Tenenbaum: German or Belarussian?

[roxxestar]

Found on the Ken Levine Twitter, the writer of Bioshock :

<a>http://twitter.com/#!/IGLevine


"Tenembaum is from near Minsk, in Belarus. Langford's sexuality is her business!"

"characters made assumptions. Her father was German, she grew up in Belarus."

"as do I. Why does it bother people she's from Belarus ?"

"I actually have an unpublished bit of prose about her on the train from Minsk to auschwitz."

" I mentioned what matters: she was a victim of the holocaust who joined her oppressors."


Okay for Langford, but WTF? Tenenbaum is from Belarus (so she's a Soviet)? Do we have a World Premiere by Ken Levine today on the Bioshock story or I missed something?</a>

[IGlegacy_Felonious]

Well I don't recall anything specific about her from being from Belarus but in this audio diary - http://bioshock.wikia.com/wiki/Useless_Experiments . She talks about Germans as if she is not one of them. Ex - Germans, all they can think about is blue eyes, and shape of forehead. Their is more in the audio diary it shows she is not or does not consider herself German the way she talks about them. The fact she is called the kraut scientist in game is more because she worked for the Germans than actually being German herself.

[loyalharry007]

personnellement, tenenbaum a menarve! chu pas capable dla sentir cet folle infini

[loyalharry007]

felonious said:Well I don't recall anything specific about her from being from Belarus but in this audio diary - <a>http://bioshock.wikia.com/wiki/Useless_Experiments . She talks about Germans as if she is not one of them. Ex - Germans, all they can think about is blue eyes, and shape of forehead. Their is more in the audio diary it shows she is not or does not consider herself German the way she talks about them. The fact she is called the kraut scientist in game is more because she worked for the Germans than actually being German herself.

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[roxxestar]

loyalharry007 said:personnellement, tenenbaum a menarve! chu pas capable dla sentir cet folle infini

What is this "strange" french? Do you try to copy Tenenbaum or something? Or are you just french (Quebecer) ?

[losstarot]

Looks like french written by a 12 year old kid or even lower... he/she is definitely part of the foreign hordes

[theonetwopunch]

She's German but she GREW UP in Belarus.

[ramsmeat]

She's German.

[overking14]

Read this


Tenenbaum grew up near the city of Minsk in Belarus. Her father was German, and she was raised in the Jewish faith. When she was sixteen years old, she was taken from Minsk to become a prisoner at the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz. There she observed German doctors making experiments. Sometimes when they made scientific errors, she would correct them. It was in this way that she discovered that she had a love for science.Eventually, the Germans put her to work assisting them in their infamous medical experiments.Tenenbaum generally considered the German experiments to be useless, but she was indifferent to the Holocaust in general. It is likely that she survived the prison camp due to her helpfulness to the doctors, which caused them to give her the nickname "Das Wunderkind" ("The Wonderchild").

[ahrounrt]

Her father must have been a high ranking German officer or scientist. Because being from Russia, Jewish, and insulting a German scientist would have got her killed. The Germans and the Russians were very hateful towards each other and her also being Jewish really wouldn't have helped her.