- He composed the song "Lili Marleen" (1938).
- Fortunately for his reputation, Schultze's setting of Hans Leip's timeless verses from the First World War will eclipse the work he did for Joseph Goebbels in the Second. He had no qualms about setting such lines as "Führer befiehl, wir folgen dir" (Command us, great leader, and we will follow), from "Von Finnland bis zum Schwarzen Meer" (From Finland to the Black Sea). He also wrote the music for the the Luftwaffe's unofficial anthem "Bomben auf Engelland".
- Hat six children from his two wife's. Two of his sons are Norbert Schultze Jr. (b. 10 August 1942) and Kristian Schultze (b. 21 January 1945).
- His subsequent comment regarding his war work was, "You know, I was at the best age for a soldier, 30 or so. For me the alternatives were: compose or croak. So I decided for the former.".
- Norbert Schultze attended first music lessons in his childhood.
- Especially his song "Bomben auf Engeland" led to him being nicknamed "Bomben-Schultze" within Germany's writers of popular tunes in the war years.
- In 1990 he told BBC researcher Karen Liebreich that the melody to "Lili Marleen"was originally written for a toothpaste radio commercial. Sound recordings, first with a female singer Lale Andersen in 1939 at first sold little, but when the German military transmitter in Belgrade signed off with a recording from the singer several times, listeners' letters showed lively demand. The song met the inner mood of millions of soldiers of all armies who were fighting on both sides of the fronts and was translated into about fifty languages to become one of the global cultural "index fossils" of the Second World War. It was the first German million-seller.
- After a conductor training he dedicated to the composition of entertainment music from 1934.
- To his well-known post-war movies belong "Käpt'n Bay-Bay" (1953), "Wie einst Lili Marleen" (1956) and "Das Mädchen Rosemarie" (1958).
- He had his first great success in 1936 with the opera "Der schwarze Peter". In the same year he found out his interest in film music. And with his world hit "Lili Marleen" (38) all the doors opened for the young composer.
- Schultze took the Abitur in Brunswick and went on to study piano, conducting, composing and theatre science in Cologne and Munich. He went to the Bavarian capital in the 1930s as a composer and worked under the name Frank Norbert as an actor in a student cabaret "Die Vier Nachrichter"" ("The Four Reporters"). This was followed by 1932-34 involvement in Heidelberg and as a conductor in Darmstadt, Munich and Leipzig and Mannheim.
- He also wrote music for Veit Harlan's morale-boosting "hold out" film Kolberg, and the main theme of the war documentary Baptism of Fire (Feuertaufe).
- After the war he concentrated to the film music again, later followed compositions for TV too.
- Pseudonyms used by Schultze include Frank Norbert, Peter Kornfeld, and Henri Iversen.
- Norbert Schultze wrote the music to movies like "Bismarck" (1940), "Kampfgeschwader Lützow" (1941), "Ich klage an" (41) and "Kolberg" (1945) till the end of war.
- At the age of 18 he began to compose and wrote among others the stage music for "Was ihr wollt" by Shakespeare.
- Other works of Norbert Schulze were were the operas Schwarzer Peter and Das kalte Herz, the musical Käpt'n Bye-Bye, from which comes the evergreen "Nimm' mich mit, Kapitän, auf die Reise" ("Take me traveling, Captain") a hit for the actor Hans Albers.
- The film composer Norbert Schultze is best-known today for the most popular soldier song of World War II which became cult on at all fronts. We are talking of "Lili Marleen" of course, lyrics written by Hans Leip. In fact: originally a poem from the 1915 book "Die kleine Hafenorgel" by Hans Leip.
- He was from 1961 president of the Association of German stage writers and composers and from 1973 to 1991 was a board member of the German Composer Association. Until 1996, he held offices on the board of GEMA, the Board of Trustees of the Social Welfare Fund of GEMA and the supply Foundation of the German composers.
- Schultze was defined under denazification as a "fellow traveller", and on payment of a "processing fee" of 3,000 DM he got an immediate work permit. His songs being controlled to this day by GEMA (Germany), Schultze ordered that all of his royalties from 1933 to 1945 go to the German Red Cross as is the case to this day.
- After several projects as production manager at Telefunken, Schultze decided in 1936 to try his luck as a freelance composer for stage and film. He delivered a series of compositions for martial and propaganda songs and was advised to become a member of the Nazi Party in 1940 in order not to be conscripted.
- On behalf of Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels he created works such as "From Finland to the Black Sea", "the song of the Kleist tank group" "tanks roll in Africa" and "bombs on England". The popularity of these combat and soldier songs led Norbert Schultze to be continually in demand by Nazi propaganda.
- Norbert Schultze judged himself as an absolute apolitical person. But he had the bad luck to live in an extreme politicized time and his skills were used for the propagandist machinery.
- His later life was spent with his third wife Brigitt Salvatori (married Easter 1992, in a ceremony performed by his daughter), mainly in Majorca but also often in Bavaria.
- Schultze remained true to his profession and wrote numerous operas, operettas (such as Rain in Paris), musicals, ballets (Struwwelpeter written pre-war during his time at Telefunken) and Max and Moritz (filmed 1956), music for more than 50 movies, and songs.
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