- Irving Berlin
Irving Berlin (May 11, 1888 - September 22, 1989) was an American composer and lyricist, one of the most prodigious and famous American songwriters in history. Berlin was one of the few Tin Pan Alley/Broadway songwriters who wrote both lyrics and music for his songs. Although he never learned to read music beyond a rudimentary level, he composed over 3,000 songs, many of which ("God Bless America", "White Christmas", "Alexander's Ragtime Band", … - Jeannie Berlin
Jeannie Berlin (born November 1, 1949) is an Oscar-nominated American actress. Berlin was born in Los Angeles, California to screenwriter/playwright Elaine May. May directed her daughter in the 1972 film "The Heartbreak Kid", which garnered Berlin Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations. She made her Broadway theatre debut in May's play "After the Night and the Music" in 2005. - Eddie Berlin
Edward Walton Berlin (born January 14, 1978 in Urbandale, Iowa) is an American football wide receiver, currently a free agent the NFL. He was originally drafted by the Tennessee Titans in the fifth round of the 2001 NFL Draft out of the University of Northern Iowa. He played for the Chicago Bears in 2005. - Arnold Reisman
Arnold Reisman (born August 2, 1934) is an American engineer, historian and author living in Shaker Heights, Ohio. Arnold Reisman was born in Lodz, Poland, in 1934. He came to the United States after World War II and graduated from New York's Stuyvesant Height School of Math and Science in 1951. He received his BS, MS, and PhD degrees in engineering from University of California, Los Angeles. He is a registered Professional Engineer in California, Wisconsin, and Ohio, … - Ben Kamprath
Building better experiences through engaging design. We make it curve with style... - Seiji Ozawa
is a Japanese conductor, particularly noted for his interpretations of large-scale late Romantic works. - Christopher Abraham
I am a PR and marketing guy by day and a river rat by night. - Bruno Walter
Bruno Walter (Bruno Walter Schlesinger) (September 15, 1876 - February 17, 1962) was a German-born conductor and composer. He was born in Berlin, but moved to several countries between 1933 and 1939, finally settling in the United States in 1939. He began using Walter as his surname in 1896, and officially upon naturalising to Austria in 1911. - Nina Hagen
Nina Hagen (born Catharina Hagen on March 11, 1955) is a singer from Berlin, Germany. - Hans Joachim Roedelius
Hans-Joachim Roedelius is a German experimental / ambient / electronic musician. He is known as a co-founder of the German krautrock group "Cluster". - Alexander Goehr
Alexander Goehr (born 10 August, 1932 in Berlin) is an English composer and academic. He was born in Berlin, the son of Walter Goehr. He studied at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester (1952-55) where he met Peter Maxwell Davies, Harrison Birtwistle, John Ogdon and Elgar Howarth. Together they formed New Music Manchester, a group dedicated to performances of contemporary music. In 1956 he went to Paris to study with Olivier Messiaen at the Conservatoire, … - Rudy Boschwitz
Rudolph Ely "Rudy" Boschwitz is a former Independent-Republican United States Senator from Minnesota. He served in the Senate from December 1978 to January 1991, in the 96th, 97th, 98th, 99th, 100th, and 101st congresses. He was then defeated by Paul Wellstone. Boschwitz was born in Berlin, Germany, November 7, 1930. Though in 1933, when he was only three years old, his family fled Nazi Germany. They settled in New Rochelle, New York, where he grew up. - Siegfried Landau
Siegfried Landau (September 4 1921 - 20 February 2007) was a German-born American conductor. Landau was born in Berlin, the son of Ezekiel Landau, an Orthodox rabbi, and Helen (Grynberg) Landau. He studied at the Stern and Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatories in Germany. His family fled the impending Holocaust to London in 1939. - Francis Wolff
Francis Wolff (born 1907 or 1908 in Berlin, Germany-died March 8, 1971 in New York City, United States of America) was a record company executive, photographer and record producer. After a career as a commercial photographer in Germany, Wolff emigrated to the United States in 1939. In New York his childhood friend Alfred Lion, had co-founded Blue Note Records in the same year, and Wolff joined Lion in running the company. - Florian Knorn
Florian Knorn is a German voice artist and actor. =Curriculum Vitae= Florian Knorn grew up in Eichwalde, a suburb of Berlin, Germany. He went to the bilingual high school "Französisches Gymnasium Berlin" (or "Collège français") where he passed both the Abitur (German high school diploma) and the Baccalauréat (French high school diploma). In 1998/1999 he went on a student exchange year with the American Field Service (AFS) to Little River, … - Harry M. Rosenfeld
Harry M. Rosenfeld (born circa 1928) is an American newspaper editor, who was the editor in charge of local news at "The Washington Post" during the Watergate scandal who oversaw the newspaper's coverage of Watergate and resisted efforts by the paper's national reporters to take over the story. Though "Post" editor-in-chief Benjamin C. Bradlee gets most of the credit, … - Anson Burlingame
Anson Burlingame (November 14, 1820 - February 23, 1870) was an American lawyer, legislator, and diplomat, born in New Berlin, Chenango County, New York. In 1823 his parents (Joel Burlingame and Freelove Angell) took him to Ohio, and about ten years afterwards to Michigan. Between 1838 and 1841 he studied at the Detroit branch of the University of Michigan, and in 1846 graduated from Harvard Law School. On June 3, 1847 he married Jane Cornelia Livermore. - Lollies In Berlin
I am BETHANIE. - Jacques Urlus
Jacques Urlus (* January 6 1867 in Hergenrath, near Aachen, † June 6 1935 in Noordwijk, Netherlands, was a Dutch dramatic tenor. - Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Florian Maria Georg Christian Graf Henckel von Donnersmarck (b. May 2 1973, Cologne) is an Academy Award-winning Austrian-German director and screenwriter. - Steven Berlin Johnson
Steven Berlin Johnson (born June 6, 1968) is an American popular science author. He has worked as a columnist for "Discover Magazine", "Slate", "Wired" and others. He is a Distinguished Writer In Residence at New York University and he co-founded the early webzine Feed Magazine in 1995. - Ronald Reagan
Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 - June 5, 2004) was the 40th President of the United States (1981-1989) and the 33rd Governor of California (1967-1975). Reagan was born in Illinois, but moved to Hollywood in the 1930s, where he starred in numerous "B" movies and became President of the Screen Actors Guild. He was a prominent Democrat who supported the New Deal Coalition in the 1940s, and was a leading opponent of Communism in Hollywood. - Adam Berlin
- Josef Joffe
Josef Joffe (born March 15, 1944) is editor and publisher of "Die Zeit", a weekly German newspaper, the Marc and Anita Abramowitz Fellow in International Relations at the Hoover Institution, a fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and adjunct professor of political science at Stanford University, and an associate of the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University. Joffe was born in Lithuania and grew up in West Berlin, … - Berlin Over Berlin
- Berlin Fall Of Berlin
- Berlin Over Berlin
- Burning Down Berlin
- Walter Schreiber
Dr Walter Paul Emil Schreiber was a German military officer and brigadier-general ("generalarzt") of the Medical Service of the Wehrmacht. Schreiber was born in Berlin to Paul Schreiber (a postal inspector) and his wife Gertrud Kettlitz. After completing gymnasium in Berlin, he studied medicine at the university in Berlin, Tübingen und Greifswald. In 1914, he enlisted voluntarily for military service and served with the 42nd Infantry Regiment in France. - Ollie Harrington
Oliver Wendell Harrington, of multi-ethnic descent, is considered by many to be the greatest African-American cartoonist. An outspoken advocate against racism and for civil rights in the United States, Harrington lived in East Berlin for the last three decades of his life. - Ulrich K. Preuss
Ulrich K. Preuß teaches Theories of the State at the Hertie School of Governance. He holds a PhD from Gießen University and worked as Professor for Public Law at the University of Bremen from 1972 to 1996. Since 1996, Preuß has been a Professor of Public Law and Politics at the Freie Universität Berlin. In 1989/90, he co-authored the draft of the constitution as a participant of the Round Table of the German Democratic Republic, … - Brian Eno
Brian Eno (born Brian Peter George Eno on 15 May 1948 in Woodbridge, Suffolk) is an English electronic musician, music theorist and record producer. As a solo artist, he is probably best known as the father of modern ambient music, though he is also a highly celebrated record producer. With an art school background and inspiration from minimalism, … - Francis Wayland Parker
Francis Wayland Parker was a pioneer of the progressive school movement in the United States. He believed that education should include the complete development of an individual — mental, physical, and moral. John Dewey called him the "father of progressive education." Parker was born in Bedford, New Hampshire in Hillsborough County. He was educated in the public schools and began his career as a village teacher in New Hampshire at age 16. In August 1861, … - Bai Ling
Bai Ling (born October 10 1961) is a Chinese actress who has also attained fame in the United States. Bai, her surname, literally means "white". Ling, a common Chinese given name, means clever. - Doris Allen
Doris Twitchell Allen, was Professor Emerita of Psychology at the University of Cincinnati (USA) and a retired clinical psychologist specializing in development and psychodrama. After receiving degrees in Chemistry and Biology at the University of Maine, she was granted a PhD in Psychology at the University of Michigan, and completed her post-graduate study at the Psychological Institute, University of Berlin, in 1932. - George Sylvester Viereck
George Sylvester Viereck (December 31 1884 in Munich, died March 18 1962) was a German-American poet, writer, and propagandist. His father, Louis, born out of wedlock to German actress Edwina Viereck, was reputed to be a son of Kaiser Wilhelm I, although another relative of the Hohenzollern family assumed legal paternity. Louis in the 1870s joined the Marxist socialist movement, and in 1896 emigrated to the United States, … - Alfred Newman
Alfred Newman (March 17, 1900 - February 17, 1970) was a major American composer of music for films. His birth year is commonly mistakenly given as 1901. He received 45 Academy Award nominations (a record in the music categories, now shared with John Williams), winning 9 times; in 1940 he was nominated for 4 different films. Between 1938 and 1957, he was nominated an incredible twenty years in a row. - Nikolay Ivanovich Pirogov
Nikolay Ivanovich Pirogov (November 13 (N.S. November 25), 1810-November 23 (N.S. December 5), 1881) was a prominent Russian and Ukrainian scientist, doctor, pedagogue, public figure, and corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1847). He is considered to be the founder of field surgery, and was one of the first surgeons in Europe to use ether as an anaesthetic. He was the first surgeon to use anaesthesia in a field operation (1847), … - Herbert Deinert
Herbert Deinert is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of German Studies, Cornell University. He is a noted scholar focusing on German literature and intellectual history since the time of Martin Luther. His early work centered on the influence of Rilke on music but later focused on the works of Goethe, Faust, Hesse, Kafka, Mann, Brecht. More recently he has helped to understand the influence of Protestantism on Germany directly after the fall of the Berlin Wall. - Bernhard Weiss
Bernhard Weiss was a German Protestant New Testament scholar. Weiss was born at Königsberg. After studying theology at Königsberg, Halle and Berlin, he became professor extraordinarius at Königsberg in 1852, and afterwards professor ordinarius at Berlin. In 1880 he was made superior consistorial councillor. An opponent of the Tübingen School, he published a number of important works, which are well known to students in Great Britain and America.
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