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Der Meridian

Der Meridian is the acceptance speech Paul Celan delivered in Darmstadt in October 1960 on receiving the Georg Büchner Prize, a foundational text of twentieth-century poetics.

Der Messias

Der Messias (The Messiah) is a German religious epic in 20 cantos by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, retelling the Passion and resurrection of Jesus in dactylic hexameters.

Der Monat

Der Monat was an influential German-language political and cultural magazine published in West Berlin from 1948 to 1971, founded by Melvin J. Lasky with US sponsorship during the cultural Cold War.

Der Nachtmahr

Der Nachtmahr (The Nightmare) is a 2015 German horror-tinged coming-of-age film by Akiz (Achim Bornhak), starring Carolyn Genzkow as a teen haunted by a creature only she first sees; made for about 80,000-100,000 euros without public funding.

Der Pass

Der Pass (Pagan Peak) is a German-Austrian Sky crime thriller, 2019-2023, three seasons, adapted from The Bridge premise: a body found on the German-Austrian Alps border, detectives Ellie Stocker (Julia Jentsch) and Gedeon Winter (Nicholas Ofczarek).

Der Ring des Nibelungen

Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung), WWV 86, is Richard Wagner's four-opera cycle of Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Siegfried, and Götterdämmerung, premiered complete at Bayreuth 13-17 August 1876, about 16 hours of music on the Nibelung ring.

Der Ring des Nibelungen discography

Der Ring des Nibelungen discography: complete recordings of Wagner's four-opera Ring cycle, from the 1955 Keilberth Bayreuth stereo taping and the landmark 1958-65 Solti/Decca studio set to Karajan, the 1980s cycles, and the 2026 Dallas/Luisi release.

Der Rosengarten zu Worms

Der Rosengarten zu Worms, also called Der Große Rosengarten, is an anonymous 13th-century Middle High German heroic poem about twelve combats in Kriemhild's rose garden.

Der Rosenkavalier

Der Rosenkavalier (The Knight of the Rose), Op. 59, is Richard Strauss's three-act comic opera to a libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, premiered in Dresden in 1911, set in Maria Theresa's Vienna with anachronistic waltzes and the silver-rose plot.

Der Schatz im Silbersee

Der Schatz im Silbersee (The Treasure of Silver Lake; Blago u srebrnom jezeru) is Harald Reinl's 1962 Karl May Western with Lex Barker as Old Shatterhand and Pierre Brice as Winnetou, the first and most successful Karl-May film, grossing 6.4 million DM.

Der Schuh des Manitu

Der Schuh des Manitu (Manitou's Shoe) is Michael Bully Herbig's 2001 German comedy western parodying the 1960s Karl May Winnetou films; with about 11.7 million admissions it is the most successful German film, followed by the 2025 sequel Das Kanu des Manitu.

Der Stand der Dinge

Der Stand der Dinge (The State of Things) is Wim Wenders' 1982 black-and-white film about a stranded film crew in Portugal, made during the troubled Hammett shoot; it won the 1982 Venice Golden Lion and the 1983 German Film Award.

Der Untergang der Pamir

Der Untergang der Pamir is a 2005/2006 German two-part TV drama by Kaspar Heidelbach dramatizing the 1957 sinking of the training barque Pamir in hurricane Carrie near the Azores, in which 80 of 86 aboard died and six survived.

Der Untergang der Titanic

Der Untergang der Titanic is an epic poem by Hans Magnus Enzensberger, published in 1978, retelling the 1912 sinking of the Titanic in 33 cantos.

DER WEG EINER FREIHEIT

DER WEG EINER FREIHEIT, meaning "The Way to Freedom", is a black metal band from Würzburg, Germany, formed in 2009 by guitarist Nikita Kamprad and vocalist Tobias Jaschinsky.

Der Welsche Gast

Der Welsche Gast ("The Romance Stranger") is a roughly 15,000-line didactic poem in Middle High German, composed in 1215/16 by Thomasin von Zerclaere as the first German code of conduct.

Derailed (2005 film)

Derailed (2005) is a psychological thriller directed by Mikael Håfström, starring Clive Owen and Jennifer Aniston as executives blackmailed after a failed affair; adapted from James Siegel's novel, released by The Weinstein Company.

Derailment (脱轨)

Derailment (脱轨, also 离心力) is a 2023 Chinese Youku urban romance-suspense drama adapted from Priest's novel, starring Liu Haocun and Lin Yi, about a rich heiress swapped into a poor worker's life after a car accident; 30 episodes, directed by Shen Yang.

Derek (TV series)

Derek is a British mockumentary-style comedy-drama (2012–2014) created by and starring Ricky Gervais as care home worker Derek Noakes, with Karl Pilkington, Kerry Godliman, and David Earl, on Channel 4 and Netflix.

Derek and the Dominos

Derek and the Dominos: short-lived 1970-71 blues-rock band of Eric Clapton, Bobby Whitlock, Carl Radle, Jim Gordon, with Duane Allman on their only album, Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs (9 November 1970), which flopped then became a classic through the single Layla.

Derek Blasberg

Derek Blasberg (born 1982, St. Louis) is an American fashion writer, NYU graduate, first Head of Fashion & Beauty at YouTube (2018–2022), Vanity Fair special correspondent, Gagosian executive editor, and author of Classy and Fast + Louche.

Derek Cianfrance

Derek Cianfrance (born 1974, Lakewood, Colorado) is an American director and screenwriter of Blue Valentine, The Place Beyond the Pines, The Light Between Oceans, I Know This Much Is True, and Roofman, distinct from other Dereks by his Sundance Grand Jury Prize and immersive filmmaking methods.

Derek Fowlds

Derek Fowlds (1937-2020), English actor known as Mr Derek in The Basil Brush Show, Bernard Woolley in Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister, and Oscar Blaketon in all 18 series of ITV's Heartbeat.

Derek Griffiths

Derek Griffiths (born 1946) is a British actor, presenter, and composer known for Play School and Play Away, the voice of SuperTed, The Black Mikado, RSC Shakespeare roles, Coronation Street, and an MBE.

Derek Hough

Derek Hough (born 1985, Salt Lake City) is an American dancer, choreographer, and judge; six-time Dancing with the Stars Mirrorball champion, four-time Emmy-winning choreographer, West End Footloose star, and husband of Hayley Erbert Hough.

Derek Jacobi

Sir Derek Jacobi (born 22 October 1938, Leytonstone, London) is an English classical actor, National Theatre founding member, BAFTA-winning star of I, Claudius, and winner of Tony, two Emmy, and two Olivier Awards.

Derek Jarman

Derek Jarman (Michael Derek Elworthy Jarman, 1942–1994), English avant-garde filmmaker, painter, and gay rights campaigner; director of Sebastiane, Jubilee, Caravaggio, The Last of England, and Blue; diagnosed HIV in 1986 and went public.

Derek Jones (musician)

Derek Jones was an American post-hardcore guitarist and founding member of the Las Vegas band Falling in Reverse. He played rhythm guitar until his death in 2020.

Derek Klena

Derek Klena, also known as Derek Anthony Klena, is an American actor and singer known for Broadway roles in Anastasia, Jagged Little Pill, and Moulin Rouge!

Derek Kolstad

Derek Kolstad, Wisconsin-born screenwriter and creator of the John Wick franchise (originally titled Scorn), writer of John Wick 1-3, Nobody 1-2, Falcon and the Winter Soldier episodes, Splinter Cell: Deathwatch, and Normal.