Neue Deutsche Welle

Neue Deutsche Welle is a genre of West German rock music originally derived from post-punk and new wave with electronic influences. The term was coined by Dutch radio DJ Frits Ritmeester on the nationwide radio station Hilversum 3, which was very popular among German listeners. Soon after that, the term was used in a record-shop advertisement by Burkhardt Seiler in an August 1979 issue of the West German magazine Sounds. It was then used by journalist Alfred Hilsberg in an October 1979 Sounds article about the movement, titled Neue Deutsche Welle — Aus grauer Städte Mauern.