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1 Live Krone
The 1LIVE Krone is an annual German music award presented by WDR's radio station 1LIVE, first held around 2000 and decided mainly by an online listener vote.
2raumwohnung
2raumwohnung is a German-language electropop duo from Berlin, formed in 2000 by Inga Humpe and Tommi Eckart, known for 'Wir trafen uns in einem Garten' and '36 Grad'.
4630 Bochum
4630 Bochum is the fifth studio album by German singer Herbert Grönemeyer, released in 1984. Named for Bochum's old postal code, it sold over 2.75 million copies.
Alexandra (musician)
Alexandra, born Doris Nefedov, was a German Schlager and chanson singer whose hits "Zigeunerjunge" and "Sehnsucht" made her a cult figure before her death in a 1969 car crash at 27.
Am Fenster
"Am Fenster" is a 1977 single by the East German rock band City, released on the Amiga label and sold over 10 million copies worldwide.
André Heller
André Heller (Franz André Heller), born 1947 in Vienna, is an Austrian singer-songwriter and multimedia artist known for the art fairground Luna Luna and the Swarovski Kristallwelten.
Andrea Jürgens
Andrea Jürgens (1967–2017) was a German Schlager singer who became a national child star at ten in 1978 and charted for four decades until her death at 50.
Andreas Bourani
Andreas Bourani is a German Deutschpop singer and songwriter, born in Augsburg in 1983, best known for "Auf uns", the ARD's 2014 FIFA World Cup song that reached number 1 in Germany.
Andreas Dorau
Andreas Dorau is a German musician and songwriter who came to fame as a Hamburg schoolboy with the 1981 Neue Deutsche Welle hit "Fred vom Jupiter" and has pursued an idiosyncratic pop career since.
Anna-Carina Woitschack
Anna-Carina Woitschack is a German Schlager singer and television personality who entered the scene on Deutschland sucht den Superstar in 2011 and has released six studio albums.
Annett Louisan
Annett Louisan is a German singer based in Hamburg, known as the voice of the German-language chanson since her 2004 debut album Bohème and hit single "Das Spiel".
Apres-Ski
Apres-Ski is German-language party music played in Alpine ski huts after a day on the slopes: simple singalong schlager, party evergreens, and club music, with DJ Ötzi as its defining star.
Astra Kulturhaus
The Astra Kulturhaus is a concert and party venue on the RAW-Gelände in Berlin-Friedrichshain, opened in 2009 in a former East German railway cultural center with room for 1,500 people.
Atemlos durch die Nacht
"Atemlos durch die Nacht" ("Breathless through the Night") is a 2013 Schlager-pop song by German singer Helene Fischer, the most successful German-language song of the 2010s.
Austria3
Austria3 was an Austrian Liedermacher trio of Rainhard Fendrich, Wolfgang Ambros, and Georg Danzer, active from 1997 to 2006 and known as the supergroup of Austropop.
Ballermann Hits
Ballermann Hits are the German-language party schlager songs of the Ballermann, the party mile on Mallorca's Playa de Palma beach, and a long-running compilation series and television show built on that repertoire.
BAP
BAP, officially Niedeckens BAP since 2014, is a Cologne rock band founded in 1976 by Wolfgang Niedecken that sings in Kölsch and holds 13 German number-one albums.
Bata Illic
Bata Illic is a Serbian-born singer of German-language Schlager, born in Belgrade in 1939, best known for the 1972 number 1 hit 'Michaela' and still performing in his late 80s.
Batschkapp Frankfurt
The Batschkapp, also written Die Batschkapp, is a rock and pop concert venue in Frankfurt am Main, founded in 1976 by the city's Sponti scene as a left-wing cultural center.
Beatrice Egli
Beatrice Egli, born in 1988 in Lachen, Switzerland, is a schlager singer who won the tenth season of Deutschland sucht den Superstar in 2013 and has topped German and Swiss charts since.
Bernhard Brink
Bernhard Brink, born 1952 in Nordhorn, is a German schlager singer and television presenter whose biggest single, "Liebe auf Zeit", reached number 13 in 1977.
Biermösl Blosn
Biermösl Blosn was a Bavarian satirical music trio founded in 1976 by the brothers Hans, Michael, and Christoph Well, pioneers of Neue Volksmusik who gave their last concerts in 2012.
Bilderbuch
Bilderbuch is an Austrian art-pop band from Kremsmünster in Upper Austria, founded in 2005, known for a danceable mix of hip-hop, R&B, and pop sung in mixed German and English.
Büne Huber
Büne Huber (Bernhard Huber), born 1962 in Bern, is a Swiss singer, lyricist, and painter who founded and fronts the Bernese dialect rock band Patent Ochsner.
Cindy aus Marzahn
Cindy aus Marzahn is the comedy stage character of German comedian Ilka Bessin, a pink-tracksuited woman from Berlin-Marzahn who debuted in 2004 and returned in 2022.
Clueso
Clueso, the stage name of Thomas Hübner, born 1980, is a German singer, rapper, and songwriter from Erfurt with several number 1 albums, including 'Stadtrandlichter' and 'Neuanfang'.
Costa Cordalis
Costa Cordalis, born Konstantinos Kordalis, was a Greek-born Schlager singer who moved to Germany, scored his biggest hit with "Anita" in 1976, and died on Mallorca in 2019.
Das Fest
Das Fest is a mostly free annual open-air music festival held since 1985 in Karlsruhe's Günther-Klotz-Anlage park, drawing up to 260,000 visitors each late July.
Der Junge mit der Mundharmonika
"Der Junge mit der Mundharmonika" ("The Boy with the Harmonica") is a German Schlager ballad recorded by Bernd Clüver, a number-1 hit in Germany and Switzerland in 1973.
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.