Beethoven was an influential German composer and pianist.
• As of 2006, Germany is the fifth largest music market in the world and has exerted a strong influence on Dance and Rock music.Germany hosts many large rock music festivals annually. The Rock am Ring festival is the largest music festival in Germany, and among the largest in the world. Germany hosts some of the largest Goth scenes and festivals in the entire world, with events like Wave-GothicTreffen and M'era Luna Festival easily attracting up to 30,000 people.
Desserts
• A wide variety of cakes and tarts are served throughout the country, most commonly made with fresh fruit. Apples, plums, strawberries, and cherries are used regularly in cakes. Cheesecake is also very popular, often made with quark. Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte (Black Forest cake) is another very well-known cake, made with cherries.
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The cars
Benz patent motor car by Karl Benz
BMW = Do not touch me
Music
• In the field of music, Germany claims some of the most renowned classical • composers of the world including Bach, Mozart a nd Beethoven, who marked the transition between the Classical and Roman tic eras in Western classical music. • Do you know any other his art works?
• Cuisine differs also greatly according to regions (in the north people eat fish, in the Rhine region beer is replaced with wine, in Bavaria roasted pork is consumed) and season (in spring people eat white asparagus with ham and sauce hollandaise, in fall people eat green cabbage with a special kind of sausage and mustard and in winter/for Christmas people eat duck or goose with red cabbage, dumplings and brown gravy). • Think about the differences between the cuisine of northern and southern China.
They helped shape modern automative and air transportation technology.
Albert Einstein was a
German-born theoretical physicist who discovered the theroy of general relativity,effecting a revolution in physics. For this achievement, Einstein is often regarded as the father of modern physics. He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics"for his services to theoretical physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect".
Culture of Germany
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Science
Germany has been the home of many famous inventors and engineers
Johannes Gutenberg
He is the one who invented the movable type printing in Europe.
Meat
• Pork, beef, and poultry are the main varieties of meat consumed in Germany, with pork being the most popular. The average person in Germany will consume up to 61 kg (130 lb) meat in a year.Among poultry, chicken is most common, although duck,goose, and turkey are also enjoyed. Game meats, especially boar, rabbit, and venison are also widely available all year mb and goat are also available, but are not popular. . A long tradition of sausage-making exists in Germany, including hundreds of regional variations. There are more than 1500 different types of sausage in Germany.
Ice cream and sorbets are also very popular!!!
Structure of meals
• Breakfast commonly consists of bread, toast, or bread rolls with cold cut, cheese or jam marmalade or honey, eggs, and strong coffee or tea (milk, cocoa or juice for children). Deli meats, such as ham, salted meats and salami, are also commonly eaten on bread in the morning, as are various cheeses. A variety of meatbased spreads such as liverwurst are eaten during breakfast as well. • Traditionally, the main meal of the day has been lunch eaten around noon. Dinner was always a smaller meal, often consisting only of a variety of breads, meat or sausages, cheese and some kind of vegetables, similar to breakfast, or possibly sandwiches. However, in Germany, as in other parts of Europe, dining habits have changed over the last 50 years. • Today, many people eat only a small meal in the middle of the day at work, and enjoy a hot dinner in the evening at home with the whole family.
Hans Geiger
He is the creator of the Geiger counter.
Konrad Zuse
He built the first computer.
Albert Einstein and Max Planck
They were crucial to the foundation of modern physics.
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
He discovered X-rays,an accomplishment that made him the first winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901.
Benz,Von Brause,Daimler, Zeppelin,etc.