Found this entry though frogspace and it's really interesting!
I was never really in the German fandom. At least not the part that exclusively wrote and read fanfiction in German. Mostly, because it seemed very yaoi/manga heavy, which wasn't my thing at all.
On the other hand, I found "international" fandom through many, many German speaking fans. Most of us were into media fandoms and since media fandom back then (mid-90s) was pretty much just available in English that's what we used as well.
Of course there were people, who wrote in German, but most of the stories seemed weird to me. Not because of the German language, but I knew the source in English and then there was a German story about it and it all sounded so wrong. I had the same problem the one time I wrote a Buffy story in German. I just didn't know what vocabulary to use, because I'd never seen Buffy in German.
I still consider it German fandom, though, we are all German speakers, but we just interact with everyone else in English. If that makes sense.
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I was never really in the German fandom. At least not the part that exclusively wrote and read fanfiction in German. Mostly, because it seemed very yaoi/manga heavy, which wasn't my thing at all.
On the other hand, I found "international" fandom through many, many German speaking fans. Most of us were into media fandoms and since media fandom back then (mid-90s) was pretty much just available in English that's what we used as well.
Of course there were people, who wrote in German, but most of the stories seemed weird to me. Not because of the German language, but I knew the source in English and then there was a German story about it and it all sounded so wrong. I had the same problem the one time I wrote a Buffy story in German. I just didn't know what vocabulary to use, because I'd never seen Buffy in German.
I still consider it German fandom, though, we are all German speakers, but we just interact with everyone else in English. If that makes sense.