X-Nico

100 unusual facts about Berlin


589 Croatia

From these measurements Dr. P.V. Neugebauer from Berlin and M.S. Mello and Simas from Trafaria (Lisboa) had independently determined the first orbital elements.

Acoustic Trio Live in Berlin

The album consists of concert recordings made in Berlin to celebrate DeVille’s 25 years of performing, and concert recordings made in Stockholm.

ADGB Trade Union School

The ADGB Trade Union School was a complex of teaching and administrative buildings in the north of Bernau in a forested area just outside Berlin (Bernau bei Berlin), Germany, constructed for the former General German Trade Union Federation (ADGB).

Albert Maier

At the same time Ludwig von Gerdtell, who had made direct contact with Professor Thomas Turner of the English Fraternal Visitor magazine, was leading a Gemeinde in Berlin with the Christadelphian Ludwig Knupfer.

Aleksandra Samusenko

Samusenko died from wounds in the German village Zülzefirz (70 km from Berlin), during the East Pomeranian Offensive, and according to World War II veteran Pyotr Demidov, under the caterpillar tracks of a tank, which did not notice the accompanying people in the darkness.

Alexander Merensky

Alexander Merensky (born 8 June 1837 in Panten near Liegnitz; died 22 May 1918 in Berlin) was a German missionary, working in South Africa (Transvaal) since 1859.

Alf Young

He played for England nine times between 1932 and 1938, including the infamous 6-3 win against Germany in Berlin in 1938.

Alles wird gut

The fact, that pieces of Berlin Wall (torn down in 1989) became popular souvenirs is referenced in the line "Mit einem Stein in der Hand als Souvenir von der Mauer in Berlin/Klopfen wir an die Hintertür vom neuen Paradies" (With a stone in the hand as a souvenir from the wall in Berlin/We're knocking on the backdoor of the new paradise).

Andor Toth, Jr.

(1948–2002) was an American cellist in the strong Central European, Berlin, and Hungarian traditions, bringing to the public a clear aural vision of structure in the music he played, while channeling the emotional character of that music into the hearts of his listeners.

Apollonius von Maltitz

He was successively attache in the Russian legations in Karlsruhe, Stuttgart, Vienna, Berlin, and Rio de Janeiro; in 1836 he became a secretary (Legationsrat and Gesandtschaftssekretär) in Munich.

Arthur Ewert

Anxious to escape the drudgery of rural life, at the age of 14 Ewert accepted a position as an apprentice in an uncle's saddle-making factory in the urban center of Berlin.

Arthur Garfield Hays

Hays attended the Reichstag trial in Berlin on behalf of Georgi Dimitrov, a Bulgarian Communist accused by the Nazis in 1933 of burning the Reichstag.

Benjamin Ide Wheeler

During the year 1895-96, he was Professor of Greek Literature at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, and during the year 1909-10, Roosevelt Professor at the University of Berlin.

Berlin Rules on Water Resources

Adopted on August 21, 2004 in Berlin, the document supersedes the ILA's earlier "The Helsinki Rules on the Uses of the Waters of International Rivers", which was limited in its scope to international drainage basins and aquifers connected to them.

Berlin-Blankenheim railway

Wetzlar used to be an important rail junction on the Kanonenbahn.

The track was built at the instigation of the Prussian government between 1877 and 1882 as a direct militarily strategic railway, bypassing urban areas, connecting to Alsace-Lorraine, which had been acquired from France as a result of the War of 1870-71.

Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities

New statutes in 1938 reorganized the Academy according to the Führer principle, causing Planck to resign his presidency in protest.

Berlin-Lichtenberg station

Lichtenberg was featured in the opening scene of the movie "The Bourne Ultimatum" where it was made to look like a Moscow train station.

Berlin-Lübecker Maschinenfabrik

From 1941 to 1944, the company made all the scope mounts for the Zf-41 sniper scope.

Berlin-Tempelhof station

The S-Bahn station is on an embankment at the junction of Tempelhofer Damm and Bundesautobahn 100, about 1 km south of the entrance to the former Tempelhof Airport.

Berlin, Wisconsin

It was named Berlin after the capital of Prussia, now the capital of Germany.

:There are also two towns named Berlin in Wisconsin.

Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv

Later, in the 1920s, it was relocated to become part of the Berlin Conservatory, and then in the 1930s, part of the Museum für Völkerkunde (now the Ethnological Museum of Berlin), with which the Phonogramm-Archiv had earlier cooperated.

A collection of ethnomusicological recordings or world music, mostly on phonographs (cylinder records) assembled since 1900 in Berlin, Germany and

Berlinische Galerie

The Berlinische Galerie is a museum of modern art, photography and architecture in Berlin.

Billy Brown of London Town

Billy Brown was also a mascot on sorties over Berlin during the war, with the advice "I trust it suffers no deflection, this stuff is for the Hun's correction" (i.e. Adolf Hitler.).

Carter Camp

According to Casey Camp-Horinkek, in 1960–1963 he served as a corporal in the U.S. Army unit, stationed in Berlin.

Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer

After visiting professionally most of the cities in Germany, in 1844 she accepted an engagement at the royal theatre in Berlin, to which she remained attached until her death.

Chronology of the reactions to Innocence of Muslims

The US consulate in the suburbs of Berlin, Germany, is briefly evacuated due to suspicions over the contents of an envelope.

Cosmopolis: A Literary Review

The lead edition of Cosmopolis was published in London, but local editions of the magazine were also published in Berlin, Paris, and Saint Petersburg.

Crack My Nut

Crack My Nut was produced by the Australian producer Victor Van Vugt, and was recorded in the Hansa Tonstudio in Berlin.

Deutsche Waffen und Munitionsfabriken

In 1896 Loewe founded Deutsche Waffen- und Munitionsfabriken with a munitions plant in Karlsruhe (Baden), formerly Deutsche Metallpatronenfabrik Lorenz, and the weapons plant in Berlin.

Eisblume

The band was formed in Berlin during 2007 by vocalist Sotiria Schenk, guitarist Christoph Hessler, bassist Philipp Schardt, drummer Philipp Schadebrodt and keyboard player Golo Schultz.

Elisabeth Altmann-Gottheiner

Elisabeth Altmann-Gottheiner (March 26, 1874 in Berlin, Germany – October 21, 1930 in Mannheim) was the first woman to become a university lecturer in Germany.

Ethisterone

The first orally active progestin, ethisterone (pregneninolone, 17α-ethynyltestosterone or 19–norandrostane), the 17α-ethynyl analog of testosterone, was synthesized in 1938 by Hans Herloff Inhoffen, Willy Logemann, Walter Hohlweg, and Arthur Serini at Schering AG in Berlin and marketed in Germany in 1939 as Proluton C and by Schering in the U.S. in 1945 as Pranone.

Eugene B. Van Camp

Van Camp then went absent without leave on Nov. 1, 1862 and was arrested in Berlin, Maryland as a deserter.

Francis Turville-Petre

In 1928 he moved to Berlin, Germany and stayed at the Institute of Sexual Research, run by Dr Magnus Hirschfeld.

Freifunk

In October 2002, there was a workshop about free wireless community networks in Berlin and London taking place at bootlab in Berlin.

Fritz Mühlenweg

In 1927, Luft Hansa contributed to the Sino-Swedish expedition to Central and South Asia, following plans for an airline connection between Berlin and Beijing.

Garcinia humilis

The fruit took third place in the 2012 Fruit Logistica Innovation Awards held in Berlin.

German Agency for Quality in Medicine

The German Agency for Quality in Medicine (AEZQ) - in German "Ärztliches Zentrum für Qualität in der Medizin (ÄZQ)", established in 1995 and located in Berlin co-ordinates healthcare quality programmes with special focus on evidence-based medicine, medical guidelines, patient empowerment, patient safety programs, and quality management.

German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence

DFKI was founded in 1988, and has facilities in the German cities of Kaiserslautern, Saarbrücken, Bremen and Berlin.

Global Historical Climatology Network

The longest record in the collection began in Berlin in 1701 and is still collected in the present day.

Gustav Adolph Techow

He was serving with Herman von Natzmer at the Berlin arsenal when the arsenal was stormed by the citizens of Berlin who were upset over revocation of the German constitution and the dissolution National Assembly.

Hans-Jürgen Stumpff

On 8 May 1945, Stumpff served as the Luftwaffe representative at the signing of the unconditional surrender of Germany in Berlin.

Hard Wax

Furthermore, as with Tresor club in Berlin, it shares a privileged relationship with the musicians of Detroit techno in the so-called "Berlin-Detroit axis".

Helen Magill White

Helen Magill White accompanied her husband when he was appointed to diplomatic posts in St. Petersburg (1892–94) and Berlin (1897–1903).

Herbert L. Osgood

He attended graduate school at Amherst and Yale, and spent a year in Berlin, before returning to the United States to teach at Brooklyn High School and resume graduate studies at Columbia under Burgess, who had recently moved there.

Hill's Absinth

At that time there were only 3 such schools in the whole of Europe, in Berlin, Paris, and Prague.

History of rail transport in the Netherlands

The Noord-Brabantsch-Duitsche Spoorweg-Maatschappij (NBDS) was founded to fill the gap in the line between Saint Petersburg, Berlin and London.

Illusive Tracks

The story revolves around the passengers on a train heading from Stockholm non-stop to Berlin, and includes murder, adultery, religion, Santa Claus and a very angry train conductor.

In Those Days

The film was produced in Hamburg in the British Zone as part of a growing post-war trend in western Germany of moving film production away from its traditional centre of Berlin.

International Working People's Association

A final move to relaunch the IWPA, more successful than the 1907 effort, was made in December 1921 at another convention of international anarchists held in Berlin.

James Loxton

Although born in Berlin in Germany, Loxton has being capped at U-19 and U-20 level for Wales.

Johann Dietrich Alfken

Johann Dietrich Alfken (11 June 1862, Frankfurt - 14 February 1945, Rüthersdorf, Berlin)was a German entomologist who specialised in Hymenoptera especially Apoidea.

John A. Kasson

He served in that position until 1885, when he was named as a special envoy to the Congo International Conference in Berlin.

John Prince-Smith

John Prince-Smith (London, January 20, 1809–Berlin, February 3, 1874) was an English-born, German free trade liberal and politician.

Jules Bender

In a move that surprised many, the largely Jewish team (including Jules Bender) boycotted the trials over the games' placement in Berlin, Germany and the anti-semitic leanings of the country's leader Adolf Hitler.

Karl Isidor Beck

He lived in Berlin from 1844 until the outbreak of the Revolutions of 1848, and subsequently in Vienna, where he was an editor of the Lloyd.

Koch Institute

Robert Koch Institute, a disease control and prevention institute headquartered in Berlin, Germany

Kurt Gildisch

In 1949 Gildisch was recognized at a Berlin train station by an old friend who then denounced him to the police.

La nudité toute nue

In La nudité toute nue (English translation "Nudity exposed"), director Olivier Nicklaus travels all over Europe (Paris, Berlin, London, Amsterdam to meet various personalities filmed in the nude.

Last Hippie Standing

The last part of the documentary is shot at the Berlin Love Parade, where the protagonists reflect about their own spiritual development and the changes that have happened since the hippie movement had started.

Leo Schulz

He was educated at Posen, and in the Royal Academic High School of Music in Berlin.

Liebling Kreuzberg

The scripts of seasons one through three and five were written by Jurek Becker, who tailor-made the role of idiosyncratic Berlin Kreuzberg attorney Robert Liebling for his friend Manfred Krug, the fourth season was written by Ulrich Plenzdorf.

Living in Danger

Ace of Base performed "Living in Danger" in the front of Berlin's Brandenburg Gate.

Masoch Fund

On May 8, 1995, on the anniversary date of the end of World War II on the Eastern Front, 5500 Müllers (bearers of the most common and emblematic German surname) who lived in Berlin received greetings from the Masoch Fund saying “Happy Victory Day!”.

Monument to Freedom and Unity

The Monument to Freedom and Unity (Freiheits- und Einheitsdenkmal) is a planned national German monument in Berlin commemorating the country's peaceful reunification in 1990 and earlier 18th, 19th and 20th century unification movements.

National Center for Jewish Film

The Center's other archival and preservations projects include features and documentaries from around the globe; early American silent film comedies and features; rare early Russian films; pre–World War II home movies of Yurburg, Horodok, Novogrudok, and Berlin; travelogues of Białystok, Krakow, Warsaw, Vilnius, and Lviv; industrial and fundraising films produced by Jewish agencies; early documentary footage of Palestine/Israel.

Otoe, Nebraska

The entry of the United States into World War I was followed by hostility toward all things German, which extended to a town that bore the name of Germany's capital.

Otto René Castillo

Documentary filmmaker Karl-Heinz Mund, together with Werner Kohlert made a short commemorative documentary about Castillo, entitled Ganz Berlin ist in deinen Augen... (Todo Berlin esta en tus ojos...), produced by DEFA Studio fuer Dokumentarfilme in Berlin.

Paul Levi

Levi died on 9 February 1930 in Berlin after succumbing to injuries suffered when he fell from the window of his fifth floor attic flat.

Percival Vega Gull

A third aircraft for use by the British air attaché in Berlin was seized by the Germans at the outbreak of the Second World War.

Phoebe Carrai

Phoebe Carrai is a member of the faculties of the University of the Arts in Berlin, Germany and the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Polish Radio External Service

On cable: PR ES in English is also available to 4.5 million homes on cable in London, Dublin, Berlin, Amsterdam, Brussels, Vienna, Strassburg, Geneva, Tokyo, Washington D.C. and many other cities.

Prince Abbas Mirza Farman Farmaian

He was struck by cancer at the age of forty five and died in Berlin in 1935.

Prussian Military Academy

It was officially re-founded by Gerhard von Scharnhorst in Berlin on October 15, 1810 as one of three officer colleges.

Queensbury, London

The tube station, and its local surroundings and characters were cited in the song "Queensbury Station" by the Berlin-based punk-jazz band The Magoo Brothers on their album "Beyond Believable", released in 1988.

RAF Upwood

They arrived in late January 1944 and flew their first mission against on 2 February, a single plane mission to drop target indicators over Berlin.

Regine Olsen

When he absconded to Berlin in 1842 to study philosophy, he was haunted by a woman who bore an uncanny resemblance to Regine.

René Lacelle

He competed in the K-2 1000 m event at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, but was eliminated in the heats.

Roll On River

Jones had first met Lämmerhirt at the Steve Club in Berlin in the early 70's.

Rosedale, Ohio

In 1964 Conservative Mennonite Bible School, a Bible college owned by the Conservative Amish Mennonite Conference, purchased the former high school building and moved from its location in Berlin, Ohio.

Ryōjoku no Ame

The title track is followed by three live recordings, recorded at Columbiahalle in Berlin on May 27, 2006.

Seventh constituency for French residents overseas

Living in Berlin where he was born in 1976, he currently serves as patent examiner at the European Patent Organisation.

Spreelauf

The Spreelauf starts in Spandau (Berlin) and follows the river Spree upstream to one of its three sources in Eibau (Upper Lusatia).

Strato AG

Strato AG is an internet service provider headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

The Bolsover School

The Bolsover School maintains a number of links with partner school abroad including Highland Park High School in Texas, USA, Kong Jiang Middle School in Shanghai, China, Max-Planck-Gymnasium in Groß-Umstadt, Germany and Evangelisches Gymnasium in Berlin, Germany.

The Central Council of Dada for the World Revolution

In the year 1919 in Berlin, the group outlined the Dadaist ideals of radical communism.

The Last Millionaire

Week 2 - Berlin - Oli Norman, founder of DADA, a PR and events company and Oliver Zissman, founder of Totally Fitness and Lady Luisa

The Soviet Paradise

The Soviet Paradise (German original title "Sowjetparadies") was the name of an exhibition and a propaganda film, which was organized by the Reichspropagandaleitung of the NSDAP and was displayed from May 8 to June 21, 1942 in the Lustgarten in Berlin.

The Tic Tok Men

Dieter and Atian returned to Berlin, Seven surrounded himself in computing and Brian has mysteriously vanished somewhere in the United States.

Through the Eyes of a Painter

The film "Through the Eyes of a Painter" fetched the 1st prize, in The Golden Bear 17th International Film Festival during the first week of July 1967, held in Berlin.

Timothée Kolodziejczak

He made his debut with the team in the team's last match against Germany at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin on 30 May 2006.

Triple Espresso

A second foreign language production in German has played in Munich and Berlin.

Turkmenistani parliamentary election, 2008–09

Polling stations were set up at Turkmenistan's 27 diplomatic missions, including those in Vienna, Berlin, Paris, Brussels, Moscow, and London.

Tutto Live

The album was recorded between May and November 1985 at Berlin, Montreux, Siena, Locarno and Dortmund.

Vistula Spit

During World War II, it became the last holdout of the remaining German soldiers in East Prussia, although the Soviets simply bypassed the spit after the East Prussian Offensive was decisively concluded, training their sights on the more important goal of capturing Berlin.

Warrior Woman

To celebrate the capture of superhero team the Invaders (in a prison in the German city of Berlin), Hitler insists Koenig and Master Man marry, his logic being that they are the progenitors of a new race.

Woodhouse College

This tree had been presented by the Third Reich authorities to a member of the British team who attended the 1936 Olympics in Berlin and subsequently became known as 'the Hitler tree'.


Ahmed Kathrada

While Kathrada was a student at the University of the Witwatersrand, he was sent as a delegate of the Transvaal Indian Youth Congress to the World Youth Festival of 1951 in Berlin.

Am Mellensee

They will provide the bread for the Communion wafers during the Eucharist for Papal Masses at Erfurt's Cathedral and in Berlin's Olympic Stadium to be celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI for his September 2011 visit- his third as Pope- to Germany.

Aurel Persu

Persu, a specialist in airplanes aerodynamics and dynamics, implemented his idea in 1922–1923 in Berlin, building an automobile with an incredibly low drag coefficient of 0.28 (same as a modern Porsche Carrera) or even 0.22 (still not reached by almost any modern production cars), depending on the source.

Bell Tower of Berlin Olympic Stadium

The tower is an important tourist destination offering a panorama of Berlin, Spandau, the Havel Valley, Potsdam, Nauen and Hennigsdorf.

BMW 303

Two-door saloon and cabriolet bodies were manufactured, at first by Daimler-Benz's coachworks in Sindelfingen, and later by Ambi-Budd in Berlin.

Crime in Germany

Especially in cities such as Berlin, Hamburg and Bremen Middle Eastern clans are highly active in the trafficking of heroin as well as being involved in the bouncer-scene.

DeviantArt

Starting May 13, 2009, deviantArt embarked on a world tour, visiting cities around the world, including Sydney, Singapore, Warsaw, Istanbul, Berlin, Paris, London, New York City, Toronto and Los Angeles.

Doping in East Germany

At the trial of Manfred Ewald, leader of the East German sports program and president of his East Germany's Olympic committee and Manfred Hoeppner, East German medical director in Berlin in 2000, Krieger testified that the drugs he had been given had contributed to his transsexuality.

Eduard Hagenbach-Bischoff

The son of the theologian Karl Rudolf Hagenbach studied physics and mathematics in Basel (with Rudolf Merian), Berlin (with Heinrich Wilhelm Dove and Heinrich Gustav Magnus), Geneva, Paris (with Jules Célestin Jamin) and obtained his Ph.D. in 1855 in Basel.

Eva Besnyö

In 1930, at the age of 20, she moved to Berlin where she first worked for advertising photographer René Ahrlé before working on photoreportages with the press photographer Peter Weller.

Fabien Lévy

A former pedagogical advisor at IRCAM in Paris and professor of orchestration at the Hanns Eisler Music Conservatory in Berlin, he is currently assistant professor in composition at Columbia University in New York and senior professor for composition at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold in Germany.

Friedrich Hieronymus Truhn

Friedrich Hieronymus Truhn (born November 14, 1811 in Elbing, † April 30, 1886 in Berlin) was a 19th-century German conductor, composer and music writer who worked mainly in Berlin, Danzig, Elbing and Riga.

Georg Friedrich Schmidt

Georg Friedrich Schmidt (24 January 1712 Schönerlinde - 25 January 1775 Berlin) was a German engraver and designer.

Gerard David

To this early period belong the St John of the Richard von Kaufmann collection in Berlin and the Salting's St Jerome.

Giani Gurmukh Singh Musafir

Musafir was a member of the Indian delegations to the International Peace Conference in Stockholm in 1954, World Peace Conference in Helsinki in 1965, and the World Peace Conference in Berlin in 1969.

Hallstatt Archaeological Site in Vače

Some of them were sold to museums in Harvard, Oxford and Berlin by Duchess Marie Antoinette of Mecklenburg, a daughter of the princess who surveyed some excavations.

Hanspeter Kyburz

In 1980, he began studying music composition, first in Graz with A. Dobrowolsky and Gösta Neuwirth, then, from 1982–1990, with Gösta Neuwirth and Frank Michael Beyer at the Universität der Künste in Berlin, later with Hans Zender in Frankfurt.

Hartford and New Haven Railroad

In addition to the New Haven-Springfield route it also served Berlin, New Britain, and Middletown, Connecticut.

Heinrich LXIII, Prince Reuss of Köstritz

Prince Heinrich LXIII Reuss of Köstritz (18 June 1786, Berlin – 27 September 1841, Staniszów) was a member of the House of Reuss.

Hoppegarten

Hoppegarten is located close to the eastern suburbs of Berlin (Mahlsdorf, in the borough of Marzahn-Hellersdorf).

Interhotel

5-star hotels were exclusively for guests from non-socialist states, 4-star hotels were mainly for guests from Comecon countries, for example, Park Inn Berlin (then Stadt Berlin) was built for Soviet people.

Japheth J. Omojuwa

Omojuwa has graced speaking platforms on universities and in cities across Nigeria and around the world from Washington to London, Lagos, Accra, Cape Town, Abuja, Rio de Janeiro, Berlin, New York, Cologne, Dortmund and other cities.

Jedermann sein eigner Fussball

In spite of its absurdist amusements, this singular issue was a work of impassioned radical opinion, published only a few weeks after the communist revolt in Berlin had been quashed by Gustav Noske's Free Corps, and Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg murdered.

John Marlow Thompson

As Thompson, as Wing Commander (Operations) during this period ensuring supply aircraft carrying materials weres able to land at RAF Gatow in the British sector of Berlin every two minutes.

Karl Mey

After the merger of AEG, the Auer Company, and Siemens & Halske into Osram AG in Berlin, he supervised the whole research and development branch.

Machold Rare Violins

Machold had branch establishments in Vienna, Zurich (Geigenbau Machold GmbH and Cadenza AG), Alpnach (Bomalu AG), Bremen, Berlin, New York City, Aspen, Chicago, Seoul and Tokyo, buying and selling, among others, Stradivari and del Gesù violins.

Marc Monnier

His father was French, and his mother a Genevese; he received his early education in Naples, he then studied in Paris and Geneva, and he completed his education at Heidelberg and Berlin.

Margrave Frederick of Brandenburg-Schwedt

His name is mentioned on the equestrian statue of Frederick the Great on the centerline of Unter den Linden in Berlin.

Nicolae Milescu

In 1660-1664, he acted as representative of his country with its Ottoman overlord, and then as envoy to Berlin and Stockholm.

NRJ Group

With its pan-European NRJ/ENERGY stations, the Paris-based NRJ Group has challenged the European radio market by being significantly different from diversifying market players like the Luxembourg-based RTL Group (Antenne Bayern, RTL Berlin, Yorin FM), and SBS Broadcasting (Radio 1 Norway, The Voice) or Stockholm-based MTG (P4 Norway, Rix FM, Lugna Favoriter).

Oskar Piotrowski

tied for 2nd-3rd with Erich Cohn, behind Ossip Bernstein, in the Berlin Summer Tournament - Section I (Quadrangular), and shared 2nd with Moritz Lewitt, behind Bernstein, in the 1st Tournament of the General Chess Federation of Berlin.

Paul Piechowski

In 1919 he joined the "religious-socialist movement" and started to work as a Pastor in Berlin-Neukölln until 1928, from 1928 until 1934 in Berlin-Britz.

Peter DiMaggio

He was the lead engineer for the construction of the U.S. Embassies in Moscow, Berlin and Baghdad as well as Valeo’s technical center in Michigan and the Claremont Tower in New Jersey.

Peter Hertz

His first marriage started on the 16th of December 1899 in Schöneberg town hall in Berlin, with pianist Karen Wellmann (24 September 1875 in Køng (She later married the painter Herman Vedel in 1906), daughter of doctor Carl William Wellman (1842-1885) and Mathilde Sophie Krebs (1845-1916, who married Olaf Ryberg Hansen in 1889, following the death of her husband).

San Francisco Herald

Kimberlye Gold has interviewed many prominent figures for the paper, including ex-Rolling Stone editor Ben Fong-Torres, actor/comedian Richard Lewis, comedian Margaret Cho, 1970s band Bad Company and 1980s band Berlin.

Schwendinger

Laura Schwendinger (born 1962), the first composer to win the prestigious American Academy in Berlin

Siegfried Eifrig

His relay began at Unter den Linden and made its way to Olympiastadion in Berlin, where he lit two urns which burned until the end of the summer games.

StattAuto

In 2004 StattAuto started offering carsharing services in Berlin, Hamburg, Potsdam and Rostock.

Stefan Kanchev

After leaving the National Academy of Arts shortly before graduation, Kanchev took part in exhibitions and biennales in Bulgaria and abroad over the next 22 years, including Belgrade, Budapest, Berlin, Moscow, Warsaw, Brno, Ljubljana and New York City.

The Magoo Brothers

The band was based on the west side of the wall in Berlin, where there was an active alternative music scene through the decade.

Theodor Dannecker

Owing to misuse of his position, partially due to his theft of German confiscated property, he was ordered back to Berlin in August 1942.

Tomasz Bajer

The artist has been a two-time grant holder of the Ministry of Culture and an artist-in-residence in Carrara, Essen, Strassbourg, Munich and Newcastle (UK); nominated for the Europaeisches Kolleg der Bildenden Kuenste in Berlin.

William C. Crain

In 1826, he married Perses Narina Tunnicliff, daughter of William Tunnicliff, and granddaughter of the Count George Ernst August von Ranzau, an officer on the staff of the Friedrich Adolf Riedesel, and author of the interesting Journal of Burgoyne's Expedition contained in the archives of the general staff at Berlin.

Wolfgang Huber

Since choosing the position of Bishop of Berlin-Brandenburg above a seat in the German Bundestag for the Social Democratic Party of Germany in 1993 Huber has not associated himself with any political party publicly.