Ask HN: How is the IT job market in Germany?

My girlfriend is about to finish med school and she's thinking about moving to Germany after that. I tried finding out more about the market there but without any luck. Any of you guys know how things go there ? Is it necessary to be a fluent german speaker to get hired ? I have 5 years in experience, my main expertise is AS3 / Flex (that's what I like the most), but I've worked in C++ / C#, PHP. And I can get my way around JavaScript, HTML, CSS. Thanks