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"Hans Steinbichler's enjoyable Fraktur, in which a haulage company boss travels to Frankfurt to wreak revenge on the board of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper for removing the Teutonic 'Fraktur Gothic' typeface from their masthead"

Via.. http://www.screendaily.com/ScreenDailyArticle.aspx?intStoryID=42973

Teutonic 'Fraktur Gothic'

I am too ignorant to decide whether its Fraktur or Textur so I combine both terms in hope that one of them will fit, and to make sure that readers even more ignorant than me know what I am talking about I add 'Teutonic'?!

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>I am too ignorant to decide whether its Fraktur or Textur

Another movie idea? "Clash of the Teutons"

:D

(I'd be curious to know if the term is taken from the movie or was coined by the reviewer.)

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>I’d be curious to know if the term is taken from the movie or was coined by the reviewer.

My guess is the reviewer. Seems to be pretty commonly used... http://www.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&scoring=d&q=teutonic

...which turns up this lovely quote...

“The teutonic plates of politics in Ireland are shifting.”

...they love German food in Ireland!

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