Tokio Hotel: Cultural learnings of Germany for make benefit of German language
Going into Iraq was a bad idea. The Phantom Menace was terrible. And Germans are good at penalties.
All huge understatements – but none as big as saying that Tokio Hotel are famous in Germany. The band has more air time than Jordan and has won more prizes than most of us own socks. And now they are starting to make waves abroad.
The quartet, consisting of the twins Bill (vocals) and Tom Kaulitz (guitar), Georg Listing (bass) and Gustav Schäfer (drums) burst onto the German music scene with their debut single “Durch den Monsun” in August 2005, which shot straight to no.1. The album “Schrei” that followed debuted at no.1 and thereby underlined their status as the new German music stars.
Now they are taking France by storm and the German-learning institutions are reporting a knock-on effect. More students are signing up to learn German and hoards of eager young learners want to know what the texts mean. So, the Goethe-Insitut in Paris has reacted and equipped their teachers with Tokio Hotel texts.
With the hype spreading worldwide, we thought it was high time our readers caught up on what all the fuss is about and so here’s a vid so you can see for yourself. Comments are welcome ;-)
Fans are talking!