Singer Wincent Weiss has won the prize for best German artist at the MTV Europe Music Awards and an Echo Award. This optimistic song is about not giving up on relationships, even when it seems like it will take a miracle for things to work out.

Mark Forster is a German singer-songwriter. His song "Wir sind groß" was the theme song for the Europe Soccer Championship in France on the German station ZDF.

This cartoon about Wickie the viking was based on a series of children's books by Runer Jonsson. Here you can listen to the theme song.

This song about monkeys is well-liked by German children and appears in many books of children's songs.

Ready to practice some Austrian dialect? Melissa Naschenweng, an Austrian schlager singer, sings about love and devotion.

DJ Ötzi is an Austrian schlager singer. Here, he sings about keeping the departed in our hearts.

In this video, Austrian rapper Golo makes an argument for smiling.

Die Ärzte is one of Berlin's most well-known rock bands. The song "M&F" ("Männer und Frauen") is from their twelfth studio album.

German Schlager singer Nicole performs her 1982 hit "Papillon," which addresses the butterfly as a symbol of hope and freedom.

Nicole is a German Schlager singer. With her performance of the song "Ein bisschen Frieden," she won the Eurovision contest of 1982 at age 17.

A fine example of German Schlager music, singer Nicole performs a song inspired by Ernest Hemingway's book of the same name.

Yvonne Catterfeld is a German singer and actress. "Irgendwas" is a song about life's hectic pace.

German band AnnenMayKantereit perform their song "Es geht mir gut." The group was founded in Cologne and has been playing together for over seven years.

German band Die Toten Hosen references the character Alex DeLarge from Stanley Kubrick's film A Clockwork Orange.

Enjoy the video for the song "Unter den Wolken" from the German rock band Die Toten Hosen.