Musicalautor - Oscar Hammerstein, Neil Simon, Michael Kunze, Eric Maschwitz, Arthur Laurents, Ira Gershwin, Alain Boublil, Heinz Wunderlich (English, German, Paperback)

Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Dr. Michael Kunze (born 9 November 1943) is a German lyricist, book writer and librettist. Born in Prague, Kunze grew up in Munich. While studying law in the mid-1960s, he began writing song lyrics. In the late 1960s, Kunze had been a pop lyricist who wrote protest songs in German; when these tunes went out of style, he began producing pop records and commercials. Stars such as Holger Biege, Jurgen Drews, Munchener Freiheit, Nana Mouskouri, Peter Alexander, Sofia Rotaru and Udo Jurgens had some of their greatest hits with his songs. Kunze also had international success with Silver Convention, Julio Iglesias, Herbie Mann, Gilbert Becaud, Lulu and Sister Sledge, among others; for these purposes he sometimes used the pseudonym "Stephan Prager" (composed of the name of his son, Stephan, and his birth city, Prague). Silver Convention's hit Fly, Robin, Fly reached number 1 in the US Billboard charts. At the height of his success he would occasionally withdraw from the pop scene in order to write books. Strasse in Feuer (English: Highroad to the Stake: A Tale of Witchcraft) became a worldwide best-seller, to which the New York Times Book Review Supplement devoted a two-page review. In the 1980s, Kunze discovered the musical. His successful translations of the works of Andrew Lloyd Webber (Evita, Cats, Phantom of the Opera, Aspects of Love, Sunset Boulevard) and above all, of Stephen Sondheim (Company, Follies, Into the Woods), have brought him renown in the field. Likewise he is credited with the German versions of A Chorus Line, Little Shop of Horrors, Kiss of the Spider Woman, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Lion King, Mamma Mia , Elton John's Aida, and Wicked. Since the beginning of the 1990s, Kunze has written several of his own musicals. In 1990, together with his friend Sylvester Levay, he produced Hexen, Hexen, and in 1992, Elisabeth, which played for more than four years at the Theate...http: //booksllc.net/?l=