German music, dancing and songs.

Hundert Mann Und Ein Befehl



Nagorny Karabach

In Junkers Kneipe:

A favorite German military march.
Peraesentier March von Wilhelm II.

Heino goes heavy metal!
From his 2014 album Schwartz Blueht Der Enzian (black flowers the gentian):

Heino - "Einer von Uns" (He's one of us).

Denn wir fahren gegen Engeland.

old but fine, a great album

Kruder & Dorfmeister




of course its not german music as such but a mix by austrians

Matty Valentino - Der Alte Dessauer (So feiern wir - like this we celebrate).
Rave version.



Historic Prussian march version.
Der Alte Dessauer:


"Dessauer" refers to a common surname from Prussia (the main erstwhile officer-class), and the song is a traditional drinking song originating from military barracks.
Cheers, cheers comrades in my drinking "Company"!

Wir lagen vor Madagaskar.

Despite different specific versions, the song narrates the plight of a crew whose ship is stuck on a reef, and they are dying of thirst and the plague.

They look over the ocean (missing their homeland and women), while a man goes to a watery grave every day.
Attributed to Just Sheu in 1934, the exact history of the song is unclear.
One early version was sung by the Edelweisspiraten - a youth movement once persecuted by the Gestapo.
In that sense "the plague" that kills the crewmen daily, yet remains oppositional, is a clear metaphor.

At the end a ship sights them, but it goes past, not wanting contact with "us men" who are "already dead".

Here is one version, which typically mixes upbeat music with melancholic subject matter.



Wir Lagen vor Madagaskar:

"Schwer mit den Schaetzen des Orients beladen".

See YouTube for more details.

I've been researching this song, but find very little.
Any information would be appreciated.

It's a very old folk-song, and translates as something like "Loaded down heavily with the treasures of the Orient".
This implies a soldier's song from the time of the Crusades perhaps, at least thematically?

Nevertheless the refrain is about love.
Ask the the sea if it can destroy love; ask the heart if it can break loyalty?

In that sense it could imply that love is more important that "treasure".

Mein Vater war ein Wandersmann.

True friendship will never waver.
Jürgen aus Siebenbürgen und Amazonas-Express mit dem Volkslied "Wahre Freundschaft soll nicht Wanken".



Another version: "True Friendship should never be shaken".
With an English translation.

"When death my life takes - Only then will I cease to be loyal to you.
My dear friend ...
I recall how we were separated and torn apart by circumstances.
Whatever happens, always remember me."
Lyrics from the above song.

Abendstille ueberall - Evening silence everywhere

Botho Lucas-Chor - Wir ziehen über die Straßen.

a reply to: halfoldman

what an awesome refrain by this choir, i enjoyed that a lot

and would like to continue the thread with Bill Ramsey

a reply to: Sanssouci
Absolutely fantastic, thank you so much.

Oh Deutschland hoch in Ehren.
(Oh Germany is in high esteem.)

English subtitles.

World war I - hold firm in the roaring storm.

Freddy Quinn - Heimatlos
Freddy sings his original 1957 hit which translates as "Homeless" in 2002.
He dedicates it to all the the millions who don't know where they will lay their heads tomorrow, or where the next meal is coming from.
If that was relevant in 2002, it is even more so today.

Freddy's own life is remarkable.
Beginning as an uprooted refugee child following World War II, he eventually became an Austrian recording star (with an Irish surname) in the German-speaking countries and regions in the 1950s and 1960s.
He was also an accomplished circus performer, known for tight-rope walking and riding a lion into the arena.
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I was reminded of the song after watching The Taking of Flight TWA 847: The Uli Derickson Story (1988).
The movie is based on the 1985 hijacking of TWA 847, and the efforts of a German stewardess to save Jewish passengers and US military employees.
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None of the Jihadist hijackers spoke English, so her German skills were crucial in negotiating with the terrorists.
At one point in the movie the hijackers ask her to sing, and she sings "Heimatlos".
This almost reawakens their humanity, and one terrorist even proposes marriage to her!

Unfortunately, despite her best efforts, one US military worker (he was a welder for the navy) was identified and thrown to his death on the tarmac.

She even paid for the plane to be refueled with her credit card (for which she was reimbursed).

Nevertheless, she probably saved many, and it just goes to show ladies - it helps to be able to sing and have a credit card.

Corvus Corax - Bibit Aleum (live).

German neo-mediaval band Corvus Corax, with Japanese-style drumming ensemble Wadokyo.

Corvus Corax play a number of traditional European instruments, and along with German also sing in a number of old and contemporary European languages.

Considering that the band has been going since the late 1980s, their athletic performances are remarkable, and I find it inspirational music for a work-out.

Die Wacht Am Rhein - The Guard On the Rhine.

Rest assured, as long as one hand remains to pick up the sword, we will defend you, dear Fatherland.