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Heinz Erhardt (20 February 1909 in Riga – 5 June 1979 in Hamburg) was a German comedian, musician, entertainer, actor, and poet.

Heinz Erhardt was the son of Baltic German Kapellmeister Gustl Erhardt. He lived most of his childhood at his grandparents in Riga, where his grandfather, Paul Nelder, owned a music house. His grandfather also taught him how to play the piano; Erhardt's wish to become a professional pianist was not supported by his grandparents who wanted him to work as a merchant.

In 1935, Erhardt married Gilda Zanetti. They had four children: Grit, Verena, Gero, and Marita. Gero Erhardt became a film director and cinematographer, and his grandson, Marek Erhardt, became an actor.

The spectacle wearer and non-swimmer Erhardt was drafted into the German navy during the Second World War, but only on the third call-up; he served as a pianist in the Marine orchestra and only handled weapons during his basic training.

After the Second World War he moved to Hamburg-Wellingsbüttel and from 1948 worked as a radio moderator at NWDR. From then on he became more and more famous for his countless pun poems. Also, he became an actor and a mime. In his films he always played a character that fit his stage persona as an entertainer and comedian. His roles were polite and slightly weird persons typical of the period of the Wirtschaftswunder or "economic miracle".

Heinz Strunk, legal name Mathias Halfpape (born 17 May 1962 in Hamburg) is a German entertainer, author, and member of Studio Braun. Strunk's comedy ranges from goofy prank calls to biting political and cultural satire, often involving music.

Perhaps Strunk's most recognizable piece comes from a Studio Braun album full of prank calls made in and around the city of Hamburg. Strunk, playing on homonyms that the English language does not share with German, calls a store which supplies coal for coal-burning stoves. Using the confusion in the German language between the word for that coal and that of cocaine, he tries to order cocaine from the confused man and hilarity ensues. In another prank call, Strunk calls a pastoral resident of the province of Saxony where some residents have unique accents. Claiming to be from "Sachsenhilfe Hamburg," a fictional organization that would translate to Hamburg's Help for Saxony, he offers free voice classes to help the country residents "correct" their dialect. Again, hilarity ensues. Studio Braun and Strunk have 3 such LPs chock-full of prank phone calls.

Heinz Rudolf Erich Arthur Kunze (born 30 November 1956 in Espelkamp-Mittwald, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German writer and rock singer. His greatest hits were Dein ist mein ganzes Herz (not to be confused with the homonymous song from the operetta Das Land des Lächelns) and Mit Leib und Seele in 1985 and 1986.

Kunze was born on 30 November 1956 in the refugee camp Espelkamp near Minden. His family had been expelled from Guben (Niederlausitz, now partially Poland). His father, an officer for the Waffen-SS and long-time prisoner of war, had returned only in the same year.

In the 1980s, he rose to prominence as a singer. HRK, as he is often called, has also written books, and has translated musicals into German.

In 2002, Kunze narrated Piktors Verwandlungen, a 40 minute piece of the German band Anyone's Daughter after a fairy tale by German author Hermann Hesse, during a festival in honoring the late Nobel laureate in his home town Calw.

In the national selection for Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007, the singer/songwriter entered with "Die Welt ist Pop" (The World Is Pop), finishing 3rd.

Heinrich Wilhelm "Heinz" Rühmann (March 7, 1902 – October 3, 1994) was a popular German film actor.

Rühmann was born in Essen, Westphalia. His role in the 1930 movie Die Drei von der Tankstelle (Those Three from the Gas Station) led him to film stardom. He remained highly popular as a comedic actor (and sometime singer) throughout the 1930s and early 1940s. He remained in Germany and continued to work during the Nazi period, as did his friend and colleague, Hans Albers.

After the Nazis seized power in 1933, Rühmann did not speak openly about German politics, but instead kept himself as neutral as possible. In 1938, he divorced his Jewish wife, who married a Swedish actor, and before World War II broke out, traveled to Stockholm and as a result, survived the Holocaust. The divorce caused Rühmann to be accused of wanting to secure his career; however, the marriage had probably already fallen apart. His second wife, whom he married shortly after, had a Jewish grandfather, a fact that caused Rühmann problems with the Nazi cultural authorities. Rühmann retained his reputation as an unpolitical star during the entire Nazi era.