German Pop Culture & Landeskunde

Famous people and sayings every German knows - singers, actors and athletes, plus the quotes and ad slogans that pop up in everyday conversation.

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Music

32 entries

Wolfgang Petry · Helene Fischer · Nena · Rammstein · Herbert Grönemeyer · Udo Lindenberg

Film, TV & comedy

37 entries

Klaus Kinski · Loriot · Otto Waalkes · Hape Kerkeling · Til Schweiger · Dieter Bohlen

Literature

19 entries

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · Friedrich Schiller · Gotthold Ephraim Lessing · Heinrich Heine · Brothers Grimm · Thomas Mann

Sport

17 entries

Oliver Kahn · Franz Beckenbauer · Boris Becker · Steffi Graf · Michael Schumacher · Dirk Nowitzki

Politics

13 entries

Konrad Adenauer · Ludwig Erhard · Willy Brandt · Helmut Schmidt · Helmut Kohl · Gerhard Schröder

Famous quotes & ad slogans

32 entries

Balls, we need balls! · What was it down to? – Down to the Bild newspaper. · I have finished! · We are Pope! · There used to be more tinsel! · A piano, a piano!

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