I believe this, although I don't speak German (but my father is Danish born and these languages are almost identical AFAIK). Probably that was from studying a lot of Husserl and Heidegger. A disproportionate percentage of the best continental philosophers were German, I assume because the language lends itself to well to that. "Original flavour" in Anglo philosophy tends to be either whimsically banal, or stale and reductive ("analytic"). There are some great English deconstructionists/post-modernists, but really that is French in origin.
This is like the joke about the German proclivity toward double abstractions; a German authority on English literature declares, "Hamlet was not written by Shakespeare; it was merely written by a man named Shakespeare." In English the distinction is verbal and without meaning, although the German language will express the difference (which accounts for some of the strange features of the German mind).