Uyen Ninh
Vietnamese content creator in Germany
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Ninh Thị Uyên[2] (born 1995), commonly known as Uyen Ninh, is a Vietnamese influencer living in Germany. She creates short-form content about German and Vietnamese cultural differences with her husband called German Husband[a]. She also runs a podcast called Culture Cuddles with her husband. Uyen was included on YouTube's 2023 Creators on the Rise list, and was included in a portrait exhibit in the German Embassy in Hanoi in 2025.
Uyen Ninh | |
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Uyen in 2023 | |
| Born | 1995 (age 30–31) Vietnam |
| Occupation | Social media personality |
| Spouse | German Husband |
| Instagram information | |
| Page | |
| Years active | 5 |
| Followers | 2.2M followers |
| TikTok information | |
| Page | |
| Years active | 5–6[1] |
| Followers | 1.6M followers |
| YouTube information | |
| Channel | |
| Years active | 5 |
| Subscribers | 3.57M subscribers |
| Views | 9,244,618,662 views |
| Last updated: 22 August 2026 | |
| Website | beacons |
Personal life
Uyen Ninh was born in Vietnam in 1995,[3] and lived in Hanoi.[5] In 2016, she met a German person while he was backpacking in Vietnam, and they began a long distance relationship. After three years of long distance, Uyen moved to Mannheim, Germany in 2019[1] to earn her master's degree in business administration, study economics,[4] and move in with him.[6][3]
Career
Uyen originally started creating online content with a blog on Facebook she worked on during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. She also downloaded TikTok intending to use it to edit photos for Facebook. She struggled with writing the blog, and decided to switch to short-form content.[6] Since 2020, Uyen has posted videos to YouTube,[7] TikTok and Instagram.[1]
Her content focuses on cultural differences and idiosyncrasies between Germany and Vietnam.[4] Some topics covered in her videos include lüften,[8] German windows that tilt inwards, the speed of Aldi cashiers scanning groceries, and tap water not having to be boiled.[5] Her YouTube channel focuses on more serious topics, like misogyny and stereotypes about mixed relationships.[9] She runs a podcast called Culture Cuddles with her husband.[3]
Her husband features in her videos, though his face is never shown, and his name is never revealed, instead going by names based on their current marital status:[4] initially German Boyfriend, then German Fiancé, and now German Husband.[3]
Uyen was included on YouTube's 2023 Creators on the Rise list.[7] In 2025, the German Embassy in Hanoi, AHK Vietnam, and the Goethe-Institut started the Viet-Duc: 20 Faces, 20 Stories campaign to celebrate 50 years of Germany-Vietnam relations. It consists of 20 portraits taken by photographer Birgit Kleber of people who were related to German-Vietnamese culture. The pictures were exhibited on the walls of the German Embassy in Hanoi. Uyen was one of the portraits taken for the campaign.[10][11]
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Further reading
- Kreß, Beatrix (2023). "German life hacks – mein Leben ist ein MESS yay! Vloggen, Informieren und Beraten, Netzwerken: Interkulturalität in englischsprachigen Vlog-Beiträgen auf YouTube" [German life hacks – my life is a MESS yay! Vlogge, Inform and advise, Networking: Interculturality in English-language vlog posts on YouTube]. ILCEA (in German). 51. doi:10.4000/ilcea.17799. ISSN 1639-6073. Retrieved 17 August 2026.