Arts and literature
Germany has produced some of Europe's most celebrated composers, philosophers and poets
Music: Beethoven, Bach, Brahms, Wagner
Artists: Hans Holbein, Albrecht Dürer, Max Ernst
Writers: Goethe, Schiller, Thomas Mann, Brecht, Hermann Hesse
Philosophers: Kant, Hegel, Marx, Engels, Nietzsche

Science
Germany is famed for its technological achievements and has produced great scientists, inventors, engineers and industrialists.
Scientists: Albert Einstein, Max Planck, Gabriel Fahrenheit, Wilhelm Röntgen (X-rays), Wernher von Braun
Some inventors, engineers, industrialists:
Johannes Gutenberg (moveable type printing), Hans Geiger (Geiger counter), Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Gottlieb Daimler, Rudolf Diesel, Hugo Junkers

Newspapers
* Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung – a prestigious daily, Suddeutsche Zeitung – a Munich-based daily
* Die Welt – a Berlin-based daily

Food and drink
* More than 1500 different types of sausage
* Black Forest Gateau
* Famous beer brewing traditions

Sport – 27 million Germans are members of a sports club.
* a great footballing nation. Great footballers: Franz Beckenbauer, Gerd Müller, Jürgen Klinsmann
* other popular spectator sports: handball, volley ball, basket ball, ice hockey
* one of the leading motorsports countries;  Formula 1’s most successful driver ever – Michael Schumacher