Germans love David Hasselhoff. HÄÄÄH?

[Tapio Dmitriyevich]

Hi,

in a WWW Forum and now at theregister.co.uk - "Open Office is the new David Hasselhoff I've seen people making jokes about Germans and Hasselhoff. Germans love Hasselhoff. All Germans. W0ooahhhh000t??!?!?

Whats the cause of this story? The well known sexual conflict of the brits: deepest desire to become a german in their next incarnation?

OK, honestly, what's the story behind this, what's the root of this story?

TIA

[drogulus]

     It was a running gag on an American comedy show, Saturday Night Live. It has no metaphysical significance so far as I can tell. As for the Brits, they're punished enough. They're Brits!

[MN Dave]

Wiki: While his star rose, fell and rose again in the US, Hasselhoff's popularity remained a little longer in Europe during the end of the 80s. Hasselhoff had number-one hits in the German pop charts in 1989 ("Looking for Freedom, Crazy for you"), which very much resonated with the fall of the Berlin Wall at that time, and another top-ten hit in 1989.[2]

[Cato]

Germans (of a certain age) also loved a singing character named:


            HEINO !!!          


(The translation: "Dear Mother, a flower bouquet that never wilts"  (which might refer to Heino, rather than the roses))
(A present for the whole year.)

So, how can the ethnic group, who produced musical geniuses from Bach and Beethoven to Hartmann and Henze  (not to mention Henning!!!), be excused for lionizing Hasselhoff and Heino?

Too much Nutella? 

[greg]

That picture makes me sad. 

[Tapio Dmitriyevich]

Thanks for clearing this up...

I think looking for freedom was composed before the fall of the (Berlin) wall but anyway I hated the conformist freedom unisono bullshit. I liked Marius Müller Westernhagen before, but than he also sang "Freiheit". Bah. Conformist.

Cato, come on. every group has it's skeleton in the closet. Yes, we've got Heino (the cover above is just great, it also has a "every mother loves her child, no matter how it looks like" statement  ), and..... HEINTJE!



Not to forget André Rieu at present.

[Archaic Torso of Apollo]

Now can we clear up whether the French really love Jerry Lewis?

[Hollywood]

Now can we clear up whether the French really love Jerry Lewis?

That as well as why Karl Malden is the favorite actor for the people of the Czech Republic. 

[Archaic Torso of Apollo]

That as well as why Karl Malden is the favorite actor for the people of the Czech Republic. 

Never heard that one, and I used to live in Prague. What do you know about it?

[mc ukrneal]

You are all forgetting that Baywatch was waaaaaay more popular abroad than in the US as well.

[DavidW]

So, how can the ethnic group, who produced musical geniuses from Bach and Beethoven to Hartmann and Henze  (not to mention Henning!!!), be excused for lionizing Hasselhoff and Heino?

Too much Nutella?

They might have produced Bach and Beethoven but Vivaldi and Rossini were popular with them.  So it goes.

[Lethevich]

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_860540.html

Whether he's correct or not, it is this story which is why the British find the Hoff/Germany connection lulzy

[Tapio Dmitriyevich]

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_860540.html

Extreme case of narcism. Disgusting.

[Hollywood]

Never heard that one, and I used to live in Prague. What do you know about it?

I heard this years ago on a Hollywood film TV series but they never gave the reason why. Good old Karl Malden was born Mladen George Sekulovich. His mother Minnie (née Sebera) was born in Bohemia (now the Czech Republic) so I think that this is the reason why he was so popular there.   

[Spotswood]

     It was a running gag on an American comedy show, Saturday Night Live. It has no metaphysical significance so far as I can tell.

It was Norm MacDonald who said, "I have a theory about Germans and David Hasselhoff, and that is that Germans ... really like David Hasselhoff."