• The Ship of Lost Souls or The Ship of Lost Men (German: Das Schiff der verlorenen Menschen) is a 1929 German silent thriller film directed by Maurice Tourneur...
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    trials. Bremen was built by the new German shipbuilding company Deutsche Schiff- und Maschinenbau. She was built from 7,000 tons of high-strength steel...
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    Berlin from 1904, the same year that his future wife, actress Elsa Schiff, moved to Berlin to work at that same theater. In 1909, the year after they married...
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    October 2011. Commire (1980), p. 154. Schiff (2006), p. ix. Schiff (1996), pp. 61–62. Schiff (1996), p. 80. Schiff, Stacy (1994). Saint-Exupéry: A Biography...
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  • father/son pairs have earned the Silver Buffalo, Mortimer L. Schiff 1926 and John M. Schiff 1943, John Randolph Donnell 1958 and John R. Donnell Jr. 1990...
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    remembered for Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Großstadt (Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis, 1927). Weekend (Wochenende), commissioned in 1928 by Berlin Radio Hour...
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    (HSK-3, Schiff 21) Thor (HSK-4, Schiff 10) Pinguin (HSK-5, Schiff 33) Stier (HSK-6, Schiff 23) Komet (HSK-7, Schiff 45) Kormoran (HSK-8, Schiff 41) Michel...
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    "Presentation of the book Nabokov's Berlin". The International Vladimir Nabokov Symposium. St. Petersburg.. Schiff, Stacy. "Vera, chapter 1, para 6". The...
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    Wilhelm Furtwängler (category Musicians from Berlin)
    Orchestra, Op. 31, Berlin Philharmonic, Berlin, 2 December 1928 Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 5, the composer as soloist, Berlin Philharmonic, 31 October...
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  • gave the film a rare average grade of "A+" on an A+ to F scale. Stephen Schiff of The New Yorker called it the best historical drama about the Holocaust...
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    beginning of his romantic relationship with Klaus Mann. In 1928, he moved back to Berlin to join the renowned ensemble of the Deutsches Theater under...
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  • recorded Notes ECM 2000 2016 András Schiff The Piano Sonatas ECM New Series; 11CD boxset ECM 2001/02 2009 András Schiff J. S. Bach: Six Partitas ECM New...
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    SMS Berlin ("His Majesty's Ship Berlin") was the second member of the seven-vessel Bremen class of light cruisers, built for the German Kaiserliche Marine...
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    Marlene Dietrich (category Actresses from Berlin)
    actress and singer whose career spanned from the 1910s to the 1980s. In 1920s Berlin, Dietrich performed on the stage and in silent films. Her performance as...
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  • steam engines in Berlin since 1822. A few years later this company also got in trouble and in late 1882 a new company was founded, the Schiff- und...
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    presented at the Berlin Motorshow 1928, did not receive a formal RAK number. Opel RAK.1 - a rocket car that achieved 75 km/h (47 mph) in March 1928 and more than...
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    intended for service as a commerce raider. Known to the Kriegsmarine as Schiff 45, to the Royal Navy she was named Raider B. After completing one successful...
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    a biography of the anarchist writer, Ba Jin. The anthropologist Esther Schiff Goldfrank became Wittfogel's third wife in 1940. Wittfogel held academic...
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    overlooked, and as such, he has been referred to by musicologist David Schiff as "The Invisible Pianist." Johnson was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey...
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    (Tyros) (1920–21), oil on canvas, (image) Seated Figure (c.1921) (image) Mrs Schiff (1923–24), oil on canvas, (image) Edith Sitwell (1923–1935), oil on canvas...
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  • der Fischer von Santa Barbara. Potsdam 1928, S. 51 Hans Fallada: Wer einmal aus dem Blechnapf frisst. Berlin 1934, zitiert nach Hermann Paul: Deutsches...
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    Rachmaninoff, pf. rec. December 14–15, 1928; Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64, with Leo Blech, Berlin State Opera Orchestra. rec. December...
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    deserted the legion, and moved to Berlin, before traveling to Shanghai in 1928 as a filmmaker. On his return to Berlin in 1929, he began a relationship...
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    Horowitz emigrated to Germany, ostensibly to study with Artur Schnabel in Berlin but secretly intending not to return. He stuffed American dollars and British...
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    1936: The tradition of the Olympic torch relay by Carl Diem and Alfred Schiff in Berlin 1946: Goalball by Sepp Reindle 1948: Paralympic Games by German-born...
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    at the gates of Frankfurt. It was not incorporated into Frankfurt until 1928. Höchst was built at the crossroads of prehistoric transportation routes...
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    recording with Geoffrey Parsons on EMI classics. Peter Schreier with András Schiff (1994, London/Decca) Wolfgang Holzmair with Imogen Cooper (1996, Philips)...
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  • Dublin (1700–1704) Aaron Hart (1704–1756) Hart Lyon (1758–1764) David Tevele Schiff (1765–1791) Solomon Hirschell (1802–1842) Nathan Marcus Adler (1845–1891)...
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    Stefan Wolpe (category Composers from Berlin)
    Schwitters's poem An Anna Blume to music. In 1928, Wolpe's first opera, Zeus und Elida, premiered in Berlin. This soon was followed by two more operas in...
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  • Renaissance Revival style with a tower. It was sold in 1942 to Deutsche Schiff- und Maschinenbau and when the company was broken up into its constituent...
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