Günter Wand was a German orchestra conductor and composer. Wand studied in Wuppertal, Allenstein and Detmold. At the Cologne Conservatory, he was a composition student with Philipp Jarnach and a piano student with Paul Baumgartner. He was a conducting pupil of Franz von Hoesslin in Munich, but was otherwise largely self-taught as a conductor. During his 65-year-long career as a conductor, he was particularly revered for his Schubert and Bruckner, and was honoured with many significant awards, including the German Record Award and the internationally important Diapason d'Or.
Colognian or Kölsch is a small set of very closely related dialects, or variants, of the Ripuarian group of dialects of the Central German group. These dialects are spoken in the area covered by the Archdiocese and former Electorate of Cologne reaching from Neuss in the north to just south of Bonn, west to Düren and east to Olpe in northwest Germany.
Birth Control is a German rock band known for their progressive hard rock sound and provocative album covers.
Stefan Aust is a German journalist. He was the editor-in-chief of the weekly news magazine Der Spiegel from 1994 to February 2008 and has been the publisher of the conservative leading Die Welt newspaper since 2014 and the paper's editor until December 2016.
"One Too Many Mornings" is a song by Bob Dylan, released on his third studio album The Times They Are a-Changin' in 1964. The chords and vocal melody are in some places very similar to the song "The Times They Are A-Changin'". "One Too Many Mornings" is in the key of C Major and is fingerpicked.
Klaus "Major“ Heuser is a German musician, composer and producer. He found international fame as the lead guitarist of the Cologne rock band BAP.
Wolfgang Niedecken is a German singer and musician. He founded the Kölsch-speaking rock group BAP at the end of the 1970s and soon became famous with BAP all over Germany. He is the lead singer and only remaining founding member of BAP.
Brings are a band from Germany which perform most songs in the local dialect of Cologne, Kölsch. Founded in 1990, they established themselves playing rock music; their lyrics are performed in Kölsch and, since 1995, also in standard German. After the successful single Superjeilezick (2001) they specialized in Cologne party hits.
Hannelore "Loki" Schmidt was a German teacher and environmentalist. She was the wife of Helmut Schmidt, who was the Chancellor of Germany from 1974 to 1982.
Doris Gercke is a German writer of crime thrillers. She also works under the nom de plume Mary-Jo Morell.
Mario Szenessy was a Hungarian-German author, translator, and literary critic.
Eike Christian Hirsch was a German journalist, author and television presenter. He was host of a talk show and author of a biography about Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. The main themes in his books were religion, humour and German language.
Trude Herr was a German film actress, singer and theatre owner. She was an entertainer in Germany from the early 1960s until her retirement.
Sibylle Knauss is a German writer and academic.
Birlikte is the name and motto of a series of semi-annual rallies and corresponding cultural festivals against right-wing extremist violence in Germany, which first took place on 9 June 2014 in Cologne. The term "birlikte" is Turkish and means "together".
Arsch huh, Zäng ussenander is the motto and name of a campaign against right-wing violence in Cologne, Germany. The colloquial slogan in the local dialect Kölsch literally means "Ass up, teeth apart", encouraging people to not look away but to stand up, speak out and take action against racism and injustice.
Eugen Papst was a German composer and music teacher.
Eva-Ruth Weissweiler is a German writer, musicologist and non fiction writer.
"Kristallnaach" is a political song by Colognian rock group BAP. It was released on their 1982 album Vun drinne noh drusse . The track was the album's only single and reached number 25 on the German charts. The song was meant to raise awareness of the resurgence of right-wing populism in Europe and critique Germany's Vergangenheitsbewältigung of the Nazi era. "Kristallnaach" regularly features in the band's live sets and is its second most frequently played live song.
Karl Dammer was a German conductor, Generalmusikdirektor at the Städtische Oper Berlin from 1937.
