Silke Fritzen
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Silke Fritzen (born April 1, 1984 in Emden) is a German woman who, still a schoolgirl, was chosen the 125th greatest German in history in the 2003 ZDF-network program Unsere Besten ("Our Best"). The results were determined by a poll accessible on the Internet, which apparently made it vulnerable to fan manipulation.
She was a moderator for an Internet science fiction forum, and the forum's members decided that they should nominate Fritzen, whom the users had already created a sort of cult around, in the ZDF poll. Her success in the popular national contest was controversial and became a minor example of an internet phenomenon.
