Germany
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"What’s heaven? Heaven is where the police are British, the chefs are French, the mechanics are German, the lovers are Italian and the bankers are Swiss. So then, what’s hell? Hell is where the police are German, the chefs are British, the mechanics are French, the lovers are Swiss and the bankers are Italian." [...] Related: Jörg Schröder - bildungsroman Titles: The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774), Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (1985) Writers: Brothers Grimm, Goethe, Gutenberg, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Elfriede Jelinek, Franz Kafka, Georg Lukács, Thomas Mann, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Nietzsche, Arthur Schnitzler, Schopenhauer |
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Germany is a country in West-central Europe. It is bordered on the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; on the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; on the south by Austria and Switzerland; and on the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands.
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German culture
German culture began long before the rise of Germany as a nation state. Due to its rich culture, Germany is often known as das Land der Dichter und Denker (the land of poets and thinkers).
Germany, over the centuries, has produced a great number of polymaths, geniuses and notable people, such as Albert Einstein, Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Kepler, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Immanuel Kant, Johann Sebastian Bach, Karl Marx, Richard Wagner, Martin Luther, Friedrich Nietzsche, Karl Benz, Georg Ohm, Rudolf Diesel, Johannes Gutenberg, Richard Strauss among others.
See also
- German art
- German cinema
- German exploitation
- German stereotypes
- German folklore
- German horror
- German language
- German literature
- German satire
- German underground
References
- The Haunted Screen (1952) by Lotte Eisner
See also
- Anti-German sentiment
- Culture of Germany
- Deutschtum
- German Modernism
- German Romanticism
- German art
- German literature
- Nazi Germany
- Stereotype of Germans
- Weimar Berlin
