The largest audience at a book reading of a single author is 5,406 persons, set by Stefan Gemmel (Germany) in an event organised by Leserattenservice (Germany) at Festung Ehrenbreitstein in Koblenz, Germany, on 12 June 2012. The author read from his book Alasgus, a story that plays out in Festung Ehrenbreitstein and was originally written for the record attempt. Due to the great number of pre-registered participants the organisers organised two readings as record attempts that day. The first was successful with an audience of Continue reading →

The largest audience for a comedian was 67,733 and was achieved by Mario Barth (Germany) at the Olympiastadion, Berlin, Germany, on 12 July 2008.

The most watched live sporting event on television was the 2006 FIFA World Cup held in Germany between 9 June and 9 July 2006. FIFA claimed that the tournament was seen by 30 billion (non unique) viewers over that period, the result of an increased fanbase among women and its Euro time zone ­ the games were shown when the majority of global fans could watch, unlike the 2002 tournament, which was broadcast from Japan and Korea.

The largest banner flown by an airplane measured 218.03 m² (2,346.85 ft²) and was flown by Edmund Löbbers (Germany) in Rheine, Germany, on 10 July 2010. The aircraft used in the attempt was a Remos G3-600. Edmund flew the banner for 13 minutes. The banner weighed 19.8 kg (43.65 lbs).

The record for the largest beach volleyball tournament is for the senior male division of the Usedom BeachCup 2007 with 236 players in the division, played in Karlshagen, Insel Usedom, Germany, from 27 to 29 July 2007. The entire event consisted of 890 participants across six different divisions. The tournament was formed by 334 teams, divided in 118 senior male teams, 83 senior female teams, 37 older male teams, 74 mixed teams, 5 older female teams, and 17 one-day teams. The winner couple were Christian Continue reading →

With a total surface area of 838 sq m (9,020 sq ft), the largest beer barrel logo used 5,237 empty 50-litre (13.2 US gallon) beer barrels from the Karlsberg Brewery to compose the logo of German cycling race Deutschlandtour in Gersheim, Germany on 7 June 2003.

Using 70,000 beermats and no adhesive of any kind, Sven Goebel (Germany) built the largest beermat structure measuring 3 m (9 ft 10 in) tall and 5 m (16 ft 4 in) wide in Kall, Germany on 16 August 2004.

The largest beer crate pyramid consisted of 105,995 beer crates and was made by Quandt-Schön Getränkefachhandelsgesellschaft mbH and Radio MV with the help of 60 volunteers in an event organised by Radio MV in Satow, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany, as ascertained on 5 June 2011. The bottom layer of the pyramid consisted of 85 x 85 crates, measured 33.8 m (110 ft 10 in) x 25.5 m (83 ft 8 in), and had a height of 12.9 m (42 ft 4 in). The building of the Continue reading →

The largest bicycle bell ensemble was organized by Professor Jörg Kärger and consisted of 503 participants playing German Folk Songs and hymns at the University of Leipzig, Germany, on 23 November 2003.

The largest bird nest box is 1.5 m (4 ft 11 in) in width and length and 2.72 m (8 ft 11 in) in height, and was achieved by Diane Martens (Germany), when measured outside Martens Spezialmixshop, Brettorf, Germany, on 15 May 2014.