Favourite genre?

[Swatopluk]

I still can recite several passages from memory (in the German translation though)

Oh du zerfrettelter Grunzwanzling
Dein Harngedränge ist mir als wie Schnatterfleck auf Bienenstich
Grupp, ich beschwöre dich, mein punzig Turteldrom
Und kränge reifig dich mit krinklen Bindelwördeln
Sonst werd' ich rändern dich in deine Gobberwarzen
Mit meinem Börgelkranze
Wart's nur ab!

followed by the whole section about bad poetry!

[beagle]

That poem doesn't really improve with translation does it? Presumably, on the monkeys typing Hamlet principle, there's a language where its beauty trumps Goethe, Shakespeare, Ovid or Dante.  No sign of finding it yet though. Can you run a BabelFish in optimizing mode?

At least I now know the German for "rend you in the gobberwarts", a phrase which might come in handy in business discussions, and is often inexplicably left out of the phrase books.