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Some famous Germany singers????

In German language? 219.148.85.225 (talk) 06:53, 7 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Nena, Silbermond, Juli, Tokio Hotel (hate 'em), some Deutschland sucht den Superstar participants, ... In the American and British charts German music isn't very common. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.17.95.71 (talk) 23:00, 21 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Do not forget Xavier Naidoo!--Askalan (talk) 20:02, 26 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

most successful rock/bands in descending order: scorpions, rammstein, die toten hosen, die ärzte, böhse onkelz, tokio hotel

most successful male singers: Herbert Grönemeyer, Marius Müller Westernhagen, Udo Lindenberg, Peter Maffay

most successful female singers: Nena, Andrea Berg, Helene Fischer, Cascada

most successful pop/rock bands: rosenstolz, silbermond, juli, revolverheld, wie sind helden

most successful rap/hip hop acts: Die Fantastischen Vier, Bushido, Sido

some older successful groups: Modern talking, boney m, milli vanilly, Enigma, Kraftwerk

from a German

If we mention Music from Germany we souldn't just limit this to those who sing German. For instance, the Scorpions are worth mentioning, too. Also, don't forget about Unheilig, Rammstein. There are indeed some Germans who made it to the charts in the US or Britain, however in most cases, those were Germans singing English. One example of this is Nena. Even though her song "Neunundneunzig Luftballons" is very old, you can hear it sometimes on AFN. This is weird because it's a German anti-war song and they play it on a US MILITARY radio station. It's very common for German singers to sing English. Your enumeration of German singers is mostly limited to German singers singing German. On the radio, more than 50% of the music is in English, and we hardly know which singers are German and which aren't. Groove Coverage ("God is a girl", "She", ...) is a German group, for instance, but I didn't know about that until I looked them up at ... You know it, ... Wikipedia. Btw, Tokio Hotel has achieved something that noone else has achieved in Germany before: Being successful with awful annoying bad music. The girls (Ok, two of them are boys) of Tokio Hotel even have to give concerts in other countries because nobody in Germany wants to hear them. -- 79.238.168.220 (talk) 22:42, 13 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

the list I made includes artists with the highest sales in Germany and elsewhere combined. It's not relevant in which language they sing or if they are succesful outside of Germany or not.

Grammar mistake

"Occupied during the Napoleonic Wars, with the rising of Pan-Germanism inside the German Confederation resulted in the unification of most of the German states" I'd suggest changing it to: "Occupied during the Napoleonic Wars, the rise of Pan-Germanism inside the German Confederation resulted in the unification of most of the German states"

demographic collapse

Maybe the reasons for the birth rates could be explained? The whole issue of 1,35 children/woman (Shocking!!) should be adressed, since it is the biggest problem of declining Germany. They don't want to have kids anymore. If media and health deserve a headline, so does the actual demographic crisis. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.121.28.135 (talk) 17:42, 28 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Official language

I've been rummaging through German laws and there seem to be none that say: German is the country's official language. (There's one in the Administration-laws which say "German is the official language", but I'd assume that this accounts only for the language for the concerned administration. Also: In theory it is possible to have a country with multiple country-languages of which only one is used for legal documents.) Can we either verify that German is the official language or add de facto?Dakhart (talk) 11:50, 3 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

What do you consider an official language outside administration? It seems that it's the English term for de:Amtssprache, so German is the official language. Perhaps it's not a national language but maybe I'm relying too much on the Wikipedian definitions? --Zahnradzacken (talk) 12:46, 3 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I recall that there was a law that requires people to communicate with state servants in German, otherwise you can be charged for translation. Given that most teachers are state servants, I would find it funny if this was enforced in English class. I don't know what "official language" could mean if it doesn't mean "Amtssprache". I do know however that there are a few languages which have the special status of a "recognized minority language". One of these languages is sorbic. In the area where sorbic is spoken, public administration has bilingual letterheads in sorbic and german. This is a speed ticket from Kamenz: http://titanic.shipdown.de/uploads/geblitzt_im_niemandsland.pdf However, I don't know about the exact legal status of minority languages. -- 79.238.168.220 (talk) 23:02, 13 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

President

The german President (Bundespräsident) is not allowed to be in a political party. The statement (CDU) after the name of Christian Wulff is wrong. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.233.123.228 (talk) 11 January 2012

I believe this is a convention, rather than a strict rule, but his party membership is dormant. See
--Boson (talk) 19:02, 11 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
The Federal President is elected by the Federal Diet and the Federal Council. These consist of people who belong to some parties and they would only vote for a person of their own party. The reason why Wulff became Federal President was that he was a CDU member and that the coalition of CDU/CSU and FDP has a majority so they could elect him. I believe that the rule that the Federal President must not be member of a party is somewhere in our legislation (it's not in the constitution, I just checked that). However, the Federal President ususally doesn't quit their party entirely, he just lets his membership be dormant. Whatever his official membership status is, he still feels part of CDU/CSU and people still associate him with this party. When he leaves office, he will become a regular CDU member again, so we can't really consider him non-CDU. -- 79.238.168.220 (talk) 22:22, 13 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
But if everybody voted strictly along party/coalition lines, it presumably wouldn't have taken three attempts.--Boson (talk) 00:17, 14 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Boson: Germany has more than two parties, so if everyone votes for a candidate of their own party, you wouldn't get a majority. The only way to get a majority for a particular Federal President is by making several parties vote for the same candidate. These "several parties" are usually the government coalition parties. The party that leads the coalition would be allowed to decide who is going to be Federal President while their coalition partner will mostly want some Federal Ministers in return. -- 62.156.56.92 (talk) 05:30, 22 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
The point is that Wulff was the (only) candidate put forward by the governing coalition (CDU/CSU + FDP). By your logic, they should have controlled 644 votes, where 623 would have been sufficient for an absolute majority; so Wulff should have got an absolute majority on the first vote. Since he was only elected on the third vote (where an absolute majority is not even required – but was politically desirable), it was obviously not that simple. The rather unusual make-up of the Bundesversammlung may be one factor that makes "party discipline" more difficult. Don't forget: half the electors are not from the Bundestag at all, and – though elected by the parliaments of the Länder- need not even be politicians. It's quite possible that experienced politicians have to take some of the VIP electors aside and explain how the sausage-making process really works. I don't see the direct relevance of horse trading for ministeral posts in the presidential election.--Boson (talk) 19:57, 22 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I don't see a relevance either. It's rather pretty unconvincing, since Federal Ministers are regularly assigned only after an election of the Bundestag, which takes place independently from and quite often in another year than the election of the Bundespräsident. Anyway, this discussion is quite off-topic. Or is any of this going to improve the article? --Zahnradzacken (talk) 20:31, 23 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Edit request on 13 January 2012


77.185.170.231 (talk) 10:43, 13 January 2012 (UTC) This is a Islam Republic. Germs has to have Islamic Republic.[reply]

 Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. — Bility (talk) 17:29, 13 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
If you want to say that Germany was an Islamic Republic, you're wrong. -- 79.238.168.220 (talk) 22:23, 13 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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