Which German-speaking Swiss writer inspired Burkhard Stangl to create the famed "schnee" duet?
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Burkhard Stangl Burkhard Stangl (born 6 November 1960 in Eggenburg, Lower Austria) is a composer and musician, currently residing in Vienna, Austria. Playing primarily guitar and electronics, he is a prolific performer in the world of electro-acoustic improvisation, having participated in over 50 recordings. One of his most noted recordings is "schnee", a duet with Cristof Kurzmann, inspired by four films and a quote from writer Robert Walser. It has been recorded live, as "schnee_live", and has spawned a similarly themed "meta-song suite," "neuschnee". His 1997 opera "Der Venusmond" was recorded partially on the observation deck of the Empire State Building.
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Robert Walser (writer) Robert Walser (15 April 1878 – 25 December 1956) was a German-speaking Swiss writer.
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Heinrich Steinhöwel Heinrich Steinhöwel (also "Steinhäuel" or "Steinheil"; 1412 – 1482) was a Swabian author, humanist, and translator who was much inspired by the Italian Renaissance. His translations of medical treatises and fiction were an important contribution to early Renaissance Humanism in Germany.
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Peter Schlemihl Peter Schlemihl is the title character of an 1814 novella, "Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte " ("Peter Schlemihl's Miraculous Story"), written in German by exiled French aristocrat Adelbert von Chamisso.
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Schneewittchen (opera) Schneewittchen (Snow White) is an opera by Heinz Holliger. He wrote the libretto based on a poetic text by Robert Walser in iambic trimeter. The opera received its première on 17 October 1998 at the Zurich Opera House which had commissioned the work. The work is a psychoanalytical reworking of the fairy tale, analysing the complex relationships between the roles. It is not a .
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Franz Bucher Franz Bucher (born 1940) is a Swiss artist. He has produced paintings, drawings, woodcuts, etchings, sculptural objects, reliefs, murals, and stained glass.
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Schneepart Schneepart (rendered in English as Snow Part) is a 1971 German-language poetry collection by Paul Celan. It was published in an English translation in 2007.
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Samuel Haberstich Samuel Haberstich (born in Ried, near Schlosswyl, 21 October 1821; died in Bern, 20 February 1872) was a Swiss poet and story writer, known mostly by his pseudonym, Arthur Bitter. He wrote novelettes, stories and poems for many years, all characterized by sympathy of tone and inoffensive realism, "Tales, Romances and Poems" (German: "Erzählungen, Novellen und Gedichte" , 4 vols., 1865–66) being the most pleasing.
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Johann Strauss I Johann Strauss I (German: "Johann Baptist Strauß, Johann Strauss (Vater)" ; also Johann Baptist Strauss, Johann Strauss Sr., the Elder, the Father; March 14, 1804 – September 25, 1849) was an Austrian Romantic composer. He was famous for his waltzes, and he popularized them alongside Joseph Lanner, thereby setting the foundations for his sons to carry on his musical dynasty. His most famous piece is the Radetzky March (named after Joseph Radetzky von Radetz).
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Franz Werfel Franz Viktor Werfel (10 September 1890 – 26 August 1945) was an Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright, and poet whose career spanned World War I, the Interwar period, and World War II. He is primarily known as the author of "The Forty Days of Musa Dagh" (1933, English tr. 1934, 2012), a novel based on events that took place during the Armenian Genocide of 1915, and "The Song of Bernadette" (1941), a novel about the life and visions of the French Catholic saint Bernadette Soubirous, which was made into a Hollywood film of the same name.
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Beloved Sisters Beloved Sisters (German: Die geliebten Schwestern ) is a 2014 German biographical film written and directed by Dominik Graf. The film is based on the life of the German poet Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) and upon his long relationships with two sisters, Caroline and Charlotte von Lengefeld. Schiller was ultimately married to Charlotte von Lengefeld.
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Erich Hackl Erich Hackl (born 26 May 1954 in Steyr, Upper Austria) is an Austrian novelist and short-story writer. His works have been translated into English, Spanish, French and Czech, though he is significantly better known in the German-speaking world. Many of his works, notably "Sara und Simón", bear resemblance to Latin-American testimonial literature, and as such have been the focus of scholarly research by Latin Americanists.
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Brigitte Klump Brigitte Klump (born 23 January 1935) is a German author and campaigner. She was born into a relatively poor farming family, originally of Huguenot provenance. She grew up, between 1949 and 1957, in the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) where she trained as a journalist, before undertaking an internship at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin. Here she was mentored by Brecht's widow, the actress-director Helene Weigel. Klump escaped to West Berlin in 1957.
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Eugen Haile Eugen Haile (February 21, 1873 – August 14, 1933) was a German-American composer, singer, and accompanist, primarily known for his songs. In his lifetime, it was claimed that he was one of the "truly inspired melodists, a lineal descendent of the great lyricists, Schubert, Schumann, Franz and Brahms."
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Johann Jacob Schütz Johann Jakob Schütz (7 September 1640, Frankfurt – 22 May 1690, Frankfurt) was a German lawyer and hymnwriter. One of his hymns was reworked by Johann Sebastian Bach as a movement in BWV 117.
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Also sprach Zarathustra (Strauss) Also sprach Zarathustra , Op. 30 (Thus Spoke Zarathustra or Thus Spake Zarathustra) is a tone poem by Richard Strauss, composed in 1896 and inspired by Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophical novel of the same name. The composer conducted its first performance on 27 November 1896 in Frankfurt. A typical performance lasts half an hour.
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Johann David Wyss Johann David Wyss ] (May 28, 1743 in Bern – January 11, 1818 in Bern) was a Swiss author, best remembered for his book "The Swiss Family Robinson" ("Der schweizerische Robinson") (1812). It is said that he was inspired by Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe", but wanted to write a story from which his own children would learn, as the father in the story taught important lessons to his children. "The Swiss Family Robinson" was first published in 1812 and translated into English two years later. It has since become one of the most popular books of all time. The book was edited by his son, Johann Rudolf Wyss, a scholar who wrote the Swiss national anthem. Another son, Johann Emmanuel Wyss, illustrated the book. Unlike his son, Johann David Wyss lived up to the age of 74, dying in 1818.
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Metin Arditi Metin Arditi, born 2 February 1945 in Ankara, is a French-speaking Swiss writer of Turkish Sephardi origin.
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Adalbert Stifter Adalbert Stifter (] ; 23 October 1805 – 28 January 1868) was an Austrian writer, poet, painter, and pedagogue. He was especially notable for the vivid natural landscapes depicted in his writing and has long been popular in the German-speaking world, while remaining almost entirely unknown to English readers.
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Salcia Landmann Salcia Landmann, born Salcia Passweg (Hebrew: זלציה לנדמן‎ ‎ ; November 18, 1911 – May 16, 2002), was a Jewish writer. She was born in Zhovkva, Galicia, and died in St. Gallen, Switzerland. She worked on preserving the Yiddish language, and she wrote the important work "Der Jüdische Witz" ("Jewish Humor"). She was one of the founders of the International PEN in Liechtenstein. She had one son and was married to philosopher Michael Landmann since 1939.
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Max Brod Max Brod (Hebrew: מקס ברוד; May 27, 1884 – December 20, 1968) was a German-speaking Jewish Czech, later Israeli, author, composer, and journalist. Although he was a prolific writer in his own right, he is most famous as the friend and biographer of Franz Kafka. As Kafka's literary executor, Brod refused to follow the writer's instructions to burn his life's work, and had them published instead. Kafka would probably not be famous without Brod's help.
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Max Huwyler Max Huwyler (born December 6, 1931 in Zug) is a Swiss writer.