle Neuschwanstein (one of the 7 new world wonders)

cologne cathedral

cologne carnival (better than in Brasil)

Answer 28

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Schiller, Heinrich Heine, Thomas Mann. Ludwig van Beethoven and Johann Sebastian Bach. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Karl Lagerfeld and Claudia Schiffer. Cities like Cologne (Köln), Hamburg and Munich (München).

A winner of the Nobel Prize for Peace, Willy Brandt. A peaceful revolution, followed by the reunification. A woman as head of the government, Angela Merkel (though formally, the head of state is still a man, Horst Köhler).

German engineering, especially as far as cars go - Audi, BMW, Mercedes. The quaint and lovely suspension railway (Schwebebahn) in Wuppertal. Music by Nena and Kraftwerk and Rammstein, which you probably know, and by Wir sind Helden and Sportfreunde Stiller and Element fo Crime, which you should try listening to because they are great. Films by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Wim Wenders, Tom Tykwer and Fatih Akin.

Hope this helps!