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Markthalle Hamburg
Markthalle Hamburg is a concert venue in Hamburg, Germany, opened in 1977 in a former flower market hall, hosting about 200 events and 100,000 visitors a year.
Mary Roos
Mary Roos is a German Schlager singer whose biggest hit was "Arizona Man" (1970); she placed third for Germany at Eurovision 1972 and retired in 2024.
Max Greger
Max Greger (1926–2015) was a German bandleader, saxophonist, and composer from Munich who recorded over 3,000 titles for Polydor and led ZDF's show orchestra from 1963 to 1977.
Melissa Naschenweng
Melissa Naschenweng, born 1990 in Villach, Carinthia, is an Austrian Schlager singer and Steirische-Harmonika player who blends Alpine folk with pop and has four Austrian number-one albums.
Mercedes-Benz Arena Berlin
The Mercedes-Benz Arena Berlin, known since 2024 as the Uber Arena, is a Berlin indoor arena that opened in 2008 and hosts Eisbären Berlin and ALBA Berlin.
Metronome Records
Metronome Records, also known as Metronome Musik, is a record label founded in Stockholm in 1949 by the brothers Anders and Lars Burman and Börje Ekberg to release jazz.
Mia Julia
Mia Julia, full name Mia Julia Brückner and born in 1986, is a German party-Schlager singer who has headlined the Ballermann party scene on Mallorca since 2013.
Michael Holm
Michael Holm, born Lothar Bernhard Walter in 1943, is a German Schlager singer, composer, and producer whose "Tränen lügen nicht" topped the German charts in 1974.
Mickie Krause
Mickie Krause is the stage name of Michael Engels, a German party-Schlager and Ballermann singer who has performed on Mallorca since 1998 and is credited with founding the genre.
Molotow
Molotow is a music club on the Reeperbahn in Hamburg's St. Pauli, founded in 1990 and known for early shows by The White Stripes and The Killers.
Monarchie und Alltag
Monarchie und Alltag is the 1980 debut album by Düsseldorf band Fehlfarben, a Neue Deutsche Welle landmark named the best German-language album by Rolling Stone.
Muffathalle
The Muffathalle is a concert hall in the Muffatwerk cultural center on the Isar in Munich, opened in 1993 in a listed 1893 power station.
Mundartrock
Mundartrock is rock and pop music sung in Swiss German dialect, a scene that arose around Bern in the early 1970s, pioneered by Rumpelstilz, Polo Hofer, and Span.
Nik P.
Nik P., born Nikolaus Presnik in 1962, is an Austrian schlager and party-schlager singer from Friesach, best known for the 2007 chart-topping duet "Ein Stern" with DJ Ötzi.
Nina & Mike
Nina & Mike were a German schlager duo of the 1970s, a married couple best known for "Fahrende Musikanten" (1973) and their cover of "Paloma Blanca" (1975).
Norman Langen
Norman Langen (born 1985 in Würselen-Bardenberg) is a German Schlager and pop singer who finished seventh on DSDS in 2011; his debut album Pures Gold reached number 11 in Germany.
Ö3 Austria Top 40
The Ö3 Austria Top 40 is Austria's official weekly singles chart, compiled by GfK Entertainment for IFPI Austria, broadcast by Hitradio Ö3 since 1967 and named Top 40 since 1995.
OGERMANN, CLAUS
Claus Ogerman, born Klaus Ogermann (1930–2016), was a German arranger, conductor, and composer who moved to the United States in 1959 and arranged for Sinatra and Jobim.
Olaf der Flipper
Olaf der Flipper is the stage name of German Schlager singer Olaf Malolepski, who sang with Die Flippers from 1969 until 2011 and has performed solo since.
Party-Schlager
Party-Schlager, also called Ballermann-Musik or Après-Ski-Musik, is a German-language uptempo Schlager subgenre built for crowd singalongs, which grew out of the 1990s Mallorca tourist boom.
Peter Orloff
Peter Orloff (real name Pjotr Nikolajewitsch von Orlow) is a German Schlager singer and composer, born 1944, who wrote million-selling hits for Peter Maffay and Bernd Clüver.
Pop-Schlager
Pop-Schlager, also written Popschlager, is the modern, pop-produced form of German-language Schlager with bass-heavy, beat-driven production comparable to mainstream pop; its leading exponents include Helene Fischer, Vanessa Mai, and Beatrice Egli.
Rainhard Fendrich
Rainhard Fendrich is an Austrian singer, composer, and actor, born in Vienna in 1955, who performs his own songs in Viennese dialect and is counted among the most important Austro-Pop artists.
Ralph Siegel
Ralph Siegel, born 1945 in Munich, is a German Schlager composer and producer with over 2,000 registered titles, who won the 1982 Eurovision Song Contest with "Ein bisschen Frieden".
Ramon Roselly
Ramon Roselly, born Ramon Kaselowsky, is a German Schlager singer from Zschernitz in Saxony-Anhalt who won the seventeenth season of DSDS in 2020 and has since released six studio albums.
Reinhard Mey
Reinhard Mey, born 1942, is a German Liedermacher in the French chanson tradition whose hallmark song 'Über den Wolken' has identified him for almost fifty years.
René Carol
René Carol, born Gerhard Tschierschnitz, was a German Schlager singer of the 1950s whose "Rote Rosen, rote Lippen, roter Wein" earned the first postwar Goldene Schallplatte.
Revolverheld
Revolverheld is a German pop-rock band from Hamburg, founded in 2002, that placed eight albums on the German chart and entered an indefinite break in 2026 after a 20th-anniversary tour.
Rio Reiser
Rio Reiser, born Ralph Möbius in 1950, was a German rock singer and songwriter who fronted Ton Steine Scherben before a solo career with "König von Deutschland".
Rosenstolz
Rosenstolz was a German-language pop duo formed in Berlin in 1991 by singer AnNa R. and keyboardist Peter Plate, whose six number-one albums made them Deutschpop stars.