Totally German '80s by BruceM

In the movie The NeverEnding Story, what child warrior of the Plains people, and hunter of purple buffalo, is sent on a quest to find a cure for the empress's illness?

(Incidentally, a theatrical return of that movie inspired the writing of this quiz.)

Which Christian Democrat served as chancellor of West Germany for eight years and of a unified Germany for eight more?

Conversely, what successor to Walter Ulbricht led East Germany from 1971 until right before the fall of the Berlin Wall?

What fictitious TV show was the basis of several Saturday Night Live sketches featuring Mike Myers as Dieter and a monkey named Klaus?

Which band released the album Electric Cafe in 1986? A sped-up version of the title track was the theme song for the sketch in the previous question; that track was never released as a single, but "Musique Non-Stop" was.

Which country was eliminated from the 1982 World Cup as a result of West Germany's controversial 1-0 win over Austria? This team had beaten Germany in the first match of Group 2, but the aforementioned "non-aggression pact" game assured that this country would have the worst goal differential in a circle of death with West Germany and Austria.

What amateur pilot flew a Cessna over the skies of Moscow and landed near Red Square in May 1987?

Georg Bednorz shared a Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering that what phenomenon could take place in lanthanum barium copper oxide, at the "high temperature" of 35 Kelvin?

Who wrote the travel diary Show Your Tongue, about a few months spent in Calcutta?

What song begins with the lyrics:

You said you didn't need her
You told her goodbye
You sacrificed a good love
To satisfy your pride

This song was not actually performed by the Munich pop duo under whose name it was released, but it was the antepenultimate Billboard U.S. #1 hit of the 1980s.

Which Nazi war criminal is name-checked, immediately before the Bay of Pigs invasion, in the Billy Joel song "We Didn't Start the Fire" (the penultimate Billboard U.S. #1 hit of the 1980s)?

Either of two answers is acceptable. Name either the 1987 Wim Wenders film about an angel who falls in love with a human -- remade in the U.S. as City of Angels -- or the American actor who plays himself in that movie and also appears in the 1987 movie The Princess Bride.