Our TAI 2025 proceedings paper (co-authored by Stefan Baumann) is out now! You can read it here. In this paper, we combine insights from a production and a perception study to investigate form- and meaning-related aspects of prominence in German. We find that lexical newness and the initial sentence position boost the prosodic prominence of a word in production, while the perception of prominence is crucially influenced by prosodic form, especially accent status, word duration, and pitch accent type, but not by meaning directly.