Design Economy Nordic Yards Wismar is a shipbuilder located in Wismar and shipbuilding has existed since 1946 at the site. Notable people Klaus Störtebeker (c. 1360–1401), privateer Sophie of Mecklenburg-Güstrow (1557–1631), queen of Denmark Bernhard Latomus (1560–1613), historian Daniel Georg Morhof (1639–1691), historian Joachim Gerstenbüttel (c. 1650–1721), composer Johan Henrik Scheffel (1690–1781), Swedish painter Johan Carl Wilcke (1732–1796), physicist Henricus Christophorus Christianus Wegener (1757–1799), lawyer Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann (1785–1860), historian, statesman Heinrich Keil (1822–1894), philologist Theodor Martens (1822–1884), architectural and landscape painter Friedrich Bernhard Christian Maassen (1823–1900), law professor Gottlob Frege (1848–1925), mathematician, logician and philosopher Marie Musaeus Higgins (1855–1926), founder of Musaeus College, Colombo Franz Ziehl (1857–1926), bacteriologist Gustav Neckel (1878–1940), Germanist and Scandinavist Anton von Hohberg und Buchwald (1885–1934), Reichswehr and SS officer Harald Weinrich (born 1927), classical scholar; scholar of Romance philology and philosopher; emeritus professor of the Collège de France, where he held the chair of Romance literature from 1992 to 1998 Heino Kleiminger (1939–2015), footballer Gunter Pleuger (born 1941), diplomat and politician Klaus Grünberg (born 1941), actor Peter Sykora (born 1946), footballer Joachim Streich (1951-2022), football player and coach Marita Koch (born 1957), track and field athlete of the GDR and Olympic champion Roswitha Eberl (born 1958), canoeist Kerstin Brandt (born 1961), high jumper Andreas Zachhuber (born 1962), football player and coach Kathrin Haacker (born 1967), Olympic champion in rowing Fiete Sykora (born 1982), footballer Robert Tesche (born 1987), footballer Wismar in art and literature Wismar (renamed "Wisborg") was the setting of the 1922 silent film (Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror). This German Expressionist horror film, directed by F. W. Murnau and starring Max Schreck as the vampire Count Orlok, was partly shot in Wismar. Filming began in July 1921, with exterior shots in Wismar. A take from the Marienkirche's (Saint Mary's Church) tower over Wismar marketplace with the Wasserkunst Wismar (waterworks fountain) served as the establishing shot for the Wisborg scene. Other locations included the Wassertor (Water Gate), the southside of St. Nicholas, the Heilig-Geist-Kirche (Holy-Spirit-Church) and the harbour area. Wismar was also the setting of Werner Herzog's 1979 remake Nosferatu, Phantom der Nacht. However, Herzog unable to film in Wismar, relocated his production to the cities of Delft and Schiedam in the Netherlands. The 2000 metafiction horror film Shadow of the Vampire, directed by E. Elias Merhige which depicts the filming of the 1922 silent movie also takes place in Wismar. Twin towns