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Volker Bengl is a German tenor, born in Ludwigshafen, Rhineland. He studied singing at the Hochschule für Musik in Mannheim and Heidelberg and... took private lessons with Rudolf Schock, Rina del Monaco, and Erika Köth. He was engaged by the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich, where his career continued for 16 years. In addition, he has appeared in over 50 German-language theaters, such as the Vienna Volksoper, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, and the Dresden Semperoper. His repertoire includes some 75 operas and operettas, and he has given 800 concerts worldwide.
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Lambert Hamel is a German television and film actor.

Renate Hoy, also credited as Renate Huy and Erika Nordin, was an actress. After winning the title of Miss Nürnberg, she was crowned Miss... Germany of 1952. She then traveled to the United States to represent her country in the first Miss Universe contest, which was held in Long Beach, California. Shortly thereafter, she became a contract player for Universal Studios and made several movies during the 1950s. She was in such films as Abbott and Costello Go to Mars, Missile to the Moon, The Golden Blade, The Birds and the Bees, The Sea Chase , A Certain Smile, and had a leading role in the German classic German film Schloß Hubertus. In 1954, she married actor Brett Halsey. They had two children, son Charles Oliver Hand and daughter Tracy Leigh. They divorced in 1959. Following a contentious actor's strike , Renate retired from acting. She eventually got re-married to a prominent tribal attorney Raymond C. Simpson.
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Daniela Denise Katzenberger is a German reality TV star, a singer, entrepreneur and model. She released her first single in August 2010, a version... of Nothing's Gonna Stop Me Now which reached number 19 on the German single charts. Since September 2010, she has had her own show on German TV channel VOX, entitled Daniela Katzenberger - natürlich blond. Daniela Katzenberger was born and raised in Ludwigshafen. After secondary school she trained as a beautician. Katzenberger is a qualified beauty therapist and won the title of Top Model of the World Mallorca. Her mother, Iris Klein, was a participant in the 10th season of the German version of TV show Big Brother. She became famous through the docu-soap Auf und davon – Mein Auslandstagebuch on VOX which has aired since April 2009. The broadcast showed how Katzenberger tried to meet Hugh Hefner and be featured in the American Playboy, neither of which succeeded. During the second season, she underwent plastic surgery. She has also been featured in the broadcasts MTV Home and at the VIVA Comet Awards 2010. After appearing in the docu-soap, she did some semi-nude photo shoots in Germany and the United States.
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