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The German aspects puzzles me, not sure if the implied German School exists.

Other German Lisp (and related) implementations: CLISP (a Common Lisp written in C+Lisp by Haible/Stoll), CLICC (a CL to C compiler by Goerigk/Hoffmann/Knutzen), Eu2C (an EuLisp to C compiler, from a Fraunhofer Institute), Chicken Scheme (Winkelmann), ...

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My guess is that this has nothing to do with Lisps school located somewhere in Germany or having German authors/roots as you quoted.

No, I was associating the listed properties (focus, spartan, controversial) of the "Fluchtpunkt" Lisps at the end with typical peculiarities or prejudices or stereotypes of the Germans themselves. The question then remains, how does "fun" fit into the picture here?

Depends on your idea of fun. I think the idea of a spartan Lisp implementation being somehow fun seems pretty German to me.

King Ludwig II would not approve this.

My intent was not to limit the school geographically. Calling it the German School was an artistic flourish that I couldn't resist. :)

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