Wolfgang Rihm was a German composer of contemporary classical music and an academic teacher based in Karlsruhe. He was an influential post-war European composer, as "one of the most original and independent musical voices" there, composing over 500 works including several operas.
Ernst Klee was a German journalist and author. As a writer on Germany's history, he was best known for his exposure and documentation of medical crimes in Nazi Germany, much of which was concerned with the Action T4 or involuntary euthanasia program. He is the author of "The Good Old Days": The Holocaust Through the Eyes of the Perpetrators and Bystanders first published in the English translation in 1991.
Siegfried Lenz was a German writer of novels, short stories and essays, as well as dramas for radio and the theatre. In 2000 he received the Goethe Prize on the 250th Anniversary of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's birth. He won the 2010 International Nonino Prize in Italy.
Ivo Wolfgang Eduard Schricker was a German footballer and the third General Secretary of the FIFA, serving from 1932 to 1951 upon his resignation.
Reimar Oltmanns is a well-known journalist and author in Germany.
Volkmar Weiss is a German researcher and writer, primarily interested in the field of IQ research. He is mostly known for his controversial thesis that intelligence is fixed to social class, and for his association with the right-wing extremist politics.
The Tauberischofsheim Altarpiece is a late work by the German Renaissance painter Matthias Grünewald, probably completed between 1523 and 1525. The earliest written references to the work come from the 18th century, when the altarpiece was still in the Church of St. Martin in Tauberbischofsheim. Its original location and the identity of the patron who commissioned it are not known, but it is assumed that they both were in Tauberbischofsheim.
The State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe or Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe is an academy of arts in Karlsruhe, in Baden-Württemberg in south-western Germany.
Reinhard Jirgl is a German writer.
Erik Neutsch was one of the most successful writers in East Germany.
Gerhard Zwerenz was a German writer and politician. From 1994 until 1998 he was a member of the Bundestag for the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS).
Hellmut Eichrodt was a German painter and graphic artist.
Ariadne von Schirach is a German philosopher, writer, journalist and critic. She is known as a literary critic for Deutschlandradio Kultur, and as an essayist and columnist for newspapers such as Die Welt and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
Bruno Kurz is a German painter. He primarily works on reflective surfaces such as metal, creating paintings of great luminosity and depth – expansive colour fields with vague allusions to landscape and flora. Apart from painting, his work comprises large art installations fashioned through light.
Ilma Rakusa is a Swiss writer and translator. She translates French, Russian, Serbo-Croatian and Hungarian into German.
Arthur Kusterer was a German composer and conductor. His best-known work is his opera adaptation of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.
Sören Sieg is a German tenor, songwriter, composer, arranger, satirist, columnist and writer. He is a co-founder of the a cappella group LaLeLu, in which he sang as a tenor and hosted the performances from 1994 to 2012. From 2009 to 2013, he regularly wrote a front page column for the Bremer Newspaper. In the meantime, he works mainly as a freelance writer and composer.
Max Alfred Lehmann, better known by his artist name Alred Lemm, was a German expressionist narrator, pacifist and essayist, who in many of his writings campaigned for a renewal of Judaism in Germany by turning to Eastern Judaism according to Martin Buber.
Erasmus Schöfer was a German writer. He was a member of the German Communist Party and took part in resistance against the Vietnam War and rearmament, among others, and became the chronicler of resistance in Germany in his main work, a tetralogy of novels, Die Kinder des Sisyfos. It is based on recent history, from the protests of 1968 in West Germany up to the political and social developments of the 1980s until German reunification. He also wrote poetry, stories, plays and audio plays.
Ute Remus is a German actress, radio reader, presenter, and editor, as well as a writer.
