He has formed an exciting partnership with another young German international at Borussia Dortmund, Marco Reus.
Dortmund were two up after goals from Lukasz Piszczek and Marco Reus inside the half hour mark on their travels.
Bayern defender Dante caught Marco Reus with a high boot, but escaped the second yellow card that would have seen him sent off.
Mesut Ozil and Reus spent most of the first half working give-and-go's like a couple of hotshot school kids in a local park.
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Alongside the fleet footed Marco Reus, the pair tore into a Real side which looked anemic inside the red hot atmosphere of the Westfalenstadion.
Marco Reus scored a brace against his old club with defender Neven Subotic, Ilkay Guendogan and Jakub Blaszczykowski also getting on the score sheet.
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That trio, which had started every game until that point, was replaced by veteran striker Miroslav Klose and attacking midfielders Marco Reus and Andreas Schurrle.
The headlines belonged to Robert Lewandowski, who scored all four goals, but much of the dirty work was done by Marco Reus and Ilkay Gundogan in midfield.
Just seven minutes had elapsed when the wonderfully talented Reus danced his way through the Real defense, before unleashing a rasping effort which was parried away by Diego Lopez.
But the club had already prepared to replace him, knowingly or not, by re-signing Marco Reus in January, one more product off the conveyor belt of young German talent.
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In the 68th minute, Klose out-jumped Greek goalie Michail Sifakis and headed the ball in for a two-goal lead, and six minutes later Reus volleyed a rebound off Sifakis from eight yards out.
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That resilience was emphatically underlined by Federico Balzaretti's goalsaving tackle to keep out substitute Marco Reus late on, although Balzaretti's handball in stoppage time did give Ozil the chance to score from the spot.
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But Dortmund refused to be denied and with the game drifting into the 91st minute, Reus lashed home from close range to level the game at 2-2 and leave his side needing one more goal.
In the 25th minute, Reus took a quick pass from Ozil deep on the right side of the German penalty area and sent the ball across an open German goal, just beyond the outstretched leg of a sliding Klose.
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Dortmund won 2-0 against Mainz to stay second in the German league -- 20 points behind Bayern -- with goals from Marco Reus after 32 seconds and Robert Lewandowski late in the match ensuring qualification for next season's Champions League.
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Captain Philipp Lahm, midfielder Marco Reus and Miroslav Klose also scored for Germany in the rout, though it could have been any of the 10 players zigzagging and one-touching their way across the field for Germany, and probably anyone on the bench as well.
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But the German sides have their own charms: the lightning-fast creativity that Dortmund's Robert Lewandowski and Marco Reus bring to the pitch, for instance, or the steadiness of Bayern Munich's field generals goalkeeper Manuel Neuer and midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger (the owner of the most satisfying-to-pronounce name in sports).
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