Since no one mentions that the star wars movie rips off the main theme of the 1st movement of Brahms 2nd piano concerto, let me do it.

I am a german expatriate and always eager to learn about examples of german language comedy.
The problem is that there is no strong culture (or if you want, demand) for sophisticated apolitical comedy (and the political Kabarett is often very dull). From the 90s, I remember Harald Schmidt and a couple of others (e.g.…

That movie and TV stereotype "I know I have some rare medical condition and with a more specialized doctor and more testing, we'll find out" is really a disservice to the millions who have anxiety and, say, IBS, vague dizziness, benign tingling, pelvic pain …. it would be worthwhile to create a list of the most…

Just for completeness sake, Klaus Maria Brandauer (Out of Africa, Never say Never Again) already did a movie about Elser … I saw it decades ago but cannot remember too much.
And there is also that Hollywood script that Michael Bay rejected because he wanted more explosions.

True … but the conservative resistance tried earlier and to my best recollection before Stalingrad (without Stauffenberg).

Elser was precise, just Hitler was not (and his changing schedule kept him alive numerous times). Hitler (Austrian as you know) defied many germanic stereotypes, he was obsessed but not a good worker and in many respects rather an artist-dreamer type, getting up extremely late, being a very lazy reader and writer…

The most remarkable thing IMO opinion is that Elser acted so independently - I believe he had some communist leanings but his family thought he was mostly apolitical. He just thought that Hitler meant war and that it would be best to kill him, but there was no rigid ideological framework (or groupthink or historical…