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Deutsche Schlager-Festspiele

The Deutsche Schlager-Festspiele were an annual competition for German-language schlager songs, staged by Südwestfunk in Baden-Baden from 1961 to 1966 and revived in 1994 and from 1997 to 1999.

Deutsche Telekom

Deutsche Telekom AG is a German telecommunications company headquartered in Bonn, formed in 1995 from the state-owned Deutsche Bundespost Telekom, with over 273 million mobile customers worldwide.

Deutsche Telekom's pre-privatization predecessors

Deutsche Telekom's pre-privatization predecessors were Germany's state telecom administrations, from the 1877 telephone monopoly through Deutsche Bundespost Telekom, converted into Deutsche Telekom AG in 1995.

Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters

Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters (DTM), also known historically as Deutsche Tourenwagen-Meisterschaft, a German racing series founded 1984 as the DPM, revived 2000, and running FIA GT3 cars in sprint format since 2021.

Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte

The Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte (DVjs) is a German quarterly journal for literary studies and intellectual history, first published in 1923 and regarded as the leading journal of German-language Germanistik.

Deutsche Welle

Deutsche Welle (DW), Germany's international public broadcaster founded 3 May 1953, delivers TV, radio, and digital news in 32 languages from Bonn and Berlin, funded by the federal budget under the Deutsche Welle Act with guaranteed editorial independence.

Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie

Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie (DZfPh), German-language bimonthly philosophy journal founded 1953 by Ernst Bloch and Wolfgang Harich; DDR Marxist-Leninist organ, now published by De Gruyter under Subscribe to Open.

Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis

The Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis (German Youth Literature Award) is a state-funded German prize for children's and young adult literature, awarded annually since 1956 with a total endowment of 72,000 euros.

Deutscher Werkbund

The Deutscher Werkbund is a German association of artists, architects, designers, and industrialists, founded in Munich in 1907 to unite art with industry and improve German products.

Deutscher Wetterdienst

The Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD) is Germany's national meteorological service, founded in 1952 and based in Offenbach am Main, issuing official severe-weather warnings for the country.

Deutsches Derby

The Deutsches Derby, first run in 1869 as the Norddeutsches Derby, is a Group 1 German flat horse race for three-year-old thoroughbreds over 2,400 meters at Hamburg-Horn in July.

Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron

Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) is a German national research center in Hamburg for accelerator science, particle physics, and photon science, founded in 1959, now operating PETRA III and FLASH.

Deutsches Institut für Normung

Deutsches Institut für Normung (DIN), or German Institute for Standardization, is Germany's privately organized national standards body, publishing about 35,000 voluntary DIN standards since its landmark DIN 476 in 1922.

Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum

The Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum (German Climate Computing Center, DKRZ), founded in 1987, is a non-profit center in Hamburg providing supercomputing and data services for German climate research.

Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach

The Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach (German Literature Archive Marbach, DLA) is a German literary archive in Marbach am Neckar, founded in 1955, holding some 1,600 author estates.

Deutsches Museum

The Deutsches Museum, formally the German Museum, is a science and technology museum in Munich founded by Oskar von Miller in 1903, the world's largest.

Deutsches Schifffahrtsmuseum

The Deutsches Schifffahrtsmuseum, or German Maritime Museum, is a Leibniz research museum in Bremerhaven, Germany, opened in 1975, whose centerpiece is the medieval Bremer cog of about 1380.

Deutschland (song)

"Deutschland" is a 2019 song by German band Rammstein, lead single of its untitled seventh album, opening at number 1 in Germany and charting in 27 countries.

Deutschland 83

Deutschland 83 is a 2015 German Cold War spy series created by Anna and Jörg Winger for UFA Fiction and RTL, starring Jonas Nay as East German agent Martin Rauch infiltrating the Bundeswehr in 1983. First German-language drama on major US cable TV (SundanceTV); won an International Emmy; followed by Deutschland 86 and 89.

Deutschland 86

Deutschland 86 (Deutschland86), 2018 second season of the German spy series Deutschland 83, a UFA Fiction production for Amazon Prime Video; 10x45-minute episodes starring Jonas Nay and Maria Schrader as GDR agents in 1986, set in South Africa, Angola, Libya, Paris, and Berlin.

Deutschland 89

Deutschland 89 is the third and final season of the German spy series Deutschland by Anna and Jörg Winger, following DDR agent Martin Rauch from the fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 1989 to German reunification; eight episodes premiered on Amazon Prime Video in September 2020.

Deutschland-class cruiser

The Deutschland class was a class of three German warships, known as pocket battleships, built in the late 1920s and early 1930s in excess of Treaty of Versailles limits.

Deutschlandlied

Deutschlandlied (Das Lied der Deutschen), Germany's national anthem: written 1841 by Hoffmann von Fallersleben on Helgoland to Haydn's 1797 melody; only the third stanza, 'Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit', is official since 1952, confirmed 1991.

Deutschrock

Deutschrock is rock music with German lyrics, a loose label covering 1970s pioneers like Udo Lindenberg, the Neue Deutsche Welle, and bands still charting in 2026.

DEUTZ

DEUTZ AG, founded in Cologne in 1864 as N. A. Otto & Cie and the world's first engine factory, makes diesel, gas, and hydrogen engines and electrified drives.

Deux

Deux (듀스) was a South Korean hip-hop dance duo formed in 1993 by Lee Hyun-do and Kim Sung-jae, credited as the starting point of Korean hip-hop before breaking up in 1995.

Deux cents

Deux cents (200, Two Hundred) is a French Acadian point-trick card game from New Brunswick, Canada, played by four in partnerships with a 36-card deck; players bid 50-100 for card points from aces, tens, and fives.

Deux Vultures

Deux Vultures were a Kenyan rap duo made up of Nasty Thomas and Colonel Mustapha, formed in 2002 and known for the hit 'Monalisa' and the 2004 songs 'Kinyaunyau' and 'Adhiambo C'.

Dev (Bengali actor)

Dev (দেব), born Deepak Adhikari (দীপক অধিকারী) in 1982, is a Bengali film actor, producer and Trinamool Congress MP from Ghatal; star of Chander Pahar, Zulfiqar and Projapoti.

Dev (singer)

Dev, born Devin Star Tailes in 1989, is an American singer and rapper known for the hook of Far East Movement's 2010 hit "Like a G6."