History Main / Oktoberfest

Of course, many foreign authors discover there is more than one region of Germany. [[UnfortunateImplications Sadly these "discoveries" tend to include ]]regions like the [[TheLostWoods Black Forest]] where they grow cuckoo clocks, [[BrothersGrimm fairy tales]], and gingerbread houses. In {{Prussia}}, of course, the men all have [[NaziNobleman crew cuts, monocles, duelling scars and "Vays off makink you talk"]], and their DistaffCounterpart TheBaroness is happy to assist. Oddly, while the stigmatic association with swastikas and blitzkrieg is fading as time progresses, this archetype seems to be [[MemeticMutation morphing]] into an image of [[GermanicEfficiency tight-laced]] [[GermanicDepressives basketcases]], {{Goth}}s, and {{Dominatrix}}es who frequent badly lit discotheques blaring ElectronicMusic, and their ways of making you talk might just be marzipan, chocolate, and [[MostCommonSuperpower the baroness]]. But [[CulturedWarrior be prepared to listen to a detailed history]] of ImperialGermany before ''[[ThoseWackyNazis they]]'' went and ruined it for everyone.

* A scene in ''Film/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'' caused unintended hilarity in German cinemas, when it showed a tiny Bavarian village[[note]]Specifically Gengenbach, in Baden-Württemberg[[/note]] fitting the trope and subtitled it "Düsseldorf, Germany" - the capital of North Rhine-Westphalia, a completely different region, which is known for its huge urban sprawl.

* A scene in ''Film/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'' caused unintended hilarity in German cinemas, when it showed a tiny Bavarian village fitting the trope and subtitled it "Düsseldorf, Germany" - the capital of North Rhine-Westphalia, a completely different region, which is known for its huge urban sprawl[[note]]The town they used as "Düsseldorf" is Gengenbach, in Baden-Württemberg[[/note]].

* A scene in ''Film/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'' caused unintended hilarity in German cinemas, when it showed a tiny Bavarian village fitting the trope and subtitled it "Düsseldorf, Germany" - the capital of North Rhine-Westphalia, a completely different region, which is known for its huge urban sprawl.

* The song "I Love Louisa" from ''TheBandWagon''.
* ''The PinkPanther Strikes Again'' has the hilarious scene where Clouseau goes to the Oktoberfest and several dozen assassins from around the world accidentally kill each other while trying to kill him.

* Well... [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oktoberfest the Oktoberfest]], [[CaptainObvious rea]][[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin lly]]. And '''''no''''', it neither celebrates beer nor does it celebrate the fact that it's October. It celebrates the jubilee of the 1810 wedding of the Bavarian Prince Ludwig I (later King Ludwig I of Bavaria, the grandfather of KingLudwigII) and Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen on the same spot, just outside the city limits of UsefulNotes/{{Munich}} (in 1810, that was, as the city engulfed it. Nowadays, it's in the city centre). Not that it would be an easy task to find any German who knows this.

* The protagonist of ''PassingStrange'' visits Berlin, and encounters the avant-garde nihilist brand of Germans. And then it turns out [[spoiler:they all go home to the bucolic village version for Christmas.]]

* Uter from ''TheSimpsons'' was this type of German exchange student. In the German dub he is from Switzerland.

* The character Dieter Lederhosen from ''PepperAnn'' fulfills about every non-Nazi, non-{{Prussia}}n, non-Kraftwerk German stereotype. So does his family whose name is indeed Lederhosen. And although he grew up in Hazelnut (as opposed to being on student exchange), he speaks with the typical accent.

* Well... [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oktoberfest the Oktoberfest]], [[CaptainObvious rea]][[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin lly]]. And '''''no''''', it neither celebrates beer nor does it celebrate the fact that it's October. It celebrates the jubilee of the 1810 wedding of the Bavarian Prince Ludwig I (later King Ludwig I of Bavaria, the grandfather of KingLudwigII) and Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen on the same spot, just outside the city limits of Munich (in 1810, that was, as the city engulfed it. Nowadays, it's in the city centre). Not that it would be an easy task to find any German who knows this.

** The subtitle in ''WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory'' says "Düssel''heim''".

* The Medic in ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' is German, and of course has the stereotypical accent. [[MemeticMutation "Oktoberfest"]] is one of his taunts, but thankfully he doesn't wear lederhosen. Though he can put on a NiceHat.

In Germany, everyone is fat, constantly [[GermanPeculiarities drunk on beer]], dressed in lederhosen, eats nothing but sausages and pretzels, and gets totally ticked off [[FawltyTowers whenever somebody mentions]] [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII The War]]. If you're lucky, you might get a mention of more recent events - such as the BerlinWall and [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff David Hasselhoff]].

* One episode of ''GhostInTheShell: StandAloneComplex'' takes place in Berlin. While the episode mostly manages to stay clear of this trope, the street on which Batou is waiting in the front of a shop would fit much better into an old and traditional Bavarian village and looks nothing like downtown Berlin.

In Germany, everyone is fat[[note]]Which is very hypocritical if this depiction comes from Americans, because Germany has far less obesity than the USA. In fact the USA has the highest obesity-rate in the world, they just cast only HollywoodThin celebrities, while German celebrities have simply the same obesity rate than the average population.[[/note]], constantly [[GermanPeculiarities drunk on beer]], dressed in lederhosen, eats nothing but sausages and pretzels, and gets totally ticked off [[FawltyTowers whenever somebody mentions]] [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII The War]]. If you're lucky, you might get a mention of more recent events - such as the BerlinWall and [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff David Hasselhoff]].

Of course, many foreign authors discover there is more than one region of Germany. [[UnfortunateImplications Sadly these "discoveries" tend to include ]]regions like the [[TheLostWoods Black Forest]] where they grow cuckoo clocks, [[BrothersGrimm fairy tales]], and gingerbread houses. In {{Prussia}}, of course, the men all have [[NaziNobleman crew cuts, monocles, duelling scars and "Vays off makink you talk"]], and their DistaffCounterpart TheBaroness is happy to assist. But [[CulturedWarrior be prepared to listen to a detailed history]] of ImperialGermany before ''[[ThoseWackyNazis they]]'' went and ruined it for everyone. Oddly, while the stigmatic association with swastikas and blitzkrieg is fading as time progresses, this archetype seems to be [[MemeticMutation morphing]] into an image of [[GermanicEfficiency tight-laced]] [[GermanicDepressives basketcases]], {{Goth}}s, and {{Dominatrix}}es who frequent badly lit discotheques blaring ElectronicMusic, and their ways of making you talk might just be marzipan, chocolate, and [[MostCommonSuperpower the baroness]].

This has partly to do with the fact that the Americans were assigned the southern part of Germany as their occupation zone at the end of WW II and as such most of their military personnel took their experiences of bucolic Bavaria as the archetype of all things German back home.

Of course they sometimes admit that there is more than one region of Germany, and it's mainly Bavaria that looks like this. Sadly the only other 'type' they can usually think of is old school {{Prussia}}ns who of course all have crew cuts, monocles, duelling scars and "Vays off makink you talk".

In Germany, everyone is fat, constantly [[GermanPeculiarities drunk on beer]], dressed in lederhosen, eats nothing but sausages and pretzels, and gets totally ticked off [[FawltyTowers whenever somebody mentions]] [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII The War]]. If you're lucky, you might get a mention of more recent events - such as the BerlinWall and [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff David Hasselhoff]].

[[NonindicativeName Oh, and by the way, Oktoberfest is celebrated in both late September AND and THROUGH early October.]]

If you're in a modern nightclub, expect to it to be a strange one involving a lot of leather. [[GermanicDepressives And possibly nihilism.]]

German fiction has tropes of its own regarding "Ossis und Wessis" (former [[UsefulNotes/EastGermany East]] and [[UsefulNotes/WestGermany West]] Germans respectively): Wessis are supposedly materialistic, arrogant assholes, while Ossis are usually poor, bad-tempered, lazy whiners. And Berlin is the FreestateAmsterdam of Germany.

German fiction has tropes of its own regarding "Ossies und Wessies" (East and West Germans respectively), Wessies are materialistic and Ossies are usually poor, bad-tempered, lazy whiners. And Berlin is the FreestateAmsterdam of Germany.

* Well... [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oktoberfest the Oktoberfest]], [[CaptainObvious rea]][[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin lly]]. And '''''no''''', it neither celebrates beer nor does it celebrate the fact that it's october. It celebrates the jubilee of the 1810 wedding of the Bavarian Prince Ludwig I (later King Ludwig I of Bavaria, the grandfather of KingLudwigII) and Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen on the same spot, just outside the city limits of Munich (in 1810, that was, as the city engulfed it. Nowadays, it's in the city centre). Not that it would be an easy task to find any German who knows this.

This has partly to do with the fact that the Americans were assigned the southern part of Germany as their occupation zone at the end of WW2 and as such most of their military personnel took their experiences of bucolic Bavaria as the archetype of all things German back home.

In Germany, everyone is fat, constantly [[GermanPeculiarities drunk on beer]], dressed in lederhosen, eats nothing but sausages and pretzels, and gets totally ticked off [[FawltyTowers whenever somebody mentions]] [[WorldWarII The War]]. If you're lucky, you might get a mention of more recent events - such as the BerlinWall and [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff David Hasselhoff]].

* Despite being Japanese, ''Manga/{{Monster}}'' complete averts it and is actually one of the most realistic portrayals of the [[WestGermany Bonn]] and TheBerlinRepublic in non-German fiction. It even deals with the difficulties of [[EastGermany east German]] officals integrating into a new society that [[WhyWereBummedCommunismFell regards their former government as criminals]], which is quite difficult to explain to outsiders.