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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.
Die ultimative Chartshow
Die ultimative Chartshow is a German music chart countdown program on RTL, hosted by Oliver Geissen since 2003, ranking songs by points from official German chart positions.
DÖF
DÖF, short for Deutsch-Österreichisches Feingefühl, was a short-lived Austrian-German pop project of the Neue Deutsche Welle era, best known for "Codo", which topped the German charts for five weeks in 1983.
Donauinselfest
Donauinselfest is a free three-day open-air music festival held each summer on Vienna's Danube Island in Austria. First held in 1984, it claims to be Europe's largest free-entry festival.
DSDS (Deutschland sucht den Superstar)
Deutschland sucht den Superstar (DSDS) is a German television casting show based on Simon Fuller's Pop Idol format, broadcast by RTL since 2002 and produced by UFA Show & Factual.
Ein Kessel Buntes
Ein Kessel Buntes was the flagship Saturday-evening variety show of East German television, mixing music, comedy, dance, and acrobatics; it ran from 1972 until 1992, first on GDR television and then on ARD.
Ein Stern, der deinen Namen trägt
"Ein Stern, der deinen Namen trägt" is a 2007 party-Schlager duet by DJ Ötzi and Nik P. that topped the German and Austrian charts and sold 1.35 million copies.
Eloy de Jong
Eloy de Jong is a Dutch singer, born in 1973, who sang in the 1990s boyband Caught in the Act and later became a German-language Schlager solo artist.
EMI Electrola
EMI Electrola, known simply as Electrola, was the German record company of the British EMI group, based in Cologne from the early 1950s; its label brand survives today under Universal Music Germany.
Eric Philippi
Eric Philippi, born 1997 in Saarbrücken, is a German schlager singer, songwriter, and producer who won Florian Silbereisen's Schlagerchallenge.2021 and has released two albums on Telamo.
Erik Silvester
Erik Silvester, born Erik Herschmann, was a German Schlager singer and producer whose 15 chart hits between 1967 and 1976 included 'Zucker im Kaffee' and 'Wenn die Trommel ruft'.
Erste Allgemeine Verunsicherung
Erste Allgemeine Verunsicherung (EAV) is an Austrian Austropop and satire band formed in Vienna in 1977, best known for the 1985 hit 'Ba Ba Banküberfall'.
FKP Scorpio
FKP Scorpio is a Hamburg concert and festival promotion company founded in 1990 by Folkert Koopmans, one of Germany's largest promoters and organizer of the Hurricane and Southside festivals.
Fred vom Jupiter
"Fred vom Jupiter" is a 1981 German synth-pop single by Andreas Dorau, released as Die Doraus und Die Marinas, and a best-known Neue Deutsche Welle hit.
Freddy Quinn
Freddy Quinn, born Franz Eugen Helmuth Manfred Nidl, is an Austrian-born singer and actor who became the most successful German-language singer of the 1950s and 1960s.
Gasometer Wien
Gasometer Wien, also known as Gasometer Vienna, is a concert venue in the basement of one of four converted 19th-century gas tanks in Simmering, Vienna, opened in 2001.
Georg Danzer
Georg Danzer, known as Gipsy Danzer, was an Austrian singer-songwriter in Viennese dialect, a founding figure of Austropop whose 1975 hit 'Jö schau' was his only number one.
Glashaus
Glashaus is a German soul and R&B band founded in 1999 in Frankfurt am Main by singer Cassandra Steen, rapper Moses Pelham, and producer Martin Haas.
Götz Alsmann
Götz Alsmann, born 1957 in Münster, is a German musician and television presenter who plays German Schlager of the 1920s to 1950s in jazz style.
Grand Prix der Volksmusik
The Grand Prix der Volksmusik was an annual television song competition for volkstümliche Schlager, contested by Germany, Austria, and Switzerland from 1986 to 2010, and by South Tyrol from 2000.
Grauzone
Grauzone was a Swiss Neue Deutsche Welle and post-punk band from Bern, formed around 1980, best known for "Eisbär", a cult anthem of German-language pop; it dissolved in 1982.
Große Freiheit 36
Große Freiheit 36 is a concert club on the Große Freiheit street in Hamburg's St. Pauli district, near the Reeperbahn, operating since 1985 and among the city's best-known venues.
GVL
GVL (Gesellschaft zur Verwertung von Leistungsschutzrechten) is a German collecting society that collects and distributes remuneration for performing artists and recording producers, taking in 257.93 million euros in 2025.
Hamburger Schule
The Hamburger Schule (Hamburg School) is a Hamburg-based movement of intellectual, German-language indie rock active from 1989 to 2000, whose core bands were Blumfeld, Tocotronic, and Die Sterne.
Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle (music)
The Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle is a 15,500-capacity indoor arena in Stuttgart's NeckarPark, Germany, opened in 1983 as Europe's first multifunctional arena; a replacement is now planned, with the city exploring an investor model in 2026.
Hans-A-Plast
Hans-A-Plast is a punk and Neue Deutsche Welle band formed in 1978 in Hanover, West Germany, with three women and two men, and its own record label, No Fun.
Hansi Hinterseer
Hansi Hinterseer, born Johann Ernst Hinterseer in 1954, is an Austrian Schlager singer and former alpine ski racer who won the 1973 giant slalom World Cup.
Heino
Heino, real name Heinz Georg Kramm, is a German Schlager singer born in 1938 in Düsseldorf, known for his deep baritone, dark sunglasses, and hits like "Blau blüht der Enzian".
Hitradio Ö3
Hitradio Ö3, usually shortened to Ö3, is the national pop music station of Austrian public broadcaster ORF and the most-listened radio station in Austria, with over 2.4 million daily listeners.
Holger Hiller
Holger Hiller, born 1956 in Hamburg, is a German vocalist and sampler pioneer of the Neue Deutsche Welle who co-founded the band Palais Schaumburg before a solo career.