Indie pop
By the mid 1990s, three bands met with great commercial success: Blumfeld, Die Sterne, and Tocotronic. The "Hamburger Schule" became known as the epitome of German indie pop music. When other German guitar bands, whose music and lyrics were of a different style, were able to profit from this success, however, a new nationwide Indie pop scene emerged. The "Hamburger Schule" began to be marginalised by a movement which it had helped to create.