Frankfurt

The Römer is a medieval building in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, one of the city's most important landmarks. It has been the city hall or... Rathaus for 600 years. The Römer merchant family sold it together with a second building, the Goldener Schwan , to the city council on March 11, 1405 and it was converted for use as the city hall. The Haus Römer is actually the middle building of a set of three located in the Römerberg . The Römer is not a museum as it is actually used by the city for various purposes, for example as a Standesamt or civil registration office; the wedding rooms are located in the first and second floor of the Haus Löwenstein. The building complex has been continuously extended over the years, with eventually eleven houses connected to each other, resulting in a rather confusing interior. At the beginning of the 19th century, Frankfurt historian Anton Kirschner remarked that the Frankfurt city hall had "stairs, yards, halls and rooms in a labyrinthian mixture".
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The Frankfurt Zoological Garden is the zoo of Frankfurt, Germany. It features over 5,000 animals of more than 600 species on more than 13 hectares.... The zoo was founded in 1858 and is the second oldest Zoo in Germany. It lies in the eastern part of the Innenstadt . Former director of the zoo was Bernhard Grzimek. The Frankfurt Zoological Society was founded in 1858 by citizens of Frankfurt citizens to establish the Zoological Garden, which it operated until the First World War. The city council then assumed responsibility for the zoo until 1950, when the FZS again became the zoo's development association.
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Otto Heinrich "Pim" Frank was a German-born businessman and the father of Anne Frank and Margot Frank. As the sole member of his family to survive... the Holocaust, he inherited Anne's manuscripts after her death, arranged for the publication of her diary in 1947, and oversaw its translation to the stage and screen. Frank was born in Frankfurt. He was the second son of Michael Frank and Alice Stern Frank. His siblings were Robert Frank, Helene Frank, and Herbert Frank. Otto was a cousin of the well known furniture designer Jean-Michel Frank, and a grandson of Zacharias Frank. Frank served in the German army as an officer during the First World War. He worked in the bank his family ran until it collapsed in the early 1930s. He married Edith Holländer—an heiress to a scrap-metal and industrial-supply business—on 12 May 1925 in Frankfurt, and their first daughter, Margot Betti, was born on 16 February 1926, followed by Anne on 12 June 1929. As the tide of Nazism rose in Germany and anti-Jewish decrees encouraged attacks on Jewish individuals and families, Frank decided to evacuate his family to the safer western nations of Europe.
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Julianne Moore is a British-American actress and a children's book author. She has been nominated for four Oscars, six Golden Globes, three BAFTAs... and nine Screen Actors Guild Awards. Moore began her acting career in 1983 in minor roles, before joining the cast of the soap opera As the World Turns, for which she won a Daytime Emmy Award in 1988. She began to appear in supporting roles in films during the early 1990s, in films such as The Hand That Rocks the Cradle and The Fugitive. Her performance in Short Cuts won her and the rest of the cast a Golden Globe for their ensemble performance, and her performance in Boogie Nights brought her widespread attention and nominations for several major acting awards. Her success continued with films such as The Big Lebowski , The End of the Affair and Magnolia . She received particular acclaim for her portrayal of a betrayed wife in Far from Heaven , winning several critic awards as best actress of the year, in addition to several other nominations, including the Academy Award, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild Award.
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Kim Victoria Cattrall is an English-Canadian actress. She is known for her role as Samantha Jones in the HBO comedy/romance series Sex and the City... and for her leading roles in the 1980s films Police Academy, Big Trouble in Little China, Mannequin, and Porky's. For her role as Samantha Jones, she won a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2002 and received four nominations for the role. Her success in Sex and the City also led her to receive two Screen Actors Guild Awards out of seven nominations and five Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. In September and October 2011, she appeared in a production of Noël Coward's Private Lives in Toronto, Canada co-starring Paul Gross; the production then moved to Broadway where it opened for previews 6 November 2011. Cattrall was born in Mossley Hill, Liverpool, Merseyside. Her mother, Gladys Shane , was a secretary, and her father, Dennis Cattrall, was a construction engineer.
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Christiane Amanpour is CNN’s chief international correspondent based in New York. Amanpour has reported on most crises from the world’s... many news hotspots, including Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, Pakistan, Somalia, Rwanda and the Balkans. Christiane was born in London, England, 1958 to her Iranian father Mohammad and British mother Patricia. She studied journalism at the University of Rhode Island, graduating Summa Cum Laude wth a BA in journalism, 1983. She joined CNN in 1983 and since then has been a very familiar face in the network reporting from all over the world. She also joined CBS 60 minutes as a correspondent and won a Peabody award for some of her work with the program. She has received numerous awards including 9 Emmy's for news and documentary, Edward Murrow Award, Polk Award and many more. In 2007 she was recognized in the birthday honors list of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II with a highly prestigious CBE in the UK.
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Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank ; 12 June 1929 – early March 1945 was one of the most renowned and most discussed Jewish victims of the... Holocaust. Acknowledged for the quality of her writing, her diary has become one of the world's most widely read books, and has been the basis for several plays and films. Born in the city of Frankfurt am Main in Weimar Germany, she lived most of her life in or near Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. Born a German national, Frank lost her citizenship in 1941 when Nazi Germany passed the anti-Semitic Nuremberg Laws. She gained international fame posthumously after her diary was published. It documents her experiences hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. The Frank family moved from Germany to Amsterdam in 1933, the year the Nazis gained control over Germany. By the beginning of 1940, they were trapped in Amsterdam by the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. As persecutions of the Jewish population increased in July 1942, the family went into hiding in the hidden rooms of Anne's father, Otto Frank's, office building. After two years, the group was betrayed and transported to concentration camps.
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Nicholas Ashton erhielt seine Ausbildung in der Chetham's School, am Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester sowie in Frankfurt/M. und Genf.... Seine Lehrer waren Renna Kellaway and Joachim Volkmann, er wurde von Vlado Perlmuter, Joge Bolet, Joaquin Achucarro und Pierr Luarent Aimard unterwiesen. Er erhielt Kammermusikunterricht bei Roger Raphael, Emmanuel Hurwitz, Cecil Aronowitz und Lamar Crowson. Nach einer frühen, erfolgreichen Karriere, arbeitete er als Lehrer, Übersetzer und im Künstlermanagement. Ermutigt von Murray Perahia, dem er 1993 im Centre for Advanced Studies in Aldeburgh vorspielte, und von Menahem Pressler, mit dem er 1996 am Banff Centre for the Arts arbeitete, nahm er seine Konzertkarriere wieder auf. Ein in der Kritik gepriesenes Debutkonzert in Edinburghs Queen's Hall, führte zu einer kommerziellen Live-Aufnahme eines Klavierabends 1996. Es folgten weitere Angebote zu konzertieren, sowohl aus Großbritanienen als auch aus Deutschland. Nicholas Ashton ist seit Beginn des Hamburger Kammerkunstvereins regelmäßiger Gastkünstler und hat schon häufig als Gast und Vertreter die künstlerische Leitung der Lunchkonzerte übernommen. Von 2000 bis 2004 hat er Konzerte und Meisterklassen in den USA und in Finland gegeben. Nicholas hat häufig beim Radiosender BBCaufgenommen, man konnte ihn auch beim NDR, Radio Bayern 4, im Radio Suisse Romande, sowie im Radio in Neuseeland und in den USA hören. Sein Repertoire beinhaltet etwa 25 Solokonzerte mit Orchester, Soprepertoire von früher französischer Cembalomusik bis zur zeitgenössischen Musik und ein umfangreiches Repertoire in Kammermusik und Liedbegleitung. 2008 wurde Nicholas Ashtons Aufnahme des gesamten Klavierwerks von Robert Crawford für das Label Delphian Records international in den Medien gefeiert. Nicholas arbeitet seit Jahren regelmäßig mit dem Streichquartett „Edinburgh Quartet“, mit dem er das gesamte Quintettrepertoire aufgeführt hat. Ein anderer regelmäßiger Kammermusikpartner von Nicholas Ashton ist der englische Pianist Andrew Wilde, mit dem er im nächsten Jahr das gesamte Werk Mozarts für Klavierduo beim Label Hungaroton aufnehmen wird. Nicholas verbindet seine Konzerttätigkeit mit umfangreichen Aufgaben als Senior lecturer und Fachbereichsleiter an Edinburghs Napier Universität. In diesem Rahmen unterrichtet er neben Hauptfach Klavier alle Fächer, die mit Musikperformance zu tun haben und steht den Instrumentallehrern als Supervisor zur Verfügung. Seine wohl betreuten Studenten führen ihre Studien erfolgreich in allen wichtigen britischen Musikhochschulen zu Ende Er errichtet zur Zeit einen neuen, attraktiven konzertpraxisorientierten Studiengang an der Napier Universität in Edinburgh. Außerdem bereitet Nicholas gerade seine Doktorarbeit vor, in der er die Komponisten und Theoretiker, die mit mit der Frankfurter Schule in Verbindung standen, untersuchen wird.
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Hans Florian Zimmer, German pronunciation: [hans ˈfloːʁi̯aːn ˈtsɪmɐ]; is a German film composer and music... producer. He has composed music for over 100 films, including award winning film scores for The Lion King , Crimson Tide , Gladiator , The Last Samurai ,The Dark Knight , and Inception . Zimmer spent the early part of his career in the United Kingdom before moving to the United States. He is the head of the film music division at DreamWorks studios, and works with other composers through the company which he founded, Remote Control Productions. Zimmer's works are notable for integrating electronic music sounds with traditional orchestral arrangements. He has received four Grammy Awards, two Golden Globes, a Classical BRIT Award, and an Academy Award. He was also named on the list of Top 100 Living Geniuses, published by The Daily Telegraph. Zimmer was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. As a young child, he lived in Königstein-Falkenstein, where he played the piano at home, but had piano lessons only briefly as he disliked the discipline of formal lessons.
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Otto Heinrich "Pim" Frank was a German-born businessman and the father of Anne Frank and Margot Frank. As the sole member of his family to survive... the Holocaust, he inherited Anne's manuscripts after her death, arranged for the publication of her diary in 1947, and oversaw its translation to the stage and screen. Frank was born in Frankfurt. He was the second son of Michael Frank and Alice Stern Frank. His siblings were Robert Frank, Helene Frank, and Herbert Frank. Otto was a cousin of the well known furniture designer Jean-Michel Frank, and a grandson of Zacharias Frank. Frank served in the German army as an officer during the First World War. He worked in the bank his family ran until it collapsed in the early 1930s. He married Edith Holländer—an heiress to a scrap-metal and industrial-supply business—on 12 May 1925 in Frankfurt, and their first daughter, Margot Betti, was born on 16 February 1926, followed by Anne on 12 June 1929. As the tide of Nazism rose in Germany and anti-Jewish decrees encouraged attacks on Jewish individuals and families, Frank decided to evacuate his family to the safer western nations of Europe.
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Klark Kent is a graffiti artist and music producer. Klark Kent has been writing graffiti since 1989, and has gained international credit for his... work over the years. Besides books and magazines his art was shown on several exhibitions worldwide, including the Galleries Vincent Louis and Pacifico Fine Art in New York. Some of his pieces were used in the 2006 video game "Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure" by Marc Ecko. He is a member of the Montana Writer Team, a group sponsored by spray paint manufacturer Montana Cans. Together with his team mates and friends Atom, Can2 and Smash137 he realised many Projects around the world, including city trips and exhibitions. In 2007 they painted a huge wall in Dubai. Klark Kent has developed the Online Graffiti Game "Bomb the World" where users can virtually paint trains at 20 locations worldwide. The Game has won the „People’s Choice Award“ at the Flash Film Festival NYC in 2004. Klark Kent is currently working on a new version. As a musician he created the theme song for "Bomb the World" as well as the Instrumental for a song competition held among users of the game.
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Marcel Ophüls is a documentary film maker and former actor. He was born in Frankfurt, Germany, the son of the director Max Ophüls. He... became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1950. The son of director Max Ophüls, Marcel had a peripatetic childhood, which commentators have suggested facilitated his objective documentary accounts of the French national psyche. After education at Hollywood High while his father worked for the studios during the 1940s, Marcel served with the US occupying forces in Japan. When the family returned to Paris in 1950 Marcel became an assistant to Julien Duvivier and Anatole Litvak, and worked on John Huston’s Moulin Rouge and his father’s Lola Montès . Through François Truffaut, Ophüls got to direct an episode of the portmanteau film Love At Twenty . There followed the commercial hit Banana Peel , a detective film starring Jeanne Moreau and Jean-Paul Belmondo. With a slump in box-office fortunes, Ophüls turned to television news reporting and a documentary on the Munich crisis of 1938: Munich . He then embarked on his examination of France under Nazi occupation, The Sorrow And The Pity.
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Uwe Schmidt , is a German composer, musician and producer of electronic music. He is often regarded as the father of electrolatino, electrogospel and... acitón music. Schmidt was born in Frankfurt am Main, West Germany. During the early 1990s, he produced dance music under a number of monikers including Atom Heart. In 1994, Schmidt started his own label, Rather Interesting, with the aim of developing music that doesn't follow the "traditional paths of electronic music". In 1996 he invented the Señor Coconut moniker, and released the album El Gran Baile in 1997, right after he had moved to Santiago, Chile, in order to detach from the European music scene. His next release, in 2000, was El Baile Alemán, which featured several Kraftwerk classics reworked with Latin instrumentation and rhythms. He has often stated Latin American, and particularly Brazilian, music as a big influence. The album was credited to Señor Coconut y Su Conjunto, but the album was entirely the work of Schmidt on synthesizers and samplers, with the aid of three vocalists. It received just enough critical acclaim in the U.S.
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Colonel General Ernst Udet was the second-highest scoring German flying ace of World War I. He was one of the youngest aces and was the highest... scoring German ace to survive the war . His 62 victories were second only to Manfred von Richthofen, his commander in the Flying Circus. Udet rose to become a squadron commander under Richthofen, and later, under Hermann Göring. Following Germany's defeat, Udet spent the 1920s and early 1930s as a stunt pilot, international barnstormer, light aircraft manufacturer, and playboy. In 1933, he joined the Nazi Party and became involved in the early development of the Luftwaffe. He used his networking skills to be appointed as director of research and development for the burgeoning air force. He was especially influential in adoption of dive bombing techniques and the adoption of the Stuka dive bomber. By 1939, Udet had risen to the post of Director-General of Equipment for the Luftwaffe. However, the stress of the position and his distaste for administrative duties led to an increasing dependence on alcohol.
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