Blumfeld und die Hamburger Schule

The terms "Hamburger Schule" (Hamburg school) and "Diskurspop" (discourse pop) have been used since the beginning of the 1990s for groups such as Blumfeld, Die Sterne and Tocotronic. The works of these bands have been characterized by intellectualized, hermetic and abstract lyrics, which represent an entirely new approach to language in German pop music. They reflect upon the invevitable entanglem...