The Truth About Germany: Dogs
Germany is dog-crazy. People simply love dogs and our roving reporter Michael Wigge this time explores this theme in his continuing series about German clichés. Even though only 13 per cent of German...
View ArticleThe Truth about Germany: Carnival
Our continuing series on clichés about Germans deals this time with Germany’s so-called 5th season, carnival. Our roving reporter Michael Wigge asks his countrymen what their atttitude towards the...
View ArticleThe Truth About Germany: Snow
Every week, roving reporter Michael Wigge finds out more about The Truth About Germany. This time around he looks at how true the image of Germany as a snow-covered winter wonderland really is. Not...
View ArticleThe Truth About Germany: Clubs
The German constitution guarantees citizens the right to free assembly. But many Germans seem to think, getting together in organized groups is compulsory. Germans love clubs so much they've founded a...
View ArticleThe Truth About Germany: Organic Trend
In another installment about German habits - perceived and real - our roving reporter Michael Wigge looks at the German obsession for health food. In the last 10 years the consumption of organic food...
View ArticleThe Truth About Germany: Busy Body
This week Michael Wigge challenges the German clichee of being control freaks. The complaint hotline gets approx. 155,000 tattle tale calls a year. In Cologne, every 5th inhabitant annually calls the...
View ArticleThe Truth About Germany: The Black Forest
Every week Michael Wigge investigates The Truth About Germany for euromaxx, roving around the country to find out how true the clichées are and to discover what Germany is really like. The Black Forest...
View ArticleThe Truth about Germany: Football
Germany is one of the greatest football nations on earth. They won the World Cup in 1954, in 1974 and in 1990. Even their women have won the world cup! But is the passion for soccer shared by all Germans?
View ArticleThe Truth About Germany: Volksmusik
And now you know a bit more about our Easter traditions here in Germany. But next up you can learn something else about this country. Our intrEpid reporter Michael Wigge, who is always trying to find...
View ArticleThe Truth About Germany: Mercedes
Roving reporter Michael Wigge continues his quest for the truth about Germany and this time he is investigating one of Germany's leading brands, Mercedes. What does the magical word actaully mean to...
View ArticleThe Truth About Germany: Home Sweet Home
This time our reporter Michael Wigge wants to find out what the perfect home sweet home means to Germans.
View ArticleThe Truth About Germany: Passion
Our intrepid reporter Michael Wigge has, over the last few months, been searching the highways and byways of this country for "The Truth about Germany". Every country has its cliches and he's been...
View ArticleThe Truth About Germany: Techno
Every week our Euromaxx roving reporter sets out to find the Truth About Germany and investigate the clichés about the country and things typically German - techno, for example. The Germans are...
View ArticleThe Truth About Germany: Bread
Now, wherever Germans go on holiday in large numbers, you'll find a German bakery in the vicinity, or a local bakery that sells German style bread. Why is this?
View ArticleThe Truth About Germany: Ecological Awareness
Germany is famous for its environmental protection policies. We were one of the first countries to separate rubbish for recycling. And now we are one of the leading countries when it comes to...
View ArticleThe Truth About Germany: Knight Fever
We continue our search for The Truth About Germany with roving reporter Michael Wigge. There are lots of medieval castles in Germany and in fact the middle ages are a big money spinner with medieval...
View ArticleThe Truth About Germany: Fairy Tales
In this installment of roving reporter Michael Wigge's quest for the truth about Germany, he explores why Germans are so good at fairy tales. Just look at the Brothers Grimm whose book on fairy tales...
View ArticleThe Truth About Germany: Garden Gnomes
This weeks episode of "The Truth about Germany" looks at the German invention and one of the most well known German products Garden gnomes. Garten Gnomes are often found in gardens and used for housing...
View ArticleThe Truth About Germany: Traffic Signs
One might joke that the Germans have made an art of their signage and then you'd be on the right track for Michael Wigge's latest research. Anyone who's ever rented a car in Germany has probably...
View ArticleThe Truth About Germany: Being Economical
Germans are the European champions in saving money. Our intrepid reporter Michael Wigge travels today to Swabia to find out whether the region is really the country's stronghold of bargain-hunting and...
View ArticleThe Truth About Germany: Perfection
Euromaxx reporter Michael Wigge continues his search for the truth about Germany. He travels all over the country with the aim of getting to the bottom of the many clichés that exist about Germany and...
View ArticleThe Truth About Germany: Family
A family in Germany statistically consists of 1,37 children thereby placing the country at the end of European fertility. No wonder, considering that 41% of the population live alone. Experts have...
View ArticleThe Truth About Germany: Multiculturalism
In this week's episode, our roving reporter Michael Wigge dispels notions about the stereotypical German by looking at the more than 15 million people living in Germany who hail from a different ethnic...
View ArticleThe Truth About Germany: Standards
Why were Germans the first to set industrial standards by establishing the German Institute for Standardisation? What impact has this had on our globalised world? Find out on this week's Truth About...
View ArticleThe Truth About Germany: Volksmusik
Our roving reporter Michael Wigge who is always looking into the clichés that describe Germans this time takes a look at Germans' (supposed) love for folk music. It certainly is true that millions of...
View ArticleThe Truth about Germany: Volkswagen
It was made for just what its name means - it's a car for the people. And it worked. Volkswagen has built the most cars for Germans since 1948. But why has the brand remained so popular? Wolrdwide, one...
View ArticleThe Truth About Germany: German Cuisine
Traditional German food is considered by many to be heavy and fatty with meat and sausage dishes accompanied by fried potatoes or sauerkraut. While German fare remains popular, a new generation of...
View ArticleThe Truth About Germany: Love Thy Neighbor
Each week euromaxx's roving reporter Michael Wigge sets out to explore a different stereotype about Germany and the Germans. It's a densely populated country and people live in close proximity, so this...
View ArticleThe Truth About Germany: Germany
Michael Wigge gives us a special report to mark 60 years of the Federal Republic of Germany. Our roving reporter is out and about in Berlin for the last time.
View ArticleThe Truth About Germany: Unity
Today our intrepid reporter Michael Wigge explores the differences between Eastern and Western Germans to find out what die-hard stereotypes and prejudices about "Easties" and "Westies" still exist...
View ArticleThe Truth About Germany: Bavaria
Many foreigners seem to think, Bavaria is Germany. Endless scenery, lederhosen and beer are the things they see as typically German. But all of these things are associated with just one German state,...
View ArticleThe Truth About Germany: Hiking
Michael Wigge carries on his search for ”The Truth About Germany”. This week he looks at hiking. 17 Million Germans enjoy the sport which means in fact one in every five Germans. It’s the second most...
View ArticleThe Truth About Germany: Kindergarten
In this installment of our series "The Truth About Germany," our intrepid reporter Michael Wigge investigates the story behind one of the best-known German words used in the English language. Much of...
View ArticleThe Truth About Germany: Multicultural Nation
In our weekly edition of "The Truth About Germany," euromaxx reporter Michael Wigge sets out to see just how multicultural Germany has become these days. Wigge investigates in the capital, Berlin.
View ArticleThe Truth About Germany: Autobahn
Michael Wigge continues his search for the truth about Germany. Today he heads for the Autobahn, Germany's famous network of highways where you can sometimes drive as fast as you like.
View ArticleThe Truth About Germany: Snow
In our regular series on clichés surrounding Germany and its people, our roving reporter Michael Wigge this time focuses on the idea that Germany has lots of snow and is a winter wonderland. False....
View ArticleThe Truth About Germany: Christmas
And on a more seasonal note - it's now time to ponder the truth about Christmas in Germany - courtesy of our roving reporter Michael Wigge who explores German Christmas traditions.
View ArticleThe Truth About Germany: The Ruhr Valley Region
In our weekly series, "The Truth About Germany", our intrepid reporter Michael Wigge investigates stereotypes and this week he's off to the Ruhr Valley region. Germany's biggest urban sprawl and former...
View ArticleThe Truth About Germany: Classical Music
Our roving reporter sets out to see if Germans can live up to their reputation of being big on classical music...and whether or not they can spare good old Beethoven the rolling over!
View ArticleThe Truth About Germany: Hiking
Nobody hikes like the germans. On the weenends, up to two million hikers and nature lovers retreat to the wild green yonder. But what spurs them on through sleet and rain to thoug it out with Mother...
View ArticleThe Truth About Germany: Bread
In this week's installment of our series "The Truth About Germany," euromaxx reporter Michael Wigge examines the relationship between Germans and bread. It's one of the country's favorite staples, and...
View ArticleThe Truth About Germany: Reeperbahn
This time we are off to Hamburg's famous red light district.
View ArticleThe Truth About Germany: Art
A modern cliche is that Germans are great painters. This doesn't apply to the whole population of course but contemporary art with a German signature on it can up the price of the work quite a bit....
View ArticleThe Truth About Germany: Do it yourself
You've heard the phrase "someone with two left feet" which refers to someone who can't dance. Well at home I'm referred to as the man with two left hands as I am useless at do it yourself jobs around...
View ArticleThe Truth About Germany: Art
With most sectors still reeling from the shock waves of the financial crisis there's been a lot of talk about the art market, how prices have slumped, or how many younger artists are benefitting from...
View ArticleThe Truth About Germany: Volkswagen
This time our roving reporter Michael Wigge is taking a look at Volkswagen cars as he tries to find out what makes them so popular. He will be visiting the company's headquarters in Lower Saxony.
View ArticleThe Truth About Germany: Technology
In this episode of our series The Truth about Germany, Michael Wigge finds out why Germans are so interested in technology and how good they really are at negotiating technical challenges.
View ArticleThe Truth about Germany: Classical Music
And while we're on the subject of orchestras and classical music - it just so happens that Michael Wigge took that as his cue for this week's reportage. Our roving reporter sets out to see if Germans...
View ArticleThe Truth about Germany: Passion
This week our roving reporter Michael Wigge is touring the country in a bid to find out just how passionate his fellow Germans are.
View ArticleThe Truth about Germany: Love Thy Neighbor
Germany, with an average of 231 people per square kilometre, has a population density that is seven times higher than in the United States. That means, many Germans live fairly close to their...
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