I can't recall ever hearing about German colonies.
Why weren't they on a colonial bandwagon, or if they were, is there some explanation for their somewhat lackluster presence there?
They did have colonies, see u/Evan_Th 's answer in this thread:
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/2t5b4p/before_world_war_1_how_expansive_was_the_global/