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Peer Kusmagk(48)

Actor | Berlin (DE)

Peer Kusmagk (born 14 June 1975 in West Berlin) is a German actor and television host.

 

Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany(† 82)

Actor | Berlin (DE)

Wilhelm II (Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albert; 27 January 1859 – 4 June 1941) was the last German Emperor and King of Prussia from 1888 until his abdication in 1918, which marked the end of the German Empire and the House of Hohenzollern's 300-year reign in Prussia and 500-year reign in Brandenburg. Born during the reign of his granduncle Frederick William IV of Prussia, Wilhelm was the son of Prince Frederick William and Victoria, Princess Royal. Through his mother, he was the eldest of the 42 grandchildren of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. In March 1888, Wilhelm's father, Frederick William, ascended the German and Prussian thrones as Frederick III. Frederick died just 99 days later, and his son succeeded him as Wilhelm II. In March 1890, the young Wilhelm II dismissed Chancellor Otto von Bismarck and assumed direct control over his nation's policies, embarking on a bellicose "New Course" to cement Germany's status as a leading world power. Over the course of his reign, the German colonial empire acquired new territories in China and the Pacific (such as Jiaozhou Bay, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Caroline Islands) and became Europe's largest manufacturer. However, Wilhelm often undermined such progress by making tactless and threatening statements towards other countries without first consulting his ministers. Likewise, his regime did much to alienate itself from other great powers by initiating a massive naval build-up, contesting French control of Morocco, and building a railway through Baghdad that challenged Britain's dominion in the Persian Gulf. By the second decade of the 20th century, Germany could rely only on significantly weaker nations such as Austria-Hungary and the declining Ottoman Empire as allies. Despite strengthening Germany's position as a great power by building a powerful navy and promoting scientific innovation, Wilhelm's tactless public statements and erratic foreign policy greatly antagonized the international community and are considered by many to have substantially contributed to the fall of the German Empire. In 1914, his diplomatic brinksmanship culminated in Germany's guarantee of military support to Austria-Hungary during the July Crisis which plunged all of Europe into World War I. A lax wartime leader, Wilhelm left virtually all decision-making regarding strategy and organisation of the war effort to the German Army's Great General Staff. By August 1916, this broad delegation of power gave rise to a de facto military dictatorship that dominated the country's policies for the rest of the conflict. Despite emerging victorious over Russia and obtaining significant territorial gains in Eastern Europe, Germany was forced to relinquish all its conquests after a decisive defeat on the Western Front in the autumn of 1918. Losing the support of his country's military and many of his subjects, Wilhelm was forced to abdicate during the German Revolution of 1918–1919 which converted Germany into an unstable democratic state known as the Weimar Republic. Wilhelm subsequently fled to exile in the Netherlands, where he remained during its occupation by Nazi Germany in 1940 before dying there in 1941.

 

Arnold Lipp(† 51)

Crew | Berlin (DE)

Arnold Lippschitz (1901–1952) was a German screenwriter. Born the son of the playwright Arthur Lippschitz, his young brother was the art director Herbert Lippschitz. He began his film career in 1918 at the end of the First World War. Of Jewish background, he fled Nazi Germany going on to work in the French film industry where he was credited as Arnold Lipp, working among other films on Yoshiwara (1937) by Max Ophüls. Following the German invasion of France he emigrated to America, working in Hollywood where he was credited as Arnold Phillips.

 

Princess Soraya(† 69)

Actress | Isfahan (IR)

Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary (Persian: ثریا اسفندیاری بختیاری, romanized: Sorayâ Esfandiâri-Baxtiâri; 22 June 1932 – 25 October 2001) was Queen of Iran as the second wife of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, whom she married in 1951. Their marriage suffered many pressures, particularly when it became clear that she was infertile. She rejected the Shah's suggestion that he might take a second wife in order to produce an heir, as he rejected her suggestion that he might abdicate in favor of his half-brother. In March 1958, their divorce was announced. After a brief career as an actress, and a liaison with Italian film director Franco Indovina, Soraya lived alone in Paris until her death.

 

Bill Graham(† 60)

Actor | Berlin (DE)

Bill Graham (born Wulf Wolodia Grajonca; January 8, 1931 – October 25, 1991) was a German-American impresario and rock concert promoter from the 1960s until his death in 1991 in a helicopter crash.

 

Matthias Lilienthal(64)

Actor | Berlin (DE)

Matthias Lilienthal (born 21 December 1959) is a German dramaturge and theatre director.

 

Curt Alexander(† 44)

Crew | Berlin (DE)

Curt Alexander (1900-1945) was a German screenwriter. He originally worked as a dramaturge and theatre director before moving into film after the introduction of sound. Following the rise of the Nazi Party the Jewish Alexander emigrated to France working there and in Italy. He was a friend of fellow exile Max Ophüls, making several films with him including Everybody's Woman. After the German invasion of France in 1940 he fled to the Unoccupied Zone in the south of the country, working in 1942 on his final film Twilight at the Victorine Studios in Nice. He was subsequently arrested, taken to the Drancy internment camp and the deported to Flossenbürg concentration camp in Bavaria, where he died in the subcamp at Gröditz.

 

Boris Groys(77)

Actor | Berlin (DE)

Boris Efimovich Groys(born 19 March 1947 inBerlin,Germany) is an art critic, media theorist, and philosopher. He is a professor of Russian and Slavic Studies atNew York Universityand senior research fellow at the Academy of Design inKarlsruhe, Germany. He has been a professor ofAesthetics, Art History, andMedia Theoryat the Academy of Design/Center for Art and Media Technology (HfG/ZKM) in Karlsruhe, Germany and a visiting professor at a number of universities in the United States and Europe, including theUniversity of Pennsylvaniaand theUniversity of Southern California.

 

Hannah Pik-Goslar(† 93)

Actress | Mitte (DE)

Hannah Elisabeth Pick-Goslar (born Hanna Elisabeth Goslar; 12 November 1928 – 28 October 2022) was a German-born Israeli nurse and Holocaust survivor best known for her close friendship with writer Anne Frank. The girls attended the 6th Montessori School (renamed after Anne Frank in 1957) in Amsterdam and then the Jewish Lyceum. During The Holocaust, they saw each other again whilst imprisoned at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Goslar and her young sister were the only family members who survived the war, being rescued from the Lost Train. Both emigrated to Israel, where Hannah worked as a nurse for children. They shared their memories as eyewitnesses of the Holocaust.

 
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