What the hell is goin on with DEM ? pools down, wallet not sync. dying coin or devs minetime? really disappointed .
the 3rd party "pool" being down doesn't have anything to do with DEM, pick another pool. If your wallet is not syncing then you likely need to add some hosts. See here for active hosts:
http://status.deutsche-emark.de/Go to the debug window in your wallet and add them as follows:

:addnode [ipaddress] add
that's it,