He is one of four brothers born to Lithuanian-born William and Tilly Kretzmer, who fled the racist pogroms of Czarist Russia to settle in small-town South Africa early in the 20th century.

For the edition broadcast on Saturday 23 November 1963, the day after the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy, TW3 produced a shortened 20-minute programme with no satire, reflecting on the loss, including a contribution from Dame Sybil Thorndike and the tribute song " In the Summer of His Years " sung by Martin with lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer.

The music was composed by Claude-Michel Schönberg, and the lyrics were written by Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel, with an English-language libretto by Herbert Kretzmer.

* 1987: Les Misérables – Book by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer.

The new musical Marguerite is by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg, and includes music by Michel Legrand and lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer.

Schönberg's next project with Boublil, Marguerite, includes music by Michel Legrand and lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer.

Herbert Kretzmer OBE ( born 5 October 1925 ) is a South African-born English journalist and lyric writer.

Kretzmer began his professional career writing documentary films and the commentary for a weekly cinema newsreel.

After several years as a feature writer on the Daily Sketch, Kretzmer became a profile writer on the Sunday Dispatch and the Daily Express, interviewing John Steinbeck, Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Sugar Ray Robinson, Louis Armstrong, Henry Miller, Cary Grant and Duke Ellington.

Kretzmer wrote lyrics for the BBC's satire That Was The Week That Was, including the racial satire " Song of Nostalgia For an American State " and the much-recorded tribute to John F. Kennedy, " In the Summer of His Years ", written and performed by Millicent Martin within hours of his assassination.

Kretzmer won an Ivor Novello Award for the Peter Sellers and Sophia Loren comedy hit “ Goodness Gracious Me ”, composed by David Lee.

Kretzmer wrote the lyrics for Anthony Newley ’ s cult musical film Can Hieronymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness, whose score included “ When You Gotta Go ”, often used as a closing song by singers including Barbra Streisand.

Kretzmer wrote the book and lyrics of the West End musical, Our Man Crichton, composed by David Lee and based on J M Barrie ’ s satirical play The Admirable Crichton.

Kretzmer later wrote ( with composer Laurie Johnson ) the lyrics for a large-scale comedy spoof, The Four Musketeers, which ran for more than a year at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, starring Harry Secombe as the swordsman d ' Artagnan.

Kretzmer ’ s lyrics extended the two-hour Paris original into a three-hour show.

For his work on the Les Misérables lyrics, Kretzmer received Tony and Grammy awards.

In 2008 Kretzmer wrote the lyrics for Marguerite from an original text by Alain Boublil, a musical set in Nazi-occupied Paris, to music by Michel Legrand.

Kretzmer ’ s most recent musical project is Kristina, based on Vilhelm Moberg ’ s epic suite of novels about Swedish emigrants to Minnesota in the 19th century.

In 1988, Kretzmer was elected a Chevalier of L ’ Ordre Des Arts Et Des Lettres.

Kretzmer was born in South Africa in 1925.

On 8 April 2011, Kretzmer received an Honorary Doctorate from Rhodes University in South Africa.

She was also cast in the title role in Marguerite, a new musical from the pens of Michel Legrand, Herbert Kretzmer, Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg.

On 29 November 1879 at the Basilica of Atocha in Madrid, Alfonso married a much more distant relative, Maria Christina of Austria, daughter of Archduke Karl Ferdinand of Austria and of his wife Archduchess Elisabeth of Austria.

Aldona had two daughters, Cunigunde ( died in 1357 ), who married Louis VI the Roman, the son of Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor, on 1 January 1345, and Elisabeth ( died in 1361 ), who was married to Duke Bogislaus V of Pomerania.

The daughters from this marriage were Cunigunde ( d. 1357 ), who was married to Louis VI the Roman, the son of Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor, and Elisabeth, who was married to Duke Bogislaus V of Pomerania.

On 14 February 1479 at Frankfurt ( Oder ) he was married to Sophia of Poland ( 6 April 1464-5 October 1512 ), daughter of King Casimir IV of Poland by his wife Elisabeth of Habsburg, and sister of King Sigismund I of Poland.

# Elisabeth ( 25 March 1494, Ansbach – 31 May 1518, Pforzheim ), married in Pforzheim on 29 September 1510 to Margrave Ernest of Baden-Durlach.

In Dresden on 24 April 1833 Frederick Augustus married secondly with the Princess Maria of Bavaria ( Maria Anna Leopoldine Elisabeth Wilhelmine ), daughter of the King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria.

In 1616 George William married Elisabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate.

First ( 1559 ) he married Elisabeth of Brandenburg-Küstrin ( 29 August 1540 – 8 March 1578 ).

George was married at Dresden, on 21 November 1496, to Barbara Jagiellon, daughter of Casimir IV, King of Poland and Elisabeth, daughter of Albrecht II of Hungary.

# Frederick ( b. Dresden, 15 March 1504 – d. Dresden, 26 February 1539 ), Hereditary Duke of Saxony ; married on 27 January 1539 to Elisabeth of Mansfeld.

Goebbels had four siblings: Hans ( 1893 – 1947 ), Konrad ( 1895 – 1949 ), Elisabeth ( 1901 – 1915 ) and Maria ( 1910 – 1949 ; married to the German filmmaker Max W. Kimmich ).

Thirdly, he married Princess Elisabeth of Anhalt-Zerbst ( – 5 October 1607 ) in 1577.

# Elisabeth Sophia of Brandenburg ( July 13, 1589 – December 24, 1629 ), married:

He also married the fourteen-year-old Elisabeth de St Michel, a descendant of French Huguenot immigrants, first in a religious ceremony, on 10 October 1655, and later in a civil ceremony, on 1 December 1655, at St Margaret's, Westminster.

The story is based on conflicts in the life of Carlos, Prince of Asturias ( 1545 – 1568 ), after his betrothed Elisabeth of Valois was married instead to his father Philip II of Spain as part of the peace treaty ending the Italian War of 1551-1559 between the Houses of Habsburg and Valois.

In 1422 Albert married Elisabeth of Luxemburg, the daughter and heiress of the King Sigismund of Hungary ( later also Holy Roman Emperor and Bohemia ), and his second wife, the Slovenian noblewoman Barbara of Celje.

Albert himself descended from Béla IV of Hungary through his daughter Ilona whose descendant was a princess of Brieg who became Albert's ancestress the countess of Hainaut and Holland, and from a younger sister of Queen Elisabeth of Bohemia, thus descending from both Constances of Hungary, and also from King Géza II of Hungary through his daughter Elisabeth who married Bedrich of Czech, their daughter being an ancestress of Albert's maternal Bavarian line.

* Elisabeth ( 1438 – 1505 ), who married Casimir IV of Poland, and whose son Vladislaus II of Bohemia later became king of Bohemia and Hungary

# Elisabeth ( 1329 – 2 August 1402, Stuttgart ), married:

He was married in Amberg on 27 June 1374 to Elisabeth of Nuremberg, daughter of Burgrave Frederick V of Hohenzollern and Elisabeth of Meissen.

# Elisabeth ( 27 October 1381 – 31 December 1408, Innsbruck ), married in Innsbruck 24 December 1407 to Duke Frederick IV of Austria