“Where was he born, Scotland?” I inquired. “Edmund Stoiber is German. That is the Bavarian accent and dialect,” he responded after a peal of long laughter. Well, this is not how I had wished to ...

Her humor and lively spirit made the Young Frankenstein set a pleasure to work on. Her ‘German’ accent had us all in stitches ...

Why do we see German and Roman characters speaking like they’re from London? The blame lies partly with film directors – and more broadly with British imperialism.

Professional actors should be as capable of learning a German accent as an English one. So why do so many productions return to the imperial accent of English-language cinema? The answer may lie ...