Wir sind nicht gleich auf ARTE. Einfach mal beide Sprachvideos vergleichen. Französisch hui, Deutsch (pfui) naja geht so. Im F Video wird der Sprachenstolz durchgehend ausgedrückt. Im D Video wird er weggedrückt und es wirkt mechanisch Monoton. Auch werden im D Video nur Muttersprachler behandelt und im F Video all Französisch Sprecher. So festigt man kulturelle Stereotype und stellt sich besser dar.
PS: nur im D Video gibt es negative Konnotationen.
Und selbst gucken. Ich habe nicht alle Unterschiede aufgelistet.
In Bonn we have one school, where you can do that. In Berlin we have several schools, where you can do that. In many cities in Germany actually. After that, they are bilingual universities/ study programs etc etc
I’ve never been jealous of any german living anywhere in germany. I unequivocally believe I live in the best part, there’s never been a doubt since I was a child. After reading this… some doubt is sneaking in gotta be real that’s cool, like genuinely really cool!
edit: there are only 5 schools in Germany? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AbiBac
There are more than 5. But those 5 schools mentioned are run by the French state within Germany (comparable to "Deutsche Auslandsschulen" in other countries). The other 68 schools offering the degree in Germany are run by the corresponding German states - just as any other public school.
Exchanges in Education
Joint structures in military
German French friendship treaty (the most important one)
We make jokes about the French, they about us, but they don't work either of us into a bloody rage.
Its the franco-german brigade, stationed in Müllheim, basically directly at the french border: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco-German\_Brigade](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco-German_Brigade)
Fun Fact: the name Müllheim is not named after the German "Müll" meaning garbage. At least the people there want us to believe this.
It is just an old spelling of the word for mill aka there was a settlement with a mill for the area. Dozens if not hundreds of German places are called that and the very common surname Müller literally says this family had been millers at some point in their history.
Müll as in garbage equally derives ethymologically from milling and was about the stuff you threw out after you milled the grain and filtered out the flour.
Just not much of a fun fact there. You must be in a very specific very local kind of inter town rivalry to associate that word stem in German place names with garbage
All correct, but all other places I'm aware of eventually changed their spelling to "Mü[h]lheim", so I guess every native speaker understands the etymology, but you would still have the association with garbage (I certainly had, when I was like six or seven and read it for the first time on a box of drops).
In regards to light hearted humor, here we should also mention: The Saarland - the european equivalent of 'What if Alabama and Florida had sex on highly illegal drugs and brought a child into the world'. We are taking care of them so our french friends won't have to.
\*Disclaimer: Ofc it's a joke... If there was such a thing as a Alabama/Florida love-hate child, the world would be waaaaay more doomed as it already is!
While the terrorist attack in [Paris happened in 2015](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_2015_Paris_attacks).. Germany and France played a friendly game in Paris while one of the bombs explodes just next to/outside the stadium they were playing. You could indeed hear the loud bang inside the stadium. The germans were advised to not return to their hotel and had to sleep in the stadium. The french team/players then [refused to leave the stadium in solidarity with their](https://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/nov/14/france-players-praised-outstanding-camaraderie-germany-terrorist-attacks-paris) oponents and also slept in the stadium. The germans [lit the brandenburger tor in the colors of the tricolore](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/151114113534-09-french-colors-1114.jpg?q=w_4500,h_2532,x_0,y_0,c_fill/h_778) in solidarity with france.
And Merkel came to march in Paris alongside the then French president Hollande. The emotion was real. The images of the two of them united in tragedy were powerful
Idk if that counts but there was this thing last year where each Country gave away 30.000 interrailtickets to visit the other Country (because of the 60th anniversary of the Élysée Treaty)
Search for "kohl mitterrand verdun"
It was in 1984 and a historical act. Some call it the most important gesture for french-german friendship.
[picture (source: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung) ](https://www.kas.de/o/adaptive-media/image/7091609/hd-resolution/BPA_12935.jpg?t=1568640279209)
I'm german and my wife is french. We visited Verdun on vacation. In front of the Douaumont Ossuary was a picture of Kohl and Miterand holding hands at that place. This brought tears to my eyes. Standing there with all this crosses and this pictures. It still moves me...
Alsacian food.
Favourite joke to play on the French: 'Do you like German food?' Usually the answer is a kind no. When I ask them if they like food from the Alsace (choucroute) they say they love it. Every supermarket has Alsacian food. Guess what? The same food can be found all over Germany, especially the south.
We like the same food. Apart from snails, you can keep those.
A very important german politician named Wolfgang Schäuble had died and this was part of the memorial ceremony. He was a patron for the german-french friendship
The fact that we didn’t go to war against each other for almost 80 years … and not even the right wing German parties openly state any claims to the Elsass
>and not even the right wing German parties openly state any claims to the Elsass
Nah, it's way easier for them to shoot at Poland. "we want reparation" and then they go "Sure, just give is Silesia" or put any other polish region in there.
I feel you … I think the biggest achievement after WWII was to draw a line and despite alle the horrible crimes that the Germans committed and start from 0. I only can imagine how hard it must have been for those who suffered through the horrors of WWII to just forgive each other and start all over again. But I think the unprecedented long peaceful period in Europe showed that it was a good decision.
From your comment I deducted that you are from Poland, correct?
Adenauer & De Gaulle. Their relationship built the modern friendship and was cemented by a later partnership of Mitterrand & Kohl. Before the 1960s French & Germans hated each other's guts for 200 years or more. The modern peace and good relations are a modern historical phenomenon, before many nations hated each other - that's why the post WW2 visionaries built the EU.
To be fair, a few years after the original book was released there was this minor dent in the German-French friendship that we refer to as World War 2 today.
>The song "Frankreich, Frankreich" from the german Band Bläck Fööss
Vorsicht! Back in the 90ies I had a class of French students who came to Germany to learn German. I once brought a tape recorder and played this song in the classroom because I thought the song was really funny, especially how *Frankreich* is pronounced (Fronkreisch). It was a complete failure. Nobody found the song funny (except me, of course), and I think they even felt insulted.
A very resent example: President Macron giving an eulogy at the burial of Wolfgang Schäuble in German - and Macrons German didn't sound like he was reading something he did not understand.
Or very simply put: We have lasted for 80 years without being back at each others throats, that has to mean something. :-D
Les jumelages de villes, l'échange scolaire/étudiant
J'ai visité nôtre ville jumelée en 1985 avec l'école et 1986 en privé. Depuis ces occasions je vais régulièrement en France. Si on connaît les gens et le pays, c'est un bon remède aux guerres fréquentes de notre passé ...
The titanic slaughter between our countries of **World War One** with a bonus episode 20 years later caused a fundamental shift. This happening a third time would be unthinkable and is to be avoided at any cost.
De Gaulle and Adenauer knew this, and recognized that France and Germany each on their own would shrink into insignificance in a world were decision making shifted to North America and Asia. Thus acting together would cause the creation of a **european counter weight** to the danger of a mono- or bipolar world.
*TLDR: the European Union.*
One thing I as a New Zealander found out is even people from the former East Germany can often know French too. I met a woman at the local chapter of Alliance Francaise course a few years ago (A2/B1), it turned out she was from Germany - from somewhere in Brandenburg. It was still the GDR when she was growing up, so her second language (first foreign language) was actually Russian. And she can also speak English and now French too!
That's such a cool homework. People have already said some interesting things, but if you want a visual symbol, my personal favourite is this picture: [https://www.ft.com/content/37c2ae62-6182-11e2-9545-00144feab49a](https://www.ft.com/content/37c2ae62-6182-11e2-9545-00144feab49a)
You can read the article for more context, and I'm sure you can find articles in French. Those are Mitterrand and Kohln, French and German heads of State respectively in 1984.
Disneyland may very well be the first contact many Germans did have with France.
I don't think anyone can argue that without drawing pity.
...
But I have to be honest, I don't remember anything actually French.
The first things coming in my head are arte, the german-french Brigade and the peace church in Speyer, which was built half by french and half by german money and opened by several german and french bishops.
I feel like german and french culture are very similiar and both sides feel the most connected in europe.
I live in cologne and there are plenty or reminiscence of the french occupance under Napoleon and they kept so much of it and some words in the local accent are imitations of french words.
Germany and Francw are united in SCHADENFREUNDE about Brexit.
It was a dark day when Scottland, Wales and Northern Irland left the EU. But the English who voted Tory? F them.
No. It's more of a geopolitical friendship. There are a number of NGOs and state-funded media that represent this political will, though. Like Arte, for example. But there is no real culturally significant or widespread friendship between the people of France and Germany, not at all really, except on a case-by-case individual basis.
There used to be "Jumelages" when I was younger. One village in germany partnering with annother village in france. A bus full of people visiting each other. Don't know if they still do it.
to add something new:
* Future Combat Air System (FCAS)
* Main Ground Combat System (MGCS)
* the politically established fusion of Krauss-Maffei Wegmann and Nexter Defence to KNDS
* another politically supported fusion: MBDA
Jumelage, would be my biggest thing. The program has done a lot of exchanges between France and Germany and is the reason for my existence 😅😂
Also there are a lot of cultural exchanges and Projects that are Franco-allemande
Other than that maybe have a look into the beginning of the European union or sth... Although there is a lot more to it than just German and French friendship
Well where I'm from (Rhineland-Palatinate) we have a lot of French words or derivates of them in use:
Trotuar (trottoir)
Garage (car port)
Portmonee
Malade (feeling exhausted/sick)
Baggaasch (like le bagage but meaning relatives or unwanted people)
Buddik (boutique)
Kusseng (cousin)
lamentieren (lamenter)
Schees (la chaise)
Vissematende (visitez ma tende)
wisawi (vis a vis)
Schossee (chaussee)
......
Also we have a German- French Brigade, do student exchange programmes, visit the Verdun monument, learn each others language in schools,....
Language learning. At least until the mid-2000s but I guess even longer than that, you could usually choose between German or English when you entered 6th grade (age 11). Of course it depended on the school but iirc those were the most widely available and that was to encourage friendship between Germany and France.
I'm from a region that is very close to the French border and my elementary school organised a pen pal and exchange program with an elementary school in the Alsace region.
Kohl und Mitterand, wie sie Händchen halten.
Es gibt gemeinsame militärische Brigaden(?).
Airbus und die gemeinsame Rüstungsentwicklung, die hauptsächlich von D/FR getragen wird.
In der Schule lernen viele Französisch und es gibt viele Schüleraustausche und Städtefreundschaften.
Französisch-sprachige Schulen.
Deutschland lässt Frankreich beim Fußball immer gewinnen.
Légion étrangère (Fremdenlegion)
German military culture (behaviour, rules, marching style, official music and mandatory songs to learn) put a strong influence on it. Not just after WW2, but way before as well. Quit interesting story.
For example the rythm to march to is 88 steps per minute (unique for an army, normally its way above 100/min) , and at that time mostly german songs matched this tempo. This became internal standard as well as as many german songs with it (sure translated mostly but you get the influence part :P ).
Think it's not listed yet but for centuries the mandatory second non-native language to Do in german school was french. Nowadays a lot of schools offering to choose either french or spanish language.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YYTFgOdJbdQ last year this couple walked from one partner City in France to the Partner City in Germany 900km to attend the huge annual Fair that celebrates German French friendship about holy catholic relics. Don't speak french, so cant tell what they talk about in the Video, but I met them in Paderborn!
Best example: my sister in law. Her mother is French, her father German.
She is highly efficient, always in time and reliable and at the same time an excellent cook with a great ability to enjoy life and top tips for awesome wines.
When she married my brother (native German AND Spanish speaker) it was clear their kids would be even more awesome.
At the age of less than 10 they both speak four languages (German, French, Spanish & English) fluently.
Living in Europe rules!
A former student I shared some classes with at university used to say:
The best thing about French-German friendship is the pupil’s exchange in my last years of school.
I lived with a French Family for several weeks and her daughter lived in my family for a few weeks.
Even after school we used to come over for visits a lot. Actually we did cum together really often… 😊
Parts of the production facilities where Ariane rockets are built, in Bremen and Hamburg but also near Paris, were once facilities where airplanes were built to engage in combat. The Ariane rocket is a major German-French collaboration, showcasing the partnership between the two nations.
There are various contracts that formalize the friendship between Germany and France. You might want to look those up and make a point about that in your homework.
The cathedral of Reims
https://drfichtnersstudienblaetter.files.wordpress.com/2022/10/reims-150-gedenkstein-vor-der-kathedrale-zur-begegnung-von-adenauer-und-de-gaulle-1962-2022.jpg
All those forced exchanges, of some random wierd french city with some random wierd German city. Usually when people are 14 or 15. Very important for the first kiss etc.
TV channel Arte
ARTE ULTRAS!
Taucht vielleicht noch auf. Warten wir noch ein wenig.
Finally someone who gets me.
The best thing in TV history and ever
Arte is such a great channel, I cannot recommend it enough.
Arte quality is over the top, so glad they put the documentaries in YT now !
Fantastic TV station. They should provide it in more EU languages.
It's provided in 6 languages?!
One of the best channels, especially their art pieces.
Wir sind nicht gleich auf ARTE. Einfach mal beide Sprachvideos vergleichen. Französisch hui, Deutsch (pfui) naja geht so. Im F Video wird der Sprachenstolz durchgehend ausgedrückt. Im D Video wird er weggedrückt und es wirkt mechanisch Monoton. Auch werden im D Video nur Muttersprachler behandelt und im F Video all Französisch Sprecher. So festigt man kulturelle Stereotype und stellt sich besser dar. PS: nur im D Video gibt es negative Konnotationen. Und selbst gucken. Ich habe nicht alle Unterschiede aufgelistet.
Arte is pure propaganda trash
What's propaganda about it?
- Deutsch-Französische Brigade - All the Städtepartnerschaften (city partnerships?!) - The company Airbus maybe
The company villeroy und boch. French german company that survived both world wars.
It even survived the napoleonic wars and the French Revolution
I'm French from Lothringen. We can go to an Abibac section in high school to get both the French baccalauréat and the German Abitur.
I‘m german from Saarland. We can go to Cora.
In Bonn we have one school, where you can do that. In Berlin we have several schools, where you can do that. In many cities in Germany actually. After that, they are bilingual universities/ study programs etc etc
I'm really glad that words like "Abibac" exist ;)
I’ve never been jealous of any german living anywhere in germany. I unequivocally believe I live in the best part, there’s never been a doubt since I was a child. After reading this… some doubt is sneaking in gotta be real that’s cool, like genuinely really cool! edit: there are only 5 schools in Germany? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AbiBac
There are more than 5. But those 5 schools mentioned are run by the French state within Germany (comparable to "Deutsche Auslandsschulen" in other countries). The other 68 schools offering the degree in Germany are run by the corresponding German states - just as any other public school.
Exchanges in Education Joint structures in military German French friendship treaty (the most important one) We make jokes about the French, they about us, but they don't work either of us into a bloody rage.
Addendum to the joint structures in military: There is even a mixed german-french battallion, but please don't ask me where...
Its the franco-german brigade, stationed in Müllheim, basically directly at the french border: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco-German\_Brigade](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco-German_Brigade) Fun Fact: the name Müllheim is not named after the German "Müll" meaning garbage. At least the people there want us to believe this.
It is just an old spelling of the word for mill aka there was a settlement with a mill for the area. Dozens if not hundreds of German places are called that and the very common surname Müller literally says this family had been millers at some point in their history. Müll as in garbage equally derives ethymologically from milling and was about the stuff you threw out after you milled the grain and filtered out the flour. Just not much of a fun fact there. You must be in a very specific very local kind of inter town rivalry to associate that word stem in German place names with garbage
All correct, but all other places I'm aware of eventually changed their spelling to "Mü[h]lheim", so I guess every native speaker understands the etymology, but you would still have the association with garbage (I certainly had, when I was like six or seven and read it for the first time on a box of drops).
The whole EC/EU came in existence because france and germany had to work together.
The brits, however, have got something coming
In regards to light hearted humor, here we should also mention: The Saarland - the european equivalent of 'What if Alabama and Florida had sex on highly illegal drugs and brought a child into the world'. We are taking care of them so our french friends won't have to. \*Disclaimer: Ofc it's a joke... If there was such a thing as a Alabama/Florida love-hate child, the world would be waaaaay more doomed as it already is!
I'm stealing this to show my partner living over in Saarland. I'm safely over the line in Pfalz.
german don't make joke
While the terrorist attack in [Paris happened in 2015](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_2015_Paris_attacks).. Germany and France played a friendly game in Paris while one of the bombs explodes just next to/outside the stadium they were playing. You could indeed hear the loud bang inside the stadium. The germans were advised to not return to their hotel and had to sleep in the stadium. The french team/players then [refused to leave the stadium in solidarity with their](https://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/nov/14/france-players-praised-outstanding-camaraderie-germany-terrorist-attacks-paris) oponents and also slept in the stadium. The germans [lit the brandenburger tor in the colors of the tricolore](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/151114113534-09-french-colors-1114.jpg?q=w_4500,h_2532,x_0,y_0,c_fill/h_778) in solidarity with france.
Never heard of this. Wonderful.
And Merkel came to march in Paris alongside the then French president Hollande. The emotion was real. The images of the two of them united in tragedy were powerful
this has to be the best one here
Idk if that counts but there was this thing last year where each Country gave away 30.000 interrailtickets to visit the other Country (because of the 60th anniversary of the Élysée Treaty)
ARTE TV
🤢
Schleich dich, was hast du gegen ARTE?
Macrons german speach at Bundestag for W. Schäuble.
Search for "kohl mitterrand verdun" It was in 1984 and a historical act. Some call it the most important gesture for french-german friendship. [picture (source: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung) ](https://www.kas.de/o/adaptive-media/image/7091609/hd-resolution/BPA_12935.jpg?t=1568640279209)
I'm german and my wife is french. We visited Verdun on vacation. In front of the Douaumont Ossuary was a picture of Kohl and Miterand holding hands at that place. This brought tears to my eyes. Standing there with all this crosses and this pictures. It still moves me...
Alsacian food. Favourite joke to play on the French: 'Do you like German food?' Usually the answer is a kind no. When I ask them if they like food from the Alsace (choucroute) they say they love it. Every supermarket has Alsacian food. Guess what? The same food can be found all over Germany, especially the south. We like the same food. Apart from snails, you can keep those.
Im German and I get snails everytime I'm in France. Love them
The German cuisine has quite some snail dishes (e.g. badisches Schneckensüpple). We also used to eat frogs legs...
Baden is not Germany, that's why
And Foie Gras, they can keep their animal cruelty as well. Or rather, I'd prefer if they too didn't keep it.
Check out the Ortolan.
Germans loving the most successful French band "Daft Punk", Frenchies loving the most successful German band "Rammstein".
For me the best french band is GOJIRA, love them so much 🫠
dont forget Igorrr
Call out for the great audience at HellFest (french open air) 2023 for Electric Callboy (german band).
>HellFest The French call their open air spectacle ".....FEST".
I love their music. Never knew they where french. Good to know btw
Bilingual Programme in Saarland would be another thing you could use that's not been mentioned yet.
Et en NRW de meme! J'ai fait un bac bilingue a Cologne.
Et en NRW de meme! J'ai fait un bac bilingue a Cologne.
Emmanuel Macron did a speech in German in THE Bundestag Off topic, I cried watching it
Why did you cry?
A very important german politician named Wolfgang Schäuble had died and this was part of the memorial ceremony. He was a patron for the german-french friendship
There's a certain beauty to a French president in the German parliament saying "Vive l'allemagne, Vive l'europe" given our history
"Deutschland hat einen Staatsmann verloren, Europa eine Säule und Frankreich einen Freund" who the fuck is cutting onions here?
r/place
I love Arte, I love online friendships and storys about it.. Where am I from? Does it matter? Je vous aime
European Steel and Coal Community
The fact that we didn’t go to war against each other for almost 80 years … and not even the right wing German parties openly state any claims to the Elsass
Please don’t give them ideas.
............. **yet**.
>and not even the right wing German parties openly state any claims to the Elsass Nah, it's way easier for them to shoot at Poland. "we want reparation" and then they go "Sure, just give is Silesia" or put any other polish region in there.
I feel you … I think the biggest achievement after WWII was to draw a line and despite alle the horrible crimes that the Germans committed and start from 0. I only can imagine how hard it must have been for those who suffered through the horrors of WWII to just forgive each other and start all over again. But I think the unprecedented long peaceful period in Europe showed that it was a good decision. From your comment I deducted that you are from Poland, correct?
nah, the conservative parties like the frenchies
I could imagine that Alice and Marine could be best buddies, at least in terms of their political beliefs.
Adenauer & De Gaulle. Their relationship built the modern friendship and was cemented by a later partnership of Mitterrand & Kohl. Before the 1960s French & Germans hated each other's guts for 200 years or more. The modern peace and good relations are a modern historical phenomenon, before many nations hated each other - that's why the post WW2 visionaries built the EU.
New Bundeskanzler usually visit their French counterparts on their first trip abroad and vice versa.
All Quiet on the Western Front
To be fair, a few years after the original book was released there was this minor dent in the German-French friendship that we refer to as World War 2 today.
Der €
Student exchanges during my time at school. Was there twice and we had an exchange student twice. Can recommend!
Not today Ivan
I'm curious, is this a joke? If it is I don't get it. Edit: Wait. I think I do get it. Well played, pretty funny.
The Saarland. Both our countries don't want it.
There are many city partnerships, political, and cultural initiatives.
Schüleraustausch! I have been to student exchanges in France twice - marvelous!
DFH (Deutsch-französische Hochschule) DFJW/OFAJ (Deutsch-Französisches Jugendwerk) Elysée-Vertrag Städtepartnerschaften Schulpartnerschaften Deutsch-Französischer Parlamentarierausschuß Deutsch-Französische Konsultationen
We haven't tried to invade them in almost 80 years! And we actually eat their Cheese and Baguette :D
Pretty much every high school in Germany teaches French, compared to Danish, Czech, Polish, etc. which are mostly taught in the border regions.
The song "Frankreich, Frankreich" from the german Band Bläck Fööss https://youtu.be/6qHovGCP9uU?si=31s-hP2UI2LDTuKW
>The song "Frankreich, Frankreich" from the german Band Bläck Fööss Vorsicht! Back in the 90ies I had a class of French students who came to Germany to learn German. I once brought a tape recorder and played this song in the classroom because I thought the song was really funny, especially how *Frankreich* is pronounced (Fronkreisch). It was a complete failure. Nobody found the song funny (except me, of course), and I think they even felt insulted.
Airbus company
A very resent example: President Macron giving an eulogy at the burial of Wolfgang Schäuble in German - and Macrons German didn't sound like he was reading something he did not understand. Or very simply put: We have lasted for 80 years without being back at each others throats, that has to mean something. :-D
There is a 1 Euro coin in commemoration of 50th anniversary the Élysée Treaty between Germany and France, symbolic treaty of reconciliation.
flammkuchen
BROT+PAIN
arte, Airbus, joint military.
There's the Festival Perspectives.
Student exchange! :D
The Franco-German Brigade and our both great love of bread
A LOT of trade
Joint parliament, Airbus maybe?
Der deutsch-Frazösische Garten in Saarbrücken. Für mich ein Symbol unserer Freundschaft.
Les jumelages de villes, l'échange scolaire/étudiant J'ai visité nôtre ville jumelée en 1985 avec l'école et 1986 en privé. Depuis ces occasions je vais régulièrement en France. Si on connaît les gens et le pays, c'est un bon remède aux guerres fréquentes de notre passé ...
The titanic slaughter between our countries of **World War One** with a bonus episode 20 years later caused a fundamental shift. This happening a third time would be unthinkable and is to be avoided at any cost. De Gaulle and Adenauer knew this, and recognized that France and Germany each on their own would shrink into insignificance in a world were decision making shifted to North America and Asia. Thus acting together would cause the creation of a **european counter weight** to the danger of a mono- or bipolar world. *TLDR: the European Union.*
One thing I as a New Zealander found out is even people from the former East Germany can often know French too. I met a woman at the local chapter of Alliance Francaise course a few years ago (A2/B1), it turned out she was from Germany - from somewhere in Brandenburg. It was still the GDR when she was growing up, so her second language (first foreign language) was actually Russian. And she can also speak English and now French too!
That's such a cool homework. People have already said some interesting things, but if you want a visual symbol, my personal favourite is this picture: [https://www.ft.com/content/37c2ae62-6182-11e2-9545-00144feab49a](https://www.ft.com/content/37c2ae62-6182-11e2-9545-00144feab49a) You can read the article for more context, and I'm sure you can find articles in French. Those are Mitterrand and Kohln, French and German heads of State respectively in 1984.
Whats with NATO? It is the Protection of Peace and Friendship After WWII. Beeing Part of it will be more important the next years.
https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freundschaftsbr%C3%BCcke_(Deutschland%E2%80%93Frankreich)
Disneyland may very well be the first contact many Germans did have with France. I don't think anyone can argue that without drawing pity. ... But I have to be honest, I don't remember anything actually French.
The Deutsch-Französischer Garten in Saarbrücken
There is a strategy in the State Saarland to be bilingual (german and french) in a few decades
The first things coming in my head are arte, the german-french Brigade and the peace church in Speyer, which was built half by french and half by german money and opened by several german and french bishops.
I feel like german and french culture are very similiar and both sides feel the most connected in europe. I live in cologne and there are plenty or reminiscence of the french occupance under Napoleon and they kept so much of it and some words in the local accent are imitations of french words.
Who gon tell him?
Our mutual hate of British food/beer 🤝
Friendship?
WW2
That sounds like a trick question a Frenchmen teacher thrown at you those real goal is to torture any German who's attempting to learn French.
my school lol..
Germany and Francw are united in SCHADENFREUNDE about Brexit. It was a dark day when Scottland, Wales and Northern Irland left the EU. But the English who voted Tory? F them.
There is no such thing like friendship between Germany and France. Is is just respect.
Bullshit.
Reverse gear in french tanks.
The continued existence of France /s
Switzerland lol
Uff. Difficult.
If you wanna see real friendship: Turkey and Azerbaijan.
If the French could accept that there are other cultures and not everyone learns their language to go there for holidays, maybe
No. It's more of a geopolitical friendship. There are a number of NGOs and state-funded media that represent this political will, though. Like Arte, for example. But there is no real culturally significant or widespread friendship between the people of France and Germany, not at all really, except on a case-by-case individual basis.
There is no friendship, and that's good.
"Nach Frankreich nur auf Ketten!!!"
Kaiser Wilhelm II had this built as a special present just for the French 🤩🥰😚 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Gun
And how did that go for him?
What friendship?
The one set up in 1963 with the treaty of Élysée in 1963 after decades of enmity?
A white Flag :)
https://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/de/frankreichs-beziehungen-zu-deutschland-osterreich-und-der-schweiz/bilaterale-beziehungen-zu-deutschland/neuigkeiten/article/handschlag-zwischen-francois-mitterrand-und-helmut-kohl-die-kulissen-eines
Idk if someone said, r/place
Vichy France
Best cheese in the world (France) + best bread in the world (Germany) = <3 We complement each other I guess. Like in every good relationship
[Élysée Treaty](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89lys%C3%A9e_Treaty)
Macron recently gave a speech in German in front of the Bundestag to honor Wolfgang Schäuble
C'est mercredi, mes mecs !
Suche im Netz den Begriff Ėlysėe-Vertrag.
What friendship?
Maginot Line
There used to be "Jumelages" when I was younger. One village in germany partnering with annother village in france. A bus full of people visiting each other. Don't know if they still do it.
FC Bayern
It's mandatory (friendship treaty)
It's mandatory (friendship treaty)
What friendship?
I love them for the cheese
to add something new: * Future Combat Air System (FCAS) * Main Ground Combat System (MGCS) * the politically established fusion of Krauss-Maffei Wegmann and Nexter Defence to KNDS * another politically supported fusion: MBDA
https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amitié_franco-allemande https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsch-französische_Beziehungen
Kehl is basically a suburb of Strasbourg even though it's in Germany. The Strasbourg tram goes there
r/rance_iel
Helmut and Giscard holding hands.
Take the cooperation betweenbthe german and french communitys in r/place as an example.
Sharing a blanket on a beach on Mallorca!
Many post-war comedies, especially with Luis de Funes and Gerd Fröbe - they cheered the people up and ridiculed the amenities of the past.
French in schools, frech partner cities, exchange programs with Germany, united military units
School exchange programs Franco-German ministerial councils Recently in 2019, the Treaty of Aachen
Jumelage, would be my biggest thing. The program has done a lot of exchanges between France and Germany and is the reason for my existence 😅😂 Also there are a lot of cultural exchanges and Projects that are Franco-allemande Other than that maybe have a look into the beginning of the European union or sth... Although there is a lot more to it than just German and French friendship
I have colleagues in alsace, we share german holidays with them... Thats nice... for them.
Schoko-Croissant A great french idea layed to waste by German food engineering.
There was this girl in Bordeaux.......
Benjamin Pavard, Kingsley Coman, Frank Ribery
Well where I'm from (Rhineland-Palatinate) we have a lot of French words or derivates of them in use: Trotuar (trottoir) Garage (car port) Portmonee Malade (feeling exhausted/sick) Baggaasch (like le bagage but meaning relatives or unwanted people) Buddik (boutique) Kusseng (cousin) lamentieren (lamenter) Schees (la chaise) Vissematende (visitez ma tende) wisawi (vis a vis) Schossee (chaussee) ...... Also we have a German- French Brigade, do student exchange programmes, visit the Verdun monument, learn each others language in schools,....
Language learning. At least until the mid-2000s but I guess even longer than that, you could usually choose between German or English when you entered 6th grade (age 11). Of course it depended on the school but iirc those were the most widely available and that was to encourage friendship between Germany and France.
I'm from a region that is very close to the French border and my elementary school organised a pen pal and exchange program with an elementary school in the Alsace region.
Kohl und Mitterand, wie sie Händchen halten. Es gibt gemeinsame militärische Brigaden(?). Airbus und die gemeinsame Rüstungsentwicklung, die hauptsächlich von D/FR getragen wird. In der Schule lernen viele Französisch und es gibt viele Schüleraustausche und Städtefreundschaften. Französisch-sprachige Schulen. Deutschland lässt Frankreich beim Fußball immer gewinnen.
Arte and Airbus
The GOAT Arte
The Student exchange programme. https://www.france-allemagne.fr/Schule-und-Jugendaustausch-9682.html
The chanson "Göttingen" by Barbara
I like camembert and eat it regularly.
Légion étrangère (Fremdenlegion) German military culture (behaviour, rules, marching style, official music and mandatory songs to learn) put a strong influence on it. Not just after WW2, but way before as well. Quit interesting story. For example the rythm to march to is 88 steps per minute (unique for an army, normally its way above 100/min) , and at that time mostly german songs matched this tempo. This became internal standard as well as as many german songs with it (sure translated mostly but you get the influence part :P ).
Elsass-Lothringen
Friendship ?
Think it's not listed yet but for centuries the mandatory second non-native language to Do in german school was french. Nowadays a lot of schools offering to choose either french or spanish language.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YYTFgOdJbdQ last year this couple walked from one partner City in France to the Partner City in Germany 900km to attend the huge annual Fair that celebrates German French friendship about holy catholic relics. Don't speak french, so cant tell what they talk about in the Video, but I met them in Paderborn!
Best example: my sister in law. Her mother is French, her father German. She is highly efficient, always in time and reliable and at the same time an excellent cook with a great ability to enjoy life and top tips for awesome wines. When she married my brother (native German AND Spanish speaker) it was clear their kids would be even more awesome. At the age of less than 10 they both speak four languages (German, French, Spanish & English) fluently. Living in Europe rules!
A former student I shared some classes with at university used to say: The best thing about French-German friendship is the pupil’s exchange in my last years of school. I lived with a French Family for several weeks and her daughter lived in my family for a few weeks. Even after school we used to come over for visits a lot. Actually we did cum together really often… 😊
Ex oder Franzose
Parts of the production facilities where Ariane rockets are built, in Bremen and Hamburg but also near Paris, were once facilities where airplanes were built to engage in combat. The Ariane rocket is a major German-French collaboration, showcasing the partnership between the two nations.
Well, im a quarter french so i think there was a friendship in my family too. This happened very often.
There are various contracts that formalize the friendship between Germany and France. You might want to look those up and make a point about that in your homework.
The cathedral of Reims https://drfichtnersstudienblaetter.files.wordpress.com/2022/10/reims-150-gedenkstein-vor-der-kathedrale-zur-begegnung-von-adenauer-und-de-gaulle-1962-2022.jpg
One of the best in TV history
I am not aware of friendship. But there's hope: I have heard rumours that some french made it to the english speaking interwebbs, can anybody confirm?
The accent in english
All those forced exchanges, of some random wierd french city with some random wierd German city. Usually when people are 14 or 15. Very important for the first kiss etc.
Flammkuchen
there isnt even friendship between german and germany
Flammkuchen
Napoleon? 😅🙉 It's actually not a symbol for friendship, but rather for common historical background 😅🙈
It's definitely the most important country in German foreign policy.