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100 unusual facts about Berlin


A Bright Room Called Day

In the version performed by the New York Shakespeare Festival, Zillah has moved to Berlin.

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.

Alec Empire vs. Elvis Presley

Empire recorded vs. Elvis in 1998 after returning home to Berlin from a tour of the United States with his band Atari Teenage Riot.

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.

ANC-Halfords Cycling Team

The team turned up in Berlin and were promised the best equipment such as specialist time-trial cycles.

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.

Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra

The ASYO has hosted or exchanged visits with youth orchestras from Great Britain, Australia, and Berlin, 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.

Barrio 19

Barrio 19 is a television program shown on MTV showcasing a diversity of street talents and urban underground pursuits in cities such as Tokyo, Paris, Berlin, London, Osaka, Hamburg, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, and São Paulo.

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.

Berlín

Berlín was heavily damaged by flooding and landslides resulting from Hurricane Mitch in 1998 and by the earthquakes of January and February, 2001.

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 School of Library and Information Science

The Berlin School of Library and Information Science at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (in German, "Institut für Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft") offers study programmes at three levels: bachelors, masters (both a standard program and a postgraduate distant learning program), and doctoral.

Berlin-Blankenheim railway

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-Lübecker Maschinenfabrik

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

Berlin, Berlin

The series tells the story of Lolle (played by Felicitas Woll) who, after school, follows her boyfriend, Tom, from Malente to Berlin.

Berlin, Connecticut

Notable mountains of the Metacomet ridge in Berlin include the Hanging Hills, Lamentation Mountain, Short Mountain, and Ragged Mountain.

Brazil national basketball team

Its basketball squad participated in the first official basketball tournament at the Summer Olympics 1936 in Berlín.

Brücke Museum

The Brücke Museum in Berlin houses the world's largest collection of works by Die Brücke ("The Bridge"), an early 20th-century expressionist movement.

Carl Blum

Carl Wilhelm August Blum (Berlin, 1786 - Berlin 2 July 1844) was a German singer, librettist, stage actor, director, guitarist and opera and song composer.

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.

Crack My Nut

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

Dang Ngoc Long

Today he lives in Berlin and is the art director of the International Guitar Competition & Festival Berlin end director of the music school Berlin

David Wright O'Brien

O’Brien died at age twenty-six, while flying a bombing raid over Berlin.

Death Vessel

Born in Berlin, Germany and raised in Kennebunkport, Maine, Thibodeau moved to Boston, Massachusetts as a teenager and later to Providence, Rhode Island.

Declaration of Facts

The document, which asserted the religion's political neutrality, appealed for the right to publicly preach and claimed it was the victim of a misinformation campaign by other religions, was prepared by Watch Tower Society president Joseph F. Rutherford and released at a convention in Berlin on June 25, 1933.

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.

East Berlin Academy

Prussian Academy of Arts, an art school which became the German Academy of Arts in East Berlin and then was merged into the Academy of Arts

Eduard Arning

In 1879 he obtained his medical doctorate from Strassburg, and afterwards was a medical assistant in Strassburg under Adolf Kussmaul (1822-1902) and Oswald Kohts (1844-1912), and later in Berlin under Oskar Lassar (1849-1907).

Edwin Arthur Kraft

Kraft was born in New Haven and studied music at Yale University under Horatio Parker before becoming became the organist at St. Thomas's Church in Brooklyn, N.Y. He then went to Europe for three years, studying organ with Grunecke in Berlin and Alexandre Guilmant and Charles-Marie Widor in Paris.

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.

Emma Körner

For political reasons her parents, now bereft of children, abandoned Dresden with her aunt, and departed for Berlin, where her father joined the Prussian state service.

Feodor Machnow

After having spent time in Berlin he visited London in 1905 where he joined the Hippodrome accompanied by his wife and young child.

Florence Balcombe

She was unaware of the existence of Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau's Nosferatu until she received an anonymous letter from Berlin.

Francis Turville-Petre

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

Franz Eichhorst

Franz Eichhorst (b. September 7, 1885 in Berlin, died April 30, 1948, Innsbruck) was a German painter, engraver and illustrator, one of a number of German artists known for his war paintings supporting the Nazi regime.

Freifunk

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

Fritz Buelow

Born in Berlin, Germany, Buelow was the first player born in Berlin to play in the major leagues.

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.

George Schlieps

Moved to Berlin in 1944 and worked as a repairman for a school there.

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.

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".

Heinrich Diesbach

In 1706 Diesbach was working in the laboratory of the alchemist Johann Konrad Dippel in Berlin.

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.

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.

James Loxton

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

Johann von Löwenstern-Kunckel

Invited to Berlin by Frederick William, in 1679 he became director of the laboratory and glass works of Brandenburg.

Johannes Heinrich Schultz

In 1924, he established himself as a psychiatrist in Berlin.

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.

Laureana Toledo

• Strategics Questions Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlín, 2005

Leo Schulz

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

Little Hells

The poster for the Little Hells European Tour was designed by Berlin-based poster artist Stefan Guzy.

Manfred Selchow

In 1945 his mother and two siblings fled from the Red Army and ended up in Berlin, where he went to school and spent his entire youth.

Max Jakob Friedländer

He was a specialist in Early Netherlandish painting and the Northern Renaissance, who volunteered at the Kupferstichkabinett or prints collection of the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin in 1891 under Friedrich Lippmann.

Memorial to the Sinti and Roma victims of National Socialism

The city of Berlin initially wanted to place it in the less prominent district of Marzahn, where hundreds of Roma and Sinti were held in terrible conditions from 1936.

Metal Marines

High Commander Liften Schwaltz: Basically the right-hand man to Zorgeuf the Great, this tough German was born in Berlin shortly after World War III united Europe once again.

Miles in Berlin

Miles in Berlin is an album recorded on September 25, 1964, by the Miles Davis Quintet at the Philharmonie Hall, Berlin, Germany.

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.

Otto Kanturek

In 1920 he moved to Berlin and spent the 1920s working on several films, including Fritz Lang's Frau im Mond.

Paul Romero

--IS THIS THE CORRECT LOCATION THE Gemäldegalerie? IF NOT THEN THERE DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE ANY OTHER LINK TO A MUSEM OF THAT NAME IN BERLIN-->Gemeldiche Museum in Berlin, Germany as well as one performance at the Berliner Philharmonie.

Per Anger

Soon afterwards, the Ministry for Foreign Affairs offered him a trainee position at the Swedish legation in Berlin, which he began in January 1940.

Peter Friedrich Bouché

Peter Friedrich Bouché (15 February 1785, Berlin - 3 April 1856, Berlin) was a German botanist and entomologist.

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.

Prussian Military Academy

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

Radio Königsberg

Radio Königsberg was originally produced at the Haus des Rundfunks in Berlin, but moved to East Prussian Königsberg (present-day Kaliningrad) when the Allies started to bomb Berlin.

Ray Kaye

Raymond Kaye (February 16, 1912 – July 17, 1983) was an American competition swimmer who represented the United States at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany.

René Lacelle

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

Rudolf Schlichter

Called for military service in World War I, he carried out a hunger strike to secure early release, and in 1919 he moved to Berlin where he joined the Communist Party of Germany and the "November" group.

Schmelz

A native of Schmelz would be called a Schmelzer as in a person from Berlin being referred to as a Berliner.

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.

Shake the Disease

"Shake the Disease" is Depeche Mode's thirteenth UK single recorded at Hansa Mischraum in Berlin (released on 29 April 1985), and was one of two new songs released on the compilation The Singles (81-85) the same year, along with "It's Called a Heart".

Shark Vegas

Shark Vegas was a Berlin based New wave band, consisting of ex-Factory Records German representative, Mark Reeder (guitar/tapes/keyboards), Alistair Gray (vocals), Leo Walter (drums/percussion) and Helmut Wittler (bass/keyboards).

Spreadshirt

While maintaining its headquarters in Leipzig, Spreadshirt has opened up European branch offices in Berlin, Germany; Paris, France; the city of Utrecht in the Netherlands.

Sun Electric

Sun Electric is the name of an electronic music group from Berlin.

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.

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.

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.

Trafficators

The final complete system came in 1927 when Berlin-based Max Ruhl and Ernst Neuman combined internal illumination and solenoid operation.

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.

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.

Walter T. Galligan

During the Berlin airlift, 1948–1949, Galligan piloted C-47 aircraft between Wiesbaden Air Base, Germany, and Tempelhof Airport, Berlin.

We Will Never Die

It is unlikely that Weill and Ben Hecht had met during Hecht's reporting stint for the Chicago Daily News in Berlin in the early 1920s, but Weill had identified Hecht as early as 1934 as a potential American collaborator.

Wolfgang Lukschy

Wolfgang Lukschy (born 19 October 1905 – 10 July 1983 in Berlin) was a German actor and dubber.

Wolverine: Origins

Wolverine is briefly knocked unconscious, giving Omega Red a head start for the carbonadium, which is in Berlin.


1930 World Ice Hockey Championships

The 1930 Men's Ice Hockey World Championships were held between January 30 and February 10, 1930 in Chamonix, France, Vienna, Austria, and Berlin, Germany.

4 Days in May

As it turned out in a private conversation, he wrote about the "brotherhood of the weapon" on the island of Rügen in the Baltic Sea from mega-geopolitical considerations: the need to tolerate the Germans, to create the axis Berlin-Moscow-Pekin.

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.

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.

Anatol Provazník

He studied "radiophony" in Berlin and after return to Prague he helped to set up the music department of the Czech Radio.

Anton Zilzer

He was a pupil of Rauscher, Gregusz, and Székely at the national model school of design, and later studied at the Munich Academy under Raupp, Hackl, Seitz, and Herterich, completing his education at Berlin, Paris, and London.

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.

Brent Berlin

In 1968, Berlin, Breedlove and Raven studied the botanical ethnography of the Tzeltal Maya people of Chiapas, Mexico.

Christian Olsson

2004: Turin (Grand Prix) - 17.61 m; Bergen (Golden League) - 17.58 m; Bydgoszcz (European Cup super league) - 17.30 m; Gateshead (Grand Prix) - 17.43 m; Rome (Golden League) - 17.50 m; Paris Saint-Denis (Golden League) - 17.41 m; Zürich (Golden League) - 17.46 m; Brussels (Golden League) - 17.44 m; Berlin (Golden League) - 17.45 m; Monaco (World Athletics Final) - 17.66 m

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.

Double-decker tram

Double-deck trams were once popular in some European cities, like Berlin and London, throughout the British Empire countries in the early half of the 20th century including Auckland, Christchurch and Wellington in New Zealand; Hobart, Tasmania in Australia and in parts of Asia.

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.

Gladys Dick

Dick's years at Johns Hopkins and Berlin "marked her introduction to biomedical research" and provided opportunities to study experimental cardiac surgery and blood chemistry with Harvey Cushing, W.G. MacCallum, and Milton Winternitz.

Hans Thacher Clarke

In 1911 he was awarded an 1851 Exhibition Scholarship, which allowed him to study for three semesters in Berlin under Emil Fischer, and one semester with A. W. Stewart at Queen's College, Belfast.

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.

Isadore Freed

Following this Freed went to Berlin where he briefly studied piano with Josef Weiss, and then to Paris where he studied composition with Ernst Bloch, Nadia Boulanger, Louis Vierne and Vincent d'Indy.

Istvan Kantor

In 2004, he threw a vial of his own blood on a wall beside a sculpture of Michael Jackson by Paul McCarthy in the Hamburger Bahnhof contemporary art museum of Berlin.

Johannes Heisig

His large triptych "Be Berlin or: The Unifying Power of Music" shows musicians playing beside John F. Kennedy on his Berlin visit in the 1960s sitting in a car together with Willy Brandt and Konrad Adenauer.

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.

Jutta Rüdiger

Born in Berlin but raised in Düsseldorf where her father was an engineer, Rüdiger was trained as a psychologist.

Ludwig Bölkow

Bölkow’s first job was with Heinkel, the aircraft company, before studying aero-engineering at the Technical University in Berlin.

Margaret Mee

In 1933 she was in Berlin and witnessed the burning of the Reichstag and subsequent Jewish boycott which confirmed her left-wing views.

Matthias Piller

Horn and Schenkling 1928-1929.Index Litteratuae Entomologicae Horn, Berlin-Dahlem.

Max Bruch

Bruch had a long career as a teacher, conductor and composer, moving among musical posts in Germany: Mannheim (1862–1864), Koblenz (1865–1867), Sondershausen, (1867–1870), Berlin (1870–1872), and Bonn, where he spent 1873–78 working privately.

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.

Nicolae Milescu

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

Palm Heinrich Ludwig von Boguslawski

A native of Magdeburg, Boguslawski met Johann Elert Bode (1747–1826), who was an observatory director in Berlin and published the celestial atlas Uranographia, at the Prussian Military Academy in Berlin between 1811–12, when Boguslawski did his military service.

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.

Quiero Verte Más

Pre-production was done in Berlin, Germany with producers Vicente Sanfuentes and the Canadian Mocky who worked previously with Jamie Lidell, Jane Birkin, Peaches and Nikka Costa.

Raw Melody Men

The album was recorded during the 1990 Impurity tour at the Brixton Academy, The Town & Country Club in London, the Berlin Eissporthalle and the Hamburg Sportshalle.

Rumpler

Rumpler Flugzeugwerke, usually known simply as Rumpler was a German aircraft manufacturer founded in Berlin by Austrian engineer Edmund Rumpler in 1909 as Rumpler Luftfahrtzeugbau.

Sakıp Sabancı Museum

An impressive collection of 19th century French porcelain, including large numbers of Sèvres vases, and German porcelain produced in Berlin and Vienna are among the most valuable items in the collection.

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.

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.

Steglitz

The southwestern surroundings of Berlin saw considerable change in the second half of the 19th century when luxurious residential areas were developed in the neighboring villages of Lichterfelde and later Dahlem.

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.

The Treasurer's Report

Benchley's disjointed parody so delighted those in attendance that Irving Berlin hired Benchley in 1923 to deliver the Report as part of Berlin's Music Box Revue for $500 a week.

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.

Vasily Seseman

In Berlin and Marburg, he took courses in philosophy, psychology, and pedagogics under Hermann Cohen, Paul Natorp, Ernst Cassirer, Hermann Alexander Diels, and Heinrich Wölfflin.

Vladimir Rebikov

Rebikov taught and played in concerts in various parts of the Russian Empire: Moscow, Odessa, Kishinev, Yalta, as well as in Berlin, Vienna, Prague, Leipzig, Florence and Paris, where met Claude Debussy, Oscar Nedbal, Zdenek Needly, and others.

Walter Zander

He married Gretl Magnus in Berlin in 1931, and they had three sons and a daughter, among them legal scholar Michael Zander and conductor Benjamin Zander.

Women for Israel's Tomorrow

Nadia Matar, the group's co-chair, caused controversy across the Israeli political spectrum in September 2004 when she compared the government's intention to remove Israeli settlers from Gaza to the involvement of the Judenrat ("Jewish Council") in Berlin in 1942, which under orders from the German government organized the expulsion of the Jewish community from that city.