- Richard Wagner
Wilhelm Richard Wagner (22 May 1813 - 13 February 1883) was a German composer, conductor, music theorist, and essayist, primarily known for his operas (or "music dramas" as they were later called). Unlike most other great opera composers, Wagner always wrote the scenario and libretto for his works himself. Wagner's compositions, particularly those of his later period, are notable for their contrapuntal texture, rich chromaticism, harmonies and orchestration, … - Christian Ude
Christian Ude is the current mayor of Munich. He is a member of the German Social Democratic Party. Additionally, he is a member of the board of directors of the football (AE: soccer) club TSV 1860 München. After his career as a journalist and lawyer, he was elected as second mayor of Munich on May 2 1990. On September 12 1993, he was elected as lord mayor and successor of Georg Kronawitter. - Waltraud Meier
Waltraud Meier is a Grammy-award winning German mezzo-soprano. She is particularly known for her Wagnerian roles as Kundry, Isolde, Ortrud, Venus and Sieglinde, but has also had success in the French and Italian repertoire appearing as Eboli, Amneris, Carmen and Santuzza. She resides in Munich. Meier has performed in the world’s famed opera houses (including La Scala, Covent Garden, Metropolitan Opera, the Vienna State Opera, the Bavarian State Opera, … - Helmut Panke
Helmut Panke was Chairman of the Board of Management of BMW AG, Munich, between 2002 and September 2006. Panke was Chairman of the Board of Management of BMW AG, Munich, between 2002 and September 2006. He has been with the company since 1982, when he joined as head of Planning and Controlling in the Research and Development Division. He has been with the company since 1982, when he joined as head of Planning and Controlling in the Research and Development Division. - Frank Duveneck
Frank Duveneck was an American figure and portrait painter. Duveneck was born in Covington, Kentucky, and by the age of fifteen had begun the study of art under the tutelage of a local painter, Johann Schmitt. In 1869 he went abroad to study with Wilhelm von Diez and Wilhelm Leibl at the Royal Academy of Münich, where he learned a dark, realistic and direct style of painting. He subsequently became one of the young American painters - others were William Merritt Chase, … - Christian Morgenstern
Christian Morgenstern (May 6, 1871-March 31, 1914) was a German author and poet. Morgenstern's poetry, much of which was inspired by English nonsense rhymes, is immensely popular, even though he enjoyed very little success during his lifetime. He made fun of scholasticism, e.g. literary criticism in "Drei Hasen", grammar in "Der Werwolf", narrow-mindedness in "Der Gaul", and symbolism in "Der Wasseresel". - Max Slevogt
Max Slevogt (born October 8, 1868 in Landshut, Germany - died September 20, 1932 in Rhenish Palatinate, Germany) was a German painter of the Impressionism who specialized on landscapes. Slevogt held a unique position in the field of landscape painting. Together with Lovis Corinth and Max Liebermann he was one of the last representatives of the Freilichtmalerei (Pleinairmalerei) style. - Karim Saidi
Karim Saidi is a Tunisian football player currently playing for Feyenoord Rotterdam. He is a regular in the Tunisian national team. When Karim was 10 years old he joined Club Africain, one of the major clubs in Tunisia. He made his debut in the Tunisian national team against Morocco in 2003. In 2004 the right-footed defender moved to Feyenoord Rotterdam after advice from his friend Hatem Trabelsi and signed a contract till 2008. - Antonio Ribeiro
Antonio Ribeiro (born October 8, 1980 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a Canadian soccer player, currently playing for the Montreal Impact. Antonio began his soccer career with the Montreal Impact in 2000, but didn't play a major role with the Impact that year. In 2002 he was released by the Impact and signed with Panellinios winning the Canadian national championship title at the senior amateur level in 2002. - Erik Werenskiold
Erik Theodor Werenskiold was a Norwegian painter and illustrator. He is especially known for his drawings for the Asbjørnsen and Moe collection of Norske Folkeeventyr, and his illustrations for the Norwegian edition of the Snorri Sturlason "Heimskringla". Erik Werenskiold grew up in Kongsvinger, and started his studies in 1872. Based on advice from the painter Adolph Tidemand, he attended a college for painters, … - Charles Secretan
Charles Secretan was a Swiss philosopher born on January 19, 1815 in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he also died on January 21, 1895. Educated in his native town and later under Friedrich Schelling in Münich, he became a professor of philosophy at Lausanne (1838 to 1846), and later at Neuchâtel. In 1866 he returned to his old position at Lausanne. In 1837 he founded, and for a time edited, "The Revue Suisse". The object of his writing was to build up a rational, … - Heinrich von Gagern
Heinrich Wilhelm August Freiherr von Gagern statesman who argued for the unification of Germany. The third son of Hans Christoph Ernst, Baron von Gagern,a liberal statesman from Hesse, was born at Bayreuth, educated at the military academy at Münich, and, as an officer in the service of the duke of Nassau, fought at Waterloo. Leaving the service after the war, he studied jurisprudence at Heidelberg, Göttingen and Jena where he became member of the Urburschenschaft, … - John Joseph Enneking
John Joseph Enneking was an American landscape painter born of German ancestry in Minster, Ohio on 4 October 1841. He was educated at Mount St. Mary's College, Cincinnati, served in the American Civil War in 1861-1862, studied art in New York and Boston, and gave it up because his eyes were weak, only to return to it after failing in the manufacture of tinware. From 1873 to 1876 he studied in Münich under Schleich and Leier, … - Georg von Reichenbach
Georg von Reichenbach was a German astronomical instrument maker born at Durlach in Baden on 24 August 1771. From 1796 he was occupied with the construction of a dividing engine; in 1804, with Joseph Liebherr and Joseph Utzschneider, he founded an instrument-making business in Münich; and in 1809 he established, with Joseph Fraunhofer and Utzschneider, optical works at Benedictbeuern, which were moved to Münich in 1823. - John Kirkbride
John Kirkbride was born in the north of Scotland in 1946. He was brought up with Celtic and traditional Scottish influences. Kirkbride was discharged from the Royal Air Force in 1970 and moved to New York where he played street music. He went on to play bass for Pete Seeger, Arlo Guthrie and Joan Baez. In 1976 Kirkbride returned from the United States and settled in The Netherlands where he recorded "TRACKS" and three further albums. - Joseph Perles
Joseph Perles, Jewish rabbi, was born in Hungary on November 26, 1835, and died at Münich on March 4, 1894. Having received his early instruction in the Talmud from his father, Baruch Asher Perles, he was educated successively at the gymnasium of his native city, was one of the first rabbis trained at the new type of rabbinical seminary at Breslau, and the university of that city (Oriental philology and philosophy; Ph.D. 1859, … - Otto von Camphausen
Otto von Camphausen was a Prussian statesman. Camphausen was born at Hünshoven, part of Geilenkirchen at the right banks of river Wurm, in the Rhine Provinces. Having studied jurisprudence and political economy at the universities of Bonn, Heidelberg, Münich and Berlin, he entered the legal career at Cologne, and immediately devoted his attention to financial and commercial questions. - Karl Gottfried Lamprecht
Karl Gottfried Lamprecht was a German historian. As a student, he trained in history, political science, economics, and art at the universities of Göttingen, Leipzig, and Münich. Lamprecht taught at the university in Marburg and later at Leipzig, where he founded a center dedicated to comparative world and cultural history (Institut für Kultur- und Universalgeschichte). Lamprecht studied German and European social and economic history, particularly of the Middle Ages. - Dora Pejačević
Dora Pejačević was the first Croatian female composer. Dora Pejačević was a daughter of an excellent Croatian pianist and singer Lilla Pejačević, who gave her her first music lessons. Dora began to compose when she was only 12. She studied music in Zagreb, Dresden and Münich. She married in 1921. Although she led a lonely life, she met many eminent musicians and writers, … - Georg Anton Friedrich Ast
Georg Anton Friedrich Ast was a German philosopher and philologist. He was born at Gotha. Educated there and at the University of Jena, he became a "privatdozent" at Jena in 1802. In 1805 he became professor of classical literature in the University of Landshut, where he remained until 1826, when it was transferred to Münich. He lived there until his death in 1841. - Infanta María De La Paz Of Spain
María de la Paz de Borbón y Borbón (Madrid, June 23 1862- - Schloss Nymphenburg, Münich, December 4 1946) was an infanta of Spain. She was born in the Royal Palace of Madrid y was the second daughter of Queen Isabel II and her husband Francis of Spain. Maria married in Madrid, on april 2 1883, with Prince Louis Ferdinand of Bavaria, her cousin.<br> They had three children : * "Infante Ferdinand of Spain", Prince of Bavaria (1884-1958), … - Giovanni Buonaventura Genelli
Giovanni Buonaventura Genelli (1798-1868) was a German painter born at Berlin on the 28th of September 1798. He was the son of Janus Genelli, a painter whose landscapes are still preserved in the Schloss at Berlin, and grandson to Joseph Genelli, a Roman embroiderer employed to found a school of gobelins by Frederick the Great. Buonaventura Genelli first took lessons from his father and then became a student of the Berlin academy. - Franz Josef Strauß
Franz Josef Strauß (September 6, 1915 – October 3, 1988) was a German politician (CSU) and long-time minister-president of the state of Bavaria. Press reports called him the "Strong Man of Europe" - Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog is a German film director, screenwriter, actor, and opera director. He is often associated with the German New Wave movement (also called New German Cinema), along with Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Volker Schlöndorff, Wim Wenders and others. His films often feature heroes with impossible dreams or people with unique talents in obscure fields. - Golo Mann
Golo Mann (March 27, 1909 - April 7, 1994 Leverkusen) was a popular historian, publicist and writer. He was the third child of the novelist Thomas Mann and his wife Katia Mann. - Elisabeth Of Bavaria
Elisabeth Amalie Eugenie, Duchess in Bavaria, Princess of Bavaria, (December 24, 1837 - September 10, 1898), of the House of Wittelsbach, was the Empress consort of Austria and Queen consort of Hungary due to her marriage to Emperor Franz Joseph. Her father was Maximilian Joseph, Duke in Bavaria and her mother was Ludovika, Royal Princess of Bavaria; her family home was Possenhofen Castle. - Erika Mann
Erika Julia Hedwig Mann (November 9, 1905 - August 27, 1969) was the eldest daughter of novelist Thomas Mann and Katia Mann. - Philipp Lahm
Philipp Lahm (born November 11, 1983 in Munich, Bavaria) is a German footballer who currently plays as a defender for Bayern Munich and Germany at Euro 2004 and the 2006 FIFA World Cup. He scored the opening goal of the 2006 FIFA World Cup. He is considered one of the best young fullbacks in the world, as is shown by his inclusion in the Mastercard All Star Team. Known to be young and energetic, Lahm's pace is unbelievable, … - Carl Orff
Carl Orff (July 10, 1895 - March 29, 1982) was a 20th-century German composer, most famous for "Carmina Burana" (1937). He was also successful and influential in the field of music education. - Christoph Schubert
Christoph Schubert (born February 5, 1982 in Munich, Germany) is a professional ice hockey player for the Ottawa Senators. - Thomas Hitzlsperger
Thomas Hitzlsperger (born 5 April 1982 in Munich, Germany) is a midfielder for VfB Stuttgart. He signed for VfB Stuttgart in Summer 2005, having left Aston Villa on a Bosman free transfer. This was the base for his nomination for Germany's World Cup squad 2006 but failed to make it into Klinsmann's starting eleven. Hitzlsperger joined Aston Villa from Bayern Munich, where he was a player in the youth team. - Dj Hell
DJ Hell (real name Helmut Josef Geier, born in Munich on September 6, 1962) is a German House/Techno DJ. He is the label boss of International DeeJay Gigolo Records and has been responsible for many of the big records to come out of the Electroclash or German Squelch scene that emerged in Berlin in the mid-nineties. - Alfred Andersch
Alfred Hellmuth Andersch (February 4, 1914 - February 21, 1980) was a German writer, publisher and radio editor. The son of a conservative East Prussian army officer, he was born in Munich, Germany and died in Berzona, Ticino, Switzerland. Martin Andersch, his brother, was also a writer. - Adolf Abraham Halevi Fraenkel
Adolf Abraham Halevi Fraenkel (February 17 1891 Munich, Germany - October 15 1965 Jerusalem, Israel), known as Abraham Fraenkel, was an Israeli mathematician born in Germany. - Eva Braun
Eva Anna Paula Braun, died Eva Hitler (February 6, 1912 - April 30, 1945) was the longtime companion of Adolf Hitler and briefly his wife. - Ernst Hanfstaengl
Ernst Franz Sedgwick Hanfstaengl (Munich, February 2, 1887 - November 6, 1975) was the only person known to have worked directly for both Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Adolf Hitler. - Richard Strauss
Richard Strauss (June 11, 1864 - September 8, 1949) was a German composer of the late Romantic era and early modern era, particularly noted for his tone poems and operas. He was also a noted conductor. - Traudl Junge
Traudl Junge (16 March, 1920 - 10 February, 2002), born Gertraud Humps, was Adolf Hitler's youngest personal private secretary, from December 1942 to April 1945. - Masashi Hamauzu
Masashi Hamauzu is a video game music composer who has worked for Square Enix for more than a decade. Hamauzu's start with the company came by creating a small handful of tracks (along with other composers) for "Front Mission: Gun Hazard" (1996) and "Tobal No. 1" (1996). Later collaborations would include "Final Fantasy X" (2001) (with Nobuo Uematsu and Junya Nakano) and "Musashi: Samurai Legend" (2005) (with Junya Nakano, … - Bob Schneider
Bob Schneider (born October 12, 1965) is an Austin, Texas-based musician and artist, born in Ypsilanti, Michigan, and raised in Munich, Germany. The son of an opera singer, his parents moved to Germany, when he was two. He was taught guitar and piano at an early age. He kicked around for years in various bands before embarking on a solo career. He dropped out of the University of Texas at El Paso to front his first band, the funk-and-rap outfit Joe Rockhead.
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