WEllen Fraatz, known professionally as Ellen Allien, is a German electronic musician, music producer, and the founder of BPitch Control music label. Her album Stadtkind was dedicated to the city of Berlin, and she cites the culture of reunified Berlin as one of the main inspirations for her music. She sings in both German and English. Her music is best described as a blend of IDM and Techno music, which is dance-floor oriented and has noticeable experimental elements. She lives in Berlin.
WCharlotte Ander was a German actress.
WAndrea Neuenhofen, better known by her stage name AnNa R., is a German singer and songwriter who provides the lead vocals for German pop group Gleis 8. She was previously the main vocalist of Rosenstolz, a German pop duo that was active between 1991 and 2012 and had chart hits in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
WMargarethe Arndt-Ober was a German opera singer who had an active international career during the first half of the twentieth century. A highly skilled contralto, Ober enjoyed a particularly long and fruitful association with the Berlin State Opera from 1907 to 1944. She also was notably a principal singer at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City between 1913 and 1917.
WIrma Beilke was a German operatic soprano, concert singer and academic voice teacher. A member of the Städtische Oper Berlin for decades, and also a member of the Vienna State Opera, she appeared in leading roles of the coloratura soprano and lyric soprano repertoire at major opera houses and festivals internationally, such as Mozart's Blonde and Verdi's La traviata. She took part in world premieres, including Capriccio by Richard Strauss. In 1945, she appeared in the first opera performance in Berlin after World War II, as Marzelline in Beethoven's Fidelio.
WTim Bendzko is a German singer-songwriter. He achieved nationwide recognition with his song "Nur noch kurz die Welt retten" and becoming the winner on the Bundesvision Song Contest.
WBadriia Ines "Bibi" Bourelly is a German singer and songwriter signed to Def Jam Recordings. She is the writer of several notable songs including Rihanna's "Bitch Better Have My Money" and "Higher", and Nick Brewer's "Talk to Me". Bourelly is featured on tracks such as Lil Wayne's "Without You", and Usher's "Chains" She also released two singles in 2015 in 2018 she released her first single "Writer's Song" in preparation for the release of her debut studio album later in 2018.
WJenifer Brening is a German singer and songwriter who represented San Marino in the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 in Lisbon, Portugal, with the song "Who We Are", alongside Jessika. She previously participated in the talent show The Winner Is ... and in the eleventh season of the talent show Deutschland sucht den Superstar.
WBully Buhlan was a German musician and actor.
WLeslie Clio is a German singer, songwriter and producer and music video director
WElif Demirezer currently known by her stage name Elif, is a German musician of Turkish descent.
WMarie Magdalene "Marlene" Dietrich was a German-American actress and singer. Her career spanned from the 1910s to the 1980s.
WDominique Dillon de Byington, known by her stage name Dillon, is a Brazilian singer-songwriter and pianist, based in Germany. Her debut album This Silence Kills, released in 2011, was praised by the media and received an average score of 72 on Metacritic based on five reviews. Byington's second album The Unknown was released on March 31, 2014 to positive reviews.
WDota is a singer-songwriter from Berlin and the leader of the musical group Dota und die Stadtpiraten. With her topical, critical texts delivered in often rapid flowing rhythm and sound influenced by Bossa Nova and Jazz, the singer has amassed a following in the German-speaking music world. Her records have been self-published on her own Kleingeldprinzessin Records label and distributed by Broken Silence, and she also declined to perform at party conventions during the 2005 Bundestag elections. In October 2006, she performed five concerts in Russia upon the invitation of the Goethe Institute and in the spring of 2009 she toured New Zealand.
WAvitall Gerstetter is the first female hazzan (cantor) in Jewish Renewal and the first female cantor in Germany. She was ordained in 2002. She served as a cantor in Berlin together with cantor Mimi Sheffer and Rabbi Daniela Thau; this was the first time after the Holocaust that women had led the services of the High Holy Days. In 2007 Avitall was awarded the title of ‘Ambassador for Tolerance’ by the Bündnis for Demokratie und Toleranz of the German government. She serves as cantor in the Oranienburger Straße Synagogue and in the Hüttenweg Synagogue in Berlin, and has created several CDs.
WHenriette Gottlieb was a German soprano.
WCatharina "Nina" Hagen is a German singer, songwriter, and actress. She is known for her theatrical vocals and rose to prominence during the punk and new wave movements in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
WAndreas Holm is a German Schlager singer and composer.
WJudith Holfelder-Roy, known by her stage name Judith Holofernes, is a German singer, guitarist, songwriter and author. She is best recognized as the lead singer of Wir sind Helden, a German pop rock band that came to fame in Germany following the release of the song "Guten Tag" in 2002. The band received critical acclaim owing in part to Holofernes' lyrics, which are characterized by their playful use of words and their often sociocritical nature.
WMaite Kelly is an Irish singer and actress. The second youngest child of the Kelly Family she was the only one born in Germany. When she was younger she worked singing with her family. Later she started a solo career.
WMargarete Klose,, was a German operatic mezzo-soprano. Her "official" year of birth was 1902.
WJan Kobow is a German classical tenor in concert, Lied, and Baroque opera.
WRené Kollo is a German operatic tenor, especially known for his Wagnerian parts. In addition to Heldentenor roles, he performed in a wide variety of operas and operettas during his career. Kollo also made several operatic recordings.
WNicolette Krebitz (born 2 September 1972 in Berlin, Germany is a director, actress, model, and singer. She is often credited as Coco in her creative works.
WFrida Leider was a German opera singer.
WChrista Ludwig is a retired German dramatic mezzo-soprano, distinguished for her performances of opera, Lieder, oratorio, and other major religious works like masses and passions, and solos contained in symphonic literature. Her career spanned from the late 1940s until the early 1990s. She is widely recognised as one of the most significant and distinguished singers of the 20th century, "with a voice of exquisite richness and, when needed - breathtaking amplitude."
WAlexander Marcus is a German music producer. He became popular in Germany after producing and uploading a series of videos to YouTube.
WEdda Moser is a German operatic soprano. She was particularly well known for her interpretations of music by Mozart. Her 1973 recital LP Virtuose Arien von W.A. Mozart received the Grand Prix du Disque.
WRosa Olitzka was a German-born contralto singer. She sang with the Metropolitan Opera from 1895 to 1901, and with the Chicago Opera from 1910 to 1911.
WRita Paul is a German singer and film actress.
WPeter Plate is a German musician, singer, songwriter and record producer. Between 1991 and 2012, he was the keyboardist and occasional vocalist of Rosenstolz, a German pop duo that had chart hits in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
WRio Reiser, was a German rock musician and singer of rock group Ton Steine Scherben. Reiser supported squatting in the early 1970s and later the green political party Die Grünen. After the German reunification, he joined the Party of Democratic Socialism.
WAlbert Reiss also Albert Reiß was a German operatic tenor who had a prolific career in Europe and the United States during the first third of the twentieth century. He spent much of his career performing at the Metropolitan Opera where he sang in more than 1,000 performances, including several premieres, between 1901–1919. Excelling in the tenor buffo repertoire, Reiss was particularly associated with the roles of David in Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and Mime in Der Ring des Nibelungen, two roles he sang in numerous houses internationally.
WErna Dorothea Luise Sack was a German coloratura soprano, known as the German Nightingale for her high vocal range.
WAmalie Sebald was a German singer and was considered at the beginning of the 20th century to be Beethoven's "Immortal Beloved".
WMarc Secara is a German singer and recording artist known for jazz, American pop music, and German popular repertoire. He is also a member of the German singing group the Berlin Voices.
WJohannes Sembach began his musical career in German operetta and achieved international fame as a leading tenor in German opera, especially the works of Richard Wagner.
WAnja Silja Regina Langwagen is a German soprano who is known for her great abilities as a singing-actress and for the vastness of her repertoire.
WAdel Tawil, is a German singer, songwriter and producer. Besides his solo career, he is part of the popular German pop duo Ich + Ich, after being part earlier of the German boy band The Boyz.
WGünther Treptow was a German operatic tenor, best known for Wagner roles.
WKarsten Troyke is a German singer of Jewish songs, as well as an actor and speaker.
WNora Marie Tschirner is a German film actress, musician and former television and radio presenter.
WJan Vetter, better known as Farin Urlaub, is a German musician and songwriter. He is best known as the guitarist/vocalist for the German punk rock band Die Ärzte. Vetter has also been a solo artist since 2001, touring with his band, the Farin Urlaub Racing Team. His releases starting in 2006 are credited to the band.