The book adopts ideas from Ernst Eckstein’s Der Besuch im Karzer (published 1875) and was partly inspired by personal accounts of Spoerl’s own schooldays as well as his son’s pranks at school.
Die Zeit | Die Welt | Die Fledermaus | Funny or Die | Die Hard | Die Walküre | Die Entführung aus dem Serail | Die Flippers | Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg | Die Toten Hosen | Die Krupps | Die Frau ohne Schatten | Get Rich or Die Tryin' | Die Hard 2 | Die Fantastischen Vier | Live Free or Die Hard | Get Rich or Die Tryin' (film) | Die Haut | Die Ärzte | Speak English or Die | Saint-Dié-des-Vosges | Romeo Must Die | John Tucker Must Die | DJ Die | Die tote Stadt | Die schweigsame Frau | Die Presse | Die Hard with a Vengeance | Die Glocke | Die Gartenlaube |
He starred as Professor Crey in the German film classic Die Feuerzangenbowle with Heinz Rühmann and after World War II was featured in the legendary Thriller The Third Man in a supporting role as the physician of Orson Welles' character Harry Lime.