This paper presents newly developed guidelines for

prosodic annotation of German as a consensus

system agreed upon by German intonologists. The

DIMA system is rooted in the framework of

autosegmental-metrical phonology. One important

goal of the consensus is to make exchanging data

between groups easier since German intonation is

currently annotated according to different models.

To this end, we aim to provide guidelines that are

easy to learn. The guidelines were evaluated running

an inter-annotator reliability study on three different

speech styles (read speech, monologue and

dialogue). The overall high κ between 0.76 and 0.89

(depending on the speech style) shows that the

DIMA conventions can be applied successfully.