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noname223

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Of course except me. Lol. I mean also historically. I think at this point it is too late trying to curtain the fact I am German.

I liked the answers of the thread What do you think about Germany. Only honest answers.

I had to go with my closest friends but this answer is boring. I try to find an answer concerning people which are publicly known.

The thing is I have fallen for a lot of Germans who I later considered as horrible. I liked them because they were popular and I have fallen for their tricks.


I liked Immanuel Kant (the funny thing is how we Germans pronounce his name). At least I have pretended that when I was a teenager to sound smart. I think I only knew the golden rule (categorical imperative). Later I read his stance on suicide which made me pretty angry. He also expressed some racist remarks but this was quite usual to that time.

I liked Angela Merkel. When I was a teenager I was a conservative. When I grew up the right wing populist party emerged. And I had to decide which party I should support. My parents always expressed right-wing stances. I decided for Merkel's christian democrats. I think she was quite a professional politician but also made many mistakes. Now I hate her somewhat. She never cared about poor people and her stance on assisted suicide is abysmal.

There were also fake intellectuals I have fallen for. Quacksalver who are seen as morons by most scientists. A little bit embarassed by that fact. Or comedians who I now consider as quite artificial and self-serving

Honestly in order to decide I have searched for the most popular Germans and I hate 90% of the people who they showed me.

I go for writers. Maybe Berthold Brecht or Kurt Tucholsky. I cannot remember their work but I think we read some of them in school and I liked them. They were against the Nazis and were therefore attacked by them. However when we speak about writers that used the German language I clearly go for Kafka.

What is your answer? Never would I expect any joke as an answer. You guys are way too mature for that.
 
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jandek

Down in a Mirror
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There are a lot of Germans I like in the arts and philosophy, so it feels impossible for me to pick a favourite. It's maybe a tie between Thomas Mann, Beethoven, and Schopenhauer, with honourable mentions to Goethe and Nietzsche.
 
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Angst Filled Fuck Up

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Some girl from Munich who was feeling me while I was out drinking in Europe back in 2001. We ended up making out. I can't remember much about her but she had good taste in men.
 
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lofticries

obedear
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A chat buddy on tumblr. She was cool af and we had quite a lot in common. We used to talk about football daily. But I havnt spoken to her after I recently deleted my tumblr account.
 
makethepainstop

makethepainstop

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You wouldn't like my answer. I am of Germanic extraction myself.
 
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lionetta12

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My best friend is my favourite German citizent.
 
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Someone123

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Albert Einstein is possibly the best, but other contenders are Oscar Schindler(of Schindler's List), and Heidi Klum is top ten. I'm somewhat torn between Einstein and Schindler, but I'll have to go with Schindler.
 
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A few who have influenced my life and worldview. I don't demand perfection, though, like agreeing on every possible point. All just had amazing stories.

Eckhart Tolle
JS Bach
Albert Einstein
Wernher von Braun
Rudolf Dassler
 
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Nolan96

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I don't have one. I don't think I like Germans in general.
I know you won't interpret that in too personal or absolutist a way, since you know "don't like in general" is pretty tame compared to how I speak of my own country.
 
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Karl Marx
 
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outatime_85

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Here is my small sample list.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Erich Fromm

Martin Heidegger

Walter Benjamin
 
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My mother. She was born in Blankenese and emigrated to the states with her first husband, whom she met in the UK, doing clean-up duty after the war. She was, literally, the kindest, most decent person I have ever met, and didn't have even one mean bone in her body.
 
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dtjb

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Hermann Hesse probably. He wrote one of my favorite books, Steppenwolf.
 
makethepainstop

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My most favorite German, the ones with blond hair and blue eyes yum!
 
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Well, its of course Adolf H....offmann.
 
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Ar---- -----enh----.
 
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Well, its of course Adolf H....offmann.
Okay that was stupid. Let's just say that i don't have any favourite german person, but i like the german music, and the german mentality, in general. Some things about it anyways.
 
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RUPA

Student
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philosopher Schopenhauer, Nietzsche
Eckhart Tolle
not a German citizen but of German descent, my bf and his beautiful mom
 
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CuteThing

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my father probably
 
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Karl Lagerfeld
H.P. Baxxter (Scooter)
Oliver Froning (Dune)
 
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right now it's Leon Draisaitl :wink:
 
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Someone I used to know, more of a friend of a friend if anything, but I have great respect for him. He shot himself back in 2016.
 
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Uli Jon Roth
 

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