Hi Lorenzo,

I know what you mean, mate. Successive generations of Germans have thought up some extremely creative ways to generate pages of scribble devoid of almost anything resembling a bog-standard European alphabet. It's amazing. Even the law of averages would suggest that at least one letter per page should look a bit like a normal Latin letter - but no.

I've got a helpful little booklet called "Wir lesen deutsche Schrift" published by the Orion-Heimreiter Verlag. You can find it on Amazon and it only costs a couple of quid. It sets out various writing styles in alphabetical order and includes short example texts, which show the relevant lettering styles in their ideal forms. Individual writers then go on to mangle them in their own inimitable ways, but at least you'll have a starting point.

Good luck with it.