David Hasselhoff is still a huge star in Germany, 30 years after the Berlin Wall fell 

It just shows how cynical and jaded people are, especially here in America, and I’m an American myself saying this. Some parts of the world just have a refreshingly different, humble, and more optimistic breed of people.

And postive nostalgia, I mean he is a bit connected with the Fall of the Berlin Wall

But that’s part of Hasselhoff’s charm as an entertainer. He’s definitely a talented singer, otherwise the music career wouldn’t have lasted as long as it did.

Because he is funny and conveys a positive life. I loved him when I was a child and I still like him as a human and entertainer even if you can not take everything seriously.

That’s a real gift. When Hasselhoff first tried to launch a music career in America back in the mid-1980’s, it was all but ignored here, yet enough of Germany and Austria particularly embraced his music from the start.

That's not true. They were known in Hamburg from 1960 on. But the rest of Germany had no clue about them until 63/64, when they became famous world wide.

Fun fact, Heino sold more records in Germany than the Beatles.

No not really just the east germans who are born before the eighties.

“Or so the Germans would have us believe”... and the one German that doesn’t?...you guessed it...Frank Frank Stallone!”

@@norben1162 Shows how LAME the West Germans really are

@@norben1162I was born after the 80‘s and I love him, so your point? Stop generalising.

"which once again proves my theory, Scorpions loves David Hasslehoff"

No, that’s actually not the case. We Germans love Knight Rider and that moment at the wall became a part of our history, we see it every year at october 3rd in tv or social media. I didn’t even know his ethnic is German till now😅✌🏻

@@venkmanny4100 Knight Rider was a television programme that translated to lots of countries and the same could be said for David Hasselhoff’s personality that he brought to the Michael Knight character.

It confuses Americans when their celebrities with so-so talent become superstars in Europe. Two prime examples are Hasselhoff in Germany and Jerry Lewis in France. They became jokes on comedy shows when Americans want to laugh at questionable European tastes.

@@brianplum1825 xd let say we also think this about some american celebrities 😂

It’s part of what makes Germany and the people there so special to me as an American. They take a different view of music entertainers than we do. Here, we tend to either mythologize celebrities and use them as divisive political symbols and avatars or we do what the Brits tend to do when we build them up for the sake of knocking them down. No offence to any Brits out there. I like their country and people very much as well.

He was considered a likable personality to Germans and German-speaking people, particularly the Austrians, even before the fall of the Berlin Wall. That’s a real gift and he definitely was a good enough singer to boot.

It’s frankly what is missing from American culture. Americans have become too jaded and cynical, and I’m an American myself saying this.

Maybe David should have gone to China at that point , he would still be a chinese icon today !

It’s fascinating to us as Americans because his music was never successful here and he was never really associated with music here and there’s a campiness and kitschiness to his image that extended to his music as well.

Oh come in he is kind of cult figure 😆

Liar, liar - your pants are on fire!

Heheh, you folks are a trip

Probably not like he was back in the early 1990’s, but he did create quite a bit of a sensation in German-speaking Europe for a few years. Even before “Looking For Freedom”, he was a cult favorite musically in Germany and particularly in Austria.

he is, just not for the young germans anymore