In 1981, a radical concert was held at Berlin’s Tempodrom called “Geniale Dilletanten” (Brilliant Dilettantes). The deliberately misspelled title of the show became a catch-all phrase for an ...

Lasting from the late 1970s to the mid-1980s, Neue Deutsche Welle (NDW) could have been a mere blip in music history. However, the New German Wave genre – which drew inspiration from British punk and ...

It was the decade of young rebels, from the beginnings of the environmentalist movement in Germany to peace demonstrations in the East and West. A study shows: Germans remember the 1980s with a deep ...

Nena, Alphaville, Modern Talking: During the 1980s, many German groups appeared on the international music scene. PopXport Ranking looks back and presents the ten biggest German music acts of the ...

When most people think of late 2000s and early 2010s chillwave and synthwave music, one often thinks of artists like Washed Out, Toro y Moi, and Neon Indian. If you were a young adult (like me) at the ...

More than three decades after a bomb ripped through the crowd at Munich's world famous Oktoberfest killing 13 people, German prosecutors have reopened the investigation into the deadly far-right ...

THE 5p piece was the most prized possession of the impoverished Irishman in 1980s West Germany. There wasn’t a Paddy worth his salt who didn’t bring a bulging bag of five pence coins with him when he ...