Surely you're not doubting the description of the PBS member rewards catalogue of the "traditional Bavarian Christmas pickle" Christmas tree ornament which no German has ever heard of???
I'd say more like a "meme about Germany". We are aware of our love relationship with him, and sometimes play into it for fun, but it's more reactive than active, so we would play along if some foreigner brought it up, but not play the game within Germany.
I'm 20 years old and yes, I know him and "I've Been Looking For Freedom" but I think it's already kind of a part of everyone's common knowledge here in Germany to KNOW about him because all Americans and Britons think we love him haha
As an American myself, it’s one of those things that just gets blown out of proportion. It stood out at the time that David Hasselhoff was fairly successful at the time in music in Germany and people and especially comedians over here just never let go of how we label celebrities once we do. It was a way to stereotype his kind of celebrity. It just fascinated us that he ever had any bit of success in music in Germany. He first launched his music career in America back in 1985 and it was all but ignored here, but the story goes that his first album that he made in America had some success in Austria and that his music continued to sell fairly well in both Austria and even in Germany even before he did “Looking For Freedom.”
I guess I'm part of that german minority that adores him. Being 25, Baywatch and Knight Rider were my jam when I was younger, probably due to my father watching them with me. Obviously I know he's not a good singer and part of my obsession with his songs is certainly ironic, but somehow his songs throw me right back into my warm and fuzzy childhood. Rock on David.
I remember an episode of "Kinderquatsch mit Michael" where a kid sang "I've Been Looking for Freedom". Only, being a German 5-year-old, he didn't speak a word of English and just sang the song the way he heard it, with hilarious and adorable results. If I remember correctly the episode ended with Hasselhoff actually showing up and singing the song again. Just the icing on the cake.
I grew up in Germany, my friends just liked that he had a German name. I seemed pretty huge when all the best music, TV and movies were american. And Knight Rider was the shit, no matter what country you were in.
Saw him at German Comic Con recently. He's getting old but people were queueing for hours for a photo op. If you're quick you can book a one week cruise with him, he'll be singing every day at the captain's dinner (no joke).
Fun Fact..... I've Been Looking for Freedom was the song that was #1 on the charts in germany when I was born. That was in April 1989. I'm still a bit embarrassed about that :D.
One might want to add that Knight Rider was on TV when it transitioned from that "starved" era of only having 3 channels to the era of having hundreds of them. So it got more exposure in Germany than in other countries and was well known to anyone who knew how to switch on a TV. In other countries it was just one more TV series in a sea of thousands...
He is a good singer. He changed from a Action hero to a self ironic comedy artist. In the 80's and 90's he was a role model. Today unfortunetely he build up his former success to shine in it. HE just talk to the germans with phrases like: "Wie gehts, gut?" "Alles klar!" I'm sad to see this. He is in his 60's and pretend like his younger self. I loved him when I was a child. Today I am 38 and thankful for good things he does. He was a role model in a time I need.
It’s like many people who ever had success and a following. They unfortunately become addicted to the adulation that comes with that. It’s quite tragic really.
The kind of people who have been listening to David Hasselhof are the same kind who have listened to Modern Talking, which by the way are very popular in todays Russia and nobody in Germany can fancy out why (maybe another myth). But if there is a song that catched the mood of germany in 1990-91 much better, than i would forward "the Scorpions" with "wind of change", which still has an high approval rate in germany, and nobody has to be ashamed of.
Es gibt ja diesen schönen Spruch zu Hasselhoff, der ein Sprichwort mit einbindet: Wegen David Hasselhoff ist die Mauer gefallen, den der Klügere gibt nach.
Scherzhaft sagt man ja, er habe ganz allein die Mauer nieder gesungen. Never hassel the hoff, oder so. Unvergessen jedenfalls sein Auftritt in Sharknado: Im Erdorbit, Sohn ich habe nicht mehr genug Luft um die 2 Meter zum Shuttle zu kommen, lass mich hier. Steht am Ende des Films auf dem Mond und salutiert. Never hassel the hoff, again.
That’s music in general all over the world really. It’s entertainment. It’s a business. And often, you have records, whether they are singles and albums, that sell very well, even extremely well, at the time and they mainly become an artifact of the period they were made and often don’t transcend it.
Actually, my reaction to a picture of the Hoff would also be 'Oh yeah, THAT guy.' and I'm 17 ... but yeah. That's it. Yet another stereotype I didn't know exists. xD
But isn't Richard Norwegian(-American) or something? Why would he be a big hit in Germany? Ah well, it's prob. the tall, blonde and handsome thing... 🤷♂️
Yeah, I remember that "How I met your mother" episode where they had some German tourists and everybody rightly assumed they would be crazy for David Hasselhoff, and I was like "we are?..."
German TV back in the day: #1 Bay Watch #2 Nightrider #3 some pop music show featuring David Hasselhoff! and playing in front of the freakin' Brandenburg Gate!! DH would have torn down the Wall but he was too busy guarding the swimmers of Malibu (that and the ever-efficient Germans got to it rather quickly...)
In the spring of 1990 I was on a high school euro tour and one night we were watching German tv news in Cologne and up popped The Hoff singing at a safe sex rally, surrounded by seven foot tall cartoonish condom mascots; reservoir tip, ribbed for her pleasure, French tickler, etc. I have been searching for video of it ever since. If anyone has it please post it!
I'm American and REALLY like Hasselhoff's 'Looking For Freedom'! EVERY GOOD country's people can absolutely ENJOY the song lyrically! The music video version could be updated, with either a remastered version to a more serious, EPIC and generally more mature footage of at least three different nations histories WHEN their nations gradually took notice of the concepts of: FREEDOM, CAPITALISM and DEMOCRACY! ✌😁☝🤓🧐👍😎👌
I always saw the popularity of Hasselhoff as a bit ironic. We know he´s silly, but he´s also somewhat charming and doesnt take himself serious, which basically turned him into a bit of an inside joke. A meme, if you will. Another strange situation is with the band Modern Talking, who basically everyone agrees on is horrible, yet their music sold like crazy and everybody knows their songs; its just that no one admits it.
Spongebob - The Movie and also later Kung Fury introduced him to me. I like him as an actor, but his tracks (except the Kung Fury OST) don't fit into my taste of music.
I love the figure of saying a good thing about somebody or something to mean worse. Perfect. Describing the undescribable - like in this case - this hits the nail on the head...
To make it even worse, Hasselhoffs "Looking for Freedom" is the cover version of a flop. The (successless and forgotten) original version of the (successless and forgotten) singer Marc Seaberg dates back to 1978. By the way: Both versions (and an additional one with german lyrics also published in 1978) were produced by Horst Nußbaum (a.k.a. "Jack White"). ruclips.net/video/FwP_SxjPLkM/видео.html
i am 30 and i mainly know Hasselhoff for his role in baywatch that i, being a teen back then, mainly watched as fapping material for the girls. Knightrider was stupid...i mean any new gadget the car got was used and broken in the same episode. Hey here you got a special plating that protects you for 5 seconds from high energy lasers....exact same episode the car gets shot at by high energy lasers for 4.9 seconds...and never again...that upgrade totally was worth it...
Hasselhoff had more success than Psy certainly did. His albums sold well in German-speaking Europe during the early 1990’s and had went Gold and Platinum there, so he had to have had a fair amount of popularity for a time over there.
Hey! Please make a video on "winds of change" soon! It's much more loved, and they are from Hannover. Won't you, please, not let Hasselhoff be the only one in this Mauer-opening place!
Actually "looking for freedom" was originally sung (and released) in 1978 by "Marc Seaberg" ruclips.net/video/FwP_SxjPLkM/видео.html , en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looking_for_Freedom_(song)
It is a given and true fact that Hasselhoff's song "I've Been Looking For Freedom" is not only the greatest piece of art that the Western civilization has ever created and gifted to the world, but also brought down the Berlin wall that divided Germany after WW2. That is not mere correlation but true dependency. If you deny this, you reject not only reality but also insult thousands of Germans who loved K.I.T.T.
I think the Hoff was more popular here then anywhere else in the world. Also I know some of the Hoff devotees in Germany they are rare but they do exists and are fanatic till today...
He’s simply then like many performers who were popular for a time and fondly remembered by their fans as a personal icon of their nostalgia and there likely are enough of them to make his popularity on a cult level.
This is an old video. And you're absolutely right. Bur today I was introduced to The Hoffs new Album. Thank you TV ads. It's basically just ordinary Schlager. It's just strange in my opinion. I'm still confused. Maybe you had the pleasure to see it as well.
As a regard: Hasselhoff's song are not played through Germany, (but the replace might be worse), nore are any images displayed... There is one "museum", I guess in Berlin, about Hasselhoff. The rest is, that his last name is german, which derived from a 1865 traveling of is grand-something-grandma to the US. Secondly for singing at the wall, at the border between eastern and western Germany in 1989. That was a sign back then and still is for those, who were alive back then, especially from east of Germany. And third, Pamela Anderson.
The Hoff is not the only musician that was loved for a few years and then denied since! Roxette, Modern talking, Stefan Raab, ...every few years some idiotic thing pops up, like pokemon go!
Rewboss, you may want to contact Mr. Hasselhoff and tell him where to send your fee for getting him more fans! I knew nothing about him until you made this video. After researching him, I think he is an entertainer who has made it the hard way while not sending messages of woe and dismay. We need more silly entertainment to offset the dreary tedious parts of our lives!
Looking for freedom von David Hasselhoff war übrigens eine Coverversion... das Original war ein 70er Jahre Disco-Song, der aber schon zu der Zeit mehr schlecht als recht war... außerdem fielen da einige zusammen, da Knight Rider, seine "Musik Karriere" und baywatch kurz innerhalb von wenigen Jahren in Deutschland passierten bzw. Ausgestrahlt wurden...
Show a Dutchman a picture of David Hasselhoff and maybe, if they were a teen in 2006-2008, they will mention the parodies of Nightrider and Baywatch made by Mastermovies.
Check out the footage of the mentioned Berlin performance 1989 (just ignore the first 8 seconds - unless you speak Swedish - oh and thanks for clairfying the Hoff mysterium once and for all Rewboss!): ruclips.net/video/MQ5rIbnD_P4/видео.html
I don't even know who David Hasselhoff is ;D OH WAIT! I only know him from "Kung Fury", he did the soundtrack for that. ruclips.net/video/ZTidn2dBYbY/видео.html
Can we also mention that this abysmal song was just an English version of the equally abysmal and 10 years older German song "Auf der Straße nach Süden" by Tony Marshall? ruclips.net/video/LkRBS46Y3Js/видео.html (also notice the expert "clap along" in the video. You couldn't do it that badly if you tried)
Don't forget the mullet, or, as it was called in Germany back then, the "Vokuhila" (Vorne Kurz, hinten lang) haircut. The 1980s were just following the 1970s is decades of bad taste.
David Hasselhoff was the very first actor to play as Nick Fury in a live action Marvel movie called Nick Fury Agent of S.H.E.I.L.D. Samuel L. Jackson was the second.
Back in the day, I absolutely adored Susanna HOFFs, yet reviled and indeed loathed "The HOFF", David, thinking him to be way too much of a HASSEL for my taste.
It had nothing to do with his song. It had to do with him remembering he is German. We loved knowing he came home and took Tony Marshall song in a different way. Auf der strasse nach Sueden. Hush your mouth after all Queen Elizabeth the second was the last German Queen
When I was a kid my mu would put posters if the Hoff on our walls (pretending we were the ones who wanted them and liked the music) er er... And that song came out at the end of the 80's and kinda coincided with the time of when the Berlin wall fell, so there was an additional hype to it and is still always linked with the events of '89. Some even claim hDavid brought the wall down with his song, but I think we can clearly say this is just a myth...
I really think Norm Macdonald has a lot to do with the myth. He built it up for years on SNL.
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Hasselhoff can even be a verb! At one of my previous workplaces here in Germany we had a little tradition. If someone left their desk and forgot to lock their workplace computer, a colleague would change the absentee's pc wallpaper to a picture of David Hasselhoff. The more embarrassing the better. You got hasselhoffed!
Even here in Australia I need to defend Germans against the accusation that we like David Hasselhoff. Truth be told, Hasselhoff is more popular in Germany than he should be. I had a very negative view on Hasselhoff for a long time until I watched the "Jump into my car" video. This video is hilarious, it is proof that Hasselhoff regrets his career choices and is willing to make fun of himself. www.dailymotion.com/video/xzvmw_david-hasselhoff-jump-in-my-car_music
David Hasseloff is the christmas pickle of singers.
Surely you're not doubting the description of the PBS member rewards catalogue of the "traditional Bavarian Christmas pickle" Christmas tree ornament which no German has ever heard of???
Hasselhoff became a meme in Germany if anything. That's how I see it at least.
I'd say more like a "meme about Germany". We are aware of our love relationship with him, and sometimes play into it for fun, but it's more reactive than active, so we would play along if some foreigner brought it up, but not play the game within Germany.
I'm 20 years old and yes, I know him and "I've Been Looking For Freedom" but I think it's already kind of a part of everyone's common knowledge here in Germany to KNOW about him because all Americans and Britons think we love him haha
As an American myself, it’s one of those things that just gets blown out of proportion. It stood out at the time that David Hasselhoff was fairly successful at the time in music in Germany and people and especially comedians over here just never let go of how we label celebrities once we do. It was a way to stereotype his kind of celebrity. It just fascinated us that he ever had any bit of success in music in Germany. He first launched his music career in America back in 1985 and it was all but ignored here, but the story goes that his first album that he made in America had some success in Austria and that his music continued to sell fairly well in both Austria and even in Germany even before he did “Looking For Freedom.”
I guess I'm part of that german minority that adores him.
Being 25, Baywatch and Knight Rider were my jam when I was younger, probably due to my father watching them with me.
Obviously I know he's not a good singer and part of my obsession with his songs is certainly ironic, but somehow his songs throw me right back into my warm and fuzzy childhood. Rock on David.
I remember an episode of "Kinderquatsch mit Michael" where a kid sang "I've Been Looking for Freedom". Only, being a German 5-year-old, he didn't speak a word of English and just sang the song the way he heard it, with hilarious and adorable results.
If I remember correctly the episode ended with Hasselhoff actually showing up and singing the song again. Just the icing on the cake.
David hasselholf is very popular in Germany in terms of nostalgia.
thats right. he is a part of our childhood
Baywatch
That shows that he was popular in music on some level at some point.
"...a dark chapter in history that Germans are trying their hardest to forget." ... David Hasselhoff. Definitely. 😆😆😆
I grew up in Germany, my friends just liked that he had a German name. I seemed pretty huge when all the best music, TV and movies were american. And Knight Rider was the shit, no matter what country you were in.
You forgot to say, that singing the song at the Berlin Wall, broke it completely down.
Ah, the perfect description of the Hoff's singing abilities - adequate.
Saw him at German Comic Con recently. He's getting old but people were queueing for hours for a photo op. If you're quick you can book a one week cruise with him, he'll be singing every day at the captain's dinner (no joke).
OstapK in Dortmund?
How dare you hassle the Hoff!
Fun Fact..... I've Been Looking for Freedom was the song that was #1 on the charts in germany when I was born. That was in April 1989. I'm still a bit embarrassed about that :D.
One might want to add that Knight Rider was on TV when it transitioned from that "starved" era of only having 3 channels to the era of having hundreds of them. So it got more exposure in Germany than in other countries and was well known to anyone who knew how to switch on a TV. In other countries it was just one more TV series in a sea of thousands...
He is a good singer. He changed from a Action hero to a self ironic comedy artist. In the 80's and 90's he was a role model. Today unfortunetely he build up his former success to shine in it. HE just talk to the germans with phrases like: "Wie gehts, gut?" "Alles klar!" I'm sad to see this. He is in his 60's and pretend like his younger self. I loved him when I was a child. Today I am 38 and thankful for good things he does. He was a role model in a time I need.
It’s like many people who ever had success and a following. They unfortunately become addicted to the adulation that comes with that. It’s quite tragic really.
The kind of people who have been listening to David Hasselhof are the same kind who have listened to Modern Talking, which by the way are very popular in todays Russia and nobody in Germany can fancy out why (maybe another myth).
But if there is a song that catched the mood of germany in 1990-91 much better, than i would forward "the Scorpions" with "wind of change", which still has an high approval rate in germany, and nobody has to be ashamed of.
I'm 25 and know him. :D But maybe because my older sister was kind of in love with him back in the 90s.
Shame upon you! :D
Made my Day^^ I love you humor and you got everything right :)
The Hoff has still some followers. But it's more some kind of ironic thing.
He visited the german comic con just a few days ago.
The stereotype of Germans loving him coupled with his German last name are the reasons that I thought he was German for longer than I'd care to admit.
In 2014 he had a talk show on Swedish TV. It only lasted ten episodes and it is said no-one participating in this show was ever seen again.
I tried to keep a straight face during your introduction but I loled when you said singer :D
Es gibt ja diesen schönen Spruch zu Hasselhoff, der ein Sprichwort mit einbindet:
Wegen David Hasselhoff ist die Mauer gefallen, den der Klügere gibt nach.
Scherzhaft sagt man ja, er habe ganz allein die Mauer nieder gesungen. Never hassel the hoff, oder so.
Unvergessen jedenfalls sein Auftritt in Sharknado: Im Erdorbit, Sohn ich habe nicht mehr genug Luft um die 2 Meter zum Shuttle zu kommen, lass mich hier. Steht am Ende des Films auf dem Mond und salutiert. Never hassel the hoff, again.
Show an average 20 year old david hasslehoff and they'll go: "Oh, the guy from the spongebob movie"
"Really cheesy songs do often find their way to the European charts." Well said. It's the shattering truth.
I really dislike the implication, that "cheesy" means bad
That’s music in general all over the world really. It’s entertainment. It’s a business. And often, you have records, whether they are singles and albums, that sell very well, even extremely well, at the time and they mainly become an artifact of the period they were made and often don’t transcend it.
Actually, my reaction to a picture of the Hoff would also be 'Oh yeah, THAT guy.' and I'm 17 ... but yeah. That's it. Yet another stereotype I didn't know exists. xD
Turns out the Hoff is a true survivor. :)
that one was pretty epic (and rather recent!)
Don't Hassle the Hoff 2000!
Thanks god Richard Dean Anderson (MacGyver) didn't sing here in Germany!
He is not MacGyver, he is Brigardier General Jack O'Neall!!! With two "L" :D
There is another O'Neil with one L, and he has no sense of humour.
@@derschattenpoet If he is young-MacGyver. If he is old-the brig. general. 😁
But isn't Richard Norwegian(-American) or something? Why would he be a big hit in Germany?
Ah well, it's prob. the tall, blonde and handsome thing... 🤷♂️
Yeah, I remember that "How I met your mother" episode where they had some German tourists and everybody rightly assumed they would be crazy for David Hasselhoff, and I was like "we are?..."
German TV back in the day:
#1 Bay Watch
#2 Nightrider
#3 some pop music show featuring David Hasselhoff!
and playing in front of the freakin' Brandenburg Gate!!
DH would have torn down the Wall but he was too busy guarding the swimmers of Malibu (that and the ever-efficient Germans got to it rather quickly...)
In the spring of 1990 I was on a high school euro tour and one night we were watching German tv news in Cologne and up popped The Hoff singing at a safe sex rally, surrounded by seven foot tall cartoonish condom mascots; reservoir tip, ribbed for her pleasure, French tickler, etc. I have been searching for video of it ever since. If anyone has it please post it!
Thanks for that video, if I could I would give it 100 thumbs up.
German here. My first reaction to the name "David Hasselhoff" was: "Wasn't he in one Spongebob Squarepants episode and played a speed boat?"
It was in a Spongebob movie. 👍🏼
I'm American and REALLY like Hasselhoff's 'Looking For Freedom'!
EVERY GOOD country's people can absolutely ENJOY the song lyrically!
The music video version could be updated, with either a remastered version to a more serious, EPIC and generally more mature footage of at least three different nations histories WHEN their nations gradually took notice of the concepts of: FREEDOM, CAPITALISM and DEMOCRACY! ✌😁☝🤓🧐👍😎👌
And here in the states, you may see him every 10 years on a "The Young & The Restless" (American soap opera which was his 1st show) reunion show.
I always saw the popularity of Hasselhoff as a bit ironic. We know he´s silly, but he´s also somewhat charming and doesnt take himself serious, which basically turned him into a bit of an inside joke. A meme, if you will.
Another strange situation is with the band Modern Talking, who basically everyone agrees on is horrible, yet their music sold like crazy and everybody knows their songs; its just that no one admits it.
Spongebob - The Movie and also later Kung Fury introduced him to me. I like him as an actor, but his tracks (except the Kung Fury OST) don't fit into my taste of music.
I love the figure of saying a good thing about somebody or something to mean worse. Perfect.
Describing the undescribable - like in this case - this hits the nail on the head...
I'll take Looking for Freedom over Winds of Change any day!
And now, everybody do the limbo dance!
To make it even worse, Hasselhoffs "Looking for Freedom" is the cover version of a flop. The (successless and forgotten) original version of the (successless and forgotten) singer Marc Seaberg dates back to 1978. By the way: Both versions (and an additional one with german lyrics also published in 1978) were produced by Horst Nußbaum (a.k.a. "Jack White").
ruclips.net/video/FwP_SxjPLkM/видео.html
i am 30 and i mainly know Hasselhoff for his role in baywatch that i, being a teen back then, mainly watched as fapping material for the girls. Knightrider was stupid...i mean any new gadget the car got was used and broken in the same episode. Hey here you got a special plating that protects you for 5 seconds from high energy lasers....exact same episode the car gets shot at by high energy lasers for 4.9 seconds...and never again...that upgrade totally was worth it...
Na super, nun habe ich "I am looking for freedom" in meinem Kopf ... ich hoffe das löscht sich wieder automatisch bevor ich auf Arbeit bin :D
Wie wäre es Mal mit einem Video von den Deutschen und ihrer Liebe zu Winnetou? ^^
Wer?
Ich meine, Karl May _ist_ Deutsch.
Ah, yes, Americans, those people who are crazy about PSY.
Right?
Hasselhoff had more success than Psy certainly did. His albums sold well in German-speaking Europe during the early 1990’s and had went Gold and Platinum there, so he had to have had a fair amount of popularity for a time over there.
Hey! Please make a video on "winds of change" soon! It's much more loved, and they are from Hannover. Won't you, please, not let Hasselhoff be the only one in this Mauer-opening place!
Actually "looking for freedom" was originally sung (and released) in 1978 by "Marc Seaberg" ruclips.net/video/FwP_SxjPLkM/видео.html , en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looking_for_Freedom_(song)
It is a given and true fact that Hasselhoff's song "I've Been Looking For Freedom" is not only the greatest piece of art that the Western civilization has ever created and gifted to the world, but also brought down the Berlin wall that divided Germany after WW2. That is not mere correlation but true dependency. If you deny this, you reject not only reality but also insult thousands of Germans who loved K.I.T.T.
I think the Hoff was more popular here then anywhere else in the world.
Also I know some of the Hoff devotees in Germany they are rare but they do exists and are fanatic till today...
He’s simply then like many performers who were popular for a time and fondly remembered by their fans as a personal icon of their nostalgia and there likely are enough of them to make his popularity on a cult level.
We love David! Cause we love everybody on the whole planet!
I hope he has found his freedom. And peace, a lot of peace. Forever..😎
This is an old video. And you're absolutely right.
Bur today I was introduced to The Hoffs new Album. Thank you TV ads. It's basically just ordinary Schlager. It's just strange in my opinion. I'm still confused.
Maybe you had the pleasure to see it as well.
The song I always associate with the fall of the Berlin Wall is "Right Here, Right Now" by Jesus Jones.
As a regard: Hasselhoff's song are not played through Germany, (but the replace might be worse), nore are any images displayed...
There is one "museum", I guess in Berlin, about Hasselhoff.
The rest is, that his last name is german, which derived from a 1865 traveling of is grand-something-grandma to the US.
Secondly for singing at the wall, at the border between eastern and western Germany in 1989.
That was a sign back then and still is for those, who were alive back then, especially from east of Germany.
And third, Pamela Anderson.
Am i the only German here who likes David hasselhoff and used to own multible CD`s ? MADNESS
Yes ;-)
The Hoff is not the only musician that was loved for a few years and then denied since!
Roxette, Modern talking, Stefan Raab, ...every few years some idiotic thing pops up, like pokemon go!
So he was basically like many pop singers that had success for a time.
My cousin and I loved Knight Rider and also enjoyd his music XD
Ahhh... now Heino is a different story, here and in Germany.
I´m a 35 old native german and I had to google the song, because I really didn´t know what you are talking about.
Rewboss, you may want to contact Mr. Hasselhoff and tell him where to send your fee for getting him more fans! I knew nothing about him until you made this video. After researching him, I think he is an entertainer who has made it the hard way while not sending messages of woe and dismay. We need more silly entertainment to offset the dreary tedious parts of our lives!
Don't Hassle The Hoff!
Thank you for putting that right. I just hope that not only germans like me watch the viedeo.
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"Who?"
The guy from the Spongebob movie, of course.
The Hoff is a Schlager star. He is always welcome here in Germany.
Looking for freedom von David Hasselhoff war übrigens eine Coverversion... das Original war ein 70er Jahre Disco-Song, der aber schon zu der Zeit mehr schlecht als recht war... außerdem fielen da einige zusammen, da Knight Rider, seine "Musik Karriere" und baywatch kurz innerhalb von wenigen Jahren in Deutschland passierten bzw. Ausgestrahlt wurden...
Knight Rider...good old happy days.
Show a Dutchman a picture of David Hasselhoff and maybe, if they were a teen in 2006-2008, they will mention the parodies of Nightrider and Baywatch made by Mastermovies.
Check out the footage of the mentioned Berlin performance 1989 (just ignore the first 8 seconds - unless you speak Swedish - oh and thanks for clairfying the Hoff mysterium once and for all Rewboss!): ruclips.net/video/MQ5rIbnD_P4/видео.html
I don't even know who David Hasselhoff is ;D
OH WAIT! I only know him from "Kung Fury", he did the soundtrack for that. ruclips.net/video/ZTidn2dBYbY/видео.html
The Song was Number one of the Charts on my Birth XD
Can we also mention that this abysmal song was just an English version of the equally abysmal and 10 years older German song "Auf der Straße nach Süden" by Tony Marshall?
ruclips.net/video/LkRBS46Y3Js/видео.html
(also notice the expert "clap along" in the video. You couldn't do it that badly if you tried)
as a 23 y/o german, the only thing i remember the hoff for is for starring in the Spongebob movie
The Hoff is huge in Canada!
Hasselhoff is a god in Finland tho... He's a judge in some singing compatitions and was just 5 minutes ago in a finnish commercial.
Don't forget the mullet, or, as it was called in Germany back then, the "Vokuhila" (Vorne Kurz, hinten lang) haircut. The 1980s were just following the 1970s is decades of bad taste.
Most Germans don't love DH.
David Hasselhoff was the very first actor to play as Nick Fury in a live action Marvel movie called Nick Fury Agent of S.H.E.I.L.D. Samuel L. Jackson was the second.
I actually liked his version of the song.
Can i haz cheeseburger?
okey, I'm watching Knight Rider on TV right now and I am 20
Back in the day, I absolutely adored Susanna HOFFs, yet reviled and indeed loathed "The HOFF", David, thinking him to be way too much of a HASSEL for my taste.
aka David Hässlichdoof
a.k.a. David Hassel-nicht-gesehen.
Ihr seid gemein - alle beide XDDD
War Hasselhoff nicht mal eine Wodkamarke?
2manyIce Vodka Hasselhoff - Deutschlands reine Seele.
Das Vorschaubild...
Ich bin blind.
Finally someone who put the claims right. It must be Christmas...
It had nothing to do with his song. It had to do with him remembering he is German. We loved knowing he came home and took Tony Marshall song in a different way. Auf der strasse nach Sueden. Hush your mouth after all Queen Elizabeth the second was the last German Queen
Raisa Gorbachev was under the impression that Americans had a special affinity for Napoleon.
And I so wished, that these light bulbs would go into short circuit. Nice new haircut that would have been. 😉
Forget Hasselhoff and Haino, this times are over. But now a new thread and a even more ghastly plague is there: Helene Fischer!
The new spirit is hating him tbh
I have no idea who he is, but I hate him.
Ich bin ein Rettungsschwimmer
david is was and will always be a legend ....
I've been looking for Freibier...
When I was a kid my mu would put posters if the Hoff on our walls (pretending we were the ones who wanted them and liked the music) er er... And that song came out at the end of the 80's and kinda coincided with the time of when the Berlin wall fell, so there was an additional hype to it and is still always linked with the events of '89. Some even claim hDavid brought the wall down with his song, but I think we can clearly say this is just a myth...
I really think Norm Macdonald has a lot to do with the myth. He built it up for years on SNL.
Hasselhoff can even be a verb!
At one of my previous workplaces here in Germany we had a little tradition.
If someone left their desk and forgot to lock their workplace computer, a colleague would change the absentee's pc wallpaper to a picture of David Hasselhoff.
The more embarrassing the better.
You got hasselhoffed!
I love his song from kungfury
Even here in Australia I need to defend Germans against the accusation that we like David Hasselhoff. Truth be told, Hasselhoff is more popular in Germany than he should be. I had a very negative view on Hasselhoff for a long time until I watched the "Jump into my car" video. This video is hilarious, it is proof that Hasselhoff regrets his career choices and is willing to make fun of himself.
www.dailymotion.com/video/xzvmw_david-hasselhoff-jump-in-my-car_music
I am almost 100% sure that somewhere a German historian has Vergangenheitsbewältigung-ed the shit out of this trauma in the collective German psyche.
Now talk about Rammstein. Please.
I like the song ^^