Kaffeeklatsch — Culture and the German language

Sierra Vista Herald ^ | Kat Hanson

[Lisbon1940]

There’s some good German bluegrass.

[seowulf]

I wonder if there are more Turkish or Urdu songs on German radio, or German songs.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Bookmark

[bigbob]

Its Polka time!

[Disambiguator]

Wir fahren auf der Autobahn!

[dfwgator]

Alles klar, Herr Kommissar?

[Dr. Sivana]

Up until a few years ago, you wouldn’t hear any German-language songs on the radio, unless it was a country/folk type of music station.

Not true.

Kraftwerk Autobahn

Nena ‎- 99 Luftballons

[Dr. Sivana]

Alles klar, Herr Kommissar?

Good one. Though Falco's German original makes for a lame video.

[dfwgator]

What about the opening of Def Leppard’s “Rock of Ages”

“Gunter Glieben Glauchen Globen”

[ameribbean expat]

So I fly up to the land of the Whiskey Rebellion, the old Western Reserve, once every six weeks to deal with Ye Olde Homestead (bloody sandstone basements...and I grew up in a place with no basements because the water table is only six feet beneath the surface...so I know crap all to start with)

Grab a car service out of PIT, CLE or CAK, wherever is cheapest to fly into. Driver and I are talking on the way home. He tells me about this place:

http://sharonmaennerchor.com/

Went, had a great meal, real beer, and entertainment.

[dfwgator]

[Hardastarboard]

I heard what I thought was a German “Oompah” band on the radio a few years back. I finally realized it was Mexican music, when I heard the singing. Funny how both musical styles use the same instruments.

[j.argese]

TransEurope Express also an excellent Kraftwerk tune

[Dr. Sivana]

I heard what I thought was a German “Oompah” band on the radio a few years back. I finally realized it was Mexican music, when I heard the singing. Funny how both musical styles use the same instruments.

New Braunfels, TX has a Mexican-German-fest every year where the two cultures are mixed together. The city has a history of both populations lving side by side.

[VanShuyten]

“I heard what I thought was a German “Oompah” band on the radio a few years back....”

There were a lot of German immigrants to Texas, for example New Braunfels, TX, and those rhythms and instruments are German. The Germans mixed with the Mexican/Texicans and you get that music and good beer and sausages.

[ASOC]

You wee hearing German music. Outside the US, the largest German migration was to Mexico.

A lot in the north of Mexico, the current “Música Norteña” (northern music) is a music genre that exists thanks of the German and Scandinavian settlers that came to the north of Mexico. When Maximilian I became emperor of Mexico in the Second Mexican Empire, he opened the doors to a lot of europeans immigrants.

There was an open debate here in the US in the beginning over the *official* language of the US being English or German.

[dfwgator]

My favorite is “Das Model”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkq-KcxedLQ

[dfwgator]

Best thing about Germans coming to Texas.....

[Buttons12]

“Seemann” by Lolita is my favorite German tune.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2m8MjverT64