[OSM-newbies] City and Area Data

[dl]

Hi All,

I am trying to find a list of all German cityies/towns and their areas (Stadtteile).
Is it possible to obtain this from openstreetmap? If yes, how would I export
the relevant data for use in a relational mysql database?

I already looked at opengeodb, but their data is very incomplete at this level,
and geonames, whose data is linked wrong in a lot of cases. (Areas in Hamburg
suddenly show up in Munich.)

-dl