Walter Andreas Schwarz (2 June 1913 – 1 April 1992) was a German singer, songwriter, writer, Kabarettist, translator, author and narrator of audiobooks and radio dramas.

[3][4] After graduating from school in 1932, Schwarz moved to Vienna to study German, French, English and musicology.

In 1956, he and Freddy Quinn became the two German participants at the first Eurovision Song Contest, which took place in Lugano, Switzerland.

[12][13][14] Schwarz participated with a song titled "Im Wartesaal zum großen Glück", which he wrote and composed himself.

[16] In 1967, Schwarz produced a radio segment called Wiedergutmachung, which was influenced by his own experiences of trying to receive reparations for the persecution he experienced, criticizing the fact that the German bureaucracy was trying to get him to settle for a small payment.