16 July 1981: stamps issued in West Germany depicting the German Antarctic research station named after Georg von Neumayer

16 July 1960: the rose garden at Sanssouci Palace in Potsdam (via Bundesarchiv)

16 July 1960: Nauener Tor in Potsdam viewed from Thälmannstraße (Source: Bundesarchiv)

15 July 1964: stamps issued in the GDR for the Tokyo Olympics

15 July 1966: stamps issued in the GDR depicting fighters in the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War

15 July 1950: the ruined courtyard of the Hotel Adlon in Berlin (via Bundesarchiv)

14 July 1970: stamps issued in the GDR to mark the 'Kinder- und Jugendspartakiade'

14 July 1952: Strausberger Platz in Berlin at night, showing new buildings on the Stalinallee (Karl-Marx-Allee). Source: Bundesarchiv

13 July 1966: stamps issued in West Germany depicting an 1830 Prussian postman

13 July 1950: Taubenstraße 32, where Heinrich Heine used to live, lies in ruins in East Berlin (Source: Bundesarchiv)

12 July 1988: the Karl-Liebknecht-Straße in East Berlin (via Bundesarchiv)

12 July 1977: stamps issued in the GDR depicting farm machinery

11 July 1926: poster for a beach party #OTD 100 years ago at the Strandbad Klosterneuburg in Austria, designed by Mihály Biró

11 July 1927: poster for the Zeppelin Eckener Fund, the donations to which led to the construction of the LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin

In Poland, there have been a number of different translations for Count Binface. This news outlet has decided on an explanation - "Count Binface — loosely translated as “the count with a trash can for a head”".

The Finnish version of 'Count Binface' is 'Kreivi Roskisnaama', which translates into English as 'Count Trashface'. www.is.fi/ulkomaat/art...

A number of Hungarian news sources are running with 'Kukafej gróf' ('Count Trashface').

10 July 1980: a glass flower in the foyer of East Berlin's Palast der Republik (Source: Bundesarchiv)

Norwegian media outlets are going for "han med en søppelbøtte på hodet" ("someone with a trash can on their head") filternyheter.no/den-eneste-m...

Hold the front page: in France, "Comte Tête-de-poubelle" is entering the arena! (via @thatjohn.bsky.social)

Italy seems to have settled on 'Conte Bidone' for 'Count Binface', with an explanatory clause after the name. www.tvsvizzera.it/tvs/i-rivali...

9 July 1954: the Soviet pavilion at the Deutscher Evangelischer Kirchentag in Leipzig (Source: Bundesarchiv)

9 July 1951: a commemorative plaque for Georgi Dimitroff at East Berlin's Dimitroffstraße underground station. The station was renamed Eberswalder Straße after Germany was reunified. (Source: Bundesarchiv)

Have to say that the French translations of Count Binface sound more stylish somehow.

Saarbrücker Zeitung weighs in with a Binface-adjacent headline that is guaranteed to bemuse its readers.

Tagesschau is yet to make its move today, but their last attempt to describe Count Binface in German was 'Darth Vader mit Mülltonne auf dem Kopf'.

There's a third variant from @tagesspiegel.de for the German translation of 'Count Binface'.

'Der Standard' has decided to use the more descriptive 'eine sprechende Mülltonne' for Count Binface.

"Graf Mülleimergesicht" - thought and prayers for journalists who are now trying to find the best way of translating 'Count Binface' into German taz.de/Rechtspopuli...

8 July 1980: stamps issued in the GDR to mark the Summer Olympics in Moscow