About Us
I am a graphic designer, illustrator and writer from Portland, Oregon, now working as a freelancer in Hannover, Germany. I am married to a beautiful, smart and (unintentionally) hilarious German woman. She has two Master’s degrees and is currently working on her Ph.D., so she thinks she’s smarter than me. However, I continue to remind her I am emotionally intelligent, which is why I am able to gently explain the shortcomings of German television programming — like the amazingly awful crime show Tatort — without spending more than one night on the couch. Maybe two.
I started ‘Oh God, My Wife Is German.‘ back in August of 2011, but it REALLY started years before, when I began writing down the hilarious things my German wife was saying on a daily basis. I had a stockpile of quotes, denglish mistranslations and priceless idioms saved on my iPhone, just sitting there for us to laugh at during dinner. We started sharing them with our close friends and quickly realized these were not just inside jokes, but actually funny pieces of humor with widespread appeal. I asked her permission to begin a blog with her quotes as the focal point, and she said yes. To this very day, she remains the blog’s biggest fan.
It began with 1 or 2 followers, of course, but grew steadily over the months as people began to take notice. We had a couple hundred followers — which grew to a couple thousand — and then one of my posts about Americans marrying Germans was featured on WordPress.com as a “Freshly Pressed” article, and that gave the blog another bump. After we moved to Germany, I began including posts about culture shock and life as an American expat, and then our readership grew quickly through word of mouth. Before I knew it, we crossed the 10K mark, and new readers starting gathering around us like a bunch of rubberneckers gawking at a flaming car wreck. Since then, our blog has grown to over 200K+ readers.
Our readers are awesome people and I love to hear from them. My goal for ‘Oh God, My Wife Is German.‘ is to make our readers laugh. Plain and simple. That’s why I always post on Monday mornings, when people need to laugh the most. But the one person I truly want to make laugh is my beautiful German wife. She’s the funniest, most wonderful person I know, and really, this blog is just one long love letter to her (written with a near-lethal dose of sarcasm).
Thank you for reading.
Oh God, My Wife Is German. 
thank you for stopping by and liking my post “holocaust remembrance day.” i really appreciate it. taking a quick peek what what you have here, im looking forward to following your blog – creative and very funny. it’s been hard not to laugh out loud at work – good thing the boss is out of the office today haha. love the writing style and humor.
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Thank you Stormy! Such kind words. I really appreciate the encouragement.
And by all means, laugh out loud! Maybe your boss would even join you. :)
Talk to you later!
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I love this blog! Your posts literally make me laugh out loudly! Oh, and my boyfriend says “hi”. He’s British and I am German – he can probably relate to pretty much everything you post.
As for the Denglish: I would like the word “bacony” to become an official part of the English language. There just isn’t any suitable translation for “speckig” ;)
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We’re thrilled you like our blog, Annemarie!
Ooo! “Speckig!” Excellent! I’ll throw that one at my wife right now. :)
Please say hi to your English boyfriend from us! Have a great day!
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My first attempt to order something in McDonals in Germany ended with ordering Blauberry Muffin. My husband laughed for hours. Thanks God the woman that worked there was also immigrant and did not notice. Ever since than, in our household there are no Blaubeeren or bluberries but only blauberries :)
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Haw!
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