Hi there, since I'm pretty new to the Sherlock world I haven't met anyone from the forum yet. But I'd love to one day.

I didn't mean to upset you, Mary. German is my mother tongue too, but for reasons I can't even explain myself I have a great passion for everything English, which started in my early twenties.

I agree, BBC Sherlock is by far one of the best dubbed tv showes. But I also agree that the actors' voices are playing a big part when it comes to giving their characters a soul.

Swanpride wrote:

But in the end, the main problem is that the english accent is just not translatable. I am ready to bet that most German obsessive Sherlock Fans are the ones who watch movies and series in english regularly.

Oh I so agree with you on both. As an obsessive English language fan I can't get enough of all the different accents. I rarely watch anything in German.

Since I'm also a big fan of Shakespeare I love listening to some of the greatest voices: Nigel Bennett, Geraint Wyn Davis, Patrick Stewart and now Benedict Cumberbatch. Such a great voice!

gently69 wrote:

But the atmosphere and the chemistry in the original version works much better as in the German one with the Sie. I don't think that it helps in the German dubbing. Funny, you are the first one who I know defending the Siezen.
No problem of course. If it is your opinion.

Believe me when I tell you that I've never been a fan of Siezen in general. But I was watching both seasons on two different nights with my sister, in German cause she doesn't speak English well. She said to me,  after I told her that they don't do that in English, the English language maybe doesn't have to make a difference cause it's how they talk to each other. I was like maybe you're right. So I watched it again in OT and IMO she was right.

I hope you don't mind me piping in to this interesting convo.
I have watched both the German and English version of Sherlock and I believe the reason why they still say Sie is cause it shows in some ways the kinda hidden respect they have for each other. You can hear it in English by the way they talk to each other (I know I know, Sherlock has a lovely way to make others feel like complete idiots). But still, I believe that's the only way to keep a special atmosphere between them, which in English is a lot easier than in German. And maybe because in the books they call each other Holmes and Watson, which back then wasn't unusual they tried to keep it as close to that as possible. And since this wouldn't really work nowadays they focused more on the keep-the-respect-as-good-as-possible thing...
Shen.

Schmiezi wrote:

Welcome to the forum, Shen. You micht have found out by now that you are not really the only one from NRW ...
Greetings from the lovely rims of the Bergische Land.

Thank you!To be more specific I live in the heart of the Ruhrpott, close to Muensterland. :-)

Harriet wrote:

Hi, welcome and enjoy!

Hi, thanks, I already do. :-)
 

Mary Me wrote:

Welcome to the forum!

Was it The Blind Banker you saw first? Would explain a lot.
Anyway, welcome to our lovely community. Have a nice time here and enjoy yourself. 

Greetings from Bonn,
Mary

Actually it was TheHounds of Baskerville. I remember I turned the telly on and John Watson was running around the lab obviously very afraid of a gigantic hound. It quite confused me and after a short while I decided to switch channel. Now that I've seen the entire episode both in English and German I just love it.

Btw, my two favorite episodes would be A study in Pink and A Skandal in Belgravia.

Thanks for the welcome! :-)

Sorry, I didn't mean to link to that site, but I can't seem to change it. Please ignore it, thx.
Shen.