History UsefulNotes / TheStudentenverbindung

* UpperClassTwit: The stereotype (which has been [[SelfDeprecatingHumour affectionately adapted by ''Couleurstudenten'' themselves) dictates that fraternity students are invariably snooty, brand-obsessed upper-middle class types that wear as their TrademarkClothing ''Ray-Ban'' glasses, pastel-coloured polo shirts, folksy Janker jackets, waxed ''Barbour'' coats, garishly-coloured slim corduroy trousers and ''Timberland'' deck shoes. Basically, they're considered the dark European twins of the [[WhiteAngloSaxonProtestant WASPs]].

* UpperClassTwit: The stereotype (which has been affectionately adapted by ''Couleurstudenten'' themselves) dictates that fraternity students are invariably snooty, brand-obsessed upper-middle class types that wear as their TrademarkClothing ''Ray-Ban'' glasses, pastel-coloured polo shirts, folksy Janker jackets, waxed ''Barbour'' coats, garishly-coloured slim corduroy trousers and ''Timberland'' deck shoes. Basically, they're considered the dark European twins of the [[WhiteAngloSaxonProtestant WASPs]].

* UpperClassTwit: The stereotype (which has been affectionately adapted by ''Couleurstudenten'' themselves) dictates that fraternity students are invariably snooty, brand-obsessed upper-middle class types that wear as their TrademarkClothing ''Ray-Ban'' glasses, pastel-coloured polo shirts, folksy Janker jackets, waxed ''Barbour'' coats, garishly-coloured slim corduroy trousers and ''Timberland'' deck shoes. Basically, they're considered the dark European twins of the [[WhiteAngloSaxonProtestants WASPs]].

* UpperClassTwit: The stereotype (which has been affectionately adapted by ''Couleurstudenten'' themselves) dictates that fraternity students are invariably snooty upper-middle class types that wear as their TrademarkClothing Ray-Ban glasses, pastel-coloured polo shirts, folksy ''Janker'' jackets, waxed Barbour coats, garishly-coloured slim corduroy trousers and Timberland boat shoes. Basically, they're considered the dark European twins of the [[WhiteAngloSaxonProtestants WASPs]].

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* ''Krambambuli'': A ''very'' [[LongSongShortScene lengthy-and-usually-abbreviated]] song espousing the divine-like attributes of the ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feuerzangenbowle Feuerzangenbowle]]'' - a special seasonal punch (and ostensible panacea, for everything from broken hearts to bullet wounds). Appropriately, it's sung, with increasing speed and vigour, during ''Krambambulikneipe''.

* ''Krambambuli'': A ''very'' lengthy song espousing the divine-like attributes of the ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feuerzangenbowle Feuerzangenbowle]]'' - a special seasonal punch (and ostensible panacea, for everything from broken hearts to bullet wounds). Appropriately, it's sung, with increasing speed and vigour, during ''Krambambulikneipe''.

* The Russian-language Latvian fraternity ''Arctica'' produced a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMkguef3DZo short-film-cum-music-video]] for the ''Krambambuli'' song, featuring various staples of fraternity imagery.

* ''Krambambuli'': A lengthy song espousing the divine-like attributes of the ''Feuerzangenbowle'', and how there can be no substitute for it. Appropriately, it's sung, with increasing speed and vigour, during ''Krambambulikneipe''.

* In the mini-series ''Füxe'', a student rents a room from a ''Corps'', and ends up joining as a titular ''Fuchs''.

* ''Gaudeamus igitur'': An anthem that is regularly sung by most fraternities at most formal events. At its essence, it lauds students and student life, university, the country, admonishes sadness, mockers, and the devil, and warns the listeners that [[MementoMori their lives are short]] and [[CarpeDiem easily spent uneventfully]].

* In ''Film/TheLifeAndDeathOfColonelBlimp'', Lieutenant Candy winds up picking a fight with a German agitator who turns out to be a ''Burschenschafter'' in turn-of-the-century UsefulNotes/{{Berlin}}, which quickly spirals into a minor diplomatic incident with the entire German army officers' corps demanding ''Satisfaktion'' from him. Both Candy and his opponent end up limping away from the duel with scars, though Candy - in stark contrast to the ''Burschenschafter'' - decides to grow a moustache over it.

* In ''Film/TheLifeAndDeathOfColonelBlimp'', Lieutenant Candy winds up picking a fight with a German agitator who turns out to be a ''Burschenschafter'' in turn-of-the-century UsefulNotes/{{Berlin}}, which quickly spirals into a minor diplomatic incident with the entire German officer's corps demanding ''Satisfaktion'' from him. Both Candy and his opponent end up limping away from the duel with scars, though Candy - in stark contrast to the ''Burschenschafter'' - decides to grow a moustache over it.

* In ''Film/TheLifeAndDeathOfColonelBlimp'', Lieutenant Candy winds up picking a fight with a German spy who turns out to be a ''Burschenschafter'' in turn-of-the-century UsefulNotes/{{Berlin}}, which quickly spirals into a minor diplomatic incident where the entire German officer's corps demands ''Satisfaktion'' from him. Both Candy and his opponent end up limping away from the duel with scars, though Candy - in stark contrast to the ''Burschenschafter'' - decides to grow a moustache over it.

* In ''Film/TheLifeAndDeathOfColonelBlimp'', Lieutenant Candy winds up picking a fight with a German spy who turns out to be a ''Burschenschafter'' in turn-of-the-century [[UsefulNotes/{{Berlin}}]], which quickly spirals into a minor diplomatic incident where the entire German officer's corps demands ''Satisfaktion'' from him. Both Candy and his opponent end up limping away from the duel with scars, though Candy - in stark contrast to the ''Burschenschafter'' - decides to grow a moustache over it.

* In ''Film/TheLifeAndDeathOfColonelBlimp'', Lieutenant Candy winds up picking a fight with a German spy who turns out to be a ''Burschenschafter'' in turn-of-the-century [[UsefulNotes/Berlin]], which quickly spirals into a minor diplomatic incident where the entire German officer's corps demands ''Satisfaktion'' from him. Both Candy and his opponent end up limping away from the duel with scars, though Candy - in stark contrast to the ''Burschenschafter'' - decides to grow a moustache over it.

** In ''Film/TheLifeAndDeathOfColonelBlimp'', Lieutenant Candy winds up picking a fight with a German spy who turns out to be a ''Burschenschafter'' in turn-of-the-century [[UsefulNotes/Berlin]], which quickly spirals into a minor diplomatic incident where the entire German officer's corps demands ''Satisfaktion'' from him. Both Candy and his opponent end up limping away from the duel with scars, though Candy - in stark contrast to the ''Burschenschafter'' - decides to grow a moustache over it.

* The aptly-named ''[[Literature/ThreeMenInABoat Three Men On A Bummel]]'' devotes whole passages to describing German student fraternity life from an English perspective, including the ubiquitous ''Mensur''.