In 2006, as a series accompanying Germany hosting the World Cup in soccer, Spiegel Online’s English edition ran a “guide to the Germans.” I wrote a few humor columns for the series, which was one of Spiegel Online’s major traffic generators while it ran.
One on German negativity and how to deal with it.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/the-dark-side-optimists-are-idiots-a-416230.html
One on how to cope with the German stare and glare:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/the-germanic-stare-down-watcha-lookin-at-granny-a-418068.html
and one without a byline, for my writing partner’s sake – a he says, she says rundown on Teutonic mating rituals.