diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index df8639ab..abc448c8 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -2774,6 +2774,7 @@ Milan Cvijanovic <elcom_cvijo@hotmail.com>
 Frank Neumann <fnu@yavdr.org>
  for suggesting to reduce the thread and I/O priority cCuttingThread::Action()
  for reporting a problem with tuning timeouts when using SCR with multiple tuners
+ for fixing the German translation of "VDR will shut down in %s minutes"
 
 Gerald Dachs <vdr@dachsweb.de>
  for reporting a problem with checking for minimum line length of 21 characters in
diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index a59f4187..9e9b4c9b 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -6963,3 +6963,5 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
 2012-03-03: Version 1.7.26
 
 - Now checking for NULL in cOsd::AddPixmap() (suggested by Christoph Haubrich).
+- Fixed the German translation of "VDR will shut down in %s minutes" (thanks to
+  Frank Neumann).
diff --git a/po/de_DE.po b/po/de_DE.po
index 5b185e95..20a8cbd3 100644
--- a/po/de_DE.po
+++ b/po/de_DE.po
@@ -1334,4 +1334,4 @@ msgstr "Taste dr
 
 #, c-format
 msgid "VDR will shut down in %s minutes"
-msgstr "VDR wird in %s Minuten ausschalten"
+msgstr "VDR wird in %s Minuten abgeschaltet"