Alpine folk music is the common umbrella designation of a number of related styles of traditional folk music in the Alpine regions of Slovenia, Northern Croatia, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and South Tyrol (Italy).
Schlager is a style of European popular music and radio format generally defined by catchy instrumental accompaniments to vocal pieces of pop music with simple, easygoing, and often sentimental lyrics.
Volkstümliche Musik is a modern popular derivation of the traditional Volksmusik genre of German-speaking regions. Though it is often marketed as Volksmusik, it differs from traditional folk music in that it is commercially performed by celebrity singers and concentrates on newly created sentimental and cheerful feel-good compositions. Volkstümliche Musik is sometimes instrumental, but usually presented by one or especially two singers and is most popular amongst an adult audience in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and also in South Tyrol (Italy), Alsace-Moselle (France), Netherlands, Flanders (Belgium), Slovenia, Silesia (Poland) and northern Croatia.
Reit im Winkl is a small village located on the German/Austrian border in the southeastern part of Bavaria, Germany. Part of the Traunstein district, it was previously an immigration and customs control point. It is situated south of Chiemsee and southwest of Ruhpolding – home of the Biathlon World Cup – in the Bavarian Alps and facing towards Tyrol. The village lies next to the Austrian states Tyrol and Salzburg. Kössen in Tyrol is the next village on the river Lofer, before it joins the confluence of the river Tiroler Achen. Reit im Winkl has a population of approximately 2,600.
Heinz Georg Kramm, known professionally as Heino, is a German singer of Schlager and traditional Volksmusik. Having sold a total of over 50 million records, he is one of the most successful German musicians of all time.
Margot is a feminine given name, a diminutive of Marguerite. It is also occasionally a surname. Persons named Margot include the following:
The Allgäu or Allgovia is a region in Swabia in southern Germany. It covers the south of Bavarian Swabia, southeastern Baden-Württemberg, and parts of Austria. The region stretches from the pre-alpine lands up to the Alps. The main rivers flowing through the Allgäu are the Lech and Iller. Allgäu is not an administrative unit.
Brigitte Horney was a German theatre and film actress. Best remembered was her role as Empress Katherine the Great in the 1943 version of the UFA film version of Baron Münchhausen, directed by Josef von Báky, with Hans Albers in the title role.
Fritz Hellwig was a German CDU politician and European Commissioner. He was born in Saarbrücken and turned 100 in August 2012. and died on 22 July 2017 at the age of 104. He died at age 104, being the last surviving member of the Second Bundestag.
Semino Rossi is an Argentine-Tyrolean schlager singer. He has sold more than 10 million records and has reached top charts in Austria with six of his albums. He mostly sings in German.
Hellwig is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:
The Grand Prix der Volksmusik was an annual regional song contest for folk music, held from 1986 until 2010. The countries taking part were Germany, Austria, Switzerland and, from 2000, South Tyrol.
Monika Konrad Hildegard Hellwig was a German-born British academic, author, educator and theologian, who spent much of her life in the United States. A former Religious Sister, she left her community to pursue her academic career, becoming a professor at Georgetown University and later being named as President/Executive Director of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (1996–2005).
Maria Hellwig was a German yodeler, popular performer of volkstümliche Musik, and television presenter.
Howard Victor Carpendale is a South African-German singer living and working in Germany.
Takeo Ishii, Germanized as Ischi, is a Japanese yodeler active in Germany.
![<i>Urlaub auf Ehrenwort</i> (1938 film) 1938 [[Nazi Germany]] film](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/45/Urlaub_auf_Ehrenwort_%281938%29_poster.jpg)
Urlaub auf Ehrenwort is a 1938 propaganda film directed by Karl Ritter, the last of three films set in the First World War which he made during the period when Nazi Germany was rearming.
Margot Bingham is an American actress and singer-songwriter. She is best known for her role as jazz singer Daughter Maitland in the HBO period drama series, Boardwalk Empire. In 2015, Bingham began starring as one of lead characters in the ABC drama series, The Family. In 2021, she starred in the eleventh and final season of The Walking Dead.
Homesick for You is a 1952 West German musical film directed by Robert A. Stemmle and starring Margot Hielscher, Peter Pasetti and Josefin Kipper. It was shot at the Tempelhof Studios in West Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Franz Schroedter and Karl Weber.
Herlinde Grobe, known by her stage name Bianca, is a German singer and composer of folk hits. She is particularly known for her songs with religious content. As a singer she performs under the name "Bianca"; as a composer under her real name "Herlinde Grobe". She writes the lyrics for her songs under the pseudonym "Sandra Mareike".
