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Sprachen sind lebendig! Use this padlet to inspire you for ways to practice German and find out more about culture in German-speaking countries! Click on the images/links to lead you to the resource.

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Speak with Siri, Alexa, ... auf deutsch!

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Speak with Siri, Alexa, ... auf deutsch!

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Did you know that if you change your settings on your phone to German, you can have long, deep conversations with Siri? You can ask her various probing questions (“How was your day?”; “Tell me a story, please?”) that will provoke long answers. You can listen to her pronunciation and read her words. Even better, she will test your pronunciation. If it’s a little off, she won’t understand; you’ll become much more precise and accurate thanks to her insistence.

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This is a German channel that has lots of on-demand shows. Whilst most of their shows are for kids, there is a lot of content that is about young adults/teens in Germany... Hier sind Videos über Teenager in Deutschland... Echt interessant!

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Du verlässt die KiKA-Seiten und wirst zum App-Store weitergeleitet. KiKA ist für den Inhalt des Stores nicht verantwortlich. Möchtest du fortfahren?

weiter zum Google Store weiter zum Apple Store

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Hier findest du alle Videos und KiKA-Sendungen, die ab zehn Jahren empfohlen sind. Schau dir deine Lieblingssendung an!

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Backe etwas Deutsches! Bake a classic German cake!

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Backe etwas Deutsches! Bake a classic German cake!

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Du malst gerne? Create your version of a German painter's artwork.

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Learn to play and/or sing a piece of music by a German artist. Use my Spotify playlists to find inspiration. You'll likely find lyrics online and a YouTube tutorial for how to play, or the chords, sheet music online... or you can use your own ear to figure out the chords, melody etc.! :-) https://open.spotify.com/user/31hsu3vcqurkvgc2gp6srcytnvhy?si=a8b2d8ec9d66471b

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Change your language settings on a few apps or on your whole Handy!!!!

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Change your language settings on a few apps or on your whole Handy!!!!

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Read a German literature classic in English!

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Read a German literature classic in English!

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Amazon Best Sellers: Best German Literature

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Discover the best books in Amazon Best Sellers. Find the top 100 most popular Amazon books.

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Use a language learning app to keep your German practice going over the summer!

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Use a language learning app to keep your German practice going over the summer!

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We are all eternal learners and we always keep our eyes open for new apps, platforms and methods of learning foreign languages.

We thought we'd make the search easier for you by compiling a list of our ten favourite language learning mobile apps. Some of them you are probably familiar with, but you may also find some new gems!

Like this infographic? Here is another one with top kanji learning tools!

Best language learning apps

Memrise is your go to place for fun vocabulary practice. There is no shortage of courses on almost every language you can imagine-or invent, as there are also several devoted to constructed languages-created by the vibrant community of users. You can find standardised courses based on popular textbooks or vocabulary frequency lists. There are also less expected vocabulary collections such as "Japanese naughty words" or words from the Japanese translation of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.

The fun of Memrise lies in two things: memes and gamification. The app follows a learning method that relies on creating funny or bizarre associations with the studied words. Courses are often coupled with memes designed to playfully help remember the vocabulary. The memes are created by the community and everyone can add their own! Both earning, revising and creating memes is a source of points that help you advance in the Memrise hierarchy of users (from Membryo to Overlord).

You can follow fellow learners and compete with them for points as well as see how well you're doing in a ranking for a particular course. It's very motivating to outscore others!

The power of Memrise also lies in two things: spaced repetition and mnemonics. The spaced repetition algorithm calculates when and how often you should review each word. And the app will send you reminders when it's time to review. The addition of memes is helpful in memorising the vocabulary. If you're new to it, it may take some time to adjust to, but after that you'll quickly start coming up with your own creative combinations.

This is a language app that is geared towards determined learners who want a complete language program with the guidance of a tutor. Yes they have a good app, but it's the extra help from the professional teachers that makes the difference.

The tutors are available to answer any questions you might have. They can help with grammar, suggest extra resources, and will even assign and correct homework for those interested.

If you sign up for this app, remember, USE THE TUTORS they are there to help.

"That's probably the best part about LinguaLift: having access to real people who want to help and are invested in your learning."
Kimberly, Seattle, USA

The app itself, is great for a beginner or intermediate, with clear grammar explanations, vocabulary & script learning tools. There are also a lot of cool cultural insights that you don't get with most language programs. And of course, the professional tutors that know the material.

You can try out the program for free, and if you decide to subscribe, here is a discount code that will give you 15% off. SUPERLEARNER

Your subscription includes their Language Learning Secrets book (which they are currently offering for free on their homepage). And your customized study plan called, A Road Map to Fluency. To receive a road map, you first fill out a questionnaire, telling their tutors about your goals, study habits, daily schedule, etc.

The tutors then take this information and create your road map. It guides you every step of the way. Showing you the most effective study routines, telling you what additional resources to use, how much material to cover, and what stage in your language learning to use each resource. You just follow the map!

The courses are broken down into small 10 to 15 minute sections to keep things interesting and to ensure you have enough time to study a little every day. They also use an algorithm that tracks your progress through the course, so your review topics are geared specifically to your needs.

Also unique to LinguaLift, they give you access to ALL their languages with your subscription. They currently offer Spanish, French, Japanese, and Russian language courses. If your language of choice is not on this list, you should still check out their recently released e-book entitled Language Learning Secrets. This is a must have for any language learner.

If you are serious about learning a new language, LinguaLift offers a complete program that's definitely worth checking out. But if you have even the slightest interest in languages, be sure to get a free copy of their Language Learning Secrets book. LinguaLift

No list of top language learning apps would be complete without Rosetta Stone. Unfortunately, the only reason we've include it is because it's the most widely recognized language learning program on the planet.

Their whole philosophy of language learning is to 'learn like a baby'. But there is a major flaw with this school of thought. There are much more effective and faster ways to learn a language as an adult.

Rosetta Stone does a great job of teaching you individual words, but without context. And without context, you have no idea how to use these words in the real world. The truth is, you may be studying with Rosetta Stone for a month or two before you are able to introduce yourself, or ask a simple question in your target language.

Many people are drawn to Rosetta Stone because of their "State of the art" Speech Recognition software. But anyone whose tried it knows, this software simply does not work.

And one final issue is the cookie cutter template used for all languages. They've basically created one language course, and translated the content into all other languages. You cannot take a Spanish language course, translate it into Chinese and expect it to be a high quality language program.

The truth is, Rosetta Stone is so well known because it was the first language program on the market. But these days, there are much more effective programs out there.

When you try to describe any other learning app how often have you heard the question "is it like Duolingo?" There is no list of best apps that doesn't mention it. Luis von Ahn successfully merged gamification and learning, addicting people to languages and producing an app with over 100 million users. The app has become a staple example of mobile language learning.

Many Duolingo courses are created by native speakers themselves which gave rise to perhaps less expected courses such as Guarani or Klingon. Another feature that makes Duolingo special to me is that it is not aimed solely at an English native speaker. For each language there are specific courses that aim at those with different first languages, which to date produces 81 courses.

The main problem with Duolingo is (like Rosetta Stone), many students use the app and expect to learn to speak a languange. (Crazy right!) Unfortunately, it's not a complete language program, but it will help you improve your vocabulary and introduce you to a new language in a fun way.

An app aimed to facilitate speaking practice and eliminate the potential stress of real time conversation. Learners can find native speakers and converse with them using a whatsapp-like chat with voice and text messages.

The best feeling is when you come across a native speaker of your target language who also wants to learn your mother tongue-it's like you hit the language jackpot!

Users can correct each other's messages with an in-built correction tool, which transforms the language exchanges into tiny tutoring sessions. The app also has an integrated translation system. This helps in those moments when you really want to communicate something but just lack the one word that gives the sentence it's proper meaning.
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You can mark your top conversations or messages, so your favourite phrases will not get lost. And the text-to-voice option will make sure you always know how to pronounce the messages you receive. To help you with conversation motivation you can also arranged language exchanges by different parameters like time, number of exchanged messages or characters.

Extra perk? With HelloTalk you can also exchange doodles. So if you really run out of vocab, you can unleash your inner artist.

Did I say Duolingo gamified language learning? Mindsnacks takes gamification to a whole different level.

Each of the seven languages they teach comes with eight or nine tiny games that are designed to help you learn vocabulary, grammar, and practice your listening. There are short simple lessons outlining concepts that then get practiced or tested in the games before they achieve the status of being mastered.

Mindsnacks monitors your progress so you can clearly see how much more learning you need to achieve proficiency in every skill. It's such a fun app though, that even if you do master a skill it is still fun to go back and play more games to practice it!

The design is very charming (I would have just said cute, but that may discourage some of you from trying it 😉 ) which helps to stay involved with the learning. Being timed, the games keep you engaged and often on the edge of your seat. And on top of that MindSnacks also assigns you quests so you can really feel like a language explorer.

The basic download is free, but it comes only with a restricted number of games. If you pay a little bit you can access more lessons and widen your game options.

Busuu offers full courses in 12 languages. The app is free but to unlock most of the features and course materials you have to invest $17 a month. The app takes you through learning individual words to simple dialogues and questions about the dialogues. All of which include audio where you can listen to native pronunciation.

The lessons are organised in topical themes where we learn skills and expressions connected to tasks. Each course also comes with a separate mini "travel course" for those who need to quickly get the basics before a trip abroad-pretty handy!

The special aspect of Busuu is that you can engage native speakers in your personal learning process. Busuu learners contribute their native speaking skills to the platform by correcting texts created by those who study their language. The desktop version even allows you to chat to native speakers real time.

Both studying and contributing to the platform as a teacher allows you to collect "berries", points used to rank students based on their activity. So if you're one of the points and badges addict, it's a good place for you!

A paid cousin of Duolingo with more free material than busuu? The free version comes with 40 classes, so even without investing money the app allows you to learn a fair amount of phrases in one of the 13 languages it teaches.

Each class starts from step-by-step teaching of vocabulary with the aid of pictures. Then the words are being used in related phrases and short dialogues adjusted to the student's level to help quickly build conversation skills.

The app has speech recognition exercises, so you can surely scare your fellow bus commuters by shouting in Dutch to your phone! 😉 But unfortunately, like Rosetta Stones speech recognition software, it doesn't really work. This technology is just not effective in correcting your pronunciation.

Handy pop-ups with the app explain most important grammatical points related to the learned material and the desktop version includes short cultural notes.

Apart from the general beginner's courses Babbel also has separate packages devoted to improving specific skills such as grammar or vocabulary. If you already have some experience with a particular language and know where your weaknesses lie you can focus on improving those chosen skills. Babbel's classes can be downloaded for later offline study and the app will send you convenient reminders so you don't miss your daily session.

As the name suggests the app is aimed at travellers who need to brush up on their language skills before that dream holiday in Mauritius or a business trip to Mexico.

The app is aimed to get you to speak and be understood so you don't feel lost in a foreign environment making your stay not only much richer culturally, but also less stressful. In addition, the creators took care so you at least attempt to sound like a local and use the current expressions rather than the textbook formulas.

A feature called the slang slider displays different levels of formal or casualty of each phrase so you can adjust it to the specific context you're in. The lessons are divided into handy sections such as "safety phrases" or "business phrases".

TripLingo is also your emergency resource. It has an inbuilt voice translator rendering your English in the foreign language, and when you are really at a loss for words you can even call a real translator (that's when you really desperately need to ask for that extra mayo).

With the free version of the app you get access to about 15% of the resources and no audio, but it's still a great and fun resource.

I had a little chuckle looking at the vocab categories in the Word Bank for Russian: accommodation, alcohol & arguing - a good summary of your initial experience in a Russian speaking country!

MosaLingua is a fully rounded resource for a number of languages including French, Spanish and Italian. You can choose to go through the standard lesson program starting from simple phrases and numerals, or you can opt to go for one of the specific topical packs, for example people, time or tourism.

This means that if you already went through the basics and are looking to fill in specific gaps in your knowledge you can do it instantly. You can support your learning with dialogues illustrating real life situations.

I have to admit, it's very handy to listen to a "in a hotel" dialogue just before opening your mouth at a reception desk!

Learning is based on a self-assessed flashcard system which will drill you on the words in a number of ways, asking you to record, speak out, and spell them, so all your "memory channels" are activated.

Of course, not all the resources of the apps are unlocked without paying, and you have to pay for each language separately. But even the free version has ample resources - definitely enough for a quick 5-day learning spree before that weekend in Tuscany! 😉

HiNative is like a bite-size language exchange. You get the benefits of contact with native speakers without the hassle of searching for an exchange partner or scheduling a chat.

The basic premise is to bring native speakers together with learners to help each other resolve little (or not so little...) language struggles. No question is stupid or too simple: you can ask for translations, input on pronunciation, or advice on cultural norms.

Free bite-size language exchange.

Another cool point: it's not only the native speakers who can answer the questions, but also other learners. Those who went through the same struggles as you could have a better idea of how to approach them as a learner!

If all that doesn't convince you, let me say that all this awesomeness is neatly designed, has a desktop version, and... is free.

**One bonus app! **

You may already have some grasp of the language or decided to just go wild and rely on a paper phrasebook. Yes you will still encounter words or phrases that you are not sure how to pronounce to be understood.

Perhaps you had this experience in a restaurant: when asking for the simplest meal and had to repeat the so-diligently-learned Italian phrase three times. Still the only thing you achieved was the look of bewilderment and confusion on the waiter's face. They said the phrase back to you and the only thing that you had wrong was the stress.

You can prevent these embarrassing and frustrating moments with (How to) Pronounce. It supports only a few basic languages now, but in a very clever move it offers four of them in two varieties, so you have two options for: English, Spanish, Portuguese and French, plus Russian and Italian.

If you feel bored and are a language geek (like all of our blog readers) you can just listen and marvel at the differences between language varieties.

Also, check out our blog post Social Media - the new language learning app, explaining how to turn your social media accounts into your own personal language program.

Have you come across any cool language learning apps? Let us know on Twitter

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Koche was Deutsches! Cook a classic German meal!

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Currywurst, Schnitzel, Bratkartoffeln, Klöße...

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Imbiss-Klassiker für Zuhause: CURRYWURST, POMMES & MAYO - mit Nelson Müller

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Du liebst deutsche Musik und singst bei deinem Lieblingslied immer laut mit? Hier erwartet dich 100% deutsche Popmusik vom Feinsten. Jeder Song lädt dich zum Tanzen und Abfeiern ein! Der Haus- und Hof-Kanal unserer RPR1.Sendung Liedergut, die jeden Donnerstag von 19 bis 22 Uhr im Radio läuft. Oder hier auch in voller Länge in der Wiederholung.

In dieser kostenlosen Playlist steht ganz klar deutsche Musik im Vordergrund. Von Herbert Grönemeyer , Wincent Weiss bis Xavier Naidoo sind hier im Webradio von RPR1. die besten deutschen Künstler vertreten. Dein bester Begleiter für deinen Tag, wenn du deutsche Songs hören möchtest.

Viele Jahre lang wurden nur Schlager in deutscher Sprache gesungen, allen voran Andrea Berg, Howard Carpendale oder Roland Kaiser, denn deutschsprachige Musik war früher fast schon verpöhnt. Doch heute ist die deutsche Pop-Musik nicht nur ein fester Bestandteil der Musikbranche, sondern auch eine der größten Einnahmequellen der Plattenindustrie.

Es gibt namhafte Interpreten aus Deutschland, die aus der Popmusik nicht mehr wegzudenken sind. Deutscher Pop nimmt mittlerweile eine feste Größe in der Musikbranche ein.
In dieser Playlist mit dabei:
Traumhafte Songs, aber auch Partymucke

Künstler wie Max Giesinger („Zuhause") und Xavier Naidoo („Ich kenne nichts") warten in der 100% Deutsch-Pop-Playlist nur darauf, dich mit ihrem Können zu unterhalten und dich auf eine musikalische Reise mitzunehmen. Apropos „Reise", mit „Dieser Weg" lieferte der Ausnahmekünstler aus Mannheim den Song zum Sommermärchen 2006. Eigentlich hatte Naidoo beim Komponieren des Hits nicht die Fußball-WM im Sinn, doch dank des damaligen Nationalspielers Gerald Asamoah, der den Song mit in die Umkleidekabine brachte, wurde er zur Hymne der Deutschen Nationalelf.

Egal ob du lieber Dauerbrenner wie Fettes Brot, Die Fantastischen Vier und Unheilig hören möchtest oder Chartstürmer wie Johannes Oerding, Mark Forster und Wincent Weiss („Kaum erwarten"). Hier gibt es sie alle. Eine Auswahl der erfolgreichsten deutschen Songs haben wir hier für dich zusammengefasst.

Dieser perfekte Querschnitt durch die Deutsche Popmusik zeigt einmal mehr, wie beliebt und lebendig die deutsche Musik heute ist. Immer wieder poppen neue Talente auf, die Lust auf mehr machen und wir halten sie für dich bereit.

Willst du mehr über Wincent Weiss oder LEA wissen? RPR1.Moderatorin Audrey Hannah hatte schon viele deutsche Künstler in ihrer Show „Liedergut" zu Besuch, die aus dem Nähkästchen plauderten. So auch der Teenieschwarm, der im Interview über seine Songs, Fan-Liebe und sehr intime Momente in seinem Leben erzählte. Auch wie schwierig der Weg an die Spitze der Charts war, erzählte er ganz unverblümt.

Hits in der Muttersprache

Musiker, die früher Englisch gesungen haben, trauen sich immer mehr in ihrer Muttersprache zu singen.

Eine Künstlerin, die bisher in Englisch gesungen hat, ist 2015 auch auf den Geschmack gekommen und sang das erste Mal in Deutsch. Die Rede ist von Sarah Connor, die uns 2015 mit ihrem neunten Studioalbum, das erste deutschsprachige mit dem Namen „Muttersprache" überraschte. Wer kennt den Song „Wie schön du bist" von ihrer Nummer-Eins-Platte nicht? Übrigens, ihren aktuellen Hit „Ich wünsch dir" gibt es natürlich auch in unserer „100 % Deutsch-Pop"-Playlist.

Eine Sängerin, die zu ihren Anfängen auch immer in englischer Sprache gesungen hatte, hat sich nun für ein deutschsprachiges Album entschieden. 2002 stürmte Jeannette Biedermann noch mit „Rock my life" die Charts. Heute ist die Sängerin ein alter Hase im Musikgeschäft und hat ihrer Liebe zur deutschen Musik Ausdruck in ihrem neuen Album „DNA" verliehen, das im September 2019 veröffentlicht wurde.

Wie sie im Interview verriet, war ihr von Anfang an klar, dass die neue Platte nur deutsche Songs beinhalten wird. Beim Songwriting habe sie sofort auf Deutsch gedacht und gefühlt. Ihren aktuellen Hit „Besser mit dir" stellte Jeanette Biedermann übrigens live im RPR1.Wohnzimmer vor, den du aber auch in der „Deutsch Pop"-Playlist hören kannst.

Um bei den deutschen Künstlerinnen zu bleiben: Namika spielt in unserer Playlist ihren Hit „Lieblingsmensch" und Kerstin Ott lässt dich bei „Die immer lacht" mitsingen.

Die männlichen deutschen Musikstars stehen den Frauen aber in nichts nach und so liefern Adel Tawil („Lieder"), Udo Lindenberg mit Clueso („Cello") und Johannes Oerding („An guten Tagen") wunderbare Lieder, die du natürlich auch hier findest.

100% Mitsing-Faktor

Songs, die man immer wieder hören kann, geniale Sounds, die zum Träumen und Erinnern einladen und Beats, die auf keiner Party fehlen dürfen. Hier gibt sie alle!

Jetzt einschalten und in der kostenlosen Playlist für Deutsche Popmusik alle bekannten Künstler wie Mark Forster, Cro, Die Toten Hosen, Unheilig oder Xavier Naidoo in Dauerschleife hören. Hier bekommst du die Songs auf die Ohren, die du garantiert mitsingen kannst.

Einfach reinhören und genießen!

Online hören auf rpr1.de oder in der RPR1. App (für iOS und Android).

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Made in Germany - die besten deutschen Popsongs (Powered by RPR1. Liedergut) Du liebst deutsche Musik und singst bei deinem Lieblingslied immer laut mit? Hier erwartet dich 100% deutsche Popmusik vom Feinsten. Jeder Song lädt dich zum Tanzen und Abfeiern ein! Der Haus- und Hof-Kanal unserer RPR1.Sendung Liedergut, die jeden Donnerstag von 19 bis 22 Uhr im Radio läuft.

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Top 25 Places To Visit In Germany - Travel Guide

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Most movies that are successful in the US, make it into deutsches Kino with German titles, German voices, German punch lines... so it's an easy one to watch in German, since you already know the plot and the characters and will be able to follow easily, picking up lots of lingo!

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Folge Sport auf deutsch! Die Fußballbundesliga beginnt am 5. August... Aber es gibt noch viele andere Sportarten in Deutschland!

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SPORT1 - Aktuelle Sportnachrichten, News, Liveticker & Ergebnisse

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Watch a show/movie in German all the way through! Put subtitles on... then watch it again without subtitles. And again. You'll find that each time, you'll understand more!

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by Sam1122 | created - 07 Oct 2012 | updated - 07 Oct 2012 | Public

R | 150 min | Action, Biography, Crime

76 Metascore

A look at Germany's terrorist group, The Red Army Faction (RAF), which organized bombings, robberies, kidnappings, and assassinations in the late 1960s and '70s.

Director: Uli Edel | Stars: Martina Gedeck, Moritz Bleibtreu, Johanna Wokalek, Bruno Ganz

Votes: 37,942 | Gross: $0.48M

Not Rated | 153 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

98 Metascore

In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working-class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.

Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel, Gustav Fröhlich, Rudolf Klein-Rogge

Votes: 172,054 | Gross: $1.24M

118 min | Drama, Music, Romance

Everybody wants to play with Lulu. The erotic animal, the child woman, the mirror to project yourself in. Dr.Goll, Black, Dr.Beautiful, his son Alwa and the Countess.

Director: Uwe Janson | Stars: Jessica Schwarz, Sylvester Groth, Carlo Ljubek, Alexander Scheer

Votes: 97

Not Rated | 107 min | Drama, Thriller

A high school teacher's experiment to demonstrate to his students what life is like under a dictatorship spins horribly out of control when he forms a social unit with a life of its own.

Director: Dennis Gansel | Stars: Jürgen Vogel, Frederick Lau, Max Riemelt, Jennifer Ulrich

Votes: 108,435

R | 121 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

68 Metascore

In 1990, to protect his fragile mother from a fatal shock after a long coma, a young man must keep her from learning that her beloved nation of East Germany as she knew it has disappeared.

Director: Wolfgang Becker | Stars: Daniel Brühl, Katrin Sass, Chulpan Khamatova, Florian Lukas

Votes: 145,141 | Gross: $4.06M

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Similar to movies - find one of your favourite books in English as a kid (or now) and find the title in German (via Wikipedia... see Lieblingsfilm post on this padlet for an explanation). Spotify has lots of audio books, incl. Harry Potter, Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Gregs Tagebuch auf deutsch)...

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Binge Watch Easy German - Deutsch von der Straße!

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Hallo Leute! 👋 We are the Easy German Team from Berlin. 😃 We produce videos and a podcast to help you learn German as spoken in the streets and among friends. New videos are out on Sundays and Wednesday at 7 pm Berlin time.

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Discover German History - ein Buch über Deutsche Geschichte lesen!

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Your local library is likely to have some of these for you to borrow.

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"It was the economy that troubled most people prior to World War II. Europe, especially Germany, was dealing with a deep worldwide depression. Fascism was gaining a stronghold in Germany as well as in many other European countries. Although small and generally not popular, the Communist Party was the only organized group to stand in opposition to the Nazis. Small bands of these Communists occasionally attempted to disrupt the government by rioting in the streets. Occasionally gunfire would be heard, but very little could be done about it by a people that did not want to get involved. Hitler's "Brown Shirts" were rapidly solidifying their position, and the Nazi Party was becoming stronger. Even though they frequently violated the National Constitution, they brought order to what had been chaos. The Treaty of Versailles, enacted after World War I, was hated by the German people, who felt that it suppressed them in a most demeaning way. Now however, Hitler was putting people to work building cars and an autobahn highway system that connected the larger cities. Modernization of airports and the development of a national railroad were all in violation of the imposed international regulations. Now however, workers were bringing paychecks home and could once again feed their families. Therefore, little thought was given to Hitler's power grab. Germany was emerging from the dark era following World War I, and things were getting better. The Vaterland was regaining its strength, without regard to what France and other European countries thought.... After all, what could they, or would they, do about it?"
― Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One...."

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Germany claims some of the most renowned composers, singers, producers and performers of the world. Germany is the largest music market in Europe, and third largest in the world.

German classical music is one of the most performed in the world; German composers include some of the most accomplished and popular in history, among them Johann Sebastian Bach, Georg Friedrich Händel, Ludwig van Beethoven, Felix Mendelssohn, Johannes Brahms, Robert Schumann. Carl Maria von Weber, Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss were among the composers who created the field of German opera. Hans Zimmer, the prolific film score composer, is also German .

After Latin-language religious music had dominated for centuries, in the 12th century to the 14th centuries, Minnesinger ( love poets), singing in German, spread across Germany. Minnesinger were aristocrats, traveling from court to court, who had become musicians, and their work left behind a vast body of literature, Minnelieder. The following two centuries saw the Minnesinger replaced by middle-class Meistersinger, who were often master craftsmen in their main profession, whose music was much more formalized and rule-based than that of the Minnesinger. Minnesinger and Meistersinger could be considered parallels of French troubadours and trouvère.

Beginning in the 16th century, polyphony, or the intertwining of multiple melodies, arrived in Germany. Protestant chorales predominated; in contrast to Catholic music, chorale was vibrant and energetic. Composers included Dieterich Buxtehude, Heinrich Schütz and Martin Luther, leader of the Protestant Reformation. Luther happened to accompany his sung hymns with a lute, later recreated as the waldzither that became a national instrument of Germany in the 20th century.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Die Zauberflöte (1791) is usually said to be the beginning of German opera. An earlier starting date for German opera, however, could be Heinrich Schütz's from 1627. Schütz is said to be the first great German composer before Johann Sebastian Bach, and was a major figure in 17th-century music.

In the 19th century, two figures were paramount in German opera: Carl Maria von Weber and Richard Wagner. Wagner introduced devices like the Leitmotiv, a musical theme which recurs for important characters or ideas. Wagner (and Weber) based his operas of German history and folklore, most importantly including the Ring of the Nibelung (1874). Into the 20th century, opera composers included Richard Strauss (Der Rosenkavalier) and Engelbert Humperdinck, who wrote operas meant for young audiences. Across the border in Austria, Arnold Schoenberg innovated a form of twelve-tone music that used rhythm and dissonance instead of traditional melodies and harmonies, while Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht collaborated on some of the great works of German theater, including Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny and The Three-Penny Opera.

Germany is also very well known for its many subsidised opera houses, such as Semperoper, Munich State Theatre and the Bayreuth Festspielhaus.

The following century saw two major German composers come to fame early- Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert. Beethoven, a student of Haydn's in Vienna, used unusually daring harmonies and rhythm and composed numerous pieces for piano, violin, symphonies, chamber music, string quartets and an opera. Schubert created a field of artistic, romantic poetry and music called ; his lieder cycles included Die schöne Müllerin and Winterreise.

Early in the 19th century, a composer by the name of Richard Wagner was born. He was a "Musician of the Future" who disliked the strict traditionalist styles of music. He is credited with developing leitmotivs which were simple recurring themes found in his operas.

Carl Maria von Weber was a composer, conductor, pianist, guitarist and critic, one of the first significant composers of the Romantic school. His operas Der Freischütz, and greatly influenced the development of the Romantic opera in Germany. Felix Mendelssohn was a composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period. He was particularly well received in Britain as a composer, conductor and soloist. He wrote symphonies, concerti, oratorios, piano music and chamber music. Robert Schumann was a composer and influential music critic. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Romantic era. Schumann's published compositions were written exclusively for the piano until 1840; he later composed works for piano and orchestra; many Lieder (songs for voice and piano); four symphonies; an opera; and other orchestral, choral, and chamber works. Johannes Brahms honored the music pioneered by Mozart and Beethoven and advanced his music into a Romantic idiom, in the process creating bold new approaches to harmony and melody.

The later 19th century saw Vienna continue its elevated position in European classical music, as well as a burst of popularity with Viennese waltzes. These were composed by people like Johann Strauss the Younger. Richard Strauss was a leading composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras. He is known for his operas, which include Der Rosenkavalier and ; his , especially his Four Last Songs; and his tone poems. Strauss, along with Gustav Mahler, represents the late flowering of German Romanticism after Richard Wagner, in which pioneering subtleties of orchestration are combined with an advanced harmonic style.

The first half of 20th century saw a split between German and Austrian music. In Vienna, Arnold Schoenberg and his pupils Alban Berg and Anton Webern moved along an increasingly avant-garde path, pioneering atonal music in 1909 and twelve-tone music in 1923. Meanwhile, composers in Berlin took a more populist route, from the cabaret-like socialist operas of Kurt Weill to the Gebrauchsmusik of Paul Hindemith. In Munich there was also Carl Orff, who was influenced by the French Impressionist composer Claude Debussy. He began to use colorful, unusual combinations of instruments in his orchestration. His most popular work is Carmina Burana.

Many composers emigrated to the United States when the Nazi Party came to power, including Schoenberg, Hindemith, and Erich Korngold. During this period, the Nazi Party embarked on a campaign to rid Germany of so-called degenerate art, which became a catch-all phrase that included music with any link to Jews, Communists, jazz, and anything else thought to be dangerous. Some figures such as Karl Amadeus Hartmann remained defiantly in Germany during the years of Nazi dominance, continually watchful of how their output might be interpreted by the authorities.

After the defeat of Nazi Germany, musicians were also subjected to the Allied policy of denazification. But here, the supposed non-political nature of music was able to excuse many, including Wilhelm Furtwängler and Herbert von Karajan (who had actually joined the Nazi Party in 1933). They both claimed to have concentrated mainly on music and to have ignored politics, but also to have conducted pieces in ways that were meant to be "gestures of defiance."

In West Germany in the second half of the 20th century, German and Austrian music was largely dominated by the avant-garde. In the 60s and 70s, the Darmstadt New Music Summer School was a major center of European modernism; German composers such as Karlheinz Stockhausen and Hans Werner Henze and non-German ones such as Pierre Boulez and Luciano Berio all studied there. In contrast, composers in East Germany were advised to avoid the avant-garde and to compose music in keeping with the tenets of Socialist Realism. Music written in this style was supposed to advance party politics as well as be more accessible to all. Hanns Eisler and Ernst Hermann Meyer were among the most famous of the first generation of GDR composers.

Germany has many unique regions with their own folk traditions of music and dance. Much of the 20th century saw German culture appropriated for the ruling powers (who fought "foreign" music at the same time).

In both East and West Germany, folk songs called "volkslieder" were taught to children; these were popular, sunny and optimistic, and had little relation to authentic German folk traditions. Inspired by American and English roots revivals, Germany underwent many of the same changes following the 1968 student revolution in West Germany, and new songs, featuring political activism and realistic joy, sadness and passion, were written and performed on the burgeoning folk scene. In East Germany, the same process did not begin until the mid-70s, where some folk musicians began incorporating revolutionary ideas in coded songs.

Popular folk songs included emigration songs from the 19th century, work songs and songs of apprentices, as well as democracy-oriented folk songs collected in the 1950s by Wolfgang Steinitz. Beginning in 1970, the Festival des politischen Liedes, an East German festival focusing on political songs, was held annually and organized (until 1980) by the FDJ (East German youth association). Musicians from up to thirty countries would participate, and, for many East Germans, it was the only exposure possible to foreign music. Among foreign musicians at the festival, some were quite renowned, including Inti-Illimani ( Chile), Billy Bragg (England), Dick Gaughan ( Scotland), Mercedes Sosa ( Argentina) and Pete Seeger (United States), while German performers included, from both East and West, Oktoberklub, Wacholder and Hannes Wader.

Bavarian folk music is likely the best known outside of Germany. Yodeling and schuhplattler dancers are among the stereotyped images of German folk life, though these are only found today in the southernmost areas. Bavarian folk music has played a role in the Alpine New Wave, and produced several pioneering world music groups that fuse traditional Bavarian sounds with foreign styles.

Around the turn of the 20th century, across Europe and especially in Bavaria, many people became concerned about a loss of cultural traditions. This idea was connected to the Heimatschutz movement, which sought to protect regional identities and boundaries. What is considered Bavarian folk music in modern Germany is not the same as what Bavarian folk music was in the early 20th century; like any kind of folk or popular music, styles and traditions have evolved over time, giving birth to new forms of music.

The popularity of the Volkssänger ( people's singer) in Bavaria began in the 1880s, and continued in earnest until the 1920s. Shows consisting of duets, ensemble songs, humor and parodies were popular, but the format began changing significantly following World War I. Bally Prell, the "Beauty Queen of Schneizlreuth", was emblematic of this change. She was an attractive tenor who sang lieder, chanson and opera and operetta.

Some Christmas carols familiar in English are translations of German Christmas songs ( Weihnachtslieder). Pastoral Weihnachtslieder are sometimes called Hirtenlieder (shepherd songs). Three well-known examples are " O Tannenbaum" ("O Christmas Tree"), from a German folksong arranged by Ernst Anschütz; " Silent Night" ("Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht"), by the Austrians Franz Xaver Gruber and Joseph Mohr; and " Still, still, still", an Austrian folksong also from the Salzburg region, based on an 1819 melody by Süss, with the original words, slightly changed over time and location, by G. Götsch.

Between World War I and World War II, German music branched out to form new, more liberal and independent styles.

The first form of German pop music is said to be cabaret, which arose during the Weimar Republic in the 1920s as the sensual music of late-night clubs. Marlene Dietrich and Margo Lion were among the most famous performers of the period, and became associated with both humorous satire and liberal ideas.

The strict regimentation of youth culture in Nazi Germany through the Hitler Youth led to the emergence of several underground protest movements, through which adolescents were able better to exert their independence.

After World War II, German pop music was greatly influenced by music from USA and Great Britain. Apart from Schlager and Liedermacher, it is necessary to distinguish between pop music in West Germany and pop music in East Germany which developed in different directions. Pop music from West Germany was often heard in East Germany, had more variety and is still present today, while East German music has had little influence.

Schlager is a kind of vocal pop music, frequently in the form of sentimental ballads sung in German, popularized by singers such as Gitte Hænning and Rex Gildo in the 1960s, though not without a wide range within the style (Modern Schlager, Schlager-Gold, Volksmusik resp. "volkstümlicher Schlager"). Schlager/Volksmusik is strictly separated from international pop music and is only played on special format radio stations (sometimes mixed with international Oldies).

An important part of Schlager is volkstümliche Musik, a Schlager-like interpretation of traditional German folk themes that is very popular in German speaking countries, especially among the older generation.

Schlager has a wide variety, and the artists with many different styles for example Heino, Katja Ebstein, Wolfgang Petry, Guildo Horn, Roland Kaiser, Helene Fischer and many others.

Famous West German Liedermacher are Reinhard Mey, Klaus Hoffmann, Hannes Wader and Konstantin Wecker. A famous East German Liedermacher was Wolf Biermann. Herman van Veen from the Netherlands was also very popular in Germany. Several Liedermacher artists also record special albums for children.

Genuine German rock first appeared around 1968, just as the hippie countercultural explosion was peaking in the US and UK. At the time, the German musical avant-garde had been experimenting with electronic music for more than a decade, and the first German rock bands fused psychedelic rock from abroad with electronic sounds. The next few years saw the formation of a group of bands that came to be known as Krautrock or Kosmische Musik groups; these included Amon Düül, who later became the world music pioneers Dissidenten, Tangerine Dream, Popol Vuh, Can, Neu! and Faust.

In the 1980s and 1990s most German-language popular music was sung by male solo artists. Very popular singers are Udo Jürgens, Udo Lindenberg, Herbert Grönemeyer, Marius Müller-Westernhagen, Peter Maffay and BAP.

Hamburger Schule (School of Hamburg) is an underground music-movement that started in the late 1980s and was still active till around the mid-1990s. It has similar traditions as Neue Deutsche Welle and mixed all that with punk, grunge and experimental pop music. Hamburger Schule has been an important part of Germany's youth and gave the term "Pop" a new definition, as now it was "ok" (or "cool") to sing in the German language. Hamburger Schule also includes intellectual lyrics with postmodern theories and social criticism. Important artists are Blumfeld, Die Sterne and Tocotronic.

By the early 1970s, experimental West German rock styles had crossed the border into East Germany and influenced the creation of an East German rock movement referred to as Ostrock. On the other side of the Iron Curtain, these bands tended to be stylistically more conservative than in the West, to have more reserved engineering, and often to include more classical and traditional structures (such as those developed by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht in their 1920s Berlin theater songs). These groups often featured poetic lyrics loaded with indirect double-meanings and deeply philosophical challenges to the status quo. As such, they were a style of Krautrock. The best-known of these bands were The Puhdys, Karat, City, Stern-Combo Meißen and Silly.

Only a few individual songs, such as "Am Fenster" by City and "Über sieben Brücken mußt Du geh'n" by Karat, found wide popularity outside the GDR. There was also a wide diversity of underground bands. Out of this scene later grew the internationally successful band Rammstein (see Neue Deutsche Härte below).

In the mid-2000s the German band Wir sind Helden found success with a new style of German-language pop-rock. This success was followed by several other bands and artists that led to a new boom of German-language music and a broader acceptance of existing German-language recording artists, such as:

Popular anglophone alternative rock and crossover bands from Germany that managed to find success domestic and abroad include Beatsteaks, Donots, Blackmail, Reamonn, H-Blockx, Itchy Poopzkid, Guano Apes and Die Happy. The Notwist, an indie rock band, had great critical and commercial success with their album Neon Golden.

Synthpop, Eurodance, Pop

Reggae, dancehall, ska

Popular bands and performers include Culcha Candela, Dr. Ring-Ding, Gentleman, Hans Söllner, Jan Delay, Mamadee, Milky Chance, Oceana, Patrice, Peter Fox and Seeed.

R&B, soul, funk

Notable R&B, Soul and Funk artists include Ayọ, Cassandra Steen, Denyo, Miss Platnum, Nadja Benaissa, Nneka, Söhne Mannheims and Xavier Naidoo.

Hip hop in Germany arrived in the early 1980s, and graffiti and breakdancing became well-known quickly, even in socialist East Germany. German hip hop "started out as a transnational youth subculture. The commercial success started in 1992 with the hit "Die Da" from Die Fantastischen Vier from Stuttgart. The Rödelheim Hartreim Projekt tried to establish a "gangster" rap. An early influential group was Advanced Chemistry including Torch. They sparked an interest in speaking out for the immigrants and used rap as a way to defend themselves. Fettes Brot from Hamburg, has been successful since their beginning. They sing about funny topics, such as infidelity and boasting about their prowess with women. Whereas hip hop had a peak of success in the early first decade of the 21st century, gangster rap became a controversial part of German music and youth culture just as late as 2004 with Aggro Berlin. Some of Germany's hip hop artists are: Cro, Kool Savas, Sido, Samy Deluxe, Bushido, Marteria, Eko Fresh, Bonez MC, Gzuz, Samra, Capital Bra, Trettmann, and Afrob. Gzuz gained recognition worldwide after two of his music videos were posted by Worldstar Hip Hop on YouTube.

Beginning in the late 1970s and early 1980s there were new movements within the German punk scene, led by labels like ZickZack Records, from Hamburg. It was during this period that the term Neue Deutsche Welle (New German Wave) was first coined by Alfred Hilsberg. Many of these bands played experimental post-punk, often using synthesizers and computers. Among them were The Nina Hagen Band, as well as Fehlfarben and Abwärts, from Hamburg. Both are still active, though they've changed their style several times. Other bands played a more aggressive style of punk rock with a clear leftist political direction influenced by earlier political rock bands like Ton Steine Scherben - bands like Slime, Toxoplasma, or Vorkriegsjugend are still relevant in the German punk scene. There is a still existing scene with many only locally known independent bands that confine themselves from the bigger and more popular groups (that are often branded as "Kommerzpunk").

Punkrock was outlawed in the GDR. Bands like Schleim-Keim or L'Attentat were observed and persecuted by the Stasi and couldn't perform in the public. Music was produced in underground and exchanged on Tape, an attempt to release a split-vinyl of "Schleimkeim" and "Zwitschermaschine" failed since the latter was undercut by government agents.

Nonpolitical punkrock that is also listened to by skinheads is termed as Oi!. Thematically, Oi! songs are often about alcohol, relations, and/or violence. While some Oi! Bands like "Loikaemie" did antifascist songs, there are many cases with an affliction to neonazis, with fluid borders toward right-extremist rockmusic ("Rechtsrock") within the Oi!-Scene.

There are few German language bands who managed to be successful for a longer period. The best known are the punk bands Die Ärzte and Die Toten Hosen. Both were formed in the early 1980s but have very different approaches to punk. As successful as those two bands in number of sales and number one albums but much lesser accepted by the public and normally not played by German media because of their affiliation with right-wing politics but with a huge fan community were the Oi!-Band Böhse Onkelz.

Germany has a long and strong history with heavy metal. It is considered by many to be one of Europe's heaviest contributors to the scene. The genre is quite popular and mainstream within the country. Early hard rock/heavy metal was brought to German soil with the success of Scorpions and Accept. Germany is today known for its large metal festivals including Wacken Open Air and Summer Breeze Open Air.

Running Wild are also considered a pioneer of the pirate metal genre with the release of their 1987 album Under Jolly Roger, which was one of the first pirate-themed heavy metal albums.

Three local variants of metal subgenres exist in Germany. The Teutonic thrash metal scene is represented by such groups as Kreator, Sodom, Destruction, Tankard and Exumer. Medieval metal, incorporates German traditional music with industrial metal. Notable bands include Subway to Sally, In Extremo, Corvus Corax, Saltatio Mortis and Schandmaul (the last is considered in Germany). Another variant, Neue Deutsche Härte, a form of industrial metal, is detailed below.

Neue Deutsche Härte

Neue Deutsche Härte (engl. "New German Hardness") is a term for an extremely popular German variant of Industrial metal. It combines the common sound of metal with elements of gothic and industrial music as well as electronic samples and is mostly sung in German. It is known for morbid and provocative lyrical themes and over-the-top stage shows often featuring fire, pyrotechnic, stunts and other special effects. It draws its audience from both the metal and goth scene. Some bands, especially Rammstein and Oomph! have gained mainstream success and, despite their lyrics being mostly in German, have also found success in non-German-speaking countries. Other famous artists include Stahlhammer (from Austria), Megaherz, Unheilig, Eisbrecher, Tanzwut, and Joachim Witt.

Germany is the home of a vivid Goth scene, and has a large scene of musicians from the spectrum who are typically known as Goth musicians. Most notable artists are Lacrimosa, Lacrimas Profundere, Xmal Deutschland, Das Ich, Deine Lakaien, Illuminate, Untoten, Erben der Schöpfung (from Liechtenstein), No More, Girls Under Glass or Project Pitchfork. Leipzig is home of the largest event of this subculture worldwide called the Wave-Gotik-Treffen, regularly hosting 25,000 attendants. The WGT is closely followed by the annual M'era Luna festival in Hildesheim.

Neue Deutsche Todeskunst (engl. "New German Death Art") is a German death-obsessed Dark Wave style of music that blends Death rock, German Rock, Gothic Rock, and neo-classical music with German philosophical texts and a theatrical stage show. It is restricted to Germany where it emerged in the early 1990s from bands such as Das Ich, Lacrimosa, Relatives Menschsein and Goethes Erben. Many NDT artists are known for their use of Classical Latin.

Germany has the largest electronic music scene in the world and has a long tradition in and influence on almost all genres of electronic music. The band Kraftwerk was one of the first bands in the world to make music entirely on electronic equipment, and the band Tangerine Dream is often credited as being among the originators and primary influences of the "Berlin School" of electronic music, which would later influence trance music. Some other bands like Liaisons Dangereuses, Tyske Ludder, Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft and Die Krupps created a style later called Electronic body music. Recently a few electronica artists have become successful in the mainstream, such as Monika Kruse, Marusha, Blümchen and MIA. Artists on the cutting edge of German-language techno include Klee. Both Einstürzende Neubauten (collapsing new buildings, translated literally) and KMFDM (no pity for the majority, translated literally) are considered by many industrial and electronic music fans as the godfathers of their genre. Their sounds developed the modern styles of groups such as NIN, Marilyn Manson, Rammstein, and New Order. Einstürzende Neubauten can be recognized by their Prince-esque logo, which has been subliminally fused into several mainstream American movies (such as a tattoo in the movie Bug, directed by William Friedkin, starring Harry Connick Jr.). KMFDM has released many songs in English, making them more accessible to their huge American and worldwide audience.

In the 1990s, Germany was one of the most successful contributors to the Eurodance genre, with notable German-based acts including Real McCoy, Snap!, Culture Beat, La Bouche, Captain Jack, Captain Hollywood Project, Fun Factory, Masterboy and Haddaway.

Since 2006 producer and DJ Paul Kalkbrenner gained popularity in Germany. He nowadays is one of the most famous performers of electronic music.

One of the most notable event referring to this scene was the Love Parade festival with up to 1.5 million participants from all over the world.

Scooter are by far the most successful German dance act, having found huge national and international success.

In recent years, German DJs have found worldwide success in the popular edm genre, most notably Paul Kalkbrenner, Cascada, Felix Jaehn and Robin Schulz.

Klezmer is a musical Jewish genre that consists of mainly instrumental songs. In Germany, Klezmer expanded significantly after the fall of the Berlin Wall in the mid-1980s. As Klezmer was expanding, so was the Yiddish folk movement, and the two genres became intertwined to a certain extent. In the 1980s while Klezmer was seeing tremendous growth, many Jews in Eastern Europe turned to Klezmer as a means of understanding their communist backgrounds and showing their remembrance to those who experienced the Holocaust. Once Klezmer groups started to tour outside of Europe in the 1980s, Americans gained immediate interest in the music genre. Henry Sapoznik created the first American Klezmer band, known as Kapelye, which toured all around Europe. The spread of Americans playing Klezmer brought a new tone to the genre which captured large audiences. Most American groups who played Klezmer added a hint of American rock into their performances, which was different than the traditional sound of Klezmer in Eastern Europe. It was uncomfortable at first for many of the American Klezmer bands to play in Germany because of the trauma that had occurred there. Despite Germany's background, the American Klezmer groups knew Germany was a place they had to play because of Klezmer's popularity there. Over time, Klezmer's audience expanded in Germany and the American Klezmer bands were able to adjust.

Giora Feidman is arguably one of the most influential Klezmer musicians. Feidman created a new perspective for Klezmer, and shared a new ideology for how the music genre could be viewed and appreciated. Feidman gained a large amount of popularity from his work on the musical play, Ghetto, which associated him and his style with the Holocaust. He brought a new theme to Klezmer music which focused on the remembrance of the Holocaust, and a way of "healing" the trauma caused by the Holocaust. Feidman turned Klezmer into a form of personal expression, in which he tried to unite all people (especially the Jews and Germans) and all things through Klezmer. He completely shifted the ideology of Klezmer and explained how Klezmer is in everything, it is even a way to get in touch with religion and communicate with God. However, some people believe Feidman took his ideology too far and turned Klezmer into something that it never intended to become.

During the 1980s Klezmer underwent significant transformation, and by the middle-late 1990s Klezmer experienced a new wave of change. Klezmer became a name for many different trends far from where it originated. Klezmer was known as a political statement, a method of healing, amateur musicians getting together and playing music, a way to reconnect with lost traditions.

Germany was the starting point of the international career of Cuban-born singer & songwriter Addys Mercedes.

Helms, Siegmund, ed. (1972). Schlager in Deutschland: Beiträge zur Analyse der Popularmusik und des Musikmarktes. Breitkopf & Härtel. N.B.: Includes a bibliog. dictionary of German musicians on pp. 177-235. Without ISBN.

Schütte, Uwe, ed. (2017). German Pop Music. A Companion. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-11-042571-0.

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