BNA INDIA - March / April 2015

LEARN GERMAN - LESSON 2
German language
German-speaking world
produced some of the
t revered filmmakers of
0th century – from Fritz
to Rainer Werner Fasser,
Wim Wenders and a
generation of transnal
directors such as Tom
er and Fatih Akin. Gerand
Austrian filmmakers
h as Lang, Billy Wilder
d Ernst Lubitsch also
ped the history of Hollywood.
ermany is
ome to nuerous
international
rporations.
ermany is
the world’s
cond-largest
exporter.
German has the
largest number
of native speakers
in the European
Union (far
more than English,
Spanish, or
French).
German is the language of
Goethe, Marx, Nietzsche,
and Kafka, of Mann, Brecht,
and Grass. Mozart, Bach,
Beethoven, and Schubert,
Brahms, Schumann, Wagner,
Mahler, and Schoenberg
spoke and wrote German, as
did Freud, Weber, Einstein,
and Heisenberg, Kant, Hegel,
and Heidegger.
The German economy
ranks number
one in Europe and
number four worldwide.
Its economy is
comparable to that
of all the world’s
Spanish-speaking
countries combined.
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