EXPLORE MUSIC MADE IN GERMANY
Popular music from Germany? From HipHop to pop? And all this in German? Is that possible? A few questions with just one answer: It is possible – and how!
The German rock and pop scene has evolved dramatically over the past ten years. Much of what used to be unthinkable has now become normal. Now you can make music that has something to do with the lives of young people and the young fans understand this music and feel it. Germany has thus rapidly caught up with an artistic development that has been the cultural status quo in the rest of Europe.
All this was made possible because the music with its national autonomy encountered for the first time a young generation that knew what to do with this national autonomy. These young people, quite matter-of-factly, followed the motto “I feel it, I get it, I like it” and started to deal with German pop music in an entirely unselfconscious manner. The first musical trend has by now become a very diverse national pop music culture that is worth discovering over and over again in all its facets.
It’s the mission of the German Music Council to represent the interests of the music business in Germany and above all to further the intercultural exchange through music. As a representative of the German Music Council I therefore wholeheartedly welcome the activities of the Goethe-Institut and I am happy that Step into German focuses on the German music scene. I am convinced that everybody can find something he or she likes in the wide variety German music has to offer.
Being engaged in German music and in the German language not only makes sense because the knowledge that you acquire will later on open many doors. It also makes sense because it’s just plain fun! Having fun and being curious about new things is, after all, what really matters when it comes to learning.
Prof. Dieter Gorny
Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the "Initiative Musik" and Honorary Chairperson of "Step into German".
