Heinrich von Treitschke, the arch-nationalist German historian, remarks in his History of Germany in the Nineteenth Century, "the German jokes with difficulty." The remark was meant as a compliment; ...

Flula Borg, the 33-year-old YouTube star, is single-handedly demolishing any lingering misconceptions the world may have about Teutonic stiffness in the humor department. The hyper, hip German ...

There’s an old idea that Germans have no sense of humor, but it’s a myth. Germans have a great sense of humor. It’s just quite barbed. Take, for instance, Bertolt Brecht’s Threepenny Opera, with its ...

PERHAPS IN RESPONSE to the events of September 11, and the subsequent decade of terror attacks and the media spectacles made out of them, we seem desperate now to ...

Films from Germany are “typically German”: cold, conventional and overly intellectual – or at least a lot of people think so. The Goethe-Institut tries to break this stereotype with its latest film ...

DW's cinema team sets out to find Germany's sense of humor, picking the 10 funniest German films of all time. From slapstick to satire, the jokes in these movies don't get lost in translation. For the ...

The latest video in Porsche's "Top Five" YouTube series counts down the top five funniest nicknames for Porsche cars. However, some of them may require a German sense of humor to appreciate. Some of ...

With 82 million people, Germany is a pretty diverse place. The same goes for Teutonic humor, and no, that isn't an oxymoron. SPIEGEL ONLINE offers a regional primer to getting a laugh out of your ...