Germany’s top ten cultural exports Germany is often praised for its advanced music scene, diverse film productions and other cultural highlights that make it across the country’s national borders, enchanting people all over Europe and the world. Discover Germany takes a look at some of Germany’s top cultural exports this month. TEXT: NANE STEINHOFF I PHOTOS: PIXABAY
Long disregarded is the archaic notion it was solely British and American artists and cultural offerings making it big internationally. Germany too has for a while now been known as a country that offers up countless contributions to the rest of the world. Some examples are: new car innovations; the headache solution Aspirin; Martin Luther, who translated the bible; individuals such as Kant or Marx; as well as Albert Einstein, who won the Nobel Prize in physics for his scientific discoveries. German cinema 28 | Issue 76 | July 2019
was brought to the fore by Raine Werner Fassbinder and Christoph Waltz, while the modernist Bauhaus movement helped to shape the way the world thinks about design. It’s no secret that Germany has made a profound impact on the world. That’s why Discover Germany now takes stock of the country’s top ten cultural exports which have had a significant impact on Europe’s, and indeed the world’s cultural scene in the recent past.
1/ Die Drei Fragezeichen For 40 years now, Die Drei Fragezeichen have enchanted young and old fans with their fascinating and thrilling books and audio books about three young detectives. Every German household will have at least one of the gripping stories on its shelves – and no wonder then, that the stories have been sold over 50 million times since 1979. Even though the story originates in America, it never really became truly successful there, and so the books were discontinued over there after the 43rd book. It lived on in Germany, however, where it has celebrated unprecedented successes via the help of different authors. In 2018, the series celebrated its 40th anniversary, which is being celebrated with a live tour throughout Germany in 2019.