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Ross Antony
Ross Antony, born Ross Anthony Catterall in 1974, is a British singer and television host working in Germany, first known from the band Bro'Sis and since 2013 a Schlager artist.
Rote Fabrik
Rote Fabrik, meaning Red Factory, is a collectively run cultural center in a former silk factory on Lake Zurich in Zurich, occupied by artists and activists in 1980.
Roy Black (musician)
Roy Black, born Gerhard Höllerich (1943–1991), was a German Schlager singer and film actor whose 1966 hit "Ganz in Weiß" sold about 2.5 million copies.
Rudi Schuricke
Rudi Schuricke (1913–1973) was a German Schlager singer and tenor whose 1943 recording "Capri-Fischer" became the first great postwar hit and earned him the first gold record given a postwar performer.
Schlagerboom
Schlagerboom is a large annual German-language schlager television show on Das Erste, hosted by Florian Silbereisen since its first edition in 2016 at the Westfalenhalle Dortmund, billed as Europe's largest schlager live show.
Schlagerparty
A Schlagerparty is a themed club night, boat party, or arena event built around singalong German-language pop, a format first staged in Hamburg in 1997.
Schlagerplanet
Schlagerplanet, marketed as Schlagerplanet Radio, is a German-language schlager radio station and web platform launched in 2015 and wholly owned by Kiel-based Regiocast since 2016.
Schöne Maid
"Schöne Maid" is a 1971 Schlager single by German singer Tony Marshall, written and produced by Jack White, that spent a record 56 weeks on the German chart.
Schweizer Hitparade
The Schweizer Hitparade, also known as the Offizielle Schweizer Hitparade, is the official weekly music chart of Switzerland, ranking best-selling singles and albums and serving as the basis for Swiss Gold and Platinum certifications.
Semino Rossi
Semino Rossi, born Omar Ernesto Semino in Rosario, Argentina in 1962, is an Argentine-Italian Schlager singer based in the Austrian Tyrol with millions of records sold.
Silbermond
Silbermond is a German pop-rock band from Bautzen, Saxony, fronted by Stefanie Kloß, whose 2004 breakthrough brought hits like "Symphonie" and more than six million records sold.
Silly
Silly is a German rock band formed in East Berlin in 1978, fronted from the early 1980s by singer Tamara Danz and among the leading rock bands of the GDR.
Sing meinen Song
Sing meinen Song – Das Tauschkonzert is a German VOX music show, first broadcast in 2014, in which seven established artists spend weeks together performing one another's songs.
Slime (group)
Slime is a German punk band formed in Hamburg in 1979, one of the style-defining bands of the 1980s German punk scene, whose anti-fascist songs were repeatedly indexed and prosecuted.
Sonia Liebing
Sonia Liebing (born 1989 in Cologne) is a German pop-Schlager singer who released four studio albums between 2019 and 2025 and topped the German airplay charts in 2025.
Spliff
Spliff was a German rock band from West Berlin, formed around 1980 from the Nina Hagen Band, best known for the 1982 album 85555 and its hit single "Carbonara".
Star-Club
The Star-Club was a rock music club at Große Freiheit 39 in Hamburg's St. Pauli district, opened in 1962, famous for the Beatles' 1962 residencies and closed in 1969.
Stefanie Heinzmann
Stefanie Heinzmann is a Swiss pop and soul singer, born in 1989 in Valais, who won Stefan Raab's casting show in 2008 with 'My Man Is a Mean Man'.
Stephan Remmler
Stephan Remmler is a German singer and composer best known as the frontman of Trio, whose 1982 hit "Da da da" sold in 30 countries.
Team 5ünf
Team 5ünf is a German five-piece Schlager boyband founded in 2021 by former boyband members Jay Khan and Marc Terenzi, who perform German versions of international boyband hits.
Tempodrom
The Tempodrom is a concert and event venue in Berlin, founded by nurse Irene Moessinger as a circus tent in 1980 and rebuilt in 2001 near the former Anhalter Bahnhof.
Tim Toupet
Tim Toupet, real name Tim Bibelhausen, is a German party-schlager singer and former hairdresser whose 2009 hit "...so ein schöner Tag (Fliegerlied)" reached number 6 in Germany.
Tina Rainford
Tina Rainford, born Christa Zalewski, was a German Schlager singer from Berlin whose 1976 song "Silver Bird" sold about two million copies and reached number 5 in Germany.
Tony Marshall
Tony Marshall, born Herbert Anton Bloeth in Baden-Baden in 1938, was a German Schlager singer whose 1971 hit "Schöne Maid" sold a million copies; he died in 2023.
Trauffer
Trauffer is the stage name of Marc A. Trauffer, a Swiss Mundart-pop singer from the Bernese Oberland who has topped the Swiss album charts since 2014.
Trio
Trio was a German minimal-pop band from Großenkneten, formed in 1979, whose 1982 single "Da da da" became a worldwide hit before they dissolved in 1986.
Udo Lindenberg
Udo Lindenberg, born 1946 in Gronau, Westphalia, is a German rock singer and painter credited as the inventor of Deutschrock; his 2023 hit Komet spent 21 weeks at number 1.
Universal Music Germany
Universal Music Germany is the German arm of Universal Music Group, headquartered in Berlin since 2002 and led by Frank Briegmann, operating labels including Polydor, Electrola, and Deutsche Grammophon.
Vanessa Mai
Vanessa Mai, born 1992 in Baden-Württemberg, is a German schlager and pop singer who fronted Wolkenfrei, has released nine studio albums, and has sold more than 800,000 records.
Verdammt, ich lieb dich
"Verdammt, ich lieb dich" ("Damn, I love you") is Matthias Reim's 1990 debut single, which spent a record 16 weeks at number 1 on the German chart.