Things Americans Think Germans Do DAILY, But Germans Actually NEVER Do 🇩🇪
We all know the classic German stereotypes, but Americans also have a lot of other more obscure stereotypes of Germans that Germans themselves may not even be aware of...oh, and we'll finally answer the question of whether or not Germans love David Hasselhoff 😊
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1:25 - Thing #1
2:54 - Thing #2
5:34 - Thing #3
7:04 - Thing #4
9:24 - Thing #5
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Have you heard any other funny things that people think Germans may do but they don’t actually do?? 😅
Hoff ran decades on german television. From 2pm to 6pm several iconic shows were shown on workdays. Babylon5, Seaquest, A-Team, McGyver, Knight Rider and all Star Trek shows went into that time window. So you watched one show (as a child), and the others followed. We were all fans back than...
Rergarding the beer: I tried to order an "Alsterwasser" (so we call it in Hamburg), also known as "Radler" in Bavaria, in Arizona. I had to explain the waitress that it is half a beer and half a lemonade. I guess she thought I was a freak, but I got my Alsterwasser- with ice cubes (!!) inside. So typically American, no German would ever have the idea to combine beer with ice.. 😉🍺
@@janpracht6662 hier im Ruhrgebiet ist ein Alster ein Pilsener mit Orangen Limonade und ein Radler ist ein Pilsener mit Zitronen Limonade. Ich wäre nie im Leben darauf gekommen, in den USA ein Alster oder ein Radler zu bestellen. 😅
@@VOLTAIRE_DORTMUND Warum sollte man auch. Wenn man verdünntes Bier will bestellt man einfach ein Bud :P
@@VOLTAIRE_DORTMUND Ein Pilsener mit Orangengeschmack...? Oh mein Gott, sowas würde ich höchstens im Garten als Schnecken Falle aufstellen. 😯
My mother would always call me "Fräulein" when I really messed something up xD "Mein liebes Fräulein!" was one of the most dreaded phrases of my childhood hahaha
and even worse: "Fräuleinchen"
I use "Junge Dame!" when my daugther messes up 🙂
The male version of this is "Sportsfreund" xD
For me and my brother it was Fräulein and Freundchen 😂
I still call my youngest daughter: 'Fräulein von der Post!' when she messed up! xD
"Americans would love to hear German's side of the story." Our side of the story: "Our perspective on WW2? Well... Our ancestors fucked up bad and some people still don't get that..."
I don’t get how talking about something you never were apart of would be fascinating 🤨
@@EvanJGMegson What exactly is your point?
@@Raidon484 I’m talking about the American side not German side
@@EvanJGMegson But America fought in WW2, didn't they?
Tbf, the US still struggle with their slavery past as much as we struggle with our genocidal SS times
As a German, I can tell you the following things (some might vary because of the different "Bundesländer" - similar to states: 1. Beer is ALWAYS served cold. I have never once seen Beer being served warm in restaurants, bars or at festivals (only if the bottles were outside in the sun for too long, happens when you bring your beer somewhere). Everybody will tell you that warm beer sucks though and it's the truth. and 2. not many Germans still really care about David Hasselhoff. Maybe after the Mauerfall because of his song, but years later he's been pretty much forgotten
I guess you have never worked in a place where older people drink beer. It's not super common, but at least twice a week someone orders a "warmes". It hurts less in the stomache when it's handwarm. There is also a rumor that is good to drink hot beer when you have a cold. In the old times, before microwaves, bartenders would use a "Tauchsieder".
Twice a week 😂 never heard of warm beer here in Germany. I would Check my sources
@@TFTRang my sources are: my family owned a restaurant in Germany, I grew up in Germany, worked in our restaurant and in other places during high school, I live in Switzerland now, but my family still lives in Germany. Any local pub on the village where you have older people regularly sitting on their "Stammtisch" will know it. There is even a Wikipedia entry about "Bierwärmer" to warm up the beer if it's too cold. In other places they often used "Tauchsieder" or nowadays you can use a microwave for very short. I'm not talking about warming the beer up to 30°C but not serving it ice-cold as it is served in the US. Rather between 10 and 15 °C or even slightly warmer. It's better for the stomache and hence very popular among the older generation. Just google it if you don't believe me and stick your aggressive smiley where the sun don't shine. Learn how to have a discussion like a grown up person.
Nichts für ungut aber dann unterhalten wir uns doch auf deutsch oder ?
@@TFTRang Klar! ^^ Ich dachte wir halten die Diskussion inklusiv für englischsprachige Mitleser, aber davon wird es in diesem Thread wahrscheinlich recht wenige geben.
About Hasselhoff: Yes, he used to be very popular in Germany in the days of Knight Rider and Baywatch and he is still very welcome in German talk shows, for example. And there are certainly no truly negative feelings about him. And him singing on top of the Berlin wall wearing his tacky leather jacket with blinking lights is certainly one of the most remembered images of the time the wall was opened. But nowadays it’s really more of a joke. Hasselhoff embodies the cheesy pop culture of the 80s and 90s, so he has a similar status as the A-Team, the Backstreet Boys or the Tamagotchi: He is part of the childhood memories of one or two generations of Germans, and therefore still fondly remembered as some kind of „guilty pleasure“ from the past. He has never been near the status of Elvis though. Mostly because he is a very mediocre singer of very cheesy hits, while Elvis was one of the most outstanding voices of pop ever, period.
Damn, i thought it's wrong
@@modsreview It’s not entirely wrong, but also not entirely true. I remember thinking back then: How can a very adult actor/singer be super happy with having a fan base that is large, but no more than 12 years old on average?
@@superserioes We still love him for the memes, tho!
He has a pretty decent voice, it's more the instrumental music in his songs that is really bad imo. But he shines, when the music is done right, like True Survivor and Through the Night
There's a special fact with The Hoff and Germany: Whenever he is here, he never has an alcoholic excess like in US. ;-)
David Hasselhoff is really just a meme in Germany that everyone knows about.
German memes doesnt exists etzala
@@hammock_addicted751 German memes exist! If not, than tell me why there is no Bielefeld.
@@hammock_addicted751 Das Internet ist für dich wohl auch Neuland, eh?
@@hammock_addicted751 That's A right and B wrong.
@@hammock_addicted751 They do
"Wind of Change" is the true song for the fall of the berlin wall
From Stuttgart to Ulm, to my knowledge, even room temperatured beer is called "pisswarm". Beer mostly comes "Keller (basement) ~ 10-12° " or "kühlschrank (fridge) ~ 6° " warm, mostly the latter . A cold beer in the summer has to "sweat". Even outside, while camping for example, we have tactics to cool beer. The pinacle is the self cooling barrel.
Warm beer is only good when you have a cold. If you dare. 😅
"Fräulein" actually was for non-married women while "Frau" usually was addressing married ones. This is similar to "madame" and "mademoiselle" in French. But yeah, through the time it became something different. If parents address their daughter with "Fräulein" (with her full name added behind...) it usually means she screwed up big time...
There are parents who do both, calling her Fräulein and by her full name? That sounds a bit too exaggerated to be taken seriously, it's so long that it lacks impact.
@@xCorvus7x Actually it's a quite intimidating phrase for a child. But calling the name too isn't really common and if, it's mostly just the family name. In most cases just "Fräulein" in a threatening tone. Like "Fräulein, komm mal her!" (Miss, come over here!). As a german kid you know, that's better to take a hike in the opposite direction. A similiar phrase for boys is "junger Mann" (young man).
@@vermilion7777 Ich meine nicht, dass das der Situation die Spannung nähme; kein herkömmlicher Name ist lang genug alsdass während des Aussprechens das Gefühl des Erwischtseins verflöge und die bange Erwartung einer Gardinenpredigt oder Strafe Gelassenheit wiche. Die Kombination aus Fräulein und dem vollen Namen scheint mir nur so lang zu sein, dass sie mir nicht so scharf wie nur mit dem einen oder dem anderen angesprochen zu werden vorkommt. Entweder Fräulein oder der volle Name klingt für mich schärfer als beides (außer die Angesprochene hat nur einen Vornamen und das Fräulein wird hinzugefügt um mehr Raum zur Spannungssteigerung zu haben).
My wife uses Fräulein with our daughter for that reason or as a rebuttal on something they are debating.
He already said that in the video, though.
Loving David Hasselhoff is like a real life meme that every German knows about lol it's more like, we think it's funny how The Hoff thinks we love him so much and how he thinks he had played a significant role in unifying Germany lmao i guarantee you that we're all taking the piss of Americans when we say we love him and sing "I'll be looking for freedom" 😂😂
I just learned that he is not so well known as a singer in the US. It is probably correct, if Hasselhoff gives a concert in Germany, he probably will get his audience, but it's still a very limited amount of the german population. Singers like Billy Joel or Sting are much more popular nowadays in Germany. I'm 54 and I don't own any record from David Hasselhoff.
My parents are from East Germany and they would praise him for singlehandedly tearing down the Berlin Wall. Like in a very sarcastic way. So I can understand how the sarcasm might get lost in translation and Americans might think it's true
The thing is Hasselhoff never said he played any role in tearing down the wall. That's some media bullshit that got attributed to him. What he actually said was that it was a highlight of his career to stand in front of the Berlin wall singing a song about freedom. That's it. That's the quote.
@@andreaseufinger4422 Even the people who go to his concerts are kind of having fun by living out the meme.
I remember when he gave concerts, the average age of his audience was about 12 years (disregarding parents who were not there on their own will)
Of course, his song „looking for freedom“ was very popular at the time of the fall of the Wall, but the song is pretty much the last thing I associate with the fall of the Wall and I am sure that at least 80% of Germans feel the same.
It's the first thing I think of when thinking about the fall of the wall.
For me "Wind of Change" is the song that is connected to the fall of the wall. I never liked Hasselhoff.
Make that a 100%
@@fraukealexander-morrell3695 wind of change is generally about the end of the Cold War but yes the fall of the Berlin Wall is a huge part of that
The pic shown in the clip when David sang his song in front of the fallen Wall got iconic. That's all about that legend.
The Origins in some stereotypes are extremly easy to explain: Just remember that the US nearly would have decided to speak german. Warm beer, Fräulein or other stuff often is extremly old and outdated but was common until 1900. Even in Germany this is mostly unknown but for Americans with german ancestors it is some sort of heritage. And because there were so many, this stuff is not only heritage but something everybody heard of because the grandma of the friend of the cousin always talked about it. So - to be honest - the stereotypes are no real stereotypes but oudated common practise.
I never felt so german until you told me about our love to David Hasselhoff. Yes, he is iconic and not just because of his song about freedom. For me he is iconic because he is the Hoff. Cannot explain it better.
The whole Hasselhoff thing is driving me crazy. This song never inspired the people to reunite, there where peacefully protests across the country (Inside the former GDR), speaks in churches (Leipziger Friedenskirche for example) for months. The hole thing with Hasselhoff is based on his own oversized ego and some people who liked the feeling of this specific Song during the time off tearing down the wall. And the way he capture this event and tries to persuade people this stupid song did it all… this is a nullification of millions of people which where in fear during the protests. And there was a real danger to get arrested and tortured in a Secret Stasi Prison or shot right on the Street.
Exactly. I remember that in my childhood (I was born in 1987 in the GDR) he was a very famous singer, and that's it. This all "that song(s) reunited Germany" thing is at least foolish, eg "Wind of change" by the Scorpions was released in February 1991.
Danke dass das einer mal klarstellt!
@@corinnaliebergesell5773 the _single_ of "wind of change" was released in 1991, but it was already on their album in 1990. and yes, it wasn't the song that led to the reunification, but it was the song that was played all over the radio, when the reunification was officially finalized.
I think That Hoff teared down the wall is more like a meme than anything else. And Wind of Change is a bit like Enya is for 9/11...
@@KlumsiAtAachenH96 True. Tho the Hoff memes are awesome! But tbh I still get goosebumps when I hear Wind of Change and I tear up every time I see in a documantary people marching at the Montagsdemonstartionen chanting "Wir sind das Volk!". Such brave people!
So, Hasselhoff....here is one thing to consider: Hasselhoff was hardly the only singer whose song was connected to the feeling in the country back then. There were quite a few, like "Freiheit" or "Sonderzug nach Pankow" and naturally Reinhard Mey sang years before how much he wanted to sing in Dresden one day, but THE song of the "Wende" is still and will always be "Wind of Change" by the Scorpions. Hasselhoff just happened to be the guy who was singing at the new years celebration 1989/1990, and most likely he got invited because he was simply easier to get than the other potential candidates. (The party REALLY went out of hand btw). The US media saw the pictures, found it weird that some American actors was a singer in Germany and made a bigger deal out of it than it was. I mean, he was one of those actors who regularly turned up in so called "Teeny Zeitschriften" back then, hence there is certainly a part of the population who has nostalgic feelings regarding him. (I recommend to you to look into "Bravo" and what it culturally meant back in the day). But it is not like Germans go gaga over them, like people used to go gaga over the beatles. And younger Germans wouldn't even know who this guy is if not for the fact that "Germans know David Hasselhoff" is the name of a TV Trope.
@@Der.Baldur "Big star" is overstating it. Let's just say if he can be considered a C-list star in the US, he is a B-list star in Germany. Popular, yes, with a fanbase, yes, and yes, his concerts are sold out, but that is largely because the seize of the venue and the tour fits the seize of the star.
@@swanpride I'd say compared to the US he had a bigger impact. He was for a time a sought after A-List star in Germany - that is why he was invited to Wetten Dass and other saturday night shows around the turn of the 80ties to the 90ties. Why, because German speaking Television both in Germany and Austria was rather limited and especially early private channels basically did nothing but rerun old US shows back then. And Knight Rider probably was one of the biggest things in the second half of the eightees when it came to shows targeted at young boys - Knight Rider merchandise was everywhere back then. Hardly a kid that did not have a KITT schoolbag, David Hasselhoff Pencil Case. There were Knight Rider posters in most kid journals, there was Knight Rider bubble gum ... . That is why his record sales were high too, because little kids saw Michael Knight on the cover and wanted that album. And yeah, we who were 6-12 years old back then, we still remember that, Hasselhoff has entered our nostalgia. Heck about 10 years ago I attended a birthday party of the cousin of a good friend - all of us rather metal heads back then. What we ended up doing was jugging a bunch of beer, watching a DVD of some 80ties Hasselhoff concert and singing looking for freedom. Not because its the best song ever, but because its just a bit of campy fun. And the Hoff capitalised on it - he can still make a buck when he comes over, even if he is a drunk wreck back in the US. He ain't Mr. "I made the wall come down" he is a TV Star that is connected to the childhoods of many guys who grew up back then.
Growing up in the 80s i know him, many of my classmates watched Knight Rider, i know Baywatch exists and you heard him on the radio. That's it from my perspective. Bud Spencer is probably more popular in Germany than Hasselhoff.
@@Der.Baldur Crazy, I new Hasselhoff from Knightrider, but I had no idea he also made music at that time. I also didnt know any other song of him than looking for freedom. But after reading your comment, I looked for some of his old songs on KZhead and now I am sure he had fans and was a star to some germans. Those songs I found are exactly like old german Schlager just with english lyrics. So I guess you are right, but swanpride is right too. He will have had fans in Germany but like at like most german Schlager singers thats mostly been older people, while the younger ones did not know him at all.
Nena "Wunder geschehn"
@the beer thing: I heard a story of my parents recently. As they were hanging around in their favorite bar in about 1980 there still were those strange old men who wanted their beer actually warmed in a copper jug. They said that actually some people used to do that some decades ago. Like really long ago. Soldiers in the 1940s-1970s may have seen that here. maybe its only been a thing in rural areas
Thank you!
Am 16. Januar 1972 verschwand die Anrede "Fräulein" offiziell aus dem Amtsdeutsch. Lehrerinnen waren früher immer Fräulein, weil Frauen nur bis zur Heirat diesen Beruf ausüben durften. Die lebenslange Berufstätigkeit entsprach nicht der gängigen bürgerlichen Frauenrolle. Dies wurde 1951 abgeschafft.
The literal and written form of address "Fräulein" for unmarried women lasted until the 1980s/1990s in everyday use . Although the legal basis had already been created. And sometimes families/friends use "Fräulein" to adress very young ladies (up to roughly early teens) when the young lady doesn't want to listen ;)
Hab mich schon gewundert. Ich hab mir so gedacht " das Benutzt doch niemand mehr oder?" 😂😂
Actually, I was 11 years old when the Berlin Wall fell. And if you ask me which song I associate with it, it is "Wind of Change" by the Scorpions, not "Looking for Freedom". What? I can't have Crurywurst and Döner? Oh dear, that is an impossible question. Alternating, I'd say.
I was almost 16 when the Berlin Wall came down. Though I'm from the United States, I agree with you that Winds of Change relates a lot more to the fall of the wall and communism. I have nit heard any of David Hasselhoff's music, but I'm sure I won't like it. He's an ok actor. Though I'm gay, I don't see him as a sex symbol, and didn't care for him in Baywatch. The only reason Baywatch did so well in the US, is because after NBC had no faith in the show, he took it to first run syndication, and it got promoted more by the syndicater.
True true, both are something nice to eat from time to time, but not all the time.
My husband and I were 13 when the wall “fell.” He is from Berlin, I am American. Winds of Change is also the song that resonates with us for that time period. Also, I choose Döner. 😊
Scorpions suck
Wind of Change was a little bit later in 1991.
2:49 the warm beer was a thing in the past, generally all around central Europe and the UK, warm beer was seen as medicine or just a healthy drink and people didn't mind the taste that much. Back in the day, many beer gardens here in Munich had beer warmers, metal containers that are filled with hit water and dunked into your beer to keep it warm. But nowadays nobody does that anymore
That's correct. It is also better to handle for the stomache for older people, so in typical village pubs you will occasionally still see some older people order a "warmes". The beer warmers you describe I have heared from but never seen. They were a fancy thing and not many places had them. Often even a "Tauchsieder" was used, but in most cases it's even enough to just use a hot glass to fill the beer in.
your explaination of FRÄULEIN is so well done! absolutely right. hi, i am german
I often tell Americans that I would love David Hasselhoff - just to make them happy.
I’m sure it does make their day 😂
@@PassportTwo yes it does. Just try it when you get asked next time.
I liked his Songs, but i was 12 in 1989, so I am excused 🤣
Technically Hasselhoff was a German singer...
@@robfriedrich2822 Yes he sang "Duuuuuu - bist alles - was ich habe - auf der Welt' without understanding anything. But you're right. That makes him kinda a german singer. Duuuuuuuuu *sing*
David Hasselhoff was very popular in Germany in the late 80ies as an actor as well as a singer, so he was invited to sing at every major event. But the sing that most Germans actually connect to the reunification is "Wind of Change" by the Scorpions.
heh while i was only just born in 89, i vividly remember growing up with and loving wind of change - that song was so incredibly moving!
I agree. Never actually heard of Hasselhoff before or atleast I can't remember. Wind of Change is well known.
What are eightyies? Just say 80s. No need to say "80ies". Or do you say achzig-ziger, too?
Schwachsinn. Wind of Change wird mit dem Umbruch bzw. der Auflösung der SU assoziert.
Peronally I'd say, the songs most associated with the reiunification are "Another Brick in the Wall" by Pink Floyd and "Sonderzug nach Pankow" by Udo Lindenberg. Hasselhoff was just... everywhere in the late 80ies. We had just gotten private TV channels and they bought American TV shows in bulk. That way, we got both Baywatch and Knight Rider at the same time. And since that was also the time, when Hasselhoff started to make music, you just couldn't escape him.
I love hearing what others suppose me to be, especially when they are wrong .. but I'm really shocked about the warm beer drinking stereotype, maybe we don't have so warm weather most of the time and we definitely hate, if someone will "stretch" our beer - it's always served cold as from the refrigerator like it should be. And to make it clear, I personally didn't love David Hasselhoff ever - and I'm not that kind of people who think his music was very good. Superior street food in Germany is Döner for me.
We have a variety of terms to messure the temperture of beer like: Kellerkalt, Kühlschrankkalt, Küchenkalt - depending of where the beer was stored before served
Warm beer (sometimes with honey) was considered an old home remedy for colds.
Hasselhoff talked to his car - and the car replied. To many car-obsessed Germans that might have been like a wet dream coming true.
Finally their favourite family member would talk to them - the dream!😂
The response may be pretty well something like "Ride over. Insert many coins into the gas pump." :D
ich mochte als kleines Kind schon die VW-Käfer Herbie und Dudu. KITT hatte im Vergleich dazu deutlich weniger Seele, aber weil ich damals als Teenager meinen ersten Computer bekam, war die Verbindung von schnittigem Sportwagen und High-Tech KI Scheiß für mich auf den Punkt quasi zeitgemäß. Mir gefiel das Auto und die Action und meine Schwestern hängten sich die Hasselhoff Poster aus der BRAVO ins Zimmer, so hatte jeder was von der Serie.
I love David Hasselhoff. Been to his concert in Bremen. Loved it.
I had a music cassette from the Hoff and my neighbour was humming his melodies on the toilet when he took a dump. Those were the 90s in germany.
Warm beer: I know absolutely no German beer, that is served warm. I know that in the UK beer is served just slightly cooled and considered "warm" by the Germans, but in both countries beer has to be cooled. Fräulein: Everything correct. Sometimes you can also hear it in restaurants, hotels or beauty salons to refer to female workers there, as "Fräulein" can also be used like "maid". But that is not very common, either and considered "old fashioned" - and not in a good way. left side driving: as far as I know, left side riding was never popular in Germany, but in other countries in Europe. Sweden for example had left side driving til 1967 . Maybe there is some confusion about Europe-Germany. WWII: difficult manner. The younger generation feels more comfortable talking about it. But my grandfather, who fought in WWII very rarely spoke about it. So it can vary from person to person. It is absolutely no small talk-topic for bus stations or partys, and should be talked about in either a professional context or in a "safe place" like with friends in an 1 to 1 talk. The Hoff: all you said is right. He is known for the TV shows and the singing, but he is not a national treasure. Currywurst & Döner Kebab: Today I would say Döner Kebab is superior, more popular and even healthier with all the salad and vegetables in it. But there was a swift in the late 1990's / early 2000's. For the older generation of 50+ the currywurst is probably something more common to eat and Döner kebab is rather popular with the younger half of Germany.
warmes Hefeweizen bei Erkältung.
@@Ashley-lm4nv Du kannst deinen Personalausweis bei der nächsten Behörde zurückgeben. England soll schön sein.
@@Ashley-lm4nv. Can remeber my grandpa used to drink warm beer (almost body temperature) with honey against a cold and apparently it really helps unless you are running a fever. And yes we Germans like our beer at around 7-8°C which is pretty simlar to what the Brits like to drink and a bit warmer than the Americans are used to I think at around 3-4°C if I remember correctly. (I have no clue what that is in freedom units...)
@@petesahad3028 ist ein altes Hausmittel, auch für Kinder, schmeckt grauslig, aber hilft beim einschlafen und dämpft etwas den Schmerz und Husten. Stammt aus einer Zeit als es gerade für Kinder praktisch keine pharmakologische Lösung gab um Symptome zu lindern. Moderne Mittel sind natürlich besser und vorallem ist Alkohol nicht wirklich gut wenn man krank ist... es ist nur besser als Schlafmangel wegen husten, Schmerzen und Schüttelfrost.
German beer is mostly served "kellerkalt" (cellar cold).
Driving on the left, warm beer: That's all British, certainly not German. Though I've heard recently that even the English don't drink warm beer and it's all a myth.
I think the "warm british beer" seems to stem from the "lukewarm servicia" from the Asteríx comics, but I could be wrong
Yeah, the British drink beer at “cellar temperature.” It’s much cooler than room temperature (10-13°C or 50-55°F), but it’s not frosty mug lips stick to the glass cold like in North America. First, why would you want to drink a semi-frozen drink when you’re already cold and wet from the weather? Second, British beer actually tastes good, so why freeze the flavor out of it? Third, refrigeration is expensive. Cool is just as good as cold.
in the end, there is a trend in china resulting from traditional medicine/myths that ingested fluids have to be on body temperature to be healthy, that beer and other beverages are served warm/warmed
I've heard a couple of days ago, that the brits think germans drink warm beer. All those myths... :D
I have heard about one type of beer in the UK that is kind of warm, but even this is considered to be warmer than a refrigerator but colder than room temperature 🙂
Warm beer is used as medicin in germany. The thing about the hoff is: we thought it was funny to make fun about his huge ego. We told him and americans: We love him, while most thought he is dump. It's a kind of evil german humor. It changed, when he realized his faults and started making fun about himself. Now he IS loved for his roles in kung fury or sharknado by some people.
what. where is it used as medicine?
@@suiqxne In germany it was used when you had a cold. My parents used it, when they were young. But it's often replaced by medicine now.
I was at a Hasslehoff concert in Nürnberg in 2018.^^
The.... who? No, David Hasselhoff was a popular actor here in Germany, with KnightRider and Baywatch. And he tried to sing, even had one hit. But.... He was never that big....
I think you’d be surprised if you looked up how many hits he had in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland! Definitely more than one 😅
@@PassportTwo you can't sell a record or MC with just one song on it; neither makes it sense for him to do a gig-set with just one song (except for a TV appearance maybe), so of course he will have more titles to play
@@PassportTwo on the other hand, he was in the "Schlager" charts, wich is again a nieche genre and not the mainstream "pop" charts. so yes, he had some sucess, but about 90% of germans dont give a wet fart. Today (and for the last about 2 decades) he is more known as part of memes (representing a not very bright person or a totally self absorbed person etc) or via some jokes or references (like in the spongebob movie)
@@PassportTwo There are many one hit wonders who recorded an album, but one or two songs made it. This was the Swedish Harpo, Austrian Wolfgang (Hofer), Joe Dolce who faked Italian accent, Austrian band Opus, Italian Ricchi & Poveri, almost Italian Al Bano & Romina Power, Dutch Mouth & McNeil and the German answer Windows, German Ray Miller (few songs in early 1970's), Musical Youth with Pass The Dutchie. And David Hasselhoff is technically a One Hit Wonder.
@@zhufortheimpaler4041 The Hoff had 3 albums in the top 10. Hardly a one hit wonder
I don't know anyone who likes David Hasselhoff or his music. He was once quite popular in Germany through the television series Knightrider and Baywatch, but the younger generations hardly know him. Nor do I know anyone who listens to his music.
Ne, nein. Schlager haben damals nur die Alten angehört. Solche wurden in der Hitparade gezeigt, während wir Jungen (ich heute 52) Wham (zB) hörten. kzhead.info/sun/f5VtlNyuiqt5paM/bejne.html - Das Schlager irgendwie wieder in sind, kam erst weit nach der Wiedervereinigung !
He married a welsh woman if he upsets her he'll know what a cold war is
@@freemind360 Der hatte nicht nur Schlager, ich bin jünger als Du und hatte damals eine Kasette. Mein Nachbar ist jünger als ich und der kannte damals alle Lieder auswendig. Wham hat hier niemand gehört.
@@nichderjeniche Von welchen Alter redest Du?
Now you know me 😉
Putting ice in Cola is pretty common in Germany when you buy one glass somewhere. But funnily enough it is not so common when you make one yourself. In private people mostly do that when its hot outside or in combination with alcohol. Typically people just take the bottle out of the fridge or the cellar and leave the content at that temperature.
I'd say the Hoff love is more like an ironic thing like the whole Schlager music movement 20 years ago, an easy sing along thing when you're loaded 😅 I've seen this behaviour in the US with songs like "Friends in low places" for example where the whole bar starts singing - as long as you're hammered enough
I am Dutch. When I travel to Germany, I sometimes take my 87-year father with me. In restaurants, he sometimes still adresses young waitresses with "Fraülein", which is understandable, since he learned German in highschool more than 70 years ago! Most of the time, the other patrons in the restaurant laugh about it! One time, one of those waitresses made a joke about it, saying that she was sorry that she was no longer available, since she had just gotten married! In the Dutch language we have a similar word, namely "juffrouw". It not only was used for unmarried women, but also for female primary school teachers. Nowadays, it is seen as very demeaning! Only very old men sometimes make the mistake of using it! 😅🤣
That's interesting! Do you know roughly when "juffrouw" was stopped being used for female primary school teachers in the netherlands? Because when I was in primary school in austria in the early 2000s it was very common to call our female teachers "Fräulein" as well. I don't know for sure if this is the same in all of austria or if it's purely a regional thing though. Also not sure if the word is still used in primary schools today but I think it's very likely because in my experience rural areas tend to stick to old traditions like this quite strongly. Also, I don't remember feeling like the word had any negative connotations in the school context back then. It was normal for students to switch to calling their teachers by their last names or use "Frau Lehrerin" (Mrs. teacher) as they got older. I felt like "Fräulein" was mainly used because young children typically don't use "Herr" and "Frau" that much to refer to adults because nobody expects them to use such respectful language yet.
@@Zeitungspapierhut I am not sure! In the media, primary school teachers are now referred to as "leraar" (singular) or "leraren" (plural). We do not distinguish anymore between male and female in our language. Like German, Dutch used to have 4 cases (die berühmten 4 Fälle), but those were dropped in 1947. Only in very old expressions, for example "De heer DES huizes" you can still recognize it. Btw this had nothing to do with a certain historical event or an Austrian guy with a moustache.......
@@Zeitungspapierhut In Germany, "Fräulein" was used for teachers because teachers had to be unmarried women until around the 50ies. That's not the case anymore, so they are not called "Fräulein" anymore as well, but it often takes time to change language. Women usually only worked before they got married. In the 80s and 90s, in my area in Germany female teachers were not called "Fräulein" anymore.
When we learned German words and customs when we came to Germany as US soldiers they always said Fraulein for unwed ladies and waitresses. If you called a married lady a fraulein it was an insult.
@@Zeitungspapierhut When I was in primary school in Germany about 1997-2000 we did not call any female teacher Fräulein. But I live in NRW maybe they used it longer in conservative Bavaria or all our female teachers were married
I think a part of the left side driving thing is that, from what I experienced, Americans and American media often say "Europe" when they mean "Great Britain", and by extension, assume British things apply to all of Europe.
"So London isn't the capital of Europe?🤔"
@@szeddezs Of course not, London is a country. 😝😁🤘
Which is ironic really.
That includes the "warm beer" one, it's a British stereotype. The French turned it into a running gag about "well tempered cervisia" in the "Asterix in Britain" movie/comic. ("Drink your cervisia before it gets cold!")
@@szeddezs Only in the queens dreams.
I love Rewboss's take on the topic adjacent to Hasselhoff: "About Germans liking Mr. Bean... That one actually is true!"
i actually prefer blackadder - but rowan atkinson is a treasure and the brits are lucky to have him^^
We do sometimes put ice cubes in our drinks but only on very hot days
The Hoff tore single handedly down the wall, together with Ronnie of course. He will always have a special place in our hearts, for generations to come. ;-)
Regarding the Hoff: this is just some kind of german ironic humour you Americans will never understand. Yes, we love him but more in a way an audience loves a sympathatic, childish and harmless clown at the circus. ;-)
I don’t think that this is ironic humor Americans don’t understand at all. There was and there is no humor about him. I was 15 when the wall came down and “looking for freedom “ and of course David Hasselhoff was really big at this time! But his success only lasts few years and that’s it. Nothing more to mention about David Hasselhoff.
But the Hoff doesnt see the Germans the way you see the Hoff 🙂 And i assume hes a German-American, well, my guess is that he has German roots 😀
This. Exactly this.
the word sympathic or rather sympathetic in english is not used the same way as sympathisch in german. in your case one would rather use friendly. a english speaker would have a hard time to figure what u mean talking about a sympathic person.
friendly = freundlich sympathisch (dt.) = likeable sympathetic (engl.) = mitfühlend
The warm beer part: It is sometimes suggested that one should drink a warm beer when feeling sick. I don't know where this custom comes from but I have heard many collegues of mine recommend this.
Hasselhoff was indeed very successful as a pop star in Germany and that has a very simple reason: He had a German producer ("Jack White", who was born in Cologne and his real name is Horst Nußbaum) and all all his big hits were in fact German Schlager as originally all of these songs were composed to be sung by German artists with German lyrics. And there exist German versions of these hits, which were performed by Tony Marshall, often together with Roberto Blanco (Crazy for You = Resi bring Bier, Looking for Freedom = Auf der Straße nach Süden, Do the Limbo Dance = Limbo auf Jamaika; search for them on KZhead and see yourself). So the music met the German taste of that time pretty well and that's why Hasselhoff got some fandom and sold more than a few records during that time.
Well, "Schlager" and "Volksmusik" were a very limited subset of the population though. At least in my generation (growing up with Knight Rider), that type of music was what your grandparents listened to.
@@uliwitness "Schlager" and " Volksmusik" have nothing at all to do with each other. "Schlager" is modern German pop music, " Volksmusik" is southern German traditional folkloric music. Helene Fischer sings Schlager and she earned more in 2018 than Celine Dion, Britney Spears or Robby Williams. Even Andrea Berg earns more per year than Robby (and about a third as much as Helene). And also in the 80s Schlager was popular among the masses, it was just not popular among young people, because they fundamentally reject everything that their parents find good. That was exactly the point. Most rejected Schlager only because it was German and because it was sold as "Schlager". Hence the idea to have Hasselhoff sing the whole thing in English, because then it was US pop and suddenly everyone could like it, the parents, because it was clearly Schlager melodies and their children too, because now it was US pop.
The love for David Hasselhoff is to a large extent a meme in Germany, especially among younger people who did not experience the fall of the Wall. But I do think that there are quite a few people who definitely have an emotional connection to his music. As a person born over 10 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, I find the meme very funny, but I have to admit that Hasselhoff's performance in front of the Brandenburg Gate was pretty cleverly orchestrated
BTW, regarding "Fräulein", it's virtually the same in French with Mademoiselle vs. Madame. I've literally seen the term disappear over the course of my life.
Mademoiselle chante le blues.
It disappear of the official documents in France. Before it was polite to say Madame to a woman with children or a mature woman. Nonnes were always called Madame. I personally always find intrusive when someone asked me if " it's madame or mademoiselle ?" I always respond "Madame" !
@@uncinarynin I know it's inconceivable, but that single is actually 35 years old and Patricia Kaas is 55 by now...
@@ohauss Some songs never die. I'd actually like to know how the usage of Mademoiselle has developed within those last 35 years in France.
9:01 Interesting that builing looked familiar and its the town hall from vienna.
Possibly that scenes are all from vienna.
There is a map around of driving direction in 1922, that has for Italy, Spain and Austria "mixed". From experience, in some of these places they still drive mixed to this day.
Personally, I've learned from Americans on the internet that us Germans love David Hasselhoff and enjoyed playing with the stereotype whenever it came up, kind of "Oh yeah , thanks for reminding me".
"Fräulein" is actually also a kind of cheeky expression towards a girl or young women you wanna teach something especially in DIALECTS such as Berlin dialect. The comedian Kurt Krömer uses it regularly - spelled and spoken quicker like "Frollein"-
Oh and we love the Hoff for the Burger-eating-scene
Actually warm beer is(was?) a thing in germany. I witnessed it myself some years ago in a bavarian restaurant. An elderly guy on a table next to me got his Weissbier served along with something like an immersion heater. When asked about it, he replied that his stomach tolerates it better this way and drinking warm beer was not uncommon in the past, at least for elderly people.
I remember being at a "Bahnhof Restaurant" with my parents as a kid in the early 70's. A quite old (70ish) man came in and ordered a beer and when it came there was some metal thing put in by the server. I asked my mom about it and she told me he probably had stomach problems and therefore ordered his beer "gestaucht" which means they put a heated metal gadget inside to warm it up a bit. So yes, older people used to drink their beer at room temperature sometimes. But this is something I haven't seen for 50 years. We drink our beer cold - not ice cold but cold
I also know a pensioner around his 70s who does that - he gets very upset when restaurants don't have a device like that any more, but it's quiet rare to see IMO.
My grandpa, who lives in the czech republic also uses this, but most people might not know what it is or ever seen one so he has his own which he brings to restaurants lol
Klingt sehr nach Stachelbier. Da kommt ein heißes Metallteil rein, dadurch karamellisiert das ganze.
Kommt immer auf das Bier an, auch wenn ich kein bier wirklich warm trinke hab ich grade Dunkles oder Kupfer lieber eher etwas wärmer als Pils oder Weißes
a lot of elderly gentlemen drink room temperature or even warmer beer because cold beer gives them tummy aches. warm or hot beer is also used as a cold remedy, usually combined with a hot bath to simulate the effects of a strong fever for a short period of time.
Ahhh the Hoff 😁Let me try to explain this myth: It is true that he had a few very sucessful hits in Germany and most people know him as a singer and actor. The thing is, that it would not be a big deal by any means but he is aware that Germany and Austria are the countries where he probably has his biggest "fanbase". We are aware that he is aware of it, so we roll with it. We kinda both agree that we belong to each other in a strange way 😀 At big festivals he is a hyped "special guest" usually after the Headline Bands, when everybody is already in Party mood/drunk. People celebrate him there because he is THE HOFF. He became a meme before that term existed. He might be a bit of a clown, but in positive and somewhat wired respectful way
I experienced it on german festivals as a cheesy running-gag. Everybody has fun because it is known, that you don't like the music for it's art.
Yes-- perhaps that`s something quite german... This ironic love for "Kitsch", and this "Ballermann"- or "Apres-Ski"- music culture..
Not sure about the warm beer thing but our grandparent generation here in germany drank spirits like Jägermeister on room temperature on sundays card playing sessions...and maybe beer was warm too especially after ww2 where not everyone here had a refrigerator or anything to cool down beverages.
Sweden used to also drive in the left, but switched to the right sometime around 1970.
Long time ago, a friend was drinking warm beer, because he had a cold. Some people say warm/hot beer helps. But after drinking, he got a red head like a red traffic light, was drunken and felt asleep immediately. ...purpose fulfilled. 🙂 And regarding David ...who? I thought it was pure coincidence that he was in Berlin at that moment. So, pure self marketing. For a German, his "show" was way too cheesy. For me, it looked like comedy (11:48 in the video). To use a German word to describe my thoughts at that moment: "Fremdschämen".
my father always said if you had a bladder infection, you should drink warm beer because that would wash out your kidneys
My mom says drink warm beer if you have kidney stones. And it really does wash out the stones. A friend of my did drink warm beer because straight out the freezer it was too cold, laying on the heater made it warm. Some time later he had crippling pain and went to the hospital. The smaller ones he pissed out but the bigger ones had to be removed in an operation. Grüße aus Deutschland 🇩🇪🍻 Prost!
It's funny how often the English word "cringe" is used in the German language (by young people), while you do it the other way around
@@DerAltruist And if you're older and use the word "cringe," teenagers say you're cringe
there is nothing worse than a warm beer...
Question answered! 😅
Of course there isn’t
two warm beers.
About warm beer there is to say that winter used to be much colder in earlier years and men working in the open during wintertime drank beer that got warmed up next to an oven.also in old times beer was used to make soup.
I was recently in Rome and got a drink with ice cubes in. You have to know at a temperature when they have running the gas heated outside heating umbrellas. The first I did take out the ice cubes. I don't need ice in a drink, when it is not hot!
I once had an older colleague (close to retirement) who was struggling with stomach problems. He went for a beer with me at the castle in Stuttgart and ordered a beer with a beer warmer (it looked like a metallic test tube). I had never seen that in my entire life. He said it was better for his stomach. Who likes it.😁 An old home recipe against flu is a warm beer. After that the sick person sweats out his flu. But I have seen that only 2x in my life...and I am over 50.
The 'cold beer' thing differs greatly, depending on the type of beer you are drinking. A regular Pils for example should be around 6 degrees Celsius, a Quadruple (belgian style beer) often 12 to 14. Unfortunately too many people just put their beers in the fridge or freezer and that's it.
lager and weizen 3-7 but porters 7-14
Klar, wenn das Pils nach nichts schmecken soll, muss es bei 6 °C getrunken werden.
During a trip to Florida I got my beer with ice. It was a very hot day and served at an outside location, so perfectly fine, but indeed never experienced before.
3:15 I often read that you should watch Hogans Heroes in the German version. It's said to be much lighter and have a lot more humor. They even invented a Housekeeper for Klink (Frau Kalinke) - that for obvious reasons - never appears on screen.
I think the Hasselhoff-Thing is so present due to the moment his one hit wonder was released. 'I've been looking for freedom' was a perfect song for 1989, when the GDR began to fall apart and the east germans where able to travel to the west - into freedom. As well as Westernhagen's song 'Freiheit', this was THE tune of this (east) german revolution.
Don't forget the Scorpion's "Wind of Change" released in 1990 after the events.
One thing you can not take away from the Hoff is the fact that he as a Star believed in our Freedom and Liberty and Independence more as some other Germans at that time. Today the Hoff would get shunned for singing this song, he would be banned from Media for being political. At least he stood for something.
@@germaniatv1870 Bullshit. Ridiculous bullshit.
@@Tybalt-si9wf Just look at his channel and you won't be surprised, straight up nazi 😂
ich bin deutsch
There are special appliancees to heat beer, I myself was very confused when I learned about it, but apparently some older folks drink warm beer to not upset their stomach or something like that. Edit: Definitely Döner, where I live (near Hannover) you wont get Currywurst as a Snack but rather for Dinner as the "Kanzlerplatte" so I never saw the Currywurst as a Lunch.
I used to work in a restaurant that would be frequented by elderly people and they would sometimes order their beer "gestaucht" - which means that we had stainless steel tubes (shaped like a test tube with a screw-on lid and a hook) that we would fill with hot water so these people could warm their beer to their liking. It did not happen often, though.
We have currywurst stalls at some markets in The Netherlands. Have never seen warm beer though.
The left side driving in Austria was not completely switched when Hitler annexed it. The train tracks come in doubles for frequently used routes: one for each direction. As you may guess, the trains used to drive on the left, even after Hitler. The last route was switched to right side driving less than a decade ago. This recent change is apparent in many train stations, as the more popular directions now often require you to cross the tracks.
You drink warm beer sometimes in Bavaria when I have a bad stomach
For me Hasselhoff was most known for Knight Rider. I really loved it. And I was happy over everything I could get my hands on related to it. So I also listend to his music and liked it. Singing on the wall was sure boosting his popularity and because TV shows started with a big delay in Germany in the 90s I think those two were happening at the same time in Germany and boosted each other. And one more point is that we Germans somehow really get excited if an American star shows some devotion towards Germany. Don’t know why but I thin this also helped his popularity here.
Well, I don't love David Hasselhoff, but I like him.
I switched from beer to wine but a warm beer would be considered equivalent to kick to the shin.
Haha, that’s what I thought most people would say! 😅
Beer should be cold. But I think most don't mind if it is about room temperature as well. Can't store a whole crate in a fridge so the coldest (usually a storage) room or cellar it is. Also 9:02 fits the current situation perfectly.
If you get into craft beer, there are certain kinds that are said to be better, when warm(er), it usually says on the label. I do like any beer cold.
Before I even watch this video, here's my summation: American GI's from the 40s-50s aren't exactly the best anthropologists, and present day Americans should probably look to European countries for more up-to-date stereotypes about Germans. edit: Apart from The Hoff, I was right 🤣
David Hasselhoff? Is he the guy who sometimes blocked the view of Pamela Anderson? ;)
That’s one perspective 😂
I‘m totally indifferent about “The Hoff” as well. I was born in 1986 so I’m 35 now. Growing up I’ve seen him on TV on time to time, but I never really cared about him at all. As some others already commented here, I think it might have been different for my parents’ generation who were already adults in the 1980s. For them the song “Looking for freedom” was definitely linked to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, but so were other songs like “Wind of Change” by the Scorpions.
Our beer is not served ice cold but cooled(fridge temperature). Warm beer is awful. The thing with Fräulein is that its not used anymore, except for a kinda friendly warning used with young girls when they are not listening or start being unruly. In the Ruhrgebiet its said as Frollein.
to answer your question as a german: hasslehof maybe was loved from the older generation. but the younger generation i would say not do. (sry for bad english)
I belong to the older generation (born 1968). I don't like the Hoff and never did. I even do not know anyone who liked him.
Expanding on the "warm beer" confusion: Maybe some Americans went to East Germany during Christmas season? There is a seasonal warm fruity "mullet beer", (EDIT: mulled beer) which was most likely introduced to us by the Poles.
I guess many americans are a bit simpler than that. If they dont see ice swim on a softdrink or the beer glas almost frozen, they assume the drink isn't cold. And well, we germans are not really better. There are plenty of germans who think in countries where beer is served without foam it's not fresh.
Mulled beer. A mullet beer would be a VoKuHiLa-Bier.
The Hoff is a classic! It is one of this Phänomens that are famous and beloved for the most but only a few people say it open. I personaly think he is great fun.
I love the Hoff. I grow up with Knight Rider and Baywatch and am a huge fan since then. He's a very nice person - and 40 years ago it was nice to here an american sing german (he did a few times). He showed up in the biggest tv-shows and was a big star in the late 80s and early 90s. And for many people he's still. 4 or 5 years ago he had a big music-tour through germany, austria and switzerland. all his concerts were sold-out. that should show, there is still a huge fan-base here :-)
Mr. Hasselhoff isn't as big of a thing as you might think, at least not in our generation. He did sing Looking for Freedom around the time the Berlin Wall was broken down, BUT a good bunch of Germans would probably connect Scorpions' Wind of Change with that event instead of that one (as I do)... And for the final question question: Both are yummy, but I'd probably prefer a Döner (or in my case a vegetarian Döner or Salattasche 😋)
There are quite funny memes of the Hoff taking down the wall. He wore a jacked with blinking lights. Yes, those was the days when everyone was Anti-Communist and when Europe was tired of Lock-Downs,Checkpoints,Sanctions and Governmental Dictatorships. - Today it looks much different. It looks like the people miss the Soviet-Style Germany and fiend for Communism. 30 years after the wall dropped the people actually force mandates and want to implement the same exact Soviet-Style we have fought against for so long. - "Looking for Freedom" and "Wind of Change" are things of the past, Communism is modern again.
Für mich bleibt „Freiheit“ von Westernhagen der Song zum Mauerfall.
@@MaxHanf11 Das ist auch nen super Song! Die Scorpions laufen bei meinen Eltern im Haus eher, da bin ich einfach mit groß geworden 😁
First time I heard that Germans love Hasselhoff, my response was pretty much: Who? Never heard of him before hearing about this rumour.
Same!
O.k so here's the thing with your first point. In some places it is custom to drink your beer warm. For an instance, i've been to the Brombachsee area a few times and in the localities they actually ask you if you want your beer warm. Some actually have beer warmers built into the tables. After asking why i would want my beer warm the Wirt said it's "bekömmlicher" or wholesomer. Beer being cold actually masks the flavor.
When I got mail as a kid back in the 2000s I think they addressed me as 'Fräulein' sometimes, but other than that I never heard it
Hasselhoff was popular in Germany for a while because of Knight Rider, we loved that show, I mean, the car is talking, what the f***?! :D His song "Looking for freedom" became one of the theme-songs during the fall of the wall and was played on radio a lot, but today we joke about it too, it's like a nostalgic gag. Kind of when you look at old photos and think about your clothing and hairstyle: "What the heck was I thinking back then?" :D Love is a way too strong word, we remember him, because at that time we only had about 5 channels on TV, and Hasselhoff was on a hit-show on one of them. He was proud of his german fans, and if one thing is for sure about germans, it's if you love them, they most likely love you back tenfold. ;)
To be true: The Hoff was more a kind of one hit wonder in Germany. When I was 5 years old, I knew him, cause all radio stations played his song. It was just a coincidence that his song came out, after the wall collapsed. After "I've been looking for freedom" he never bring out a popular single who could build on the success. We also make jokes about him, that he believe, he is the reason, why the wall collapsed. xDDDD
I still remember his second "hit", "Crazy". :D Simple english, perfect for the german people at that time, easy to understand. ^^
The word Fräulein is still used in Austria a lot, as well as in bavaria. But it isn't used much outside anymore.
The Hasselhoff Song „looking for Freedom“ was original a german Song! He is know in germany, But is loved that much he thinks
It was originally a song written and sung by Germans, you're right! It was originally in English even with those German writers and singers though 😅 The German version was a cover of the original song that came out after the original English version
I never liked Hasselhoff, just like Dieter Bohlen, Florian Silbereisen, Andy Borg. But all these stars have or had their fans in Germany. I think, Hasselhoff was a kind of American Schlagersänger.
No, as its said in the video, many amercans dont even know Hasselhoff as a singer. I was some kind of clever and lucky marketing that made him a Schlagerstar here in Germany. , but mainly for that one song. Somehow they managed to tie connect "Looking fro freedom" to the fall of the wall.
When talking about Döner most of us think of Döner Kebab. Döner is actually just the meat and is more than 400 jears old. It's served in Turkey traditonally on plates. Döner Kebab is a german "invention", much younger and has stolen the crown from the Currywurst.
Andersrum ;) Kebab is the meat. Döner the dish.
Döner for sure beats Currywurst. But man who wants to eat 400 year old meat? Ugggh
@@Kimanox Du hast Recht und auch nicht. Kebab ist das Fleisch und Döner ist der Drehspieß. Die deutsche Erfindung (durch einen Türkischstämmigen) ist dass man das Fleisch im Fladenbrot serviert und es damit zum "auf der Hand essen" ideal geeignet ist.
@@thehelgetus7888 I was waiting for that 😄😄😄
@@Andreas_Cologne Just couldn't resist! 😂
😂😂😂 My husband never puts His beer into the fridge, he insists on room temperature for his beer... 😂
Native German here. This channels information ist always 100% correct. Love watching these
I would expect most Germans not to know of whom or what you're talking if you mention David Hasselhoff. He was always only a third-class celebrity and had only one big moment, as his remake of "Looking for freedom" was accidentally published around the time the Berlin Wall fell and made it for 8 weeks to place 1 in the charts, and the ZDF (the second public broadcast channel, famous for being boring) allowed him to sing at their New Year's Eve Show (produced Open Air at the Brandenburg Gate) of 1989. His popularity dropped soon after, but the ZDF invited him sometimes to their B- and C.-Promi shows.
Dude. We don't live under a rock. We watched Baywatch and Knight Rider back in the day. He was actually moderately well-known. Now, don't ask today's teens, but people 30 and up certainly know the guy.
@@MrHodoAstartes totally. i once produced a tv commerical for german telelevison with the hoff for a german vod platform. and the main reason whe choose him was that he was well known known to a wide public range of people in germany.
I don't put my beer (mostly Pils) in the fridge. During summer time it's stored in the basement, during winter time in the kitchen. A temperature from 10 °C to 12 °C is totally fine!
Generally speaking about cold drinks in germany. Most of them are served out of a refrigerator which is at about 8° C. In restaurants in many drinks they do put ice cubes to make them colder.
Ich kenne "warmes" Bier nur als Hausmittel gegen Nierensteine.
Noch nie von "Glühbier" gehört? Hat Ostdeutschland wahrscheinlich den Polen zu verdanken und schmeckt hervorragend zur Weihnachtszeit!
das schmeckt so widerlich da gehen die Nierensteine und sonstige Viren freiwillig
Not all Germans love David Hasselhoff. It's a like in America, it's a joke but there are many fans.
Nice and to the point 😅 Thanks! 😊
In Germany in history class when the teacher asked for what do we want to learn about the most I belive most asked for ww1 & 2 especially the second one The question was asked often times and they acctualy listend to it when it came up
The place where you drink beer warm is the UK. Ale is drunk at roomtemperature.