The "Horst-Wessel-Lied", also known by its opening words "Die Fahne hoch", was the anthem of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) from 1930 to 1945. From 1933 to 1945, the Nazis made it the co-national anthem of Nazi Germany, along with the first stanza of the "Deutschlandlied".
Nazi songs are songs and marches created by the Nazi Party. In modern Germany, the public singing or performing of songs exclusively associated with the Nazi Party is now illegal.
Carl Zuckmayer was a German writer and playwright. His older brother was the pedagogue, composer, conductor, and pianist Eduard Zuckmayer.
The Bamberg Symphony is a German orchestra based in Bamberg. The orchestra is resident at the Joseph-Keilberth-Saal of the Bamberg Konzert- und Kongresshalle.
Friedrich Karl Waechter was a renowned German cartoonist, author, and playwright.
Adolf Maximilian Ferdinand Gritzner was a German expert on heraldry and a herald in the Ministry of the Interior in Berlin. His reference book on orders of knighthood was still in print in 2000. Gritzner was born in Sorau (Żary) and died in Berlin.
The Buxtehude Bull is an award for youth literature, established in 1971 by Winfried Ziemann, a local book merchant from Buxtehude, a Hanseatic City located in the Hamburg Metropolitan Region. The town council took over the sponsorship of the award in 1981. The award is given annually to the best children's or young-adults' book published in German in the preceding year. The writer is presented with a small steel statue of the bull Ferdinand, from the popular work The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf, and also receives a monetary prize of €5,000.
Horst Frank was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 100 films between 1955 and 1999. He was born in Lübeck, Germany and died in Heidelberg, Germany.
Johann Heinrich Gelzer was a Swiss historian and diplomat who was a native of Schaffhausen. He was the father of philologist Heinrich Gelzer (1847–1906).
Emil Freiherr Marschalk von Ostheim was a German historian, numismatist and collector. His book collection can be found at Bamberg State Library.
Rainer Hildebrandt was a German anti-communist resistance fighter, historian and founder of the Checkpoint Charlie Museum. He was involved in the resistance to the communist regime of the Soviet occupation zone since the 1940s, as a member of the Kampfgruppe gegen Unmenschlichkeit.
Horst Bartel was a German historian and university professor. He was involved in most of the core historiography projects undertaken in the German Democratic Republic (1949–1989). His work on the nineteenth-century German Labour movement places him firmly in the mainstream tradition of Marxist–Leninist historical interpretation.
Wolfgang Becker (1910–2005) was a German film director and film editor.
Peter Beauvais was a German television film director and scriptwriter. As a director for three decades, he helped pioneer and significantly influenced the development of German television.
Horst Deichfuß was a German writer.
Dieter Leisegang was a German author, philosopher, and broadcaster.
Claus Raab was a German musicologist and university scholar.
Herbert Taschner (1926–1994) was a German film editor. Much of his work from the 1960s and 1970s was for Wolf C. Hartwig's Rapid Film. He was married to fellow film editor Ingeborg Taschner, with whom he had a son Kai Taschner.
Werner P. Zibaso (1910–1983) was a German screenwriter.
Friedrich Ludwig Christian Volbehr was a German historian and contributing editor.
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