Mixtapes

Audio / Video files of songs mentioned in this story are collected here.

The Andrew Sisters - Bei Mir Bist Du Shein

Keetenheuve descended into the basement. "Bei mir biste scheen"
—that's what they were playing in the basement. "Bei mir biste de scheenste auf der Welt"

Botch a me - Rosemary Clooney

Phonograph music could be heard coming out of the "Scorpion."

 
Three Penny Opera | Alan Cumming

The corpse of Czechoslovakia rises out of the water, stinking. Destiny is trapped in the belly of the corpse and wanders witlessly back and forth. Three loudspeakers fight it out. 
One of them yells: According to plan! The second roars: Plan deficit! 
The third sings the chorus from the Threepenny Opera 

 

O come, all ye faithful - Salvation Army Band - Christmas Music

 

MARLENE DIETRICH. "ICH HAB NOCH EINEN KOFFER EN BERLIN" 

At the station in the Café Kranzler, fat men were sitting, singing: 
"I've got another suitcase in Berlin." 


Hildegard Knef - Heimweh nach dem Kurfürstendamm

They looked across at the fat women and sang: "I miss the old Kurfürstendamm,"

 

Georgijs Osokins – Berceuse D flat major Op. 57 (third stage)

... he saw the water curling around the countries like a friendly arm, and the Wagalaweia sounded soothing, a lullaby, a peaceful berceuse.

   
'Hamburg meine Perle' - the best song in the Bundesliga?

There's tension over the stadium in Dortmund. Borussia Dortmund is playing Hamburg SV.

 

Ein Männlein steht im Walde - Kinderlieder zum Mitsingen | Sing Kinderlieder

He sat down under one of the colorful parasols. He sat as though under a mushroom.
Ein Männlein steht im Walde ganz still und stumm: 
(translated) a little man stands in the forest

 

WAGNER Das Rheingold: Prelude and First Scene Dalhalla, Sweden 2013

Wagalaweia, sang the daughters of the Rhine. Digestion, decomposition, metabolism, and cellular renewal, at the end of seven years you were someone else, only in the area of memory there were certain encrustations—and to them you owed obedience.