- He wrote the opera "Andromache" but this work was no success. But luckily a producer of the UFA was one of the audience of the opera and he offered him to write the music for the movie "Morgenrot" (1933). After the music for the documentary "Natur als Schützerin im Kampf ums Dasein" (1932) it was his first feature movie.
- A grant by the government of the Weimar Republic led to his opera Andromache, which was first performed in 1932.
- Despite the warm reception for his music in Nazi party circles, Herbert Windt himself fell into disfavor with the rulers of Germany in that period.
- Herbert Windt became a demanded filmcomposer and he wrote the soundtrack to numerous productions in the next years. To his well-known works belong "Wilhelm Tell" (34), Leni Riefenstahl's "Triumph des Willens" (1935) and Leni Riefenstahl's masterpiece "Olympia" (1938).
- He continued his musical education after World War I at the university for music in Berlin.
- Besides his activity for the film Herbert Windt also wrote numerous soldier songs as well as music for radio plays.
- Windt's film scores for propaganda films drew the attention of the sociologist Siegfried Kracauer, who analyzed the composer's works in the tracts From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film and Theory of Film: The Redemption of Physical Reality.
- He wrote the music for many movies till 1960. With "Im Namen einer Mutter" (1960) came his last filmcomposition into being.
- He composed music for several Nazi public events and radio programs.
- Herbert Windt continued his career during World War II and he wrote the music for many movies again, among them also some propaganda pictures.
- He was seriously wounded at the front in 1917 and he lost an eye.
- The filmcomposer Herbert Windt studied music at the Stern'schen conservatory but with the outbreak of World War I he interrupted his education and he joined the army as a volunteer.
- Windt became one of the most significant film score composers of the Third Reich along with Wolfgang Zeller, Michael Jary, Franz Grothe, and Georg Haentzschel.
- Herbert Windt was prohibited to work after the war because of his membership of the NSDAP and his collaboration at propaganda movies but from 1948 he was able to continue his career again.
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