Hi everyone

My current campaign is set in the wonderful toxic Venice of the North, Hamburg, and I've got some trouble to find good german streetnames for my cast of shadow. Could some German speaking Dumpshockers help me?
I'm not looking for specific streetnames, just a list I could pick some names in when I need to find a streetname on the fly.

Thanks in advance.

Feuerfrau
Hel
Hildegard
Hofmann
Mörder

-Frank

English names are pretty popular, IMHO, as street names, as are other languages.

you have no idea about what would be a good german street-name do you? *g*
i'd only take one of the first two, the other three? honestly? they just plain suck ^^

Problem with names is, that one would need a general Idea of the Character to pick out something fitting . .
for example, would you call a hacker killer? or a mage Gunny?

Yes, there are lots of runners named Killer.

And if you think Hofmann would be a bad name for a shadow chemist or Hildegard would be a bad name for a mage, you sir have no sense of history.

-Frank

nah, not when it comes to physics and magic *g*
Only Oppenheimer has a place in my heart ^^

In my opinion, those who take street names are not the ones to have the education to care about history. I don't really see why people without some exagerated sense of "coolness" would pick some fancy street name anyway. It's more likely, IMHO, that people pick their streetnames for them. Most more intelligent people would probably pick a simple cover name, and their street names would grow from their rep (like "Machine gun Kelly" or so).

Remember "Undercover Blues"? Morty there calling himself "Muerto" seemed like that, some runner picking a pretentious name to look cool. In Shadowrun, I'd have his street name be Morty, since everyone calls him like that (at least when he's not around to hear it).

*points at Fuchs*
that right there, would qualify as a good german street-name *grins*
furthermore, i'd not call a samurai muerto, simple mort would suffice for me ^^

Actually, the character "Fuchs" was an american runner in Seattle, with no connection to Germany. The name "Fuchs" was picked to make people believe there was some link to Germany.

Fuchs also is a regular name, like Smith or Jones, in German, if not as common.

I like the last one the most, but why do you have the "-" i front of it?

Lars (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

still a pretty good name for a german runner, especially female and/or with red hair *g*

Hm, my German is decidedly rusty, but I remember a physad (NPC, he was the old trainer of one of the character) who got the name Ziegel Cackenhaus...

I'll let people translate that on their own.

Walküre
Wagner
Panzer
Bunker
Messer
Ratte
Axt
Todesfall
Wellenbrecher
Stress
Rhesus
Scharlatan
Telegraf
Der Graf
Werwolf
Der Arzt
Kruppstahl
Datenhai

German Streetnames are somewhat complicated, as its more a mix of different languages, with german and english being the dominant ones.



Those are ok, with the exeption of Mörder - I guess the runner in question would rather call himself "Killer". The reasons for this...hm, many people probaply thinl "Killer" sounds somewhat cool, while Mörder just doesn't. But another example for this might be the ink eraser, which in german is calle a Tintenkiller (Tinte = Ink) and not a Tintenmörder. Also I see a general tendancy in german runners to use english "streetnames". Ohter influences that are quite common, come from the middle east, russia and poland.

German streetnames also often tend to be more something like a nickname, if they aren't cultural or historical (which is often a good idea). Hildegard for example would most likely never be called that, but Hilde instead. Feuerfrau is an example of a streetname without "flow" so I guess as soon as friends of her came up with something, she would have a new name. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) There is quite a good chance for this to happen with most of the longer names (not all though).

Animals work ofcause, but again some do, others don't. Fuchs is one of the very good working examples, Wolf, Rabe, Maus, Ratte even Tiger should work. Hund (dog), Affe (Monkey) would not work that much, as ists more of an insult, while Katze could work but is more likely to be called cat. Leopard (lepard) odr Löwe (lion) would turn into Leo in the most cases.

Frank Trollman by the way is another good example for a german streetname.

Most Germans would use english street names because they sound much cooler.
Nontheless here are some suitable german words:

Angst
Schreck
Oktoberfest (since playing Interstate 76 back in the day I want to build a rigger with that name!)
Sauer
Hauer
Ass (thats German for ace)
Freitag
Stern
Wolf
Chaos

Danke sehr (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Most of them sound more strange than a good streetname in my (german) ears (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Here's a thread in a german forum about streetnames, but many of them aren't german: http://www.sr-nexus.de/bb/strassennamen-t1654.html - simply look through there and take what sounds german to you (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Zeitgeist and Laputan Machine.

By the way... "As" is german for "Ace", Ass is only english for...ass

Nope, that's wrong. The german translation of "ace" is in fact written "Ass".

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ass_%28Spielkarte%29

A lot of German Runner names tend to be two-word compounds, rather than a single word. You just can't tell because German doesn't separate the two component words with a space. But as a lot of people here have mentioned, English or Japanese names are common, especially among the more globally mobile runners.

But have a few 'classic' names off the top of my head:

Gipfelstürmer
Feuerbringer (classic fire mage name)
Jagdpanther
Sandmann
Onkel Doktor
Biestinger (for a SURGEling)
Stahlbeton

That's like calling oneself FastJack. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

Well, American for arse.

To be absolutely correct, both is right. After looking it up Ass is the new form, while As is the old form. Yet in context to english "As" might be the better one to use.



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My personal favorite German Street name was in Wien. Burger Spital Gasse (pronounced Burger Shpeetal gassah). It's around the Burgenland zwei dormatory, off of Maria Hilfe Strasse near Westbahnhof.

To contribute:

Maria Hilfe
Ottosbauer
Karlsplatz
Mollard Gasse
Kartner Strasse