I'm not debating it, I'm just against stupid generalisations. I'm just showing you several examples where it is obvious that the whole R thing is overblown because everybody thinks we talk like in those Hitler videos. There are actually many artists who can even make German sound pleasing enough. It is all a matter of pronunciation, that's why people generally like the British English more than American English. And French better than both.

Of course the English language in a musical sense is better sounding and much easier to the ears than German, that indeed is common knowledge. Dutch is much harsher than German though. I still believe there are some dutch songs I'd like, if you guys know any please show me some.

I also love Portuguese since my school exchange there...Spanish only from South-America, sorry and Italian more for comical reasons, even though I had it in school.

I also think Russian and Polish are incredibly hard languages, but I know some great songs in those languages. You get my point.

But yeah, I guess the biggest reason for less popularity of all of this music, is simple lack of understanding their lyrics.

Germanic languages like, let's say, English? Yeah, sure...

That is what i wrote. German film funding does much for international productions that do at least parts of their filming in Germany. Original german movies usually have way smaller funding than french or british productions have. Run Lola run for example was actually funded by german TV, at least partially.

At the same time we have problems keeping good actors and directors. There are also some actors few recon as being german, like Diane Kruger.

English is germanic? Then i apologise for the mistake.

I mean languages like german and dutch that are used in central/eastern europe and have a proliferation of pronounced R sounds.

Aren't romanic languages like Spanish and Italian known for pronounced R sounds as well?! :D

What's pop in Germany anyway? They don't have Hollywood's, Silicon Valleys and a games/animes industries like Japan as far as I know.

In 2016, German music market is close to UK's, I'm surrised to see it's bigger than French music.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_music_industry_market_share_data#IFPI_2016_data

For the same reason why you could ask this question about Italian, French, Spanish or any western countries popular culture. Everyone in the world speaks english and therefor absorbs primarily American culture which is the biggest economy in the world. The only countries who can export their culture are the ones that are the least americanized countries like Japan, China and Korea. 

So viel Kaputt 

Not really. They have soft R's. 

Just because our tech industry isn't centralised doesn't mean we have none. Potsdam's Babelsberg film studios serve more and more as an extension for bigger Hollywood productions. Stuff like The Bourne Conspiracy, Cloud Atlas, Speed Racer, Operation Valkyrie, V for Vendetta, The Pianist, Aeon Flux, Inglorious Basterds, Gran Budapest Hotel,  have been at least partly filmed and/or produced there. They are the largest studio complex in Europe atm.

Their biggest studio there (Studio 20) is the biggest studio in the world (7355 sqm, twice as big as Hollywood's biggest studio with only 3900sqm).

It's supposedly cheaper to use them than to go to established studios in L.A. so the studio is getting bigger and bigger.

On the post-pro side Darmstadt based Pixomondo is doing CGI for big international projects like Game of Thrones or Spiderman, for example.