What was Germany's greatest contribution to mankind?

Scheisse porn

Albrecht Du"rer

Harald Glööckler.

I thought hamburgers were American.

The Beetle.

OCD.

Black socks with sandals.

On a global level - too many to count.

On a personal level - scat porn.

Dirk Jager

The British royal family

[quote] I thought hamburgers were American.

Fucking moron

Germans discovered Uranus.

Ah, ya.....nice schniedel posted at OP!

R9 is the ABSOLUTE WINNER on this thread

[quote]I thought hamburgers were American.

[quote]Fucking moron

Settle down r10 - it's clearly not as clear cut as all that. And many people do attribute the "modern" hamburger to Americans.

[quote]While the inspiration for the hamburger did come from Hamburg, the sandwich concept was invented much later. In the 19th century, beef from German Hamburg cows was minced and combined with garlic, onions, salt and pepper, then formed into patties (without bread or a bun) to make Hamburg steaks.

Zyklon-B

MD

Symphonies. some lieder and some literature (Goethe and Schiller).

Frankfurters, too.

Plus a lot of great German-Jewish refugees like Albert Einstein, Albert Schweitzer and film directors and writers Ernst Lubitsch, Billy Wilder, Henry Koster, among other refugees from the Nazis.

....

Helmut Newton

Helen Fischer, aka the Billie Holiday of schlager music

Fat lava pottery.

Two World Wars.

Hitler.

Trump.

Seriously, there can be no question: Johann Sebastian Bach.

Kant

Yaas Königin, SLAY!

The man with "the Touch".

This song.

Ihr seid alle Küntzen!

Getting Helen Schneider to do Sunset Blvd.

Mercedes-Benz

Biodynamic wine.

Or Berlin cabaret. I'm going to go with Berlin cabaret. (Kurt Weil etc).

Because of Germany, we all know the real effects of fascism

Boris

Baader-Meinhof

R35 Germany did not invent fascism. Mohammed might get that honor.

Mendelssohn and Bauhaus

Killing all those Russians.

US space program. No moon landings without Nazi and British rocket scientists.

I'll see R19's practical [italic]Autobahn[/italic] and raise him one fabulous [italic]Boney M[/italic].

Milli Vanilli, obviously.

Gutenberg's movable type printing press, you illiterates.

YUGE, UNCUT MEAT!

This is what R45 had in mind.

My family spoke German when they came to America. It bothers me that people try to associate me with Nazis, when some of my relatives fought for the Allies during WWII.

Germans contributed great music, Goethe, and Luther. In the US, most of us have kept our heads down and worked as hard as we could. We knew the people who were already here didn't want us or like us.

I'm a gay, liberal Catholic American with German origins. My parents worked hard to give me an education and to be sure I knew my place in the world. None of us choose our origins.

Peter Berlin + Apple pie.

I know what their worst one is!

No-one is blaming Argentina's crazy on its German migrants.

R50, Argentina gleefully accepted Nazi war criminals. The US accepted families like Drumpf. Probably more alike than you think.

Doll production, many of the antique dolls one sees in personal collections & museums were made in Germany. Changing tastes & Hitler's rise to power severely damaged the German doll industry , many people refused to buy German products during & after the two world wars. Pic below: German bisque doll, circa 1860's-1880.

Every thread R38, every thread with the islamophobia. Ok fine.

Mein Kampf and the Koran are actually two very different books. Reading is hard for you.

Kudos to R9

R9 made me LOL

a setting for Liza!'s Oscar winning role

Frauen; without whom we would have no cradled mugs, scented candles, teal pumpkins, fibromyalgia, pumpkin spice, or the rule that a 'Y' can replace any vowel in a child's name.

The Hoff

High art music

or chemistry. we wouldn't have aspirin or codeine without Germany

BMW.

Screw you r58

The Kessler Twins.....

Thalidomide babies.

Marco Hofschneider, nude twink actor from Europa, Europa.

Nina Hagen! Klaus Nomi! Falco! 99 luftballons!

Milli Vanilli.

Kant, who destroyed speculative metaphysics, putting an end to the sillyfest about souls and gods, and Nietzsche, who remains unbeatable as an interpreter of human psychology and how morality interacts with it.

Falco was Austrian.

Katarina Witt.

Martin Luther

Awesome R30!!

I'm this scene in "The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant"

Albert Einstein

Fritz Lang

Elke Sommer, goddess.

F.W. Murnau

44 is right. Are you all to young to remember the history channel biggest impact over the last 2000 years. It was the printing press

Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, Nobel prize in Physics, detected x-rays.

Rosa von Praunheim

The printing press & the Protestant Reformation.

The press gave the Reformation rocket fuel.

The BossHoss

They helped popularise circumcision - from German royalty, to English royalty, to the UK upper classes to the US upper classes and then beyond.

Thanks to the Germans and their issues with syphillis, they in part, gave the English speaking world the kindest cut.

Arthur Schopenhauer.

Thanks for the anti-natalism Art.

A very special gift for Data Lounge: Schadenfreude!

[quote]Marco Hofschneider, nude twink actor from Europa, Europa.

No dong in the version that played in America, America. And if ever a plot point centered on dong, this was it.

Zeppelins!

Bert Kaempfert made some pretty good music in his day, he also helped the Beatles produce their first record when they were working in Germany. The list is a long one though and at least one third of all Americans are descended from at least some German (or Austrian or Swiss German) ancestry.

In a way, the Protestant Reformation was a move forward for humanity although it brought great suffering to Germans in the form of the Thirty Years War, or, as some German historians like to put it now, the First Thirty Years War, the Second Thirty Years War being the First and Second World Wars and the peace/truce of the 1920s and 30s full of upheaval, economic, social and political not just for Germany but for the rest of the world including Russia and America--1914-1945.

Wasn't Jan Hus the original reformator? He preceded Luther by almost a century.

I’m with R58 - aspirin!

Although I know the printing press made modern civilisation possible - and German science and scientific achievement was a powerhouse in the first half of the C20th...

But that the studious German bio chemists for aspirin every time I get a stinking headache

Germany has given the world a number of film geniuses, perhaps more than any other first-world nation. (And yes, France: I see you and I love you, but... no.)

I offer you all Rainer Werner Fassbinder, an openly gay, post-WWII German: THE MARRIAGE OF MARIA BRAUN, BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ, LOLA, so many others.

One of Germany's gifts to the world.

The music of Richard Wagner.

The Alsatian. Ruff

Big fat juicy uncut schwang!

Evil. The word "umschlagplatz," for example. It devastates me that I know the word, yet it's impossible to ignore. Kind of like Hitler being Time's Man of the Year (1938).

[quote] Wasn't Jan Hus the original reformator? He preceded Luther by almost a century.

I thought he was Czech??

The Presleys were of German origin.

The Rottweiler

r 87, I'm not so sure Jan Hus would be considered German as much as Czech or Bohemian although I'm not sure what his first language would have been. I'm fairly sure he was in favor of Bible translations into various vernacular languages of Europe, including German. I believe he was burned at the stake for his ideas.

The Poodle, the Dachshund, the Doberman. Germans are dogish.

As r98 reminded us...

german engineering

The EU

Also r87, there were many German speaking people who lived in Bohemia at the time of Jan Hus and Prague was thought of as more of a German city, the Slavic Czechs were more the rural population so it's entirely possible that German was Hus's first language. The descendants of the Bohemian Germans were the Sudeten Germans who figured prominently in the talks between Prime Minister Chamberlain and Adolf Hitler at Munich in 1938. They were largely expelled to Germany and elsewhere by the then nation of Czechoslovakia after World War II.

What?

What kind of question is this?

It was ME!

You got that!

Richard Wagner & Beethoven

Marlena Dietrich

Former DL icon Luise Rainer (who was nicknamed "The Viennese Teardrop", in hopes of making people think she was Austrian).

R84, I saw several full frontal scenes right here in America.

Marika Rökk! Movie Musicals! Hot Jazz! Tap Dancing!

r107 I'll have to see it again.

Just ordered it, r109. Thanks.

Einstein

Goethe

Kant

The Netherlands (formerly the German lowlands).

German Expressionism. Metropolis is still a mind-bending masterwork.

Mallorca

I am German, bitches!!

Another vote for Dürer

Sprockets!

Lili Von Shtupp

General Eisenhower and Admiral Nimitz, just for starters.

Along with millions of German Americans, the biggest ethnic group in the US.

The Germans help others feel better about themselves when they drive their overpriced beamers

Donald Trump

My grandma, Erna.

The beautifully lyrical German language, of course.

With all the health care people on here, surprised no one's mentioned Robert Koch. You could almost call him the Father of Modern Medicine.

R73 (and indirectly R113) - you beat me to it, though it's worth repeating

Fritz Lang

BMW of course

German expressionist painter George Grosz’s Metropolis is a good one, too.

Mit Fleisan

Dürer had a lovely penis. Just look at those low-hangers!

Cool cars and great home appliances. Great philosophers.

Also a national outlook that says that life is meaningless, we're all staring into the abyss anyway so keep your yard tidy.

R52 is the gayest person on 9 planets and Io.

Sustainable Architecture

The first Passive House was built in 1996.

Katarina Witt

Tanz der Vampire - Das Musical

R130 - where does that philosophy come from? I think it’s true.

R133 Wasn't that an Austrian musical? I know it had its premiere in Vienna.

What r92 said.

Didn't they kill a bunch of Jews in Europe.

The composer Carl Orff. Best known for his cantata Carmina Burana.

Kurt Weill & Bertolt Brecht. The lovely Carola Neher, who sings this song, died as a prisoner during the war in Russia.

R137 According to American millennials, nope. Never happened!

R140, well, Stalin killed 60 million white people. Hitler killed at most 3 million Jews. Millions die in third world daily.

r140 4 in 10 is not the majority, you senile Boomer.

Yodeling - duh!

Isn’t yodelling Swiss?

All modern chemistry and medicine is based on the chemists (and alchemists) from Heidelberg etc. working from medieval tones to present, with some insertions and knowledge by the Persians. So: modern medicine.

The printing press: so literacy, books, mass media, eventually the internet.

Musicians such as Bach, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Orf.

Philosophers such as Nietzsche, Hegel, Schopenhauer.

Writers such as Goethe, Hildegard von Bingen.

And so on, woodworking, crafts, doll making, watchmaking, cabinet-making...

All this and Currywurst, too.

The

Oh, R145 reminded me: The Bilderberg Illuminati and the Vril Society!

You have the Brits to thank for the internet r145.

Heidi Klum

R141, for starters it's 6 million Jews. Germans were great record keepers. 2.white Russia is Belarus, a geographic area, or a political prisoner. NOT a skin tone.

3. If you think the old Soviet Union consisted of white ppl, well, even Stalin was born in Georgia, not Europe NOT white ppl.

Anyway,Dietrich gets my vote.

Oh c'mon.......Germany, thank you!

R149 Don’t bother. R141 is a millenial, so...

R53 My comment was serious and not necessarily meant as an insult. But you don't have the mental sophistication to understand that, I guess. I call out your FFs as "philosophobia" or "critical thinking phobia".

Blind obedience to a leader, especially a militaristic one, in order to establish a society build on this obedience and destruction of other societies meets the essential definition of fascism. I'm sorry that this is an uncomfortable truth for some folks.

Germans are and have always been the scum of the earth. Nothing has changed.

As a text-based form, the internet is based on the initial moveable type.

Beate Uhse shops.

Bullshit r154. How far are you trying to each with that? Moveable type is based on writing so whoever first scrawled on a cave wall is responsible for the internet? Calm your tits hunty you’re being ridiculous.

Well it wasn't really a German or anyone from any nationality who invented writing or any form of symbolic communication. That would be more prehistoric before nations.

Sorry to say ... but nothing is going to wipe the atrocities this nation has had committed ... and with no doubt is capable of doing it again if the opportunity/circumstances arise.

Plenty of atrocities to go around to limit your outrage to one country, one religion, one political system.

I get Germany, Bavaria and Austria all mixed up.

Engineering!

[quote]All this and Currywurst, too.

Currywurst is so nasty it made me go vegetarian.

[quote] All this and Currywurst, too.

Wasn't that the name of some old Bette Davis film?

Yes.

Cuckoo clocks

The royal Battenbergs, which became Moutbatten when the royals didn't want to sound so German. And then they became Windsor to erase all the German.

....

[quote]The royal Battenbergs, which became Moutbatten when the royals didn't want to sound so German. And then they became Windsor to erase all the German.

The Royal family were Saxe-Coburg Gotha, which they changed to Windsor. The Battenbergs were another (lesser) branch of the family

[quote] As a text-based form, the internet is based on the initial moveable type.

Apart from the absurdity of the logic of this statement, it is worth pointing out that movable type was invented by the Koreans and not by the Germans.

Oversized, double digit Deutsche dong.

[quote]Read up on how Israel was formed.

Because the Ottomans, who were Islamic invaders in the first place, lost the war in the Levant. That's how Jews got their homeland back.

boris becker! steffi graf!

Hanna Schygulla

Axel Ryder

R138, Your video was absolutely trippy! And very German!

Oh, my dear God, R175. Did the Nazis use him to rape information out of people?

Already mentioned before:

Carl Benz Gottfried Daimler

Who invented automobile cars powered by a machine, not horses

Feridand Porsche

Fritz Leonhard, engineer who invented and built the first, not steel constructed television tower at Stuttgart/Germany. The blue print for all TV Towers worldwide.

Fritz Fischer, inventor of the flash cube, holder of more than 1000 Patents including the legendary "Fischer Dübel" Think about him, when you make the next hole in your wall to fix something there.

Martin Herrenknecht. His tunnel drilling machines are there, whenever you need a every long hole underground all over the world.

The mp3 player.

The Planetarium. Invented and developped by my great grandfather and Professor Bauersfeld for Carl Zeiss in Jena.

Arriflex cameras. They won tons of oscars for there technical equipment and supplies for the movie and TV industry.

Frei Otto. The roof of the Munich olympic Stadion for the games 1972 was a milestone in architecture using new Materials.

"The Greens". First party with goals about the enviroment.

Evil, evil people.

Rosenstolz. Movie scenes are from the coming of age movie Sommersturm.

Since the European Song Contest is just around the corner:

Nicole - Ein Bisschen Frieden (a little peace).

German beer.

[quote]I thought hamburgers were American

Hamburgers as people know them today is an American dish. Nobody gives a shit about the half assed attempts the Germans created.

Around the world people associate Hamburgers with America. Nobody credits Germany for what Hamburgers are today.

Fräulein Menke - Hohe Berge

Nina Hagen, the many faces of German punk and Neue Deutsche Welle.

Bad Master Boys.

Hot brodude German boys spitting on, slapping, and pissing on ugly old f-aggots. Hotter than motherfuckin' shit.

Rammstein - Du hast mich

A much better example of Bad Master Boys. Skip to where they're spitting in his face. So fuckin hot, dude.

Oktoberfest Gaudi. (Gaudi = Fun)

Extremely weird pornography, Oktoberfest, and lederhosen.

Their cars are pretty cool too.

Fans of David Hasselhoff.

Mathematics. Newton’s letters to Leibniz are a major portion of the foundation of Principia Mathematica.

Slap dancing.

I think it's a bit much to say we owe Germany for kicking out Einstein, Billy Wilder, the Jewish artists. However, in that category, I offer Louis Lowy, a survivor of Auschwitz and other camps, who after the war went back to Germany to help rebuild the social work profession, which had been destroyed there under the Nazis. When he was assailed by Jewish people in America for working with Germans, he told them, "The Germans have behaved horribly, but there are 70 million of them, and they're going to disappear. If I want them to be better, I have to go teach them."

TYPO sorry -- "there are 70 million of them, and they're NOT going to disappear"

Boris Becker (lordy I loved him as a teen)

The English language. Technically, it’s a germanic dialect, and it conquered the globe.

Johann Sebastian Bach

Martin Luther

Another vote for Dürer. His woodcuts and engravings are sublime.

For example, look at the detail of the wood beams and the sunlight coming in through the window.

Here is a drawing by Dürer of his mother shortly before her death. I believe reading that her death was very hard for him.

This

Let's not forget about Dürer's nude self-portrait. Looks like he had quite a wurst, with an impressive pair of lowhangers.

Yes, he was quite pleased with his appearance (at least in younger years):

The drawing @ r202 always struck me as very modern. It looks early 20th Century.

Books (Gutenberg) AND television (Nipkow).

Die Woodys

So basically books, television, classical music, modern philosophy, palaeontology, space science, modern medicine, the English language as well as German, Dutch, Flemish, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, Faroese, Frisian, Yiddish and Afrikaans, and hamburgers.

So what, r169? One cannot deny Gutenberg's contribution, nor the extent to which it revolutionized Europe.

[quote]Gutenberg in 1439 was the first European to use movable type. Among his many contributions to printing are: the invention of a process for mass-producing movable type; the use of oil-based ink for printing books; adjustable molds; mechanical movable type; and the use of a wooden printing press similar to the agricultural screw presses of the period. His truly epochal invention was the combination of these elements into a practical system that allowed the mass production of printed books and was economically viable for printers and readers alike. Gutenberg's method for making type is traditionally considered to have included a type metal alloy and a hand mould for casting type. The alloy was a mixture of lead, tin, and antimony that melted at a relatively low temperature for faster and more economical casting, cast well, and created a durable type.

English and all those other languages do not come from German but they did share a common ancestor (the so-called Proto-Germanic language).

Well, yes, R208, that was rather the point.

Carl Orff

Well she obviously never used sunscreen R200

r1 = best response

The Pickelhaube. Apparently to deflect sabers.

The pagentry!

“Has anyone seen my parrot?”

Kaiser Bill, probably.

German pastry and my two dachshunds

Tangerine Dream

Mozart

I really hope you're joking, R217!

X-rays!!!!

R87 Darling, Jan Hus was Czech

Wikipedia: Lands constituting German Bohemia were historically an integral part of the Duchy and Kingdom of Bohemia. Later, with the imminent collapse of Habsburg Austria-Hungary at the end of First World War, areas of Bohemia with an ethnic German majority began to take action to avoid joining a new Czechoslovak state.

KaDeWe, sausage, schnitzel, streusel, breads, beer, precision optics, diesel engines, the Autobahn, Bach, Brahms, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schubert, Schumann, Strauss, Hindemith, Weill, Berliner Philharmoniker, Montblanc, me! (I'm at least half German)

The word "fremdschämen," which means "to feel ashamed about something someone else has done; to be embarrassed because someone else has embarrassed himself (and doesn't notice)."

Why we don't have this word in English, I don't know.

Like their honorary descendant, Drumpf, they have the best words -- like Schadenfreude, which the whole world is feeling is about USA right now.

One thing that stood out to me when I visited Germany for a month as a 20 year old -- how can people eat so much sausage, every day, three meals a day... and they can be so oppressive! I had a Eurailpass and was supposed to travel first class, but a fat German man of 50 or so saw me, thought I was in the wrong place, grabbed me by the arm and dragged me to second class, saying "Baby!"

The film "White Ribbon" is a great example of their patriarchal parenting style - god I hope they've eased up! Oh and I had a half-German, half-Irish friend who said she was staying in Germany with her kids until they grew up so they would learn some self-discipline and not be lazy drunk slobs like the Irish. So I guess there's that.

German Chocolate Cake

But speaking of lazy drunk Irish, in Munich you could hear young men singing loudly/drunkenly and breaking beer bottles all night long. Maybe it was a southern German Catholic sort of thing?

German chocolate cake was invented in America (using Samuel German’s chocolate)

My template!

Sauerbraten!

R221 Jsi c'ech, hlupaku? Mluvis' c'estinu? Ne? Nijsuj chuj v chaj. Relying on a wikipedia and arguing with speakers of the language is kind of dumbass. I guess by your logic, everyone who lives on the West Bank is an Israeli, right?

NOT eyewear

Sally Bowles

R224 Europe is feeling schadenfreude about the United States? You mean THIS United States, the one with basically zero unemployment, 3% GDP growth and no looming trade implosions? Yeh they're pissing their pants laughing,

every German i've been with has had the same sour taste to their skin

Are you talking about the United States with a psychotic Adderall-addicted three-year-old at the helm, R103? The United States that just shat itself attempting to talk North Korea out of nuclear weapons? That one?

Because "fuck you, my 401(k)'s doing [bold]GREAT[/bold]" is a pathetic look.

R233, not R103. Scheisse.

Once on a train to Berlin, I watched a fat German woman wrestle her suitcase into the over head rack while her pants slid down revealing the largest pair of panties I have ever seen. She laughed, pulled up her pants, and sat down to start eating snacks from a grocery sack that seemed to be full of food.

Christmas trees and ornaments.

r235, are you referring to the president who has kept Kim from launching missiles and threatening the world for the last year or so?

Fuck you, Trump supporter at R239, you’re on the wrong site.

r239 Surely you can't be serious.

Döner Kebabs

Mozart was austrian R217. Get some education!

[quote][R235], are you referring to the president who has kept Kim from launching missiles and threatening the world for the last year or so?

And how the screaming fuck did he do that, oh hallucinating Trumpanzee??

r243 Sorry, genius. Salzburg didn't become part of Austria until 1805. Get some education!

Love seeing people talk about Mozart's nationality as if it's a settled issue, or might be settled with only a couple of back-and-forth replies right here on DL.

[quote]As can be seen, evidence is available to support a variety of opinions about Mozart's nationality. Thus, he was Austrian because the town in which he was born and raised is now in Austria, and because he made his career in Vienna, the Austrian capital. He was German because he felt himself to be German, and because the residual and moribund empire that included Salzburg was labeled as and felt to be German. He was neither Austrian nor German because Salzburg was independent, neither part of the Habsburg Austrian possessions nor part of a (yet to exist) German nation-state.

In the 1930s many people also felt themselves to be German and we know how that turned out.

We have been in Germany only a couple of times, never of our own volitia (train changes, once with our then husband) and disliked it at once because it seemed so American, totally un-European. Makes sense since Germany ceased being a nation in 1945 and has since been just an occupied territory controlled by the international usury bankers and policed by the American army. Austria, on the other hand, is authentic and we have always loved it.

R248 Are you plural, dear - or perhaps royal?

Millions of these things.

I think of Wusthof and Zwilling J.A. Henckels knives.

[quote] The word "fremdschämen," which means "to feel ashamed about something someone else has done; to be embarrassed because someone else has embarrassed himself (and doesn't notice)."

[quote] Why we don't have this word in English, I don't know.

Isn't that second hand embarrassment?

Yes.

The world feels Schadenfreude about us - we feel Fremdshämen about Trump.

Their readmittance to the human race after WWII

Germans give me the creeps.

I don’t think anyone has mentioned the Brothers Grimm and their collection of folk tales.

Schnapps

The Pink Triangle..,

Well the Americans did steal the German scientists after the War which contributed to the advancement of its own technology. Like sending man to space etc

History/WWII/Military junkies know the answer. The king tiger tank, the most powerful tank in WWII.

The tank with far and away the biggest dick in WWII.

The Volkswagen emissions scandal......

Ok, r243 , Salzburg is part of the fucking Roman Empire, ok ? Dick.

Angela Merkel

My longevity

Apparently I am the only real Datalounger in this thread. Who are you people?

If we stop referring to Mozart as Austrian then we can also delete half the names in this thread, because they were born eons before modern Germany was established.

Music, Philosophy, Jägermeister

Ich bin ein Deutscher, ihr Bitches!!

There are some delicious German words. One of my favorites is Ungeheuer........ (which means "monster"). Pronounced OongaHOYa. Frankenstein was an Ungeheuer, as were many of my 2 am dates when the bar closed and nothing better had appeared to sweep me off my feet......LOL

Recently in New York City, I met a German tourist who was very drunk on a Sunday night and simply walked up to me and said he wanted to get his dick sucked. I took him home and he just laid back and let me work on it and moaned for 2 hours while I deep throated his uncut kielbasa. I've been with guys who responded to a simple blow job with Ecstasy, but he really made it enthusiastic and when I jerked him off, he exploded well over his head. He also like to kiss, and we ended up playing around until the sun came up and then fell asleep for a few hours before he had to go back to his hotel to pack. I wouldn't call it quite a romantic experience, but he definitely was someone who really enjoyed every aspect of his body and love just being touched.

R271 2/10

And the German word for sausage is wurst - kielbasa (kiełbasa, to be more precise) is the Polish word for it.

the chili-cheese dogs at Der Weinerschnitzel are superb.

Schwanzlutscher sounds so much better than cocksucker.

Du Fotze! = you cunt!

Du Miststück! = You bitch!

Leck Mich Am Arsch! (originally from Götz von Berlichingen by Johan Wolfgang von Goethe) = Kiss My Ass!

r273 Der Wienerschnitzel, Dummkopf.

actually, it's called DAS Wienerschnitzel.

I don't know exactly the rule for that, but there is "der" (as in der Stuhl / the chair, der Termin / the appointment, der Morgen / the morning) and "das" (das Wetter / the weather, das Pferd / the horse).

Plurals are indicated with die.

Das Wienerschnitzel (singular), die Wienerschnitzel (plural)

But of course Germany makes it even more complicated in other cases:

Der Stuhl (singular), die Stühle (plural)

Der Termin (singular), die Termine (plural)

Das Pferd (singular), die Pferde (plural).

Hideous ancient fat ugly dyke-sow merkel is a traitor to the German people.

Aw FUCK. Now I just realized that Der Wienerschnitzel is a food chain restaurant.

My apologies for r276. I would delete it if I could.

r278 You must be German. Americans (like me) are not as polite as you are. Vielen dank.

The most hideous word in the German (or any) language must be "austausch."

Is exchange really that much better?

Freikörperkultur

Actually, the funniest word for English speakers (and the first German word one sees when arriving at a German airport) is the word for exit in German " ausfahrt!!!"

And America used to be a british colony, by your logic that makes every famous person claimed by America british, ok? Dick. R263

Einstein

Goethe

Kant

Currywurst

Sauerkraut

Beer

Architecture and Engineering

Christmas Markets

"Das Bauhaus". The invention of all modern architecture.

It was a revolution in design and architecture all those famous architects and designers did in the 1920's. Walter Gropius, Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier et.....

The Germany in those times was a society dancing on a vulcany. That led straight Ingo WW ll.

All this Bauhaus guys left Germany because of the war or being in great danger as Jews and finished their work abroad.

Modern Talking.

If it weren't for the Germans, we never would have had this,

[quote]I can't decide between Beethoven and hamburgers.

Shut the fuck OP. Nobody credits Hamburgers, as they are made today, as German. Gurl, you wish.

Germany’s greatest contribution to humanity is two World Wars. They’ll always be known for it.

Actually their worst is The Holocaust and World War 2. They still can't shake off that bossy and OCD stereotype so many years later.

Bach

English.

Auschwitz

R186/R188

Not to be insensitive but I got both an Emmy and an Oscar for the holocaust.

The Berlin Wall.

Sustainable architecture. The first zero energy house, Passive House, was build in 1990 in Darmstadt.

Sustainable architecture. The first zero energy house, Passive House, was build in 1990 in Darmstadt.