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Anne Linnet Band

During the last months of 1980 and the first months of 1981 and they were also touring in Germany which included several gigs in Hamburgs legendary "Onkel Pö´s Carnegie Hall" with the following musicians: Anne Linnet - vocals, rhodes & guitar, Lis Sorensen - Vocals & Keyboards, Sanne Salomonsen - Vocals, Bent Lundgaard - Keyboards, Jan Glaesel - trumpets, Holger Laumann - saxophones, Per Möller - Guitar, Flemming Ostermann - Basses & Vocals, Norman Fearrington - drums & percussion

Bernd Scholz

He wrote his Japan Concerto for classical guitarist Siegfried Behrend and a large concerto for bandleader Willi Stech.

Bertrand Bitz

In 2007, he wins second prize at the famous Swiss singing contest "La médaille d'or de la chanson" in Saignelégier.

Chilli Willi and the Red Hot Peppers

In The Simpsons episode "Krusty Gets Kancelled," Barney Gumble chants "We want Chilli Willi!" before a Red Hot Chili Peppers concert, lampooning the coincidental similarities in the two bands' names.

Fleisch

The Willing Flesh (Das Geduldige Fleisch), written by Willi Heinrich

Free International University

The Free International University (FIU), was a support organization founded by the German artist Joseph Beuys together with Klaus Staeck (1st chairman), Georg Meistermann (2nd chairman) and Willi Bongard (secretary), based on principles laid down in a manifesto written by Joseph Beuys and Heinrich Böll.

Green Lane Works

The firm flourished and their products won a first Council medal at the The Great Exhibition of 1851 and a Medaille d'honneur at the Exposition Universelle of 1855.

Haus Vaterland

Sidney Bechet played there in the early 1930s, with "The McAllan Blackband", which was led by the Somali-German drummer William 'Willi' Mac Allan, and the "Tom Bill Nigger Band".

Jan Müller-Wieland

Jan Müller-Wieland studied at the Musikhochschule Lübeck, composition with Friedhelm Döhl, double bass with Willi Beyer and conducting with Günther Behrens.

King Size Dick

King Size Dick is the bearer of the 2002 Willi Ostermann medal; which is the highest official award of the Cologne Carnival.

Max-Hellmuth Ostermann

Ostermann was killed in action on 9 August 1942 far behind Soviet lines east of Lake Ilmen.

Mel Atkey

In 1977, Atkey co-produced a jazz concert with Vancouver impresario Willi Germann and a telethon featuring folk singer Tom Northcott.

Operation Willi

Operation Willi was the German code name for the unsuccessful attempt by the SS to kidnap Edward, Duke of Windsor in July 1940 and induce him to work with German dictator Adolf Hitler for either a peace settlement with Britain, or a restoration to the throne after the German conquest of Great Britain.

Prora

The most prominent were the elite 40. Fallschirmjägerbataillon Willi Sänger (40th Parachute Battalion "Willi Sänger") which was housed in block 5 from 1960 to 1982.

Rolladen-Schneider Flugzeugbau

It originally made rolling doors and shutters and was run by Willi and Walter Schneider based in Egelsbach near Frankfurt, Germany.

St. Joseph's Morrow Park Catholic Secondary School

The Sisterhood was founded on October 15, 1650 in LePuy, France, by Jean-Pierre Medaille, a French Jesuit.

Titanic: Adventure Out of Time

In addition to The Rubáiyát and the painting, the player learns that Willi is a spy for the Russians and has a notebook with names of top Bolshevik leaders.

Uri Avnery

Avnery was born in Beckum, Germany as Helmut Ostermann, to a well-established German Jewish family.

VCU French Film Festival

Peter and Françoise Ravaux-Kirkpatrick, were decorated as “Chevaliers de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres”, a high honor in the arts in France, and in 2011, the Médaille Beaumarchais by the French Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques.

Via Christi Health

The first congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph was formed by six women under the direction of a Jesuit priest, Jean Pierre Medaille, in Le Puy-en-Velay, France, in 1650.

Vincent Redetzki

In 2003 he played the child leading role in Andreas Dresen's Movie Summer in Berlin (Original: Sommer vorm Balkon) and continued his work in playing the character Willi in the German teen movie Wild Chicks (2006), Wild Chicks in Love (2007) and Wild Chicks and Life (2009).

Wilhelm Baues

Wilhelm "Willi" Baues (born November 21, 1948 in Mönchengladbach) is a West German slalom canoer who competed in the 1970s.

Wilhelm Leuschner

The Bundesland Hesse awards a medal named "Wilhelm-Leuschner-Medaille".

Willi Becker

Willi Becker (January 11, 1918 in Wallmenroth – January 25, 1977 in Düsseldorf) was a German politician, representative of the Social Democratic Party.

Willi Biesenbach

Willi Biesenbach was killed on 16 November 1944 in Jülich, Germany during an Allied bombing-raid.

Willi Gabriel

Willi Gabriel was eventually stationed in Schutzstaffel 15, where he and his observer shot down a Spad on 22 March 1918.

Willi Ninja

Willi was a featured dancer in many music videos including Malcolm McLaren's "Deep in Vogue" and "I Can't Get No Sleep" by Masters At Work featuring India.

Willi was also prominently featured in the 1990 documentary Paris is Burning and the 2006 documentary release How Do I Look directed by Wolfgang Busch.

Willi One Blood

Willi One Blood (born William Harbour, Jr.) is a reggae singer, formerly New York-based and now in Miami, famous for the song "Whiney Whiney (What Really Drives Me Crazy)", included on the soundtrack album of the 1994 film Dumb and Dumber.

Willi Piecyk

Willi Piecyk (born 11 August 1948 in Munich; died 1 August 2008 in Großhansdorf) was a German politician and

Willi van Ooyen

Willi van Ooyen (born 23 February 1947 in Weeze) is a German politician of the socialist Linke Party, and current leader of the Linke party's bloc in the Hessian Landtag.


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