Vera Lehndorff, known professionally as Veruschka, is a German aristocrat, model, actress and artist. She is considered the "first German supermodel.“

Wieland Wagner was a German opera director, and grandson of Richard Wagner. As co-director of the Bayreuth Festival when it re-opened after World War II, he was noted for innovative new stagings of the operas, departing from the naturalistic scenery and lighting of the originals.