question: When did the man who wrote and starred in Hyperland die?
answer: 11 May 2001
context: Title: Die Kluge
  Passage: Die Kluge.  Die Geschichte von dem König und der klugen Frau ("The Wise [Girl].  The Story of the King and the Wise Woman") is an opera in 12 scenes written by Carl Orff.  It premiered in Frankfurt, Germany, on 20 February 1943.  Orff referred to this opera as a "Märchenoper " (fairy tale opera).  The composer also wrote the libretto, based on "Die Kluge Bauerntochter" ("The Peasant's Wise Daughter") from the Grimm's Fairy Tales.  A performance lasts for about 90 minutes and is often paired with Orff's "Der Mond".
  Title: Douglas Adams
  Passage: Douglas Noel Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author, scriptwriter, essayist, humorist, satirist and dramatist.
  Title: I Seen a Man Die
  Passage: "I Seen a Man Die", also known as "I Never Seen a Man Cry", is the second single released from Scarface's third album, "The Diary".  Produced by N.O. Joe, Mike Dean and Scarface himself, "I Seen a Man Die" became a top 40 hit on the "Billboard" Hot 100, the first of two that Scarface had in his career.  It peaked at 37 on the Billboard Hot 100.  The song is a tale of a young male released from prison after seven years looking for a better life only to get caught up on the crime side again and robbed by his enemies only to die in the hospital while feeling regrets.  The song also has a music video released which mirrors Scarface's lyrics.
  Title: Klaus Bachmann
  Passage: Klaus Bachmann (born 1963, Bruchsal), journalist, writer, historian and political scientist, author of books and writings on German, Austrian and Polish culture, history and politics, as well as on the European Union and German-Polish as well as Polish-Ukrainian relations.  In 1988, Bachmann settled in Poland and began to write on a regular basis for various Austrian and German newspapers and weeklies ("Die Presse", "Falter", "Die Tageszeitung"), reporting on the revolutionary and evolutionary political, economic, social and cultural changes in the post-Soviet bloc countries.  Since 1989, he worked as the accredited foreign correspondent based in Poland, and also from 1992, in Kiev, Minsk and Vilnius.  During the mid-90s he wrote for a Berlin daily, "Der Tagesspiegel", for "Die Stuttgarter Zeitung", "Die Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung", and also for Polish mainstream newspapers and weeklies ("Rzeczpospolita", "Polityka", and "Tygodnik Powszechny").
  Title: Die Nibelungen (1966/1967 film)
  Passage: Die Nibelungen is a 1966/1967 West German fantasy film released in two parts, "Siegfried von Xanten" and "Kriemhilds Rache" (Kriemhild's Revenge).  It was directed by Harald Reinl and produced by Artur Brauner.  "Die Nibelungen" starred Uwe Beyer, Karin Dor and Herbert Lom.  The two films were a remake of Fritz Lang's 1924 silent classic "Die Nibelungen", which was in turn based on the epic poem the "Nibelungenlied".
  Title: Edward Page Mitchell
  Passage: Edward Page Mitchell (1852–1927) was an American editorial and short story writer for "The Sun", a daily newspaper in New York City.  He became that newspaper's editor in 1897, succeeding Charles Anderson Dana.  Mitchell was recognized as a major figure in the early development of the science fiction genre.  Mitchell wrote fiction about a man rendered invisible by scientific means ("The Crystal Man", published in 1881) before H.G. Wells's "The Invisible Man", wrote about a time-travel machine ("The Clock that Went Backward") before Wells's "The Time Machine", wrote about faster-than-light travel ("The Tachypomp"; now perhaps his best-known work) in 1874, a thinking computer and a cyborg in 1879 ("The Ablest Man in the World"), and also wrote the earliest known stories about matter transmission or teleportation ("The Man without a Body", 1877) and a superior mutant ("Old Squids and Little Speller").  "Exchanging Their Souls" (1877) is one of the earliest fictional accounts of mind transfer.  Mitchell retired in 1926, a year before dying of a cerebral hemorrhage.
  Title: Hartbeat!
  Passage: hartbeat!  was a German music publication published from 1984 to 1998 which focused on punk rock, power pop, garage rock, beat music, rock music, and psychedelic music styles.  The time period of the music detailed ranged from the 1960s to the late 1990s.  The magazine was published in English at irregular intervals.  The editor was Hans-Jürgen Klitsch, who also wrote two books on the German Beatscene of the 1960s: "Shakin' All Over - Die Beatmusik in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1963 - 1967" (High Castle 2000; revised 2001) und "Otto & die Beatlejungs - Die Beatszene der 60er Jahre zwischen Oldenburg, Emden und Wilhelmshaven" (Isensee 2008).
  Title: Die glückliche Hand
  Passage: Die glückliche Hand ("The Hand of Fate"), Op.  18, is a "Drama mit Musik" ("drama with music") by Arnold Schoenberg in four scenes.  It was composed between 1910 and 1913.  Like "Erwartung", composed a year earlier, it was heavily influenced by Otto Weininger's book "Sex and Character".  Unlike "Erwartung", Schoenberg wrote the libretto for "Die glückliche Hand" himself.  The first performance took place in Vienna on 24 October 1924.  The underlying message of the piece is the idea that man continues to repeatedly make the same mistakes, and the plot is developed from events in Schoenberg’s personal life.
  Title: Hyperland
  Passage: Hyperland is a 50-minute-long documentary film about hypertext and surrounding technologies.  It was written by Douglas Adams and produced and directed by Max Whitby for BBC Two in 1990.  It stars Douglas Adams as a computer user and Tom Baker, with whom Adams had already worked on "Doctor Who", as a personification of a software agent.
  Title: Legends Never Die (R.A. the Rugged Man album)
  Passage: Legends Never Die is the second studio album from New York City hip hop artist R.A. the Rugged Man.  The album was released on April 30, 2013, by Nature Sounds.  It is the follow up to 2004's "Die, Rugged Man, Die".  The album features guest appearances from Talib Kweli, Krizz Kaliko, Masta Ace, Brother Ali, Tech N9ne, Hopsin, Vinnie Paz, Eamon, Sadat X among others.  The albums production was handled by Buckwild, Ayatollah, Apathy and Marco Polo among others.
citations: Douglas Adams Hyperland