diff --git a/common/tasks/locale.yml b/common/tasks/locale.yml
index d6ca5f14ef2b3730d2e637ec6ca650afaa816d63..2594d6d10016541fc08b562e17cc9859e98ceb5a 100644
--- a/common/tasks/locale.yml
+++ b/common/tasks/locale.yml
@@ -5,7 +5,10 @@
     - packages
     - locale
 
-- locale_gen: name=en_US.UTF-8 state=present
+- locale_gen: name="{{item}}.UTF-8" state=present
+  with_items:
+    - en_US
+    - de_DE
   tags:
     - config
     - locale