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- ... that according to tradition Saint Ludger healed the Frisian bard Bernlef of his blindness (pictured) and taught him to play psalms on his harp?
- ... that Margrit Waltz has ferried planes to points on five continents?
- ... that German national Rico Krieger was likely forced by the Belarusian KGB to lie in a state-televised plea titled "Confession of a German Terrorist"?
- ... that one researcher found that nearly a third of the people cancelled over antisemitism allegations in Germany have been Jews?
- ... that Goethe used his unrequited love to Maximiliane Brentano as inspiration for his novel The Sorrows of Young Werther?
- ... that Tilman Michael, the Metropolitan Opera's chorus master from the 2024/25 season, helped the Oper Frankfurt win multiple awards for operatic choir of the year?
- ... that operatic tenor Walter Kirchhoff was also an officer in the cavalry division of the Imperial German Army?
- ... that Wolfgang Rihm said of the music of his 1987 opera Oedipus: "Sound is a weapon here – or a scalpel?"