Passed yesterday.
So, you can change your name....once a year, with minimal legal paperwork. Now, if you asked me.....out of a thousand Germans....how many will do this? I'd guess fewer than five of a thousand.
Some people likely going for weird names? No one has said this yet, but I might anticipate some comedians going this route.
Changing of gender? Yeah, that's in the package as well. You can do absolutely nothing to your body, or your clothing style, and proclaim yourself (currently a guy) as a gal. All legal.
To attract a lot of attention? Germans are awful practical folks, and either something IS a FACT, or it's NOT a FACT. Branding this or selling some message....like you see in the US.....is going to be more difficult in Germany.
I do agree....on the name change business...I'll predict that a quarter-million Germans (half of them not having a gender or sex issue) will be renaming themselves 'Scooby Doo', 'Elvis', 'Tiny Tits' or 'Rambo' just for the hell of it.
It wouldn't even shock me if 12,000 German ladies came up and renamed themselves 'Barbie'.
We need things like this to happen in Germany....just to occasionally shake things up and make life a bit more mysterious.
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