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Berlin ( /bɜrˈlɪn/; German pronunciation: [bɛɐ̯ˈliːn] ( listen)) is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.5 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city and is the second most populous city...
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Hertha Berliner Sport-Club von 1892, commonly known as Hertha BSC or Hertha Berlin, is a German association football club based in Berlin. A founding member of the German Football Association in Leipzig in 1900, the club has a long history as Berlin...
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Alba Berlin is a prominent German professional basketball club that is based in Berlin, Germany. The club, sponsored by the Berlin-based recycling firm ALBA since 1991, is also known as the Berlin Albatrosse. The team plays its home games at the O2...
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Konrad Zuse (German pronunciation: [ˈkɔnʁat ˈtsuːzə]; 1910–1995) was a German civil engineer and computer pioneer. His greatest achievement was the world's first functional program-controlled Turing-complete computer, the Z3, which became...
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Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin (German pronunciation: [ˈvaltɐ ˈbɛnjamiːn]; 15 July 1892 – 26 September 1940) was a German-Jewish literary critic, philosopher, social critic, translator, radio broadcaster and essayist. Combining elements of German...
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Friedrich (Frederick) Salomon Perls (July 8 1893, Berlin – March 14, 1970, Chicago), better known as Fritz Perls, was a noted German-born psychiatrist and psychotherapist of Jewish descent.
Perls coined the term 'Gestalt therapy' to identify the...
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| x Klaus Voormann |
Klaus Voormann (born 29 April 1938) is a German Grammy Award-winning artist, noted musician, and record producer. He designed artwork for many bands including The Beatles, The Bee Gees, Wet Wet Wet and Turbonegro. His most notable work as a producer...
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| x Felice Schragenheim |
Felice Rahel Schragenheim (March 9, 1922, Berlin - December 31, 1944, Bergen, Germany) was a Jewish resistance fighter during World War II. She is known for her tragic love story with Lilly Wust and death during a march from Gross-Rosen...
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Harry Benjamin (January 12, 1885 – August 24, 1986) was a German endocrinologist, widely known for his clinical work with transsexualism. He was raised in an observant Ashkenazy Jewish home.
Benjamin was born in Berlin, received his doctorate in...
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| x Robert Kuczynski |
Robert René Kuczynski (1876–1947) was a German-based, Jewish economist and demographer and is said to be one of the founders of modern vital statistics. He studied at the universities of Berlin, Munich, Freiburg and Strasburg and made his doctoral...
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| x Hannelore Kohl |
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Hannelore Kohl (March 7, 1933, Berlin – July 5, 2001) was the wife of former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. She met him for the first time at a prom in Ludwigshafen, Germany, when she was 15 years old.
She was born in Berlin and was christened...
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| x Willi Stoph |
Willi Stoph (German pronunciation: [ˈvɪli ˈʃtoːf]; 9 July 1914 – 13 April 1999) was an East German politician. He served as Prime Minister (Chairman of the Council of Ministers) of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) from 1964 to 1973, and...
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| x Otto Devrient |
Otto Devrient (born 3 October 1838 in Berlin; † 23 June 1894 in Stettin) was a German actor and playwright.
Devrient was the son of Philipp Eduard Devrient. He first went on stage in 1856, training in Stuttgart, Berlin and Leipzig. In 1863, he...
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| x Alfred Wegener |
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Alfred Lothar Wegener (November 1, 1880 – November 1930) was a German polar researcher, geophysicist and meteorologist.
During his lifetime he was primarily known for his achievements in meteorology and as a pioneer of polar research, but today he...
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| x Christine Errath |
Christine Errath (born 29 December 1956 in Berlin, Germany) is a German figure skater who represented East Germany in competition. She is the 1976 Olympic bronze medalist.
Errath skated for the club SC Dynamo Berlin where she was coached by Inge...
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| x Manuela Groß |
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Manuela Groß (born 29 January 1957 in Berlin, East Germany) is a German pair skater. With partner Uwe Kagelmann, she is a two-time Olympic bronze medalist. She later became a figure skating coach.
Manuela Groß began figure skating in Berlin. She was...
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| x Carolina Michaëlis de Vasconcellos |
Carolina Michaëlis de Vasconcelos, born Karoline Michaelis (March 15, 1851 - November 18, 1925) was a German-Portuguese romanist.
She was born in Berlin as the last of five children of Gustav Michaelis, a mathematics teacher. In 1876 she married...
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| x Drafi Deutscher |
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Drafi Deutscher (9 May 1946 – 9 June 2006) was a German singer and composer of Sinti origin.
He was born Drafi Franz Richard Deutscher in Berlin. His best known song was the 1965 Schlager "Marmor, Stein und Eisen bricht" ("Marble, Stone and Iron...
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| x Werner Rittberger |
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Werner Rittberger (born 14 July 1891 in Berlin, Germany; † 12 August 1975 in Krefeld, Germany) was a German figure skater.
Rittberger invented the Loop jump in 1910. German (and most other European) figure skaters call this jump “Rittberger”....
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| x Norman Jeschke |
Norman Jeschke (born March 2, 1979 in Berlin, Germany) is a German pair skater.
He began skating as a single skater, but later switched to pair skating.
With partner Christine Tiltmann, he is the 1997 German junior national champion.
After that...
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| x Claus Moser, Baron Moser |
Claus Adolf Moser, Baron Moser, KCB, CBE (born 24 November 1922 in Berlin, Germany) is a British statistician who has made major contributions in both academia and the Civil Service. He prides himself rather on being a non-mathematical statistician,...
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| x Nastassja Kinski |
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Nastassja Kinski (born 24 January 1961) is a German-born American-based actress who has appeared in more than 60 films. Her starring roles include her Golden Globe Award-winning portrayal of the title character in Tess and her roles in two erotic...
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| x Marlene Dietrich |
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Marlene Dietrich (German pronunciation: [maɐˈleːnə ˈdiːtʁɪç]; 27 December 1901 – 6 May 1992) was a German-American actress and singer.
Dietrich remained popular throughout her long career by continually re-inventing herself, professionally and...
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| x Herbert Marcuse |
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Herbert Marcuse (German pronunciation: [maʁˈkuːzə]; July 19, 1898 – July 29, 1979) was a German Jewish philosopher, sociologist and political theorist, associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory. Active in the United States after 1934,...
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| x Hartmut Mehdorn |
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Hartmut Mehdorn (born 31 July 1942 in Warsaw) is a German manager and current in the supervisory board of Air Berlin, until May 2009: CEO of Deutsche Bahn AG.
After studying mechanical engineering in Berlin, he joined the construction development...
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| x Alfred Schmidt |
Alfred Schmidt (born May 19, 1931 in Berlin) is a German philosopher.
Schmidt studied at first history and English and classical philology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt and later philosophy and sociology. He was a student of...
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| x Frederick II of Prussia |
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Frederick II (German: Friedrich II.; 24 January 1712 – 17 August 1786) was a King in Prussia (1740–1772) and a King of Prussia (1772–1786) from the Hohenzollern dynasty. In his role as a prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire, he was also Elector...
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| x René Lohse |
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René Lohse (born September 23, 1973 in Berlin, Germany) is a German ice dancer. With partner Kati Winkler, he is the 2004 World bronze medalist.
René Lohse is the son of Michael and Alrun Lohse. He has one brother Rico and one sister Romy. He...
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| x Julius Klaproth |
Julius Heinrich Klaproth (1783–1835), German linguist, historian, ethnographer, author, Orientalist and explorer. As a scholar, he is credited along with Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat, with being instrumental in turning East Asian Studies into scientific...
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| x Theodor Plievier |
Theodor Otto Richard Plievier (until 1933: Plivier) (February 12, 1892 in Berlin – March 12, 1955 in Avegno, Switzerland) was the German author of Stalingrad, (1945), Moscow (1952) and Berlin (1954).
Plievier was born in Berlin in 1892. During...
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| x Tanja Kolbe |
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Tanja Kolbe (born 7 September 1990 in Berlin) is a German ice dancer. She currently competes with Stefano Caruso for Germany. They are the 2012 German silver medalists.
From 2003 to 2006, Kolbe competed with Paul Boll. In 2006, she teamed up with...
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| x Louise-Rosalie Lefebvre |
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Louise-Rosalie Lefebvre (18 June 1755 – 22 September 1821), also known as Madame Dugazon, was a French operatic mezzo-soprano, actress and dancer.
Born in Berlin as the daughter of a dancing master at the court of Frederick II of Prussia, she...
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| x Erich Hückel |
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Erich Armand Arthur Joseph Hückel (August 9, 1896, Berlin – February 16, 1980, Marburg) was a German physicist and physical chemist. He is known for two major contributions:
Hückel was born in the Charlottenburg suburb of Berlin. He studied physics...
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| x Walter Gropius |
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Walter Adolph Georg Gropius (May 18, 1883 – July 5, 1969) was a German architect and founder of the Bauhaus School who, along with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer, is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of...
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| x Dora Gerson |
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Dora Gerson (March 23, 1899 – February 14, 1943) was a Jewish German cabaret singer and motion picture actress of the silent film era who was murdered with her family at Auschwitz concentration camp.
Born Dorothea Gerson in Berlin, Germany, Gerson...
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| x Anaid Iplicjian |
Anaid Iplicjian (b. October 24, 1935 in Berlin, Germany) is a German actress. Her family is from Armenia. After studying at the Mozarteum Academy in Salzburg she has been a member of the Graz (Austria), Wiesbaden, the State Theatre Hannover and the...
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| x Wilhelm Von Homburg |
Wilhelm von Homburg (born Norbert Grupe; August 25, 1940 – March 10, 2004) was a German wrestler, boxer, and film actor known for his portrayal of Vigo the Carpathian in the film Ghostbusters II (1989).
Homburg was born in Berlin in 1940. As Allied...
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| x Christian Berkel |
Christian Berkel (born October 28, 1957) is a German actor.
Berkel was born in Berlin, Germany. His father was a military doctor and his mother came from a Jewish German family.
From the age of 14 he lived in Paris where he took drama lessons with...
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| x Conrad Veidt |
Conrad Veidt (22 January 1893 – 3 April 1943) was a German actor best remembered for his roles in films such as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919), The Man Who Laughs (1928), The Thief of Bagdad (1940) and Casablanca (1942). After a successful...
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| x Anja Jaenicke |
Anja Jaenicke (b. October 9, 1963 in Berlin, Germany) is a German actress working mostly for German television and film. She is C.E.O. of her own company HIQ-MEDIA-POOL INC. and writes poems,novels and screenplays. Anja, who fluently speaks four...
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| x August Diehl |
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August Diehl (born 4 January 1976) is a German actor, primarily known to international audiences for playing SS-Sturmbannführer Dieter Hellstrom in Inglourious Basterds and Michael "Mike" Krause, Evelyn Salt's husband, in the movie Salt, as well as...
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| x Alexandra Neldel |
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Alexandra Monika Neldel (born 11 February 1976) is a German actress from Berlin.
Neldel worked as a dental assistant before she was discovered by the boss of a Berlin casting agency during a polo competition. He helped her audition for daily soap...
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| x Heike Faber |
Heike Faber (b. 5 May 1965 in Berlin, Germany) is a German television actress.
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| x Dana Wynter |
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Dana Wynter (8 June 1931 – 5 May 2011) was a German-born British actress, who was brought up in England and Southern Africa. She appeared in film and television for more than forty years beginning in the 1950s, most notably in the original version...
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| x Maxi Biewer |
Maxi Biewer (born 24 May 1964 in Berlin, East Germany) is a German actress who attained online celebrity status with her laughing fit while presenting a weather report for RTL News.
Biewer moved to West Berlin from East Berlin in 1989, having...
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| x Ursula Pearson |
Ursula Pearson Bellah (1929–2006) was a German-born, American actress, author, and businesswoman, most famous for her role of Hilda in Teenagers From Outer Space and her autobiographical perspective on Nazi Germany Surviving the Judas Factor: A...
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| x Dominic Monaghan |
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Dominic Bernard Patrick Luke Monaghan ( /ˈdɒmɨnɨk ˈmɒnəhæn/; born 8 December 1976) is a German-born English actor. He has received international attention from playing Meriadoc Brandybuck in Peter Jackson's adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord...
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| x Andreas Wisniewski |
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Andreas Wisniewski (born July 3, 1959) is a German actor and former dancer.
Wisniewski was born in Berlin, Germany, to a Polish father and a German mother and spent the early part of his life dancing before turning to acting. Wisniewski made his big...
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| x Peter Fricke |
Peter Fricke (born 26 August 1939 in Berlin, Germany) is a German television actor.
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| x Rolf Schimpf |
Rolf Schimpf (b. 14 November 1924 in Berlin, Germany) is a German television actor.
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| x Jürgen Prochnow |
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Jürgen Prochnow (IPA: [ˈjʏɐɡən ˈpʁɔxnoː]; born 10 June 1941) is a German actor. His most well-known roles internationally have been as the sympathetic submarine captain in Das Boot (1981), Duke Leto Atreides I in Dune (1984), the minor, but...
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| x Lena Stolze |
Lena Stolze (b. August 8, 1956 in Berlin, Germany) is a German television and film actress.
Lena Stolze's father is Gerhard Stolze, a tenor, and her mother is the actress Gabi Stolze. In 1961, the family moved from East Germany to Vienna.
Lena...
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| x Claus Theo Gärtner |
Claus Theo Gärtner (born April 19, 1943) in Berlin, Germany is a German television actor mainly known for his role as Josef Matula, the main character in the German detective show series Ein Fall für Zwei (A Case For Two).
Gärtner spent his youth in...
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| x Hans-Jürgen Schatz |
Hans-Jürgen Schatz (b. October 10, 1958 in Berlin, Germany) is a German television actor.
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| x Christina Plate |
Christina Plate (b. 21 April 1965 in Berlin, Germany) is a German actress. She has appeared in many German films, TV movies, and TV series.
Plate won a Bambi in 1988. In 2009, she married German television presenter Oliver Geissen. Together they...
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