German Chancellor Olaf Scholz released a photo of himself wearing an eye patch on Monday after he fell while jogging. Scholz, an avid jogger, sustained bruises and grazes to the right side of his face ...

Germans are efficient and hardworking but one thing they are not is funny, at least according to the stereotype. We asked our ...

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 ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - If anyone wants to know the German for "weasels covered in gravy", then comic Eddie Izzard, who unlike some of his countrymen is a lover of all things European, is the go-to man.

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 ...

The New York Times reported in 1939 that Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels terminated the careers of five prominent ...

Can German-language authors tell a joke? They've long been seen as overly serious. But despite bad sales abroad and tough times in Germany, German writers remain in good humor. "Seriously Funny," the ...

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 ...

OpenAI's ChatGPT was found to repeat certain jokes over and over in a study examining its ability to understand and generate humor. A research paper released by two German researchers on Wednesday ...

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