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 ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Norbert Schultze, who has died in Berlin aged 91, was the composer of Lili Marleen, the German song immortalised by Marlene Dietrich ...

Norbert Schultze, German composer best remembered for the moody “Lili Marleen,” which became a World War II favorite of infantrymen in various languages on all fronts, has died. He was 91. Schultze ...

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 ...

BOOK REVIEW: Roberts Gerwarthreviews Lili Marlene: The Soldiers' Song of World War IIby Liel Leibovitz and Matthew Miller, W.W. Norton, 256pp, €21 ON THE evening of August 18th, 1941, in the midst of ...

I'M returning today to Lili Marlene, the girl still remembered with affection by the Desert Rats of the Eighth Army who fought so valiantly in the Battle of El Alamein, the 60th anniversary of which ...