Funny German names

just got a memo from a person named "Irene Krapp"

hee hee

not as funny, but there's a guy in my class named Bodo. I have trouble saying it.

haha, i just checked our company phone list and we have a Tom Ass, a Marge Cocks and a Birgit lösser.

The girl who used to share my office has someone on her project called Schittekatter and there is also a woman who works here with the fine forename of COCKY.
Do I win?

Katrina
PS Both of these people are Dutch though.

We used to have a customer called Herr Brunch who shared an office with a Frau Pfannkuchen... !

When I went to the police station about my stolen mobile phone, the woman who dealt with it was Frau Hamster.

The Obi in Martinsried has a Herr Killer, or at least used to about two years ago.

He said it was a Bavarian name, but didn't know anything deep about its roots.

I work with someone called A. Killer. She's nice though (but the nice ones are always the worst!).
Katrina

Cool. Another opportunity to mention the (town) name to beat all others. Wank.

my collegue and good friend is called Langohr. i like that one. my bf went to high school with a guy Axel Schweiß.

theres a girl in the school where i work called 'ufuk' (say it ooh-fook) how unfortunate!

My last dentist was called Dr Fuchs and there were no dots above the "U"!

My German teacher was Frau Bonk.

Everytime it used to make me grin... Every damn time...

Who's quoted on the front page of this weekend's Abendzeitung? None other than Mr. Lutz Cuntzsch, jury member in the Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache (GfdS) "word of the year" contest...

One of my favourites was a guy I used to know here in Munich with the enviable surname of Bumgartner.

I know a guy called Fuckner. Its not too bad in German, but I've actually heard him introduce himself in English and said it exactly the way you wouldn't. He's often known as Fucki (pronounced kinda like fookey)

I'm guessing he's already done this to death, but Jamal may like to know that Schleswig-Holstein also has a Wankendorf - now thats a village where nobody shakes hands.

Not German, but in Munich:

New Japanese restaurant on Georgenstrasse in Schwabing is called:
Fuku

On an email mailing list that I was once a member of, there was a german guy whose surname was "Wanker".

To that I can add a bodypainter mate of mine, "A. Wanke".

There's a breakdown recovery service somewhere in or around Munich called Wankmüller. I see their trucks every so often and it always makes me snigger.

Crosslink by admin: Wankmüller photo

Seems like every third or fourth guy at my place of employ is called 'Helmut'

stefan kuntz.

scored equaliser v eng euro 96. true kuntz.

Although this is strange German names, I work in Electronics and used to deal with a customer called 'Wayne Kerr Electonics'

Trying to speak to the guy without laughing was near impossible.

There's a street just off Rosenheimerstr called:

Rimstinger Straße

Ouch!

There isa chineese restaurant call "Man fat"

Ooer.. missus

G

I still giggle whenever I see a sign for "einfahrt" or "ausfahrt" ... heheh

...and that coming from a female named "willy"!

A pity that you don't know more women nicknamed 'willy' ...

I talked to a Herr Fleischhacker in the German consulate in India. Thought this was slightly absurd for a very vegie country.

I was arranging visitor visas for Indian software engineers.

And we must all be fascinated by the town of Fucking in Austria.

Since this is April fools and I coincedentally got a flyer for Fuku Japanisches Restaurant in the mail, I decided to add my 2cents. www.fuku.de is the address they give, but sadly it doesn't work.

The lady at my Tengelmann, the mean lady is obviously Eastern European.
Her name is Stankovick.

So the next time I have a meeting with a German Wanker(s), I will definitely arrange to meet at the FuKu...

have a great time in Austria...

There used to be a driving school with a big sign outside in Glockenbackviertel:

Willy Fuchs

Klaus Fuchs spied for the Russians on the Los Almos project.

He got his revenge for having a silly name by giving WMD to a mad dictator.

O.K., O.K., my turn now. This is not a person's name - but why is Vick's nasal spray / Vapo rub spelt with a 'W' here in Germany?

Just sent a fax to a Ms. Dussel in Amsterdam - apparently Dussel means "Dimwit" in German...

@bubbylady
That is a really funny town name.
Did you take that picture yourself? You could send that into the Jay Leno show or something for his funny signs collection.
Or where did you find it?
I was so amused I copied it and set it on to a couple of my friends back home.

I thought that town names like "Pulling" (near Freising) were funny. But this tops it all!
Or even the town names in Germany that have literally funny names "Darmstadt" (intestine town), Essen (To eat/eating), Singen (to sing/singing), Miesbach (wretched creek) and so on...

I went to college with a guy named Harry Willy...I'm not joking. But, he was so cool, noone cared.

A guy at work is called "Dieter Horni".
That sounds like it's straight out of Austin Powers.

speaking of funny road signs. the other day on the road from pullach to wolfratshausen I saw a sign that reads "rasen toetet"

what? attack of the killer lawn?

Der Rasen is a lawn, yes. But it's also a verb that means to speed or to rush.

Speed kills.

Because all around the world we pronounce it the same. V-V-V-Vicks!

btw: Fuku has karaoke! Every night is FcukYouKaraoke night!!!

The lifts in one of our buildings are made by the company Schindler. It makes me smile when I read the sign saying "Schindlers lifts". Maybe just a warped english humour!

What about BUMMSTRASSE some where in Munich, and a name Claudia von Hintern?
Mark Fickler

What about the town called Petting.
A Spa town in the south east of Bavaria.

On my recent trip to the French Alps, I passed through the lovely town of Pussy.
(Unfortunately didn't get a photo of the town sign)

It's so small that they don't have a website but I found a website for a travel agency/hotel there...

Hotel

The title of the page translated into English is "Hotel Pussy Cheap-.."
Scrolling farther down is really funny too. Especially if you understand a little French!

i still laugh when i get on the U3 towards olypiazentrum and have to go through
bon(n)erplatz! of course the next stop is scheidplatz and a scheide is a vaginal cavity. i know, 3rd grade humor!

@Elf
I've ridden the bus to Scheidplatz and must admit to having unpure thoughts as well. Aren't we bad?

That's a new one on me Elf. We just refer to it as Shiteplatz due to the German 'D'/'T' similarity.

A colleague of mine just brought in a package of Super Dickmann's Super Grand Chocolate Balls; which brings out the Inner Beavis in me...