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Hardy Krüger ( born Franz Eberhard August Krüger; 12 April 1928 – 19 January 2022) was a German actor and author, who appeared in more than 60 films since 1944. After becoming a film star in Germany in ...
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Hildegard Frieda Albertine Knef ( 28 December 1925 – 1 February 2002) was a German actress, voice actress, singer, and writer. She was billed in some English-language films as Hildegard Neff or ...
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Christian Berkel (born 28 October 1957) is a German actor, internationally most known for Downfall, Inglourious Basterds, The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and Valkyrie.
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Anne Wiazemsky (14 May 1947 – 5 October 2017) was a French actress and novelist. Through her mother, she was the granddaughter of novelist and dramatist François Mauriac. She made her cinema debut at the ...
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Fritz Erich Georg Eduard von Manstein (24 November 1887 – 9 June 1973) was a German commander of the Wehrmacht, Nazi Germany's armed forces during the Second World War. He attained the rank of field marshal ...
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Christiane Vera Felscherinow (born 20 May 1962) is a German actress and musician who is best known for her contribution to the 1978 autobiographical book Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo (We Children of Zoo ...
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Heinrich Friedrich Ernst Blücher (29 January 1899 – 31 October 1970) was a German poet and philosopher. He was the second husband of Hannah Arendt whom he had first met in Paris in 1936. During his ...
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Sebastian Droste (born Willÿ Knobloch; 2 February 1898 – 27 June 1927) was a German poet, actor, and dancer associated with the underground art subculture of the Weimar Republic in the 1920s.
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Benedict Friedlaender (8 July 1866 – 21 June 1908; first name occasionally spelled Benedikt) was a German Jewish sexologist, sociologist, economist, volcanologist, and physicist.
German novelist, poet, essayist and Nobel Prize recipient
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Herta Müller (born 17 August 1953) is a Romanian-born German novelist, poet, essayist and recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Nițchidorf, Timiș County in Romania, her native language ...
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Alfred Graf von Schlieffen, generally called Count Schlieffen (28 February 1833 – 4 January 1913), was a German field marshal and strategist who served as chief of the Imperial German General Staff from ...
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Maren Ade (born 12 December 1976) is a German film director, screenwriter and producer. Even though Ade was born and raised in Germany, she is able to speak English fluently. Despite this, she claims that ...
German cultural critic, philosopher and social critic (1892–1940)
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Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin (15 July 1892 – 26 September 1940) was a German Jewish philosopher, cultural critic and essayist. An eclectic thinker, combining elements of German idealism, Romanticism ...
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Nelly Sachs (10 December 1891 – 12 May 1970) was a German-Swedish poet and playwright. Her experiences resulting from the rise of the Nazis in World War II Europe transformed her into a poignant spoke ...
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Frederick II (German: Friedrich II.; 24 January 1712 – 17 August 1786) was a Prussian king and military leader who ruled the Kingdom of Prussia from 1740 until 1786, at 46 years the longest reign ...
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Anna Judith Gertrud Helene Kerr OBE (surname pronounced KAR 14 June 1923 – 22 May 2019) was a German-born British writer and illustrator whose books sold more than 10 million copies around the world ...
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Friedrich Albert Moritz Schlick ( April 14, 1882 – June 22, 1936) was a German philosopher, physicist, and the founding father of logical positivism and the Vienna Circle.