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. 
Hey, a very funny blog… I love reading it. I find so many familiar things in there. I will recommend it to my boyfriend.. I am sure he will enjoy it.. having a German girlfriend he probably could tell a couple of stories, too ;)
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Hell yes! Please let us know how that conversation goes! :) Have a great weekend!
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I’ll let you know what he says:) Btw. I hope you like Hannover.. I live in Hannover, too, so reading about the apartment hunt was kind of familiar ;) You too have a great weekend!
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Thank you Monisbaking! Hope your weekend rocked as well!
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The title alone made him smile ;) I can relate to so many things here.. For example, I will never understand what’s wrong with Kinder surprise eggs? Either I died when I was a child and am now living in some kind of weird heaven WITH Kinder eggs or I survived hundreds of them. We Germans are heroes :) Also, my Denglish will never leave me, no matter how hard I try.. I will always give a gender to everything.. my car, my computer..they are all male for me and my lamp female. I’m sure you know what I am talking about :D Anyway.. these are just two things I find familiar. Have a great weekend.. looking outside the window and seeing Hannover weather makes it sooo easy, right? ;)
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The title alone made him smile :) I can relate to so many things here.. for example, I will never understand what’s wrong with Kinder surprise eggs. Either I died when I was a child and am now living in some kind of heaven WITH Kinder eggs or I survived hundreds of them. We Germans are heroes ;) Also, my Denglish will never leave me, no matter how hard I try. My things will always have a gender.. my car, my computer.. male. My lamp.. female. I’m sure you know what I am talking about. Anyway, these are just two things that I found familiar. Hope you have a great weekend. Looking outside the window Hannover weather makes it sooo easy, right? ;)
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Haw! Great comment, Monisbaking. Yeah, the weather here in Hannover has been gorgeous. Do you think we’re getting an early spring?
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It looks like it, right? But as a German I don’t want to be too optimistic..;) We might get snow around easter again.. on the bright side, snow gives a lot more possibilities to hide the eggs :)
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Haw haw! I like the way you think, Monisbaking. :)
I keep looking at the trees to see if they’re blooming. Still can’t decide.
Thank you for reading and commenting!
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somehow my comment box does not work the way I want and is eating my comments, then spitting them out when I decide to write it again.. you might have another doubled comment again ;) sorry about that.
Anyway, so what I was trying to say (which disappeared) was that I don’t wanna be a pessimistic German, but I don’t want to get my hopes up. It seems like spring today, but might snow around easter again.. easier to hide eggs under the snow, which is the bright side :)
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Totally got it, Monisbaking. No worries. I see duplicate comments all the time, but yours was fine and your point was clear. I even mentioned it to my wife, and we both stared out the window to see if the trees were blooming. (Couldn’t tell.) :)
Talk to you later!
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