David Hasselhoff Reveals Why He's So Famous In Germany
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- čas přidán 15. 08. 2024
- David Hasselhoff is an international superstar, but his fanbase in Germany has a very special relationship with his music. On New Year's Eve 1989, David's song “Looking for Freedom” became an anthem for liberation when he sang it above the Berlin Wall where fans on both sides watched him. It was such a historical moment that a "David Hasselhoff Museum" was built right in Berlin.
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Whenever David Hasselhoff comeback to Austria or Germany und gives a Interview or a Performance on national Television......the People goes absolutley crazy! David goes to the people, dance with the people...you can touch him! Hes a real Superstar! Back in the day.... i loved "Night Rider" and "Baywatch"!
That’s proof that he’s was and to a degree still is at the very least a cult figure there.
Knight Rider not Night Rider
Hasselhoff IS a legend. You younger crowd who think he's a joke cant understand that because you dont know the hardships of Polish and East Germans before 1989. Knight Rider and Baywatch was some of the few American pop culture they had. Can you blame them? Hoff appeared to them singing out of nowhere during a time they finally had access to a free world that you were already born into.
Hallo I'm german, and thiz guy is truly the biggest star in germany.
Believe me...
lol
Hahahahaha
Quelle: "Vertrau mir Bruder"
We consider him GERMAN & we LOVE him!🇩🇪❤🇺🇸🍺🍺🍺
I thought he was German before, just from his name lol
The Hoff Is A LEGEND!
Its one of my dream to meet David Hasselhoff, I mean I grew up with Knight Rider, may you live longest man!❤
If you guys read comments from Germans saying that Hasselhoff is not famous in Germany, then it's because I suppose they are too young to know it. He definitely was famous. No doubt about that. Maybe today it looks and feels like he became a parody of himself, but this is the same as with all other things from the 80ies (and 70ies). You don't dress and style like people from the 80ies in your todays life, you do it at max for a costume party or carnival. But it was cool back then. So you will never see him today the way we did in the 80ies, but still he is an icon and we connect certain feelings and memories of the past with David.
Well, I was born in 1968, he had one hit and one big TV series in Germany, both admired from children, but he was never relevant, that is his mindset.
I’m born 78 I had one friend who was a fan and that’s it
@@HerraTulitikku So he was like many music performers, they had some success and peaked and then, they kind of fade away, but still have their old fans.
@@HerraTulitikku he literally played the turn of the year 1989 to 1990 at the Berlin Wall.
that obviously wouldn't have happened if he hadn't been somewhat of a big deal at least back then.
David have music album last year and give concert. He is always famos!😉
Oooh please ... I’m East German we couldn’t even watch Knight rider before the fall of the wall. His song came out at the same time that’s all. Oh and we did learn English in school, Russian was just our first second language, English our second.
Hallo Ann, Danke fur the aufklarung (sorry for the lack of umlauts), let me continue in English.
When my brother and I were in Berlin in 1998 we met an East German guy my age. And something became very clear to me. We in the West were *like now with the covid madness* subjected to incredible state propaganda about the Eastern Block. Stupid things like empty stores, houses being bugged 24x7. And STASI following people all the time and being your colleagues. All of it was over exaggerated western propaganda. Sure it wasn't fun, but not worse than the totalitarian idiocy, most countries pushed on their citizens during this "pandemic" for a run of the mill virus.
@@rdoetjes you are absolutely right, I don’t even know why all western countries think it is different where they grew up every country does surveillance, ok East Germany did it to an extreme lol
@@rdoetjes if you want to write an ä just press on your cell the a a little longer and chose the ä or just write an ae it’s the same 😉
He just was at the right place at the right time with the right song. But believe it or not, Hasselhoff already had a cult following with his music in West Germany and particularly in Austria from the very beginning of his music career. Austria is where Hasselhoff’s music was particularly successful.
@@rdoetjesit wasn’t just a “run of the mill virus”- they had to store dead bodies in refrigerated trucks in multiple states because the morgues were full. Even Trump says to get vaccinated!
...and in reality, many people in Germany don't take him seriously, because he pushed his narrative to absurdity. He is like this strange uncle in the family which tells the story of his life over and over again and the story grows and grows and grows.
Ahaha I was writing the same thing about Germany. It's more like a running gag (one day fly hit) and retrostalgia.
His New Years concert on the wall, set the scene and Germans love, cheesy pop songs that they can song along with. That's why Heino, Udo Jurgens and Peter Alexander also lasted for ages ;)
That’s him being an American. We Americans are notorious for practically mythologizing ourselves and everything we’re about to sell ourselves constantly.
Hoff is a legend not a joke. Younger generation like you born during peacetime would never understand. Ungrateful brat.
I have lived in Germany for 27 years and the whole things has been a bit of a joke here. Germans think it’s funny how Americans believe is a huge star here( he is not).
And yet everybody in Germany, Austria and Switzerland knows him.
He is.
He is not a huge star, he is just as known as many many other American actors. But us Germans like to make fun that he really thinks that he had any impact in Germany reunification, which was inevitable at that point and due to the breakdown of the soviet union. Hasselhoff has nothing to do with that and us Germans love to make fun of how little historic understanding one must have to believe that. Its like saying that Beyonce is responsible for Barack Obamas win just because she used to perform at his inauguration. So weird.
Once you’ve been a star in America, you’re a star everywhere.
Is it not true though that at least in the early 1990’s, Hasselhoff was fairly popular in music in German-speaking Europe, at least on a cult level?
If that doesn't become the show's theme, they are insane.
Remember Knight Rider and Baywatch, Kelly?! I always have been there, should do!
The way he said. "Its for sale. With a completely straight face 😂
Awesome
Wow he singing top now again!!
I love Kelly she seams like a down to earth person
Hell yeah i love the theme song!!!
When are you going to open up your audience to fans outside of USA? I have been trying to get tickets for 2 months last year and got rejected to realise it is because I am outside USA. Kelly has a lot..like a lot fans outside USA. I have grown up with her. I am originally from Eastern Europe...
Perfect to see a not even German guy be basically be the most important guy in our whole country
So handsome:)
Hats off. HES HOTT!!!
Omg love them together
Volkersen Germany is where David’s great great grandmother was from so he is of part German decent.
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David is the BEST ❣️❣️❣️🎤🎧👌😍🤩👏
Very cool story,
"The coaches are all we have left." lmaoooo
My mom was a waitress at Resorts Casino in Atlantic City, NJ in the late 80's. David Hasselhoff came in to her restaurant, ordered almost $300 in food, and didn't leave a tip.
A friend of mine met him at sea world when he was about 7 years old. He asked D.H. for an autograph. D.H. responded with _"You got $20 bucks?"_ my friend said _No?_
D.H. responded with _"then, get lost kid!"_ and shoved my friend out of his way.
Our mutual contempt for David Hasselhoff is in fact, the reason we ever became friends.
To be very honest it may have been that being in New Jersey… well let’s put it this way. New Jersey people are not known to be particularly friendly instead taking the more straight forward and more rude like behavior that they are known for. So maybe didn’t think that the extra tip was warranted.
On the other hand with your friends asking for David Hasselhoff’s autograph ✍🏻 when he was 7 years old but David asking for $20 for the privilege…. When I go to actor comic con like events all the actors ask for $20 or more for an autograph so that doesn’t surprise me that he would also ask that. What I don’t get is David should then have said it to mean more of a joke to the 7 year old whom must be a fan of his asking at that young an age and gave him the autograph free of charge. That is very rude on David’s part. But I understand David grew up in Maryland so maybe being east coast that explains why he was rude to the poor child.
In addition I want to add I’m a David Hasselhoff fan and never met him. So I decided to make an effort and spend thousand of dollars for myself and my wife to fly to California from Minnesota at the time in 2012 for the very special one of a kind event of a 30th anniversary reunion of the actors who played in Knight Rider. As did many others who flew in from all over the world to be able to attend. All the actors except David Hasselhoff showed up. We as fans were all disappointed as he could have shown up the last minute. But he declined to show up to meet his most ardent fans that would spend there own money to go and attend this and stay at a hotel where this was going on. Most of the actors when asked didn’t say much about David being a no show and he clearly knew in advance the T.V show that made him famous was going on anyhow with out him despite him being the lead star of the show. I could tell when I asked them about him they didn’t like him and for what he did to his fans. I don’t believe the actors and producers who also made an effort to attend charges to be there. Some were charging for autographs and most did not charge. So there could have been an opportunity for him to charge for autographs also. But didn’t likely bother to attend because either the fee to show up at the event was not high enough for him or there was no fee. Clearly David all that he cares about is the money 💴 and not at all about his fans or fellow actors he worked with over the years that he may have hurt. On the whole is clearly is not the “one man can make a difference” character he pretended to be in “Knight Rider”
@@jasonknight5863 you could have told your story without implying that my mother was somehow rude or otherwise unfriendly. I can assure that my mother has never been rude to anyone in her entire life.
He’s got sort of a perennial George Hamilton-esque tan, though David’s got more of a pinkish undertone, while George had more of an olive-y complexion.
He's beginning to look like Bob Barker :o
Kelly clarkson David hasselhoff plays Mitch buchannon during a T. V show called baywatch, baywatch is a lifeguard at Los Angeles county lifeguard baywatch headquarters, Kelly clarkson the lifeguards try to save a person is drown at the beach, they also has lifeguard tower, lifeguard rescue veichle unit.
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Knight rider..oh yeah
THOUGHT HIS ENTRANCE MUSIC WAS KNIGHT RIDER BUT NAH WE GOT THESE TRUMPETS AND SHIT!!!! LIKE you cant introduce David Hosslehaff without knight its just not the SAME
AGREE OR DISAGREEE ?
Bruh is legit
Sorry, but a not very well done parody of the european freedom theme. Only one word fits into the context.
Not a great actor and even worse as a singer.
"SCORPIONS"
did before him and better, singing "Wind of Change". Who played at Music Peace Festival in Moskau and when?
Ask in germany which song belongs to the "Fall of the Berlin wall". And ask further to the east which song belongs to the "tearing down of the iron curtain". In my oppinion its up to 90%-95% "wind of change". Sometimes music can be and do so much more......
But "playbacking" not self-written music and lyrics in a flashing jacket is then not enough. Sorry, no goosebumps!
David Hasselhoff was a bigger celebrity though than the Scorpions. That’s the difference.
Now ThTs how it’s done !!!!!!
Why are they talking across the room to each other?
This was during the Covid period
I loved Knight Rider but he jus got cheesy as the years went by.
I feel that’s part of his charm and likely that’s part of how German-speaking Europe embraced his music in the first place.
...this is HighPitch
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Russian is a better language than English.
Where's the furniture? Lol..also, Kelly please STOP with the air-horn sound you keep making. It's too much.
Ehh, sorry to say it but he is actually considered to be a clown or a mascot in Germany. 🤣
Clowns and mascots still can entertain and bring joy to people
@@RocStarr913 No.🤣
Für dich vielleicht. Du solltest dich nicht hinstellen und behaupten, dass deine Meinung für ganz Deutschland gülte.
For you, maybe. It's your opinion - nothing more. You do not represent all of Germany.
What happened to her furniture? Lol
Don't believe that he's such an icon in Germany. I'm German and I can say that he is definitely not as popular here as he pretends to be. It's so annoying when Americans keep asking me if I'm such a big Hasselhoff fan, too. He probably keeps spreading this myth in America in order to distract from the fact that he is mostly ridiculed in America nowadays.
Aber er ist cool und auf eine Art kult!
Wasn’t he fairly popular in German-speaking Europe at least in the early 1990’s and at least on a cult level? I know he had quite a cult following particularly in Austria. That’s like where he really had music fans supposedly.
being famous doesnt mean you have to like him. he is a well known person and depending on your age you have admit he still famous and will sell out any concert
@@markaurelius2333 Yes, he is famous. But it's not like he is that icon or hero. He was really big in the 80s and he happened to have a weird song that came up around the time the Berlin Wall fell. But I often read that he was one of the reasons the wall fell at the end because of his song. And Americans tend to think he is that big in Germany and everyone knows him, but that's not true anymore.
I think That germans Prefer Lionel Messi and Lewis Hamilton than David Hasselhoff.
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It’s women viewers that made her popular as a talk show host in the first place, likely because they see her as, I hate to say it, a reminder of the girl friend in their lives they pity.
He keeps looking so fit! Incredible!
And David's fame in Germany is over exaggerated. He had a few pop hits there and is a familiar face for sure, but more for retrostalgia.
He's also a running gag. When we were working on a Dutch/German TV show called The Next Uri Geller, and I as a consultant had a black leather jacket akin to Michael Knight, the German crew would always sing: "I've been looking for freedom! I've been looking so long!"
So it's more a satire piece than real fame.
Even in Wales/Cardiff where he has/had a house and been an incredible judge on BGT, he is more famous for that. But I love the Hoff, Knight Rider is such an incredible part of my youth. I actually have a video on my channel where the guy that I consulted for Uri Geller, treated me on an afternoon with the Dutch KITT. And I ended up making a metal theme song. That's how much KITT means to me as almost a 50 year old.
At least, that adds credence to Hasselhoff having had some sort of level of success in music for a few years in German-speaking Europe.
The spoon bending guy??? THAT Uri Geller???