Siegfried & Roy Included In German TV Station's Search For The Top 100 Germans
Magicians of the Century Siegfried & Roy have been nominated by ZDF (German’s public television station) in its search to find the top 100 Germans. Anyone can vote for whom they believe should be included in the top 100 Germans via the Internet (www.unserebesten.zdf.de); by telephone (49 137 9090909), or by postcard addressed to ZDF, “Unsere Besten”, D-5511 Mainz, Germany. ZDF nominated 300 people in 12 categories. Those participating in the voting can also select their favorites who are not listed by ZDF. The only criteria is that the person be German or must have been living in Germany for a long time and must be known. The voting and submission deadline is September 15, 2003. The 100 chosen Germans will be announced on a ZDF special airing November 7 at 9:15 p.m. (German time). Moderators Johannes B. Kerner and Steffen Seibert will then reveal the 10 leading vote getters, whose lives and careers will be featured in documentaries airing the following three weeks leading to the selection of the "best German." In addition to Siegfried & Roy, the others listed by ZDF include:
History: Konrad Adenauer, August Bebel, Otto von Bismarck, Fürst Blücher, Willy Brandt, Ignatz Bubis, Rudi Dutschke, Friedrich Ebert, Ludwig Erhard, Joschka Fischer, Kaiser Barbarossa Friedrich I, Kaiser Friedrich II (1220-1250), König Friedrich II vonPreußen, Heinrich von Gagern, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, August Graf Neidhart von Gneisenau, Hildegard Hamm-Brücher, Heinrich der Löwe, Theodor Heuss, Petra Kelly, Helmut Kohl, Helene Lange, Ferdinand Lassalle, König Ludwig II von Bayern, Königin Luise von Preußen, Fürst von Metternich, Thomas Müntzer, Kaiser Otto der Große, Walther Rathenau, Johannes Rau, Ernst Reuter, Helmut Schmidt, Gerhard Schröder, Kurt Schumacher, Reichsfreiherr vom und zum Stein, Franz Josef Strauß, Gustav Stresemann, Albrecht von Wallenstein, Richard von Weizsäcker, Kaiser Wilhelm II, and Clara Zetkin.
Science: Manfred von Ardenne, Wernher von Braun, Rudolf Diesel, Konrad Duden, Albert Einstein, Bernhard Grzimek, Johannes Gutenberg, Samuel Hahnemann, Werner Heisenberg, Peter Henlein, Alexander von Humboldt, Sigmund Jähn, Johannes Kepler, Sebastian Kneipp, Adolf Freiherr von Knigge, Robert Koch, Nikolaus Kopernikus, Justus von Liebig, Otto Lilienthal, Nikolaus August Otto, Max Planck, Adam Riese, Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, Ferdinand Sauerbruch, Heinrich Schliemann, Werner von Siemens, Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin, and Konrad Zuse.
Entertainment and Media: Hans Albers, Rudolf Augstein, Frank Beyer, Roy Black, Marlene Dietrich, Marion Gräfin Dönhoff, Angelica Domröse, Gunther Emmerlich, Heinz Erhardt, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Peter Frankenfeld, Hanns Joachim Friedrichs, Gert Fröbe, Thomas Gottschalk, Gustaf Gründgens, Nina Hagen, Helga Hahnemann, Heino, Dieter Hildebrandt, Siegfried & Roy, Günther Jauch, HaraldJuhnke, Curd Jürgens, Klaus Kinski, Hildegard Knef, Oswalt Kolle, Manfred Krug, Hans-Joachim Kulenkampff, Karl Lagerfeld, Loriot Ernst Lubitsch, Inge Meysel, Willy Millowitsch, Bernhard Minetti, Gojko Mitic, Armin Müller-Stahl, Gret Palucca, Will Quadflieg, Hans Rosenthal, Heinz Rühmann, Claudia Schiffer, Harald Schmidt, Peter Scholl-Latour, Alice Schwarzer, Karl Valentin, and Wim Wenders.
Models: Karlheinz Böhm, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Georg Elser, Hildegard von Bingen, Adolph Kolping, Oskar Schindler, Sophie und Hans Scholl, Albert Schweitzer, Claus Graf von Stauffenberg, and Edith Stein.
Sports: Franziska van Almsick, Franz Beckenbauer, Boris Becker, Heike Drechsler, Heide Ecker-Rosendahl, Steffi Graf, Sven Hannawald, Armin Hary, Sepp Herberger, Frank Höfle, "Turnvater" Jahn, Bernhard Langer, Henry Maske, Ulrike Nasse-Meyfarth, Rosi Mittermaier, Josef Neckermann, Dirk Nowitzki, Max Schmeling, Michael Schumacher, Gustav Adolf Schur, Uwe Seeler, Jürgen Sparwasser, Jan Ullrich, Rudi Völler, Fritz Walter, and Katarina Witt.
Religion: Eugen Drewermann, Clemens August Graf von Galen, Nikolaus von Kues, Karl Lehmann, Martin Luther, Albertus Magnus, Philipp Melanchthon, and Joseph Ratzinger.
Philosophy: Theodor W. Adorno, Hannah Arendt, Ernst Bloch, Friedrich Engels, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Sigmund Freud, Erich Fromm, Jürgen Habermas, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Martin Heidegger, Johann Gottfried von Herder, Karl Jaspers, Immanuel Kant, GottfriedWilhelm von Leibniz, Theodor Lessing, Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, Arthur Schopenhauer, and Max Weber.
Economy: Hermann Josef Abs, Karl und Theo Albrecht, Carl Benz, Franz Burda, Gottlieb Daimler, Jakob Fugger, Max Grundig, Wolfgang Joop, Alfred Krupp, Carl Legien, Reinhard Mohn, August Oetker, Adam Opel, Ferdinand Porsche, Günther Quandt, Jil Sander, Grete Schickedanz, Axel Springer, Levi Strauss, Franz von Taxis, August Thyssen, Beate Uhse, and Carl Friedrich Zeiss.
Literature: Gottfried Benn, Heinrich Böll, Bertolt Brecht, Georg Büchner, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Joseph von Eichendorff, Theodor Fontane, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Günter Grass, Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, Johann Jacob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, Gerhart Hauptmann, Heinrich Heine, Hermann Hesse, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Heinrich Hoffmann, August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, Friedrich Hölderlin, Ernst Jünger, Erich Kästner, Heinrich von Kleist, Siegfried Lenz, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Thomas Mann, Karl May, Theodor Mommsen, Heiner Müller, Anton Philipp Reclam, Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Rainer Maria Rilke, Joachim Ringelnatz, Friedrich von Schiller, Anna Seghers, Erwin Strittmatter, Kurt Tucholsky, Martin Walser, Walther von der Vogelweide, Grete Weil, Christa Wolf, and Wolfram von Eschenbach.
Arts: Joseph Beuys, Wilhelm Busch, Lucas Cranach der Ältere, Otto Dix, Albrecht Dürer, Max Ernst, Caspar David Friedrich, Walter Gropius, Jörg Immendorff, Helmut Jahn, Anselm Kiefer, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Käthe Kollwitz, Max Liebermann, Franz Marc, Ludwig Mies vander Rohe, Balthasar Neumann, Emil Nolde, Gerhard Richter, Tilman Riemenschneider, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Gottfried Semper, Carl Spitzweg, Johann Joachim Winckelmann, and Rudolf Heinrich Zille.
Music: Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, Wolf Biermann, Dieter Bohlen, Johannes Brahms, Campino, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Herbert Grönemeyer, Georg Friedrich Händel, Joseph Haydn, Peter Kraus, Udo Lindenberg, Albert Mangelsdorff, Kurt Masur, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Reinhard Mey, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Anne Sophie Mutter, Nena, Jacques Offenbach, Carl Orff, Thomas Quasthoff, Frank Schöbel, Robert Schumann, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Richard Strauss, and Richard Wagner.
Legends: Götz von Berlichingen, Kaiserin "Sissi" Elisabeth, Till Eulenspiegel, Hauptmann von Köpenick, Baron von Münchhausen, and Klaus Störtebecker.
