The third in a four-part series looking at the origins of some of the world's most popular melodies In 1915, as a 22-year-old soldier fighting in the First World War, Leip wrote his poem to express ...

Norbert Schultze, the German composer best remembered for the moody "Lili Marleen" that became a World War II favorite of infantrymen in various languages on all fronts, died Oct. 14 in Bad Toelz, ...

Underneath the lamplight Lili Marlene waited in vain for her soldier lover who, unknown to her, had been posted to the front. Her heartbreaking story was the song of the Second World War and is ...

In 1941, a German-controlled radio station in Belgrade broadcast a recording that soldiers later referred to affectionately as “Lili Marlene.” Leibovitz (Aliya) and Miller (a Columbia School of ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This sheet music is for the song ...

The Eighth Army famously adopted a German song in the Western Desert. The Crown Film Unit traces the journey of Lili Marlene from its composition in post-WW1 Hamburg, via Radio Belgrade and the Afrika ...

OLD soldiers who marched where the desert sands were burning are thinking today of Lili Marlene. OLD soldiers who marched where the desert sands were burning are thinking today of Lili Marlene. I'm ...