X-Nico

2 unusual facts about NDR


Neues aus Büttenwarder

The first episode UFOs über Büttenwarder was aired on the 26th December 1997 on NDR.

At the beginning of 2010 NDR ran a casting call in which fans of the show could upload videos of their unique talents onto YouTube.


Bettina Tietjen

From January 1997 to September 2007 she was together with Eva Hermann talk show host of Stargeflüster on NDR: Together with Eckart von Hirschhausen she is since September 2009 talk show host of Tietjen und Hirschhausen on German broadcaster Norddeutscher Rundfunk.

Bob Lanese

Soon after, he landed a job with the NDR (Norddeutsche Rundfunk, or North German Radio) big band in Hamburg.

During his tenure at NDR, he began to work occasional sessions for the James Last Orchestra and eventually joined the band in 1972.

Copa Airlines Flight 201

A year after the crash, the story of the crash of Flight 201 and its investigation was featured in a WGBH, BBC, and NDR documentary.

DAIM

The report from 1993 Die Sprayer by the German broadcast station NDR accompanies DAIM together with other writers from Hamburg and examines graffiti as a phenomenon between vandalism and art.

Ernst Wallfisch

:: Carl Maria von Weber: Andante e rondo ongarese in C minor for viola and orchestra, Op.35 (1809); Wilhelm Brückner-Rüggeberg; NDR-Sinfonieorchester Hamburg; recorded 1964

:: Carl Maria von Weber: Variations on "A Schüsserl und a Rein'dl'" in C major for viola and orchestra (1806); Wilhelm Brückner-Rüggeberg; NDR-Sinfonieorchester Hamburg; recorded 1976

Evelyn Hamann

She was born into a family of musicians in Hamburg, Germany: her father Bernhard Hamann was a violinist, the concertmaster of the NDR symphony orchestra, and founder of the Hamann Quartet; her mother was a singer and music teacher, and her brother Gerhard was a professor of cello at the Trossingen School of Music.

George Gruntz

George Gruntz with the NDR Bigband and Tom Rainey – Dig My Trane – Coltrane’s Vanguard Years (1961–1962), 2012

Henry Fairs

Born in Hereford, England, he received his earliest musical education as a chorister at Leominster Priory and studied at the Birmingham Conservatoire, Conservatoire NDR Rueil-Malmaison and the Hochschule für Musik Köln, supported by an award from the Countess of Munster Trust.

Herb Geller

Geller stayed there for three years and then accepted a contract to play lead alto and also arrange for the big band of NDR in Hamburg.

Lüneburg Heath Wildlife Park

The Lüneburg Heath Wildlife Park hosted the zoo documentary series, Weiches Fell und scharfe Krallen ("Soft fur, sharp claws"), produced by the German TV company, NDR.

Nancy Maultsby

Max Bruch: Odysseus Jeffrey Kneebone, Nancy Maultsby, Camilla Nylund (soloists); NDR North German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus, Leon Botstein (conductor).

NDR Radiophilharmonie

The NDR Radiophilharmonie is the symphony orchestra of the broadcaster Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) in Hannover.

Störtebeker Festival

Originally founded in 1959 as part of an East German culture initiative, it has become Germany's most successful open air theatre event, and is broadcast by public television network NDR.


see also