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Tatort is really great, it's the only thing on German TV I miss. Do you find it good/ interesting, not being German?
Try to find old episodes of "Samstag Abend shows", I'm not sure if there are still any except for Wetten, dass.. I grew up with that, with Rudi Carell's (Carrell?) Lass dich überraschen (was that the name?), and many really bad movies with Mike Krüger (who also had a Samstag Abend show called Vier gegen Willie, with a hamster). Though the entertainment wasn't grande, it was quite funny sometimes, and I think many jokes etc. still refer to movies like that without the person making the joke being aware of it. ... Most "kids" my generation (born 1975 to 1982 perhaps?) had the same "program" on a Saturday night in the 80's I suppose. It was bathtub, then Abendbrot, then Samstag Abend show.
Florian Illies portrayed the typical childhood Saturday evening of "Badewanne, Abendbrot, Wetten Dass" in his book "Generation Golf" - at least in parts a trip down Memory Lane for most people my age (born slightly earlier than Anna's age bracket in #27 indicates ;o)) in Germany. I'd also recommend comedians such as Otto (the early bits from the 1970s and maybe early 1980s) and, of course, the great Loriot. I'm sure you can find plenty of stuff on Youtube. Expressions such as "Jodeldiplom", "Früher war mehr Lametta", "Sie haben da was", "ein Klavier, ein Klavier", "Mit Ihnen teilt meine Ente das Wasser nicht" "Maske? Welche Maske?" etc. will have Germans in fits of laughter (or at least smiling knowingly and replying with the appropriate line from the sketch" and probably leave people not familiar with the sketches utterly puzzled.
Children's books are another thing, of course. And especially those books that were turned into puppet shows by the "Augsburger Puppenkiste": "Jim Knopf und Lukas, der Lokomotivführer" and "Urmel aus dem Eis" ar firm favourites with most people, but there were plenty more. Der Räuber Hotzenplotz" (and, for that matter, anything else by Otfried Preußler" also come to mind (I loved the book as a child, and also the film featuring Gert Fröbe as Räuber Hotzenplotz and Josef Meinrad as Petrosilius Zwackelmann). Janosch (for younger children) and Paul Maar (Das Sams) are two other authors. Generally, anything that can belongs to "pop culture": The aforementioned books/TV shows/films, "Neue Deutsche Welle", "ZDF Hitparade mit Dieter Thomas Heck" (Schlager! Not everyones favourite music, but we all grew up with it anyway, and "Fiesta Mexicana" or "Er hat ein knallrotes Gummiboot" always work at parties ;o)), series such as "Schwarzwaldklinik" or "Ich heirate eine Familie...
Loriot ist wirklich ganz, ganz oben auf der Liste. Grob geschaetzt, basieren wahrscheinlich 20% der Witze, die in meinem Umfeld zumindest gemacht wurden, auf Zitaten wie den von dragon genannten.
In Bezug auf Filme wuerde ich, zumindest fuer meine (und Annas ;-)) Generation noch "Otto" hinzufuegen, aber da solltest Du dann sicherheitshalber doch ein paar mehr Biere zur Hand haben, um den Schmerz runter zu spuelen. :-p Weniger albern, sehr nett und fuer alle Lebenslagen, Bevoelkerungskreise und Altersgruppen: Die Feuerzangenbowle.
Kinderbuecher: aus meiner Sicht sind Momo, Pippi Langstrumpf und Ronja Raeubertochter (auch wenn die ja original nicht deutsch sind) Buecher, die wahrscheinlich ausnahmslos jeder kennt und gelesen hat.
Selbst wenn ich selbst nie hinter das Geheimnis gekommen bin (und deshalb nie zum Fan wurde) (aber ich kenne ein paar Engländer, die Fans sind): Lindenstraße
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