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20
Gorffenaf 2010

Meistersinger Competition answers revealed

The competition closed yesterday and we can now reveal the answers - click here to view the answer sheet.

We would like to thank all competitors who gave their time to enter the competition - we have had a fantastic response. The winner is Sally Meecham-Jones.

Here is a list of all the figures on the front cloth:

Theodor Adorno – 1903-1969
Sociologist, philosopher and musicologist

Josef Albers - 1888-1976
Artist

Anni Albers – 1899-1994
Artist

Hanna Arendt – 1906-1975
Political theorist

Johann Sebastian Bach – 1685-1750
Composer.

Pina Bausch – 1940-2009
Choreographer.

Max Beckmann – 1884-1950
Artist.

Ludwig Van Beethoven – 1770-1827
Composer.

Walter Benjamin – 1892-1940
Philosopher, sociologist and essayist

Alban Berg – 1885-1935
Composer.

Ruth Berghaus – 1927-1996
Choreographer and opera and theatre director

Joseph Beuys – 1921-1986
Artist

Arnold Böcklin – 1827-1901
Artist

Johannes Brahms – 1833-1897
Composer.

Klaus Maria Brandauer – Born 1944
Actor and film director

Bertolt Brecht – 1898-1956
Playwright and poet

Anton Bruckner – 1824-1826
Composer.

Georg Buchner - 1813-1837

Writer

Frank Castorf – Born 1951
Theatre director.

Marlene Dietrich – 1901-1992
Actress and singer

Otto Dix – 1891-1969
Painter and printmaker

Max Ernst – 1891-1976
Artist and poet

Rainer Werner Maria Fassbinder – 1945-1982
Director, screenwriter and actor

Marieluise Fleißer – 1901-1974
Author and playwright

Sigmund Freud – 1856-1939
Psychoanalyst and writer

Caspar David Friedrich – 1774-1840
Artist.

Wilhelm Furtwangler – 1886-1954
Conductor and composer

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – 1749-1832
Writer

Gunter Grass- Born 1927
Author and playwright

Brothers Grimm – Jacob Grimm 1785-1863- Wilhelm Grimm- 1786-1859
Academics

Walter Adolph George Gropius – 1883-1969
Architect

George Grosz – 1893-1959
Artist

George Frideric Handel – 1685-1759
Composer.

Peter Handke – Born 1942
Novelist and playwright
Michael Haneke – Born 1942
Filmmaker and writer

Franz Joseph Haydn – 1732-1809
Composer

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel – 1770-1831
Philosopher

Christian Johann Heinrich Heine – 1797-1856
Poet, journalist, essayist and literary critic

Erich Mendelsonn – 1887-1953
Architect

Werner Herzog – Born 1942
Film director, producer and screenwriter

Paul Hindemith – 1895-1963
Composer

Hannha Hoch – 1889-1978
Artist

Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann - 1776-1822
Writer and composer

Hugo Laurenz August Hofmann von Hofmannsthal – 1874-1929
Novelist, librettist, poet and dramatist


Ödön von Horváth – Born 1901-1938
Playwright and novelist

Engelbert Humperdinck – 1854-1921
Composer

Herbert von Karajan – 1908-1989
Conductor

Anselm Kiefer – Born 1945
Artist

Nikolaus Karl Günther Nakszy?ski
(Better known as Klaus Kinski) - 1926-1991
Actor

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner – 1880-1938
Artist

Paul Klee – 1879-1940
Artist

Oskar Kokoschka – 1886 – 1980
Artist, poet and playwright.

Kathe Kollwitz – 1867-1945
Artist

Friedrich "Fritz" Christian Anton Lang – 1890-1976
Filmmaker and screenwriter

Lotte Lehmann - 1888-1971
Soprano

Franz Lehar – 1870-1948
Composer

Lotte Lenya – 1898-1981
Singer and actress

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing – 1729-1781
Writer, philosophist and dramatist.

Ernst Lubitsch – 1892-1947
Film Director.

Thomas Mann – 1875-1955
Novelist and essayist

Christoph Marthaler – Born 1951
Theatre and opera director

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – 1756-1791
Composer

Johann Nepomuk Eduard Ambrosius Nestroy – 1801-1862
Playwright, actor and singer


Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche – 1844-1900
Philosopher

Emile Nolde – 1867-1956
Artist

Jacques Offenbach – 1819-1880
Artist

Carl Orff – 1895-1982
Composer

Neo Rauche – Born 1960
Artist

Gerhard Richter – Born 1932
Artist

Helene Bertha Amalie "Leni" Riefenstahl – 1902-2003
Film director, actress and dancer.

Rainer Maria Rilke – 1875-1926
Poet and art critic


Ludwig Mies van der Rohe – 1886-1969
Architect

Joseph Roth – 1894-1939
Novelist

August Sander – 1876-1964
Photographer

Christian Schad – 1894-1982
Artist

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller – 1759-1805
Poet, philosopher and historian

Karl Friedrich Schinkel – 1781-1841
Architect

Elisabeth Schumann – 1888-1952
Soprano

Clara Schumann – 1819-1896
Musician and composer

Arthur Schopenhauer – 1788-1860
Philosopher

Franz Schreker – 1878-1934
Composer

Kurt Hermann Eduard Karl Julius Schwitters – 1887-1948
Artist

Hanna Schygulla – Born 1943
Actress and singer


Winfried Georg Maximilian Sebald – 1944-2001
Writer

Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf – 1915-2006
Opera singer

Anja Silja Regina Langwagen – Born 1940
Soprano

Douglas Sirk – 1897-1987
Film director

Richard Georg Strauss – 1864-1949
Composer

Hans-Jürgen Syberberg – Born 1935
Film director


Richard Tauber – 1891-1948
Tenor

Johann Ludwig Tieck – 1773-1853
Poet and novelist


Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber – 1786-1826
Composer and conductor


Maximilian Carl Emil "Max" Weber – 1864-1920
Sociologist.

Helene Weigel – 1900-1971
Actress

Simone Weil – 1909-1943
Philosopher

Kurt Julian Weill – 1900-1950
Composer

Ernst Wilhelm "Wim" Wenders – Born 1945
Film director, playwright, author, photographer and producer

Billy Wilder 1906 -2002

Filmmaker

Friedrich "Fritz" Karl Otto Wunderlich – 1930-1966
Tenor

Anna Viebrock – Born 1951
Set designer, costumer designer and director.


Alexander Zemlinsky – 1871-1942
Composer, conductor and teacher

Stefan Zweig – 1881-1942
Novelist, playwright and journalist