Cliché

 

 

„Berliner sind faul und ungepflegt“  –  People from Berlin are lazy and scruffy.

,,Hamburger sind unterkühlt und selbstverliebt” – People from Hamburg are passive, numb and narcissistic.

,,Düsseldorfer sind schickimicki” – People from Düsseldorf are chichi.

,,Die Kölner sind plump and korrupt” – People from Cologne  are clumsy and corrupt.

,,Die Frankfurter sind profillos” – People from Frankfurt don’t have an identity.

,,Die Münchener sind klüngelig”  – People from Münchner dawdle a lot.

 

The Bielefeld Conspiracy (‘Bielefeldverschwörung ) is a joke circulated widely throughout the German web. It is satire of conspiracy theories and claims that the city of Bielefeld does not actually exist, but is an illusion propagated by various forces. On May 16th, 1994, computer science student Achim Held of the University of Kiel submitted a message to the de.talk.bizarre newsgroup on Usenet, in which he claimed that he and a small group of friends discovered that the city of Bielefeld did not actually exist. Held speculated that a secret society may be behind the conspiracy, which may have infilitrated the German government. According to a 2004 interview with Held, the joke was inspired by a conversation with an avid reader of New Age magaziines at a student party in 1993.

Zed, Triple. Know your meme. The Bielefeld Conspiracy. 2010. 21. November 2016. <http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-bielefeld-conspiracy>