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Berlin (English pronunciation: /bərˈlɪn/; German pronunciation: [bɛɐˈliːn] ( listen)) is the capital city and one of sixteen states of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the...
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| x Hertha BSC Berlin |
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Hertha Berliner Sport-Club von 1892 (commonly known as Hertha BSC or Hertha Berlin) is a German 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's best...
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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 (pronounced [ˈkɔnʁat ˈtsuːzə]; 22 June 1910 Berlin - 18 December 1995 Hünfeld) was a German engineer and computer pioneer. His greatest achievement was the world's first functional program-controlled Turing-complete computer, the Z3, in...
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| x Walter Benjamin |
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Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin (15 July 1892 – 27 September 1940) was a German-Jewish Marxist philosopher-sociologist, literary critic, translator and essayist. He was at times associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory. His Marxism...
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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.
He coined the term 'Gestalt Therapy' for the approach to...
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| x Klaus Voormann |
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Klaus Voormann (born 29 April 1938) is a German artist, musician, and record producer known for his long association with The Beatles, for whom he designed the cover of their album Revolver. He also is known for being the bassist with the British...
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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 WWII. She is known for her tragic love story with Lilly Wust and death during a march from Gross-Rosen concentration camp...
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Harry Benjamin (January 12, 1885 – August 24, 1986) was a German endocrinologist, widely known for his clinical work with transsexualism.
Benjamin was born in Berlin, received his doctorate in medicine in 1912 in Tübingen for a dissertation on...
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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 – July 5, 2001) was the wife of former German Chancellor Dr. 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 Eleonore...
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| x Willi Stoph |
Willi Stoph (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 again from 1976 until 1989.
Born in...
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| x Otto Devrient |
Otto Devrient (born October 3, 1838 in Berlin; † June 23, 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 (1 November 1880 – November 1930) was a German scientist, geologist, and meteorologist.
He is most notable for his theory of continental drift (Kontinentalverschiebung), proposed in 1915, which hypothesized that the continents...
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| x Christine Errath |
Christine Errath (born December 29, 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 January 29, 1957 in Berlin, East Germany/GDR) is a German figure skater, two-time Olympic pair skating bronze medalist, and figure skating coach.
Manuela Groß began figure skating in Berlin. She was paired with Uwe Kagelmann. They...
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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 (born 9 May 1946 as Drafi Franz Richard Deutscher in Berlin; died 9 June 2006 in Frankfurt am Main) was a German singer and composer of Romani/Sinti ("Gypsy") heritage. His best known song was the 1965 Schlager Marmor, Stein und...
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| x Werner Rittberger |
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Werner Rittberger (born 14 July 1891 in Berlin, Germany; † 1975 in Krefeld, Germany) was a German figure skater.
Rittberger invented the Loop jump in 1910. German figure skaters call this jump “Rittberger”.
Rittberger won the German Nationals eleven...
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| x Norman Jeschke |
Norman Jeschke (born March 2, 1979 in Berlin, Germany) is a German figure 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 November 24, 1922 in Berlin) 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, and...
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| x Nastassja Kinski |
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Nastassja Kinski (born Nastassja Aglaia Nakszyński, born 1961) is a German actress, who has appeared in more than 60 international movies. Her starring roles include her Golden Globe Award-winning portrayal of the title character in Roman Polanski's...
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| x Marlene Dietrich |
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Marlene Dietrich (German pronunciation: [maɐˈleːnə ˈdiːtrɪç]; 27 December 1901 – 6 May 1992) was a German-born American actress and singer.
Dietrich remained popular throughout her long career by continually re-inventing herself. In 1920s Berlin,...
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| x Herbert Marcuse |
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Herbert Marcuse (German pronunciation: [marˈkuːzə]) (July 19, 1898 – July 29, 1979) was a German-Jewish philosopher, political theorist and sociologist, and a member of the Frankfurt School. Celebrated as the "Father of the New Left," his best known...
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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 in Berlin – 17 August 1786 in Potsdam) was a King of Prussia (1740–1786) from the Hohenzollern dynasty. In his role as a prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire, he was Frederick IV (Friedrich IV...
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| x René Lohse |
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René Lohse (born September 23, 1973 in Berlin, Germany) is a German figure skater and specialized in ice dancing.
René Lohse was a team in ice dancing with Kati Winkler. They won the bronze medal at the World championships in ice dancing in 2004....
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| x Julius Klaproth |
Julius Heinrich Klaproth (1783-1835), German linguist, historian, ethnographer, author, Orientalist and explorer. As 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 Sascha Rabe. They teamed up in 2006. From 2003 to 2006, Kolbe competed with Paul Boll.
(with Sascha Rabe)
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| x Louise-Rosalie Lefebvre |
Louise-Rosalie Lefebvre, also known as Madame Dugazon (June 18, 1755 - September 22, 1821), 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 - February 16, 1980) 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 and mathematics...
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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 and Le Corbusier, is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modern architecture....
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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 killed 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 Croatia. She was the presenter of the Eurovision Song Contest 1957.
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| x Wilhelm Von Homburg |
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Wilhelm von Homburg (born Norbert Grupe; August 25, 1940 – March 10, 2004) was a German wrestler, boxer, and film actor most noted for his portrayal of Vigo the Carpathian in the 1989 film Ghostbusters II.
Homburg was born in the German capital...
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| x Christian Berkel |
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Christian Berkel (born October 28, 1957) is a German actor.
Berkel was born in Berlin, Germany. His father was a military doctor.
From the age of 14 he lived in Paris where he took drama lessons with Jean-Louis Barrault and Pierre Berlin. He then...
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| x Conrad Veidt |
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Conrad Veidt (22 January 1893 – 3 April 1943) was a German actor best remembered for his films roles, such as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919), The Thief of Bagdad (1940) and Casablanca (1942). He also served as inspiration for the supervillain...
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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. She currently lives in France.
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| x August Diehl |
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August Diehl (born 4 January 1976) is a German actor, best known for playing the suspicious Gestapo Sturmbannführer Dieter Hellstrom in Inglourious Basterds.
Diehl was born in Berlin. His father is actor Hans Diehl, his mother is a costume designer...
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| x Alexandra Neldel |
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Alexandra 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 opera...
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| x Heike Faber |
Heike Faber (b. May 5, 1965 in Berlin, Germany) is a German television actress.
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| x Dana Wynter |
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Dana Wynter (born Dagmar Winter; 8 June, 1931) is a German-born American actress, who was brought up in England and Southern Africa. She appeared in film and television for more than four decades beginning in the 1950s, most notably in the original...
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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 |
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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 (born 8 December 1976) is an English actor. He has received international attention from playing Merry in Peter Jackson's adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and for his role as Charlie Pace...
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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, and spent the early part of his life dancing before turning to acting. Wisniewski made his big-screen debut in Gothic (1986), a film...
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| x Peter Fricke |
Peter Fricke (b. August 26, 1939 in Berlin, Germany) is a German television actor.
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| x Rolf Schimpf |
Rolf Schimpf (b. November 14, 1924 in Berlin, Germany) is a German television actor.
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| x Jürgen Prochnow |
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Jürgen Prochnow ([IPA: 'jʏɐgən 'pʀɔxnoː]; born June 10, 1941) is a German actor. His most well-known roles internationally have been as the submarine captain (based on Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock) in Das Boot (1981), Duke Leto Atreides in Dune ...
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| x Lena Stolze |
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Lena Stolze (b. August 8, 1956 in Berlin, Germany) is a German television and film actress.
Lena Stolze is best known for playing Sophie Scholl in Fünf letzte Tage and Die Weiße Rose (Both 1982).
She and Julia Jentsch both won the Film Award in Gold...
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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.
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