100 Notable alumni of
Berlin University of the Arts
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The Berlin University of the Arts is 481st in the world, 173rd in Europe, and 25th in Germany by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the Berlin University of the Arts sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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- designerteacherarchitect
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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was a German-American architect, academic, and interior designer. He was commonly referred to as Mies, his surname. He is regarded as one of the pioneers of modern architecture.
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Günter Grass
- Years
- 1927-2015 (aged 88)
- Enrolled in the Berlin University of the Arts
- Studied in 1953-1956
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- novelistautobiographerlyricistgraphic artistphotographer
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Günter Wilhelm Grass was a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Martina Gedeck
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- film actorscreenwriter
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Martina Gedeck is a German actress. She achieved international recognition due to her roles in films such as Mostly Martha (2001), The Lives of Others (2006), and The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008). She has won several awards, including two Deutscher Filmpreis, in 1997 for Supporting Actress in Life is All You Get, and in 2002 for Actress in Mostly Martha.
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Wotan Wilke Möhring
- Enrolled in the Berlin University of the Arts
- Studied visual communication
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- audio drama actormusicianfilm actormodelstage actor
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Wotan Wilke Möhring is a German actor.
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Max Raabe
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- composerbandleaderconductorsinger
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Max Raabe is a German jazz singer. He is best known as the founder and leader of the Palast Orchester.
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Kurt Weill
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- film score composercomposerconductorpedagogue
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Kurt Julian Weill was a German-born American composer active from the 1920s in his native country, and in his later years in the United States. He was a leading composer for the stage who was best known for his fruitful collaborations with Bertolt Brecht. With Brecht, he developed productions such as his best-known work, The Threepenny Opera, which included the ballad "Mack the Knife". Weill held the ideal of writing music that served a socially useful purpose, Gebrauchsmusik. He also wrote several works for the concert hall and a number of works on Jewish themes. He became a United States citizen in 1943.
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Tanja Wedhorn
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- film actoractortelevision actor
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Tanja Wedhorn is a German actress. She studied acting at the Berlin University of the Arts and lives in Berlin. She has two sons.
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Antonia Brico
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- conductorpianist
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Antonia Louisa Brico was a Dutch-born American conductor and pianist.
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Melika Foroutan
- Enrolled in the Berlin University of the Arts
- 1999-2003 studied theatre
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- actorfilm actor
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Melika Foroutan is a German-Iranian actress.
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Rosa von Praunheim
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- writercinematographeractorscreenwriterfilm producer
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Holger Bernhard Bruno Mischwitzky, known professionally as Rosa von Praunheim, is a German film director, author, producer, professor of directing and one of the most influential and famous queer activists in the German-speaking world. A pioneer of Queer Cinema and gay activist from the very beginning, von Praunheim was a key co-founder of the modern lesbian and gay movement in West Germany and Switzerland. He was an early advocate of AIDS awareness and safer sex. His films center on queer-related themes and strong female characters, are characterized by excess and employ a campy style. They have featured such personalities as Keith Haring, Larry Kramer, Diamanda Galás, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Judith Malina, Jeff Stryker, Jayne County, Divine, Charlotte von Mahlsdorf and a row of Warhol superstars. In over 50 years, von Praunheim has made more than 150 films (short and feature-length films). His works influenced the development of LGBTQ+ movements worldwide.
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Sascha Lobo
- Enrolled in the Berlin University of the Arts
- 1998-2013 graduated with Diplom
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- writerbloggercopywriterjournalist
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Sascha Lobo is a German blogger, writer, journalist, Audiobook-narrator and copywriter. Lobo's work is primarily concerned with the Internet and with the social effects of new technology.
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Claudio Arrau
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- pianist
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Claudio Arrau León was a Chilean and American pianist known for his interpretations of a vast repertoire spanning the baroque to 20th-century composers, especially Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt and Brahms. He is widely considered one of the greatest pianists of the twentieth century.
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Otto Klemperer
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- composerconductor
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Otto Nossan Klemperer was a German conductor and composer, originally based in Germany, and then the United States, Hungary and finally, Great Britain. He began his career as an opera conductor, but he was later better known as a conductor of symphonic music.
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Friederike Becht
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- stage actorfilm actoractor
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Friederike Becht is a German actress.
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Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
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- opera singer
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Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau was a German lyric baritone and conductor of classical music. One of the most famous Lieder (art song) performers of the post-war period, he is best known as a singer of Franz Schubert's Lieder, particularly "Winterreise" of which his recordings with accompanists Gerald Moore and Jörg Demus are still critically acclaimed half a century after their release.
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Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
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- opera singermusic educator
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Dame Olga Maria Elisabeth Friederike Schwarzkopf, DBE was a German-born Austro-British lyric soprano. She was among the foremost singers of lieder, and is renowned for her performances of Viennese operetta, as well as the operas of Mozart, Wagner and Richard Strauss. After retiring from the stage, she was a voice teacher internationally. She is considered one of the greatest sopranos of the 20th century.
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Vera Tschechowa
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- film producerfilm actorscreenwriterstage actorfilm director
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Vera Wilhelmowna Rust, known as Vera Tschechowa, was a German producer, director, screenwriter, and actress of Russian descent. She appeared in more than 50 films between 1957 and 1996. She was widely known as Elvis Presley's companion, particularly in connection with his Oral Poliomyelitis Vaccine (OPV) public booster-advocacy and which they both undertook during Presley's first year in Germany with the U.S. Army (1959).
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Joachim Sauter
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- university teachersculptordesignerartist
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Joachim Sauter was a German media artist, designer and technology entrepreneur. He was appointed Professor for New Media Art and Design at the Universität der Künste Berlin, UdK (Berlin University of the Arts) in 1991, and in 1993 he created Terravision (computer program), before pursuing a lawsuit against Google for infringing the patent. He became an adjunct professor at UCLA, Los Angeles in 2001.
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Hossein Alizadeh
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- musiciancomposermusicologistteacher
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Hossein Alizadeh is an Iranian musician, composer, radif-preserver, researcher, teacher, and tar, shurangiz and setar instrumentalist and improviser. He has performed with such musicians as Shahram Nazeri, Mohammad-Reza Shajarian, Alireza Eftekhari and Jivan Gasparyan, as well as with a number of orchestras and ensembles.
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Inka Friedrich
- Enrolled in the Berlin University of the Arts
- Studied in 1984-1988
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- stage actorfilm actoractor
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Inka Friedrich is a German actress.
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Moritz Moszkowski
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- composerconductorpianistmusicologist
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Moritz Moszkowski was a German-Polish composer, pianist, and teacher. His brother Alexander Moszkowski was a famous writer and satirist in Berlin.
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Adriana Altaras
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- actorfilm actorstage actortheatrical directorwriter
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Adriana Altaras is a German actress, theatre director and author.
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Leopold Godowsky
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- composerpianistmusic educator
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Leopold Mordkhelovich Godowsky Sr. was a Lithuanian-born American virtuoso pianist, composer and teacher. He was one of the most highly regarded performers of his time, known for his theories concerning the application of relaxed weight and economy of motion within pianistic technique – principles later propagated by his pupils, such as Heinrich Neuhaus.
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Isang Yun
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- composerconductormusicologistmusic educator
- Biography
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Isang Yun, or Yun I-sang, was a Korean-born composer who made his later career in West Germany.
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Gudrun Gut
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- musicianrecord producerdisc jockey
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Gudrun Gut is a German electronic musician, DJ, presenter, music producer and founder of the Monika Enterprise record label.
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Uwe Kröger
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- film actorstage actorsingeractor
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Uwe Kröger is a German actor, singer, and he plays Guitar. He is a musical star in the German-speaking countries of the world. Besides starring on stage, Kröger has taken part in galas and concerts, as well as making television and film appearances. He has released cast recordings and solo CDs. He also played Captain Von Trapp singing in German and English on Edelweiss.
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Eddie Rosner
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- composerjazz musicianviolinistconductortrumpeter
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Adolph Ignatievich Rosner, known professionally as Ady Rosner and Eddie Rosner was a German, Polish, and Soviet jazz trumpeter sometimes called "The White Louis Armstrong" or "Polish Louis Armstrong". He was a prisoner in the Gulag when Joseph Stalin was General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
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Farhang Sharif
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- composerlutenist
- Biography
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Farhang Sharif was an Iranian musician and renowned tar player.
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Aribert Reimann
- Enrolled in the Berlin University of the Arts
- Studied in 1954-1958
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- musiciancomposerpianistlibrettist
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Aribert Reimann was a German composer, pianist, and accompanist, known especially for his literary operas. His version of Shakespeare's King Lear, the opera Lear, was written at the suggestion of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, who performed the title role. His opera Medea after Grillparzer's play premiered in 2010 at the Vienna State Opera. He was a professor of contemporary Lied (art song) in Hamburg and Berlin. In 2011, he was awarded the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize for his life's work.
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Jasper Morrison
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- engineerindustrial designerfurniture designerwriterdesigner
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Jasper Morrison CBE RDI is an English product and furniture designer. He is known for the refinement and apparent simplicity of his designs. In a rare interview with the designer, he is quoted as saying: "Objects should never shout."
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Toshio Hosokawa
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- music educatorcomposer
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Toshio Hosokawa is a Japanese composer of contemporary classical music. He studied in Germany but returned to Japan, finding a personal style inspired by classical Japanese music and culture. He has composed operas, the oratorio Voiceless Voice in Hiroshima, and instrumental music.
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Norbert Bisky
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- painterdraftsperson
- Biography
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Norbert Bisky is a German artist based in Berlin. He is one of the most important representatives of a new figurative painting in the 21st century.
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Jenő Hubay
- Enrolled in the Berlin University of the Arts
- Studied in 1876
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- university teachercomposermusic educatorclassical violinist
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Jenő Hubay von Szalatna, also known by his German name Eugen Huber ( pronounced [ˈɔʏɡeːn ˈhuːbɐ, ˈɔʏɡn̩ -]), was a Hungarian violinist, composer and music teacher.
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F. W. Bernstein
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- poetphotographeruniversity teacherwritercaricaturist
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F. W. Bernstein was a German poet, cartoonist, satirist, and academic. He worked for the satirical biweekly pardon. After teaching at schools, he was professor of caricature and comics at the Berlin Academy of the Arts from 1984 to 1999. He was one of the founding members of the Neue Frankfurter Schule, which published the satirical magazine Titanic.
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Kan’ichi Shimofusa
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- composer
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Kanichi Shimofusa was a Japanese composer.
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Raúl Aguayo-Krauthausen
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- bloggerdisability rights activisthuman rights activistnon-fiction writer
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Raúl Aguayo-Krauthausen is a German disability rights activist. He was awarded the Order of Merit of Germany and is an Ashoka Fellow.
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Maria Marc
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- paintertextile designertextile artist
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Maria Franck-Marc, née Bertha Pauline Marie Franck, was a German artist. She is also known as the wife of the painter Franz Marc.
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Agi Jambor
- Enrolled in the Berlin University of the Arts
- Studied in 1931
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- composerclassical pianistmusic educator
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Agi Jambor was a Hungarian-born pianist.
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Karl Leister
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- university teachermusic educatorclarinetist
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Karl Leister is a classical clarinet player from Wilhelmshaven, Germany. At a very young age, he learned to play the clarinet from his father, also a clarinetist, and later studied at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin. As a teenager, he was accepted into the Komische Oper Berlin under Václav Neumann and Walter Felsenstein as clarinet soloist.
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Grete Trakl
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- pianist
- Biography
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Grete Trakl was an Austrian pianist and sister of the Austrian poet Georg Trakl.
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Arnold Mendelssohn
- Enrolled in the Berlin University of the Arts
- Studied in 1876-1880
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- music educatorcomposer
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Arnold Ludwig Mendelssohn, was a German composer and music teacher.
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Gotthard Graubner
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- printmakeruniversity teacherpainter
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Gotthard Graubner was a German painter, born in Erlbach, in Saxony, Germany.
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Carl Joseph Begas
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- painteruniversity teacher
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Carl Joseph Begas, or Karl Begas, was a German painter who played an important role in the transition from Romanticism to Realism. He was the first in a multi-generational "dynasty" of artists.
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Jacques Rossi
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- writer
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Jacques Rossi was a Polish-French writer and polyglot. Rossi was best known for his books on the Gulag.
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Farrah El-Dibany
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- opera singer
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Farrah El-Dibany an Egyptian mezzo-soprano. She is the first Egyptian and African singer to join the Paris Opera Academy in 2016.
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Rudolf Belling
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- sculptorlithographer
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Rudolf Belling was a German sculptor. His work was part of the sculpture event in the art competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics.
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Ingo Kühl
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- artistdraftspersonpaintersculptorarchitect
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Ingo Kühl is a German painter, sculptor and architect.
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Dea Loher
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- writerplaywright
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Dea Loher is a German playwright and author.
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Şeyda Kurt
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- curatororatoropinion journalistpodcasterjournalist
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Şeyda Kurt is a German journalist and author.
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Julius von Bismarck
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- photographerresearcherperformance artistartistinstallation artist
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Julius von Bismarck is a German artist currently living and working in Berlin, Germany. He attended the Berlin University of the Arts and the Hunter College in New York City.
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Oliver Mark
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- photographerartist
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Oliver Mark is a German photographer, known primarily for his portrait photographs of international celebrities.
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Peter Schumann
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- sculptordirectorpuppeteerpuppet designerdancer
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Peter Schumann is the co-founder and director of the Bread & Puppet Theater. Born in Silesia, he was a sculptor and dancer in Germany before moving to the United States in 1961. In 1963 he founded Bread & Puppet in New York City, and in 1970 moved to the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont, eventually settling in Glover, Vermont, where the company still performs. Schumann's best known work is the Domestic Resurrection Circus, performed annually by the Bread and Puppet Theater until 1998. He was married to theater co-founder Elka Schumann until her death in August 2021.
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Marina Chiche
- Enrolled in the Berlin University of the Arts
- Graduated with master's degree
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- violinistmusic educatorradio personality
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Marina Chiche is a French classical violinist.
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Mehmet Aksoy
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- sculptor
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Mehmet Aksoy is a Turkish sculptor. His sculptures often contain sensual figurative elements, but he is strongly rooted in a modernist sensibility with strong conceptual and abstract elements in his work. He works primarily in stone but also incorporates other material, fusing metal or differing stones in a single sculpture. He presently resides and works in a studio of his own dramatic design on the outskirts of Istanbul.
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Eduard Bendemann
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- sculptoruniversity teacherpainter
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Eduard Julius Friedrich Bendemann was a German-Jewish painter.
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Karl Ferdinand Sohn
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- painteruniversity teacher
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Karl Ferdinand Sohn was a German painter of the Düsseldorf school of painting.
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Else Berg
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- resistance fighterdraftspersonpaintercover artistwatercolorist
- Biography
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Else Berg was a German-born Dutch painter of Jewish descent; associated with the Bergense School. She was married to the Dutch painter, Mommie Schwarz. She and her husband were both murdered in the Holocaust.
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Rudolf Wagner-Régeny
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- university teachercomposerpianistconductor
- Biography
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Rudolf Wagner-Régeny was a composer, conductor, and pianist. Born in Transylvania, Kingdom of Hungary, since 1920 Romania, he became a German citizen in 1930, and then East German after 1945.
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Aram Bartholl
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- artistvisual artistinternet artistconceptual artistdesigner
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Aram Bartholl is a Berlin-based conceptual artist known for his examination of the relationship between the digital and physical world. His works often deal with anonymity and privacy. Aram Bartholl is currently Professor for art with digital media at HAW Hamburg.
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Felicitas Kukuck
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- composerpianistmusic educator
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Felicitas Kukuck was a German music educator and composer of opera and other works.
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Kostas Giannidis
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- actorsingerfilm score composerconductorcomposer
- Biography
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Ioannis Constantinidis, also known by the pen name Kostas Giannidis (Greek: Κώστας Γιαννίδης; 21 August 1903 – 17 January 1984), was a Greek composer, pianist and conductor.
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Marwan Kassab-Bachi
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- graphic artistuniversity teacherpainter
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Marwan Kassab-Bachi, commonly known as Marwan, was a Syrian painter. Born in Damascus, he first studied at Damascus University before moving to Berlin, Germany, where he enrolled in the Hochschule der Bildende Künste. He stayed there for most of his life, and was appointed full professor in 1980.
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Eduard Franck
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- composeruniversity teacherpianist
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Eduard Franck was a German composer, pianist and music pedagogue.
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George Georgescu
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- conductor
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George Georgescu was a Romanian conductor. The moving force behind the Bucharest Philharmonic Orchestra for decades beginning shortly after World War I, a protégé of Artur Nikisch and a close associate of George Enescu, he received honors from the French and communist Romanian governments and lived to make recordings in the stereo era.
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Josephine Meckseper
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- photographerfilmmakerphotojournalistinstallation artist
- Biography
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Josephine Meckseper is a German-born artist, based in New York City. Her large-scale installations and films have been exhibited in various international biennials and museum shows worldwide.
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Julian Charrière
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- photographerartist
- Biography
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Julian Charrière is a French-Swiss conceptual artist currently living and working in Berlin. He uses several artistic approaches including photography, performance, sculpture, and video, to address concepts relating to time and human's relationship to the natural world.
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Katharina Szelinski-Singer
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- sculptor
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Katharina Szelinski-Singer, born as Katharina Singer was a German sculptor. She lived in Berlin from 1945 until her death.
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Helen Hyde
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- etcherengraverartistprintmaker
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Helen Hyde was an American etcher and engraver. She is best known for her color etching process and woodblock prints reflecting Japanese women and children characterizations.
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Robert Hausmann
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- university teachercomposercellistmusic educator
- Biography
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Robert Hausmann was a notable 19th-century German cellist who premiered important works by Johannes Brahms (including the Double Concerto) and Max Bruch (including Kol Nidrei). He was the cellist for the Joachim Quartet and taught at the Berlin Königliche Hochschule für Müsik.
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Tossy Spivakovsky
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- concertmastermusic educatorviolinistmusiciansoloist
- Biography
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Nathan "Tossy" Spivakovsky, a Jewish, Russian Empire-born, German-trained violin virtuoso, was considered one of the greatest violinists of the 20th century.
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Cesar Klein
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- graphic artistpainterdesignergraphic designerscenographer
- Biography
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César Klein was a German Expressionist painter and designer, probably best known as one of the founders the November Group and the Arbeitsrat für Kunst. He is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting.
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Avitall Gerstetter
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- hazzan
- Biography
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Avitall Gerstetter is the first female hazzan (cantor) in Jewish Renewal and the first female cantor in Germany.
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Milena Glimbovski
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- businesspersonenvironmentalistauthor
- Biography
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Milena Glimbovski is a Russian–German entrepreneur, author and zero-waste activist. Glimbovski is mostly known for founding of the Berlin-based "Original Unverpackt" zero-waste grocery store.
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Louis Tuaillon
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- sculptor
- Biography
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Louis Tuaillon was a Prussian sculptor. From 1879 to 1881, he attended the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Berlin, then worked in the studio of Reinhold Begas. In Vienna, he spent two years in the studio of Rudolf Weyr. He then spent the years 1885 to 1903 in Rome. From 1906, Tuaillon was once again in Berlin, as Professor in the academy.
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Willy Burmester
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- musiciancomposerconcertmasterviolinist
- Biography
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Carl Adolph Wilhelm “Willy” Burmester was a German violinist.
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Hugo Kaun
- Enrolled in the Berlin University of the Arts
- In 1876 studied composed musical work
- Occupations
- university teachercomposerconductormusic educator
- Biography
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Hugo Wilhelm Ludwig Kaun was a German composer, conductor, and music teacher.
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Ignatz Waghalter
- Occupations
- composerconductor
- Biography
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Ignatz Waghalter was a Polish-German composer and conductor.
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Caroline Fischer
- Occupations
- pianist
- Biography
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Caroline Fischer is a German pianist. She has performed globally and has received numerous awards and prizes.
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Filipa César
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- sculptorfilm directorvideo artistteacher
- Biography
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Filipa César is an artist and filmmaker. She lives and works in Berlin, and studied at the Faculty of Arts in Porto and Lisbon (1996–99), the Academy of Arts in Munich (1999–2000) and MA Art in Context, University of Arts, Berlin (2007). Since April 2021 César is professor at Merz Akademie Stuttgart, Germany.
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Hermann Stilke
- Occupations
- history painterpainter
- Biography
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Anton Hermann Stilke was a German painter; associated with the Düsseldorfer Malerschule. He is best known for his scenes from the life of Joan of Arc.
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Wolf Hilbertz
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- environmentalistuniversity teacherarchitect
- Biography
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Wolf Hartmut Hilbertz was a German-born futurist architect, inventor, and marine scientist. Notable contributions to science include the discovery of artificial mineral accretetion / biorock and its use to create artificial reefs and other structures using electricity to attract materials already found in ocean water.
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Suzanne Eisendieck
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- painter
- Biography
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Suzanne Eisendieck was a German Post-Impressionist painter native of Danzig.
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Susanne Alt
- Occupations
- composerjazz musiciansaxophonist
- Biography
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Susanne Alt is a German jazz saxophone player and composer based in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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Myron Michailidis
- Occupations
- music directorpianistconductor
- Biography
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Myron Michailidis is a Greek conductor, since 2019 Artistic Director of the new Cultural and Conference Center of Crete (CCCC), in Heraklion, Greece. He is regarded today as one of the most important Greek conductors.
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Theodosia Ntokou
- Occupations
- classical pianist
- Biography
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Theodosia Ntokou is a Greek classical pianist.
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Shahla Aghapour
- Occupations
- writerpainterpoetsculptor
- Biography
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Shahla Aghapour, also known as Shahla Aghapour–Benakohell is an Iranian visual artist, author and gallery director living in Germany. She works both as a writer and poet, as well as a painter, sculptor, performance artist and director of Galerie-Benakohell.
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Sascha Pohflepp
- Occupations
- artistopinion journalist
- Biography
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Sascha Pohflepp was a German artist, designer, and writer whose work focused on the role of technology’s influence on the environment, often collaborating with scientists and other artists to explore this theme.
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Ruthild Hahne
- Occupations
- resistance fightersculptor
- Biography
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Ruthild Hahne was a German sculptor. Her most productive phase coincided with the early years of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany).
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August Grahl
- Occupations
- portrait painterminiature painter
- Biography
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August Grahl was a German portrait painter and miniaturist.
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Johannes Haarklou
- Occupations
- composerorganistconductormusic criticjournalist
- Biography
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Johannes Haarklou was a Norwegian composer, organist, conductor, and music critic.
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Will Aronson
- Years
- 1981-.. (age 44)
- Occupations
- composer
- Biography
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William Landry Aronson is an American composer and writer for musical theater, whose work includes the scores for Pete the Cat, Mother, Me & the Monsters, and My Scary Girl. He also composed and co-wrote the book for the late 21st-century romance Maybe Happy Ending (2017), The Trouble with Doug, and Bungee Jump, cited by the NY Times in 2013 as Korea’s “most popular original musical,” and winner of Best Score at the Korean Musical Awards. Current projects include Hansel & Gretl & Heidi & Günter and Wind-Up Girl.
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Moshe Ziffer
- Occupations
- artistsculptor
- Biography
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Moshe Ziffer was an Israeli artist and sculptor.
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Otto Altenkirch
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Otto Altenkirch was a German Impressionist painter and set designer.
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Andrea Scrima
- Occupations
- artist
- Biography
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Andrea Scrima is an American novelist, essayist, and artist living in Berlin, Germany. An extensive essay on her experiences as an American living more than half her life abroad appeared 3 July 2018 in The Millions. In 2021, these observations were continued in the essay “On the Weaponization of Language in a Traumatized Nation,” published in LitHub.
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Winfried Muthesius
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Winfried Muthesius is a German painter, photographer and installation artist.
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Johanna Keimeyer
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Johanna Keimeyer is a German artist known for her experiential work. She has designed lighting fixtures and experimented with various photography techniques. Her work often integrates technology with art, fashion, and design.
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Adolfo Odnoposoff
- Occupations
- music educatorcellist
- Biography
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Adolfo Odnoposoff was an Argentine-born-and-raised cellist of Russian ancestry who performed in concerts for 5 decades in South, Central, and North America, the Caribbean, Europe, Israel, and the former USSR. He had performed as principal cellist in the Israel Philharmonic and many of the important orchestras of Latin America. He had soloed with major orchestras under conductors that include Arturo Toscanini, Erich Kleiber, Fritz Busch, Juan José Castro, Rafael Kubelik, Victor Tevah, Luis Herrera de la Fuente, Carlos Chavez, Paul Kletzki, Luis Ximénez Caballero (es), Willem van Otterloo, Sir John Barbirolli, Eduardo Mata, Antal Doráti, Jorge Sarmientos (es), Erich Kleiber, George Singer (1908–1980), Ricardo del Carmen (1937-2003), Anshel Brusilow, Pau Casals and Enrique Gimeno. He also performed a Khachaturian work under the direction of Khachaturian.
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Thomas Eller
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- photographerwritervisual artistexhibition curator
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Thomas Eller is a German visual artist and writer. Born and raised in the German district of Franconia he left Nuremberg in 1985 to study fine art at the Berlin University of the Arts. After his forced dismission he studied sciences of religion, philosophy and art history at Free University of Berlin. During this time he was also working as a scientific assistant at the Science Center Berlin for Social Research (WZB).
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Carla Henius
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- opera singer
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Carla Henius was a German operatic soprano and mezzo-soprano, voice teacher and librettist. She played a decisive role in promoting recent works by composers such as Arnold Schoenberg, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Luigi Nono for the stage. She wrote the libretto for an opera by Aribert Reimann.
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Per Hüttner
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- photographervisual artist
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Per Hüttner is a Swedish visual artist who lives and works in Paris. He is mostly known for his photographic work and for his interactive, changing and travelling exhibition projects. A number of monographs about his practice has been published including Per Hüttner, 2003; I am a Curator, 2004; Repetitive Time 2006, Xiao Yao You2006, Democracy and Desire 2007. The Imminent Interviews 2010 and The Quantum Police 2011.
