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Barbara's Rhubarb Bar (Barbaras Rhabarberbar[1]) is a German and Dutch tongue twister that gave rise to a popular novelty song. The tongue twister is based on repetition of the sound "bar", and celebrates a well-liked seasonal dessert. A German music video of the song, created in late 2023, became an internet phenomenon, getting over 47 million ...
Loriot, an icon of refined German humour († 2011) The German language's finesse offers a sort of unintentional humour through ambiguity: The sentence above is intended to mean: This area is under video surveillance by the police to prevent crimes but can also be understood as This area is under video surveillance to prevent crimes committed ...
In German orthography, the letter ß, called Eszett (IPA: [ɛsˈtsɛt], S-Z) or scharfes S (IPA: [ˌʃaʁfəs ˈʔɛs], "sharp S"), represents the / s / phoneme in Standard German when following long vowels and diphthongs. The letter-name Eszett combines the names of the letters of s (Es) and z (Zett) in German.
The Awful German Language. " The Awful German Language " is an 1880 essay by Mark Twain published as Appendix D in A Tramp Abroad. [1] The essay is a humorous exploration of the frustrations a native speaker of English has with learning German as a second language.
Release. 8 July 1963. (1963-07-08) Dinner for One, also known as The 90th Birthday (German: Der 90. Geburtstag, Swedish: Grevinnan och betjänten), is a television comedy sketch that is repeated every New Year's Eve in several European countries. The two-hander sketch was originally written by British author Lauri Wylie for the theatre.
Country. Germany. Language. German. Budget. €90,000. Forklift Driver Klaus – The First Day on the Job (German: Staplerfahrer Klaus – Der erste Arbeitstag) is a German short film from 2000 about the first day of Klaus' work as a forklift driver. The film is a parody of work safety films from the 1980s. [citation needed] The film was ...
Bundt cake (from Bundkuchen; in German: a Gug (e)lhupf)—a ring cake. Delicatessen (German spelling: Delikatessen)—a speciality food retailer; fine foods. Dunkel (also Dunkles)—a dark beer. Emmentaler (also Emmental)—a yellow, medium-hard Swiss cheese that originated in the area around Emmental, Canton Bern.
1960s. 1963: Der 90. Geburtstag ( Dinner for One) is a comedy sketch recorded on 8 July 1963 at Theater am Besenbinderhof in front of a real audience by Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR). Although it is actually performed in English, it is considered a cult television classic in Germany and it is still an integral component of the New Year's Eve ...