Potsdam

The Sportanlage Am Stern is a football stadium in the south-east of Potsdam, Germany. Fortuna Babelsberg play their home games here.

Sanssouci is the name of the former summer palace of Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, in Potsdam, near Berlin. It is often counted among the... German rivals of Versailles. While Sanssouci is in the more intimate Rococo style and is far smaller than its French Baroque counterpart, it too is notable for the numerous temples and follies in the park. The palace was designed by Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff between 1745 and 1747 to fulfill King Frederick's need for a private residence where he could relax away from the pomp and ceremony of the Berlin court. The palace's name emphasises this; it is a French phrase , which translates as "without concerns", meaning "without worries" or "carefree", symbolising that the palace was a place for relaxation rather than a seat of power. The palace is little more than a large single-storey villa—more like the Château de Marly than Versailles. Containing just ten principal rooms, it was built on the brow of a terraced hill at the centre of the park.
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Charlottenhof Palace or Charlottenhof Manor is located southwest of Sanssouci Palace in Sanssouci Park at Potsdam, Germany. It is most famous as the... summer residence of Crown Prince Frederick William . Today it is maintained by the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg. The park area with its various buildings can be traced back to the 18th century. After it had changed hands several times, King Frederick William III of Prussia bought the land that borders the south of Sanssouci Park and gave it to his son Frederick William and his wife Elisabeth Ludovika for Christmas in 1825. The Crown Prince charged the architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel with the remodeling of an already existing farm house and the project was completed at low cost from 1826 through 1829. In the end, Schinkel, with the help of his student Ludwig Persius, built a small neo-classical palace on the foundations of the old farm house in the image of the old Roman villas. With designs he created himself the artistically inclined Crown Prince participated in the planning process for the palace and surrounding park.
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The Potsdamer Stadtschloss is a historical building in Potsdam, Germany. It was the second official residence of the margraves and electors of... Brandenburg, later kings in Prussia, kings of Prussia and German emperors. It stood on the Old Market in Potsdam, next to the Church of St. Nikolai and the Old Townhall. The baroque palace was constructed on the site of an earlier fortification from 1662 to 1669 under Kurfürst Friedrich Wilhelm, and was rebuilt by Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff under Friedrich II from 1744 to 1752, who performed additional interior decoration. It stood as one of the most important examples of Frederician Rococo. During an allied bombing attack on 14 April 1945 the City Palace was bombed and burned out, some parts of the main walls remained. The Socialist Unity Party of Germany decided to remove the ruin in 1960. The formerly cohesive New Market lost its face. The only building of the castle that was left standing was the stables, in which today the Potsdam Museum of Film can be found.
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Wolfgang Joop is a German fashion designer. He is the founder of the fashion and cosmetics company JOOP!, and father of fashion designer Jette Joop.... Wolfgang Joop was born in Potsdam, on November 18, 1944. Wolfgang Joop studied advertising psychology at the University of Braunschweig. He was later invited to become an honorary professor of fashion design at the Universität der Künste in Berlin. He began his fashion career working with his former wife Karin when in 1968 they were awarded all three first prizes in a design competition. Professionally he had been working as both a fashion illustrator and journalist and as a freelance designer for fashion houses in Italy, France and Germany. is also well known in England Joop achieved international success in 1978, when he showed his fourth fur collection, which the New York Times, among other publications, honored as "Prussian Designer." The label and company JOOP!, created in 1981, is recognised for its provocative collections as well as for its internationally award-winning fragrances.
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Susanne Uhlen is a German actress. She is the daughter of actor Wolfgang Kieling, best known as being the voice of "Bert", of the Sesame Street duo... Bert and Ernie, and German actress Gisela Uhlen, niece to German actor Max Schreck of Nosferatu fame. Uhlen began her acting career by doing acting spots in commercials as a child, and appeared in her first film at age 9. As a child, she changed schools each year, as her mother constantly had to relocate to keep up with acting commitments. At 16 she married a fellow student, but her mother became involved and ended the marriage. She then married cameraman Charly Steinberger, with whom she had one son. By this time her acting career was flourishing, but her marriage to Steinberger ended shortly after the birth of their child. In 1981 she met actor Herbert Herrmann, with whom she would have a thirteen year relationship, producing one child. She has starred in numerous successful German television series', which she continues to do today, along with many film and theater appearances.
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Anja Kling is a German actress.

Ernst-Ulrich von Kameke was born in Potsdam, 1926. From 1949 to 1954 was Kantor and Organist in Heidelberg. In 1954 as organist at the Friedenkirche... in Düsseldorf. In 1959 was called by the St Petri Church in Hamburg as Organist and Choir Director. In 1962 was nominated Professor at the Hochschule fuer Musik in Hamburg.
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Hubert von Meyerinck was a German film actor. He appeared in over 280 films between 1921 and 1970. He was born in Potsdam, Germany and died in Hamburg, Germany.

Doreen Jacobi is a German actress.