Other movies followed, like the film version of Erich Kästner's The Flying Classroom in 1973 and the Deutschlandlied (Ernst Witzel, 1984).
When the book was published in West Germany in the 1960s, another "Emil" was already well known in children's literature, the boy Emil Tischbein in Erich Kästner's "Emil und die Detektive" from the 1920s.
A Model Scenario of the Flying Classroom (Catalogue Raisonné no. 30) made for the German Pavilion at the 1995 Venice Biennale borrows its subject and title from a children’s book by Erich Kästner entitled The Flying Classroom.
Erich von Stroheim | Erich Ludendorff | Erich Fromm | Erich Maria Remarque | Erich Leinsdorf | Erich von Däniken | Erich Kästner | Erich Mendelsohn | Erich Honecker | Erich Segal | Erich von Manstein | Erich von Falkenhayn | Erich Mielke | Rudolf Erich Raspe | German destroyer Z13 Erich Koellner | Erich von Drygalski | Erich Thomas | Erich Kunzel | Erich Fried | Erich Cohn | The Music of Erich Zann | Otto Erich Deutsch | Kevin Von Erich | Kastner train | Hans Erich Slany | German destroyer Z12 Erich Giese | Fritz Von Erich | Erich Zepler | Erich Raeder | Erich Priebke |
Among the artists who performed in the venue were Rudolf Platte, Theo Lingen, Ursula Herking, Isa Vermehren, Ernst Busch, Hanns Eisler, Erich Kästner, Ivo Veit and Erik Ode.
In addition to Jacobsohn, Tucholsky, and Ossietzky, the contributors included prominent writers and journalists like Erich Kästner, Alfred Polgar, Arnold Zweig, Manfred George, Lion Feuchtwanger, and Else Lasker-Schüler.
Later, the famous German novelist and poet Erich Kästner repeatedly visited the valley, as did the former German chancellor Helmut Kohl.
Together with Hans Habe, Erich Kästner and Stefan Heym Lembke started German newspaper Neue Zeitung in Munich.