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25 Hauntingly Beautiful Songs From Today’s German Artists

Some of the most beautiful songs can also be the most haunting pieces of music an artist releases. They are also the songs that stick with us the most and can even play a healthy role in navigating our emotions. These 25 songs from some of Germany’s freshest artists are both haunting and beautiful as they dive deep into love lost and life’s challenges overcome. There’s something powerful in feeling whatever emotions these songs can evoke, so light a fire on one of these cooler autumn evenings and embark on a spine tingling journey into these raw and hauntingly beautiful pieces of music.

Want more German music? Find the HEI- MAT abroad “Herbst 2019” playlist on Spotify and Apple Music to hear a collection of the latest German-language releases, plus be sure to tune in on demand to a weekly set of playlists across a variety of genres in the German music scene.

Visit GermanPulse.com/music for the playlist links on Spotify & Apple Music.

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Andy Wilsing

“Souls of Stone”

I don’t believe in souls of stone / I don’t believe in where they’re going / but scars of the past are still to come / and I don’t know if I can run until / ’til I don’t see anything

DONSKOY

“Didn’t I Say So”

I was cut right in the middle / Your lies, they made us lose the battle / My pride was always in the way, yeah / Didn’t I, Didn’t I say so?

Fahrenhaidt

“Ordinary World”

Where is the life that I recognize? / Gone away / But I won’t cry for yesterday / There’s an ordinary world / Somehow I have to find / And as I try to make my way / To the ordinary world / I will learn to survive

Enno Bunger

“Stark sein”

Ich werd' für dich da sein / Egal wie, wann und wo / Und jeder Pieks in deinen Arm ist / Ein Stich in mein Herz / Doch wir werden uns tragen / Bis weit hinter diesen Berg

Flourishless

“Theft (String Version)”

I need to tell her that I feel mistreated / Try to change her thought of me and not just leave it / She speaks, she talks, but I don't think she means it / And everytime I make her cry I'm the one not getting by

Michael Schulte

"The Love You Left Behind”

So many years have come and gone / But every picture without you still feels so wrong / I’ve been thinking lately / What would you say if you saw me? / Would you be proud of what I've become?

Emigrate “You Are So Beautiful (Acoustic)”

Herr D.K. “Zwischen uns”

Mogli “Another Life”

Evelinn Trouble “Goodbye”

Lxandra “Dig Deep (Acoustic Version)”

Rhonda “So Wrong”

FINN “Zurück zu dir”

SameDay Records “Demons" Annett Louisan “Die schönsten Wege sind aus Holz” Femme Schmidt “Blue Lips”

Phela “Mama”

Anna Depenbusch “Frauen wie Sterne”

Angela Aux “The Reason Is You” Julian Rybarski “Breathe In”

VEGAS “End of the World”

Mia Diekow “Ich hätte lernen müssen zu trinken” Gifted Gambler “Carry Me Back Home” Stella Sommer “Do You Still Love Me Now?”

KEØMA “Rich Man”

Head over to → GermanPulse.com/music to find a growing selection of music served fresh all week long!

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A Face in the Night

by Ray Kessler

In his remarkable debut novel, German-American author Ray Kessler takes readers on a ride through recent German history, masterfully moving between past and present, weaving fictitious events with historical facts. Adding a possible paranormal twist to the story, Kessler creates a tale of mystery and suspense.

Set in Berlin in 2000 and during the final battle of Berlin in 1945, the main protagonist, District Attorney of Berlin Max von Hagen, sees a Face in the Night leading him to confront what’s real and what’s not. The face keeps reappearing and he thinks he is hallucinating.

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Von Hagen, born to German eugenics parents he never knew, has a difficult marriage, suffers from the trauma of being an orphan, is on anti-depressants, and often seeks solace with his lonely English neighbor Anne Macmillan, the wife of the English Ambassador to Germany. She is the only surviving member from an extremely wealthy English family.

Her marriage with the English Ambassador is an unhappy political marriage. Anne also has had problems with depression, drinking and self-medicating. Her husband, who has lost a fortune in gambling and poor business deals in Russia, wants her money and will do anything to get it; including declaring her unfit and crazy, as Anne also claims to see apparitions. The reader is kept wondering what is real and what is not. Are Max and Anne really experiencing a ghost? Or are they both losing their minds? Ultimately von Hagen faces his own past when he finds out that his biological father Rolf Keller was a

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SS officer, and the question of redemption when they struggle with his memory. In the end, Max, Anne and an Israeli-German healer are joined as they deal with the question of Rolf Keller’s existence.

»It was important to me,« explains Kessler, »to base this novel on as many historical facts as possible.«

When questioned about the possibility of a ghost in the novel, Kessler adds: “I will let the reader come to their own conclusions”. When asked about his personal interested in the paranormal, he went on to say “It’s pretty interesting, there is a lot more research now about Near Death Experiences, ghosts and the paranormal. While I have never seen a ghost personally, I am open to their existence and believe they are generally not evil entities as so often depicted. Rather, research has shown that most (active) ghosts are souls unable to move into the light, because their bodies were trapped due to a violent ending of their life.”

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