Alligatoah—real name Lukas Strobel—makes witty rap songs. In "Du bist schön" ("You are beautiful"), he mocks our superficial obsession with beauty, cleverly incorporating cultural references, quotations, and puns into his lyrics.

Eleven-year-old Amy is a big fan of musicals. Here on The Voice Kids, she belts out “Erinnerung,” the German version of “Memory” from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s famous musical Cats.

At a preview concert, German singer, rapper, and songwriter Clueso talks about the making of his recent album. 

German singer/rapper Cro sings a song about priorities and relationships.

The masked German rapper Cro sings about searching for the woman of his dreams. This song reached the top of the charts in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria!

"Bad Chick" is about a young man who gets stuck in a relationship with a coercive and dangerous woman who takes over his whole life. Being with her gets him into all kinds of trouble and, because he already has a reputation for being unreliable, no one believes him when he tries to explain that it's not his fault.

With their song “Schöne Neue Welt” [Brave New World] the Berlin Hip-Hop and Reggae band Culcha Candela criticizes the superficiality and indifference of the “fun society” towards problems like climate change.

In this classic song from the German group Fantastische Vier, Smudo and Thomas D both rap about a woman they met over the weekend. As they recount their experiences, they reach a startling conclusion...

The song "Sie ist weg" by German hip-hop group Die Fantastischen Vier combines their signature machismo with regret about the end of a relationship.

Many of the verses of the song "MfG - Mit freundlichen Grüßen" by the hip-hop group Die Fantastischen Vier consist solely of acronyms! The song comments on the development of the German language with its long words and titles that make such abbreviations and acronyms necessary, and what this means for German culture.

The song may be about friendship, but German legends Die Fantastischen Vier are eager to show that they perhaps don't always get along, especially when they were asked to collaborate with Clueso.

Since 1970, the number of wild mammals, birds, and insects has fallen by 68 percent. The World Biodiversity Council warns that around one million animal and plant species could become extinct in just a few decades.

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

A blast from the past: With his single „Was soll das?" ("What's This All About?"), German musician Herbert Grönemeyer reached number three on the charts in 1988. Viel Spaß!

This song tells the story of a deaf girl who plays music at high volume because she can only enjoy it when she feels it in her stomach and the floor trembles. Her neighbors are less enthusiastic.

Ingeborg Schnabel has important things to share... and above all: she loves flowers! Copyright HiB-TV.

This is an animated version of the tragic poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, set to music in the 19th century by composer Franz Schubert.

Luxuslärm featuring Culcha Candela make a strong statement against the ubiquitous slimming craze with their new single.

Margit Sponheimer performs her hit song "Am Rosenmontag" ("On Rose Monday") as part of the Carnival festivities in Mainz.

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

Knud Seckel sings the famous Falcon song by “Der von Kürenberg,” which is likely one of the most well-known Middle High German texts. It originates from around the year 1160. The author, Der von Kürenberg, is said to have come from and worked in the Bavarian/Austrian region and is considered as the first minstrel singer known by name who sang in German.

An ode to the smallest toe: With the Monsters of Liedermaching, comedy and music merge into one performance.

German artist Pänke performs his soulful song “Time Travel.” Enjoy!

"Schwarz zu Blau" ("Black to Blue") is a song from the German singer Peter Fox from the band Seeed in which he sings about the grittier side of Berlin.