famous saxons
Who is a famous saxon? Who was born in Saxony? Then Poeppelmann isn't, but the
Berlin painter Heinrich Zille.
Who is famous and lived in Saxony? I think, Terence Hill is an Italian, even if
he spent his childhood in Lommatzsch near Dresden.
Who died in Saxony? Then Richard Wagner and even Augustus the strong do not rank
among it.
Who had his greatest achievements in Saxony? Then also Sigmund Jaehn and
Katharina Witt separate.
About which Saxony do we talk here? The principality, the kingdom or the Land of
the Federal Republic?
And when someone is famous? If you can find his name in the encyclopedia?
The answer is completely simple: Famous saxons are all persons specified on this
side. And some not specified.
Theodor Fontane (a Prussian) wrote about the Saxons: "They are the superior ones,
and their culture superiority is rooted in their education superiority, those not
from the newest date, but is nearly four hundred years old."
Because we saxons are modest, I only mentioned it at the end.
If we were not modest, I would have said: We Saxons have already made a space
flight, when the Bavarians still yodeled on the alpine pasture!
But as said, we are modest.
