Das Boot ( 1981 ) focused on the German viewpoint of World War II.

In 1841, the German linguist and poet August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben wrote the lyrics of " Das Lied der Deutschen " to Haydn's melody, lyrics that were considered revolutionary at the time.

The year after he wrote Das Deutschlandlied, Hoffmann von Fallersleben lost his job as a librarian and professor in Breslau, Prussia, because of this and other revolutionary works, and was forced into hiding until being pardoned after the revolutions of 1848 in the German states.

The root meaning of the word is of obscure origin though shown to be akin to modern German Das Übel ( although ' Evil ' is normally translated as ' Das Böse ') with the basic idea of transgressing .< ref name =" Harper2001 ">

The traditional usage is Tiu ĉi plaĉas al mi ( literally, " this one is pleasing to me "), which reflects the phrasing of most European languages ( French celui-ci me plaît, Spanish éste me gusta, Russian это мне нравится mnye nravitsya, German Das gefällt mir, Italian mi piace ).

Among the commercial successes for German films of the 1980s were the Otto film series beginning in 1985 starring comedian Otto Waalkes, Wolfgang Petersen's adaptation of The NeverEnding Story ( 1984 ), and the internationally successful Das Boot ( 1981 ), which still holds the record for most Academy Award nominations for a German film ( six ).

In public, Goebbels remained confident of German victory: " We live at the most critical period in the history of the Occident ," he wrote in Das Reich in February 1943.

* " Das Model " ( spelling on album: " Das Modell "; English version title: " The Model "), a song by the German band Kraftwerk.

In the 80s, German networks successfully added American daytime and primetime soap operas to their schedule before Das Erste introduced its first self-produced weekly soap with Lindenstraße, which was seen as a German counterpart to Coronation Street.

In 1928 Slovenian Herman Potočnik ( 1892 – 1929 ) published his sole book, The Problem of Space Travel — The Rocket Motor ( German: Das Problem der Befahrung des Weltraums — der Raketen-Motor ), a plan for a breakthrough into space and a permanent human presence there.

Especially in Germany, these celebrations had a distinctly political note to them and often stressed Boniface as a kind of founder of Europe, such as when Konrad Adenauer, the ( Catholic ) German chancellor, addressed a crowd of 60, 000 in Fulda, celebrating the feast day of the saint in a European context: " Das, was wir in Europa gemeinsam haben, gemeinsamen Ursprungs " (" What we have in common in Europe comes from the same source ").

* In 1975, the German Krautrock band Popol Vuh released the album Das Hohelied Salomos.

She was a passenger in a car that raised the suspicions of German troops at an unexpected roadblock that had been set up to find Sturmbannführer Helmut Kämpfe of the Das Reich Division, who had been captured by the local resistance.

On December 20, 2001, German TV channel " Das Erste " broadcast an analysis of the White House's translation of the videotape.

Others were trying to represent a more harrowing side of the reality of the war such precursor movies as the German Joseph Vilsmaier's Stalingrad, Wolfgang Petersen's Das Boot and the later, American director Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line.

His first film productions were for German television, and it was during his work on the popular German Tatort ( Crime Scene ) TV series that he first met and worked with the actor Jürgen Prochnow — who would later appear as the U-boat captain in Petersen's famous Das Boot.

* Das Fenster zum Jemen ( German )

* Das Fenster zum Jemen ( German )

There are two major variations on the Wilhelmus, namely the royal anthem of Luxembourg ( called " De Wilhelmus ") and the song " Das Treuelied ", German for " the song of loyalty ".

The second major variation is the song " Wenn alle untreu werden " ( German: " If everyone becomes unfaithful ") better known as " Das Treuelied ", which was written by the poet Max von Schenkendorf ( 1783 – 1817 ) and used exactly the same melody as the Wilhelmus.

* German: Poirot rechnet ab ( Poirot Takes a Task ), first edition in 1959: Poirot rechnet ab: Kriminalgeschichten ( Poirot Takes a Task: Crime Stories ) Die Augen der Gottheit ( The Eyes of the Deity ) Die Tragödie von Marsdon Manor ( The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor ) Die mysteriöse Wohnung ( The mysterious Flat ) Das Mysterium von Hunter's Lodge ( The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge ) Der raffinierte Aktiendiebstahl ( The Sly Bonds Robbery ) Das Abenteuer des ägyptischen Grabes ( The Adventure of The Egyptian Tomb ) Der Juwelenraub im Grand Hotel ( The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Hotel ) Der entführte Premierminister ( The Kidnapped Prime Minister ) Das Verschwinden von Mrs. Davenheim ( The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim ) Das Abenteuer des italienischen Edelmannes ( The Adventure of The Italian Nobleman ) Das fehlende Testament ( The Missing Will )

: Die Nabis: Propheten der Moderne, Kunsthaus Zürich & Grand Palais, Paris & Prestel, Munich 1993 ISBN 3-7913-1969-8 ( German ), ( French )

For example, in German, one possible translation of " the car " is der Wagen.

In German, masculine nouns change their definite article from der to den in the accusative case.

The school existed in three German cities ( Weimar from 1919 to 1925, Dessau from 1925 to 1932 and Berlin from 1932 to 1933 ), under three different architect-directors: Walter Gropius from 1919 to 1928, Hannes Meyer from 1928 to 1930 and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe from 1930 until 1933, when the school was closed by its own leadership under pressure from the Nazi regime.

Wegener was the first to use the phrase " continental drift " ( 1912, 1915 ) ( in German " die Verschiebung der Kontinente " – translated into English in 1922 ) and formally publish the hypothesis that the continents had somehow " drifted " apart.

Daniel Kehlmann's 2005 novel Die Vermessung der Welt, translated into English as Measuring the World ( 2006 ), explores Gauss's life and work through a lens of historical fiction, contrasting them with those of the German explorer Alexander von Humboldt.

* Gesellschaft der Freunde der Kavallerie ( German )

The first line, " Deutschland, Deutschland über alles, über alles in der Welt " ( usually translated into English as " Germany, Germany above all, above all in the world "), was an appeal to the various German monarchs to give the creation of a united Germany a higher priority than the independence of their small states.

On November 18, von Hindenburg testified in front of this parliamentary commission, and cited a December 17, 1918 Neue Zürcher Zeitung article that summarized two earlier articles in the Daily Mail by British General Frederick Barton Maurice with the phrase that the German army had been ' dagger-stabbed from behind by the civilian populace ' (" von der Zivilbevölkerung von hinten erdolcht .").

The East German government referred to East Berlin simply as " Berlin " or often " Berlin, Hauptstadt der DDR " ( Berlin, capital of the GDR ).

The term " ecology " () is of a more recent origin and was first coined by the German biologist Ernst Haeckel in his book Generelle Morphologie der Organismen ( 1866 ).

( Latin title: Ducentae paucorum istorum et quidem clarissimorum Christi verborum: Hoc est Corpus meum ; interpretationes ,; German title: Zweihundert Auslegungen der Worte das ist mein Leib.

" When he first introduced this concept as a diagnostic entity in the fourth German edition of his Lehrbuch der Psychiatrie in 1893, it was placed among the degenerative disorders alongside, but separate from, catatonia and dementia paranoides.

In a February 26, 1942, letter to German diplomat Martin Luther ( diplomat ) | Martin Luther, Reinhard Heydrich follows up on the Wannsee Conference by asking Luther for administrative assistance in the implementation of the " Endlösung der Judenfrage " ( Final Solution to the Jewish Question ).

Goya-Der lange Weg der Erkenntnis ( 1971 ) is an East German film directed by Konrad Wolf.

* Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle der Filmwirtschaft, a German movie rating organization

Moreover, Friedrich Schlegel's book, Über die Sprache und Weisheit der Indier ( On the Speech and Wisdom of the Indians, Heidelberg, 1808 ), which had just begun to exert a powerful influence on the minds of German philosophers and historians, did not fail to stimulate Bopp's interest in the sacred language of the Hindus.

In an earlier work from 1793 dealing with the ideals and politics of the French Revolution, Beiträge zur Berichtigung der Urteile des Publikums über die Französische Revolution ( Contributions to the Correction of the Public's Judgment concerning the French Revolution ), he called Jews a " state within a state " that could " undermine " the German nation.

The new standard edition of Fichte's works in German, which supersedes all previous editions, is the Gesamtausgabe ( Collected Works or Complete Edition, commonly abbreviated as ' GA '), prepared by the Bavarian Academy of Sciences: Gesamtausgabe der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 42 volumes.

Scholars generally see Miss Sara Sampson and Emilia Galotti as the first bourgeois tragedies, Minna von Barnhelm ( Minna of Barnhelm ) as the model for many classic German comedies, Nathan the Wise ( Nathan der Weise ) as the first German drama of ideas (" Ideendrama ").

The Grammatisch-Kritisches Wörterbuch der hochdeutschen Mundart, a High German grammar in five volumes by Johann Christoph Adelung, appeared as early as 1774.