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Birlikte - Zusammenstehen
Birlikte is the name and motto of a series of semi-annual rallies and corresponding cultural festivals against right-wing extremist violence in Germany, which first took place on 9 June 2014 in Cologne. The term "" is Turkish and means "together" (German: ""). Birlikte – Zusammenstehen: 7–9 June 2014 The concept of a cultural festival named "" was based on an idea by , and was further developed and supported by the Cologne Arsch huh, Zäng ussenander (English: "Raise your ass, open your mouth!") campaign. The first rally " – " (English: "Birlikte – Standing together") was held on Whit Monday, 9 June 2014, on the occurrence of the tenth anniversary of the nail bomb attacks in Cologne. The festival deliberately took place at a spare area at Cologne's , near , the street, where the National Socialist Underground (German: ) (NSU) attacks had happened a decade earlier. The event comprised a mixture of speeches and multi-cultural music performances. Among the planne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cultural Festival
A festival is an event ordinarily celebrated by a community and centering on some characteristic aspect or aspects of that community and its religion or cultures. It is often marked as a local or national holiday, mela, or eid. A festival constitutes typical cases of glocalization, as well as the high culture-low culture interrelationship. Next to religion and folklore, a significant origin is agricultural. Food is such a vital resource that many festivals are associated with harvest time. Religious commemoration and thanksgiving for good harvests are blended in events that take place in autumn, such as Halloween in the northern hemisphere and Easter in the southern. Festivals often serve to fulfill specific communal purposes, especially in regard to commemoration or thanking to the gods, goddesses or saints: they are called patronal festivals. They may also provide entertainment, which was particularly important to local communities before the advent of mass-produced entert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Buhrow
Tom Buhrow (born 29 September 1958, in Troisdorf) is a German journalist who has been serving as intendant of the Westdeutscher Rundfunk, WDR since 2013. Early life and education Buhrow studied history and political science in Bonn. Career Careeer in journalism In 1978, Buhrow worked at the local newspaper ''Bonner General-Anzeiger''. In 1985, he was trained at the largest television station in North Rhine-Westphalia, Westdeutscher Rundfunk, WDR. Since 1986 he was the editor, reporter and bureau chief of the shows ''Aktuelle Stunde'' and ''West 3 Aktuell''. He then worked as an editor and reporter at the most-seen German nightly news, the ''Tagesschau (Germany), Tagesschau''. In 1992/1993, Buhrow became the correspondent of the ARD (broadcaster), ARD bureau in Washington D.C. in the midst of the 1992 United States presidential election, 1992 U.S. presidential election. Between January 2000 and 2002, Buhrow worked as a correspondent at the ARD bureau in Paris. On 1 July 2002, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hardy Krüger
Hardy Krüger (; born Eberhard August Franz Ewald Krüger; 12 April 1928 – 19 January 2022) was a German actor and author, who appeared in more than 60 films from 1944 onwards. After becoming a film star in Germany in the 1950s, Krüger increasingly turned to roles in international films such as ''Hatari!'', '' The Flight of the Phoenix'', ''The Wild Geese'', ''Sundays and Cybele'', '' A Bridge Too Far'', ''The Battle of Neretva'', ''The Secret of Santa Vittoria'', '' The Red Tent'', '' The One That Got Away'', and ''Barry Lyndon''. Hardy Krüger's life story made him a convinced and committed anti-fascist. Early life Hardy Krüger was born in Wedding, Berlin, in 1928, the son of Max and Auguste (Meier) Krüger. Krüger's parents were ardent Nazis and he stated in a 2016 interview that he was "raised to love Hitler." [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carolin Kebekus
Carolin Kebekus (born 9 May 1980) is a German comedian and television personality. Biography Born in Bergisch Gladbach, Kebekus grew up as daughter of a social education worker and a banker in Köln-Ostheim. Her younger Brother David Kebe is also a comedian. She started her career as an intern at ''Freitag Nacht News'', a weekly comedy show. One of the co-producers of the show, Hugo Egon Balder, saw her talent in acting and arranged for her to take acting classes parallel to her internship. In 2002, she did an internship at 1 Live. Her parodies of the frontsinger Bill Kaulitz of the band Tokio Hotel in the ''Freitag Nacht News'' were the catalysts of her breakthrough. However, in 2006 she also faced big backlash from the fan-community of Tokio Hotel and received hateful messages and threats. From September 2006 until the show was cancelled in December 2006, Kebekus was one of the hosts of ''Freitag Nacht News'' together with Ingo Appelt and others. Kebekus works as a come ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralf Jäger
Ralf Jäger (born 25 March 1961 in Duisburg) is a German politician. He is a member of the SPD. Since 2000 he has been an MP of the Landtag, the parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia. Between 2010 and 2017 he served as Minister for Interior and Local Government of North Rhine-Westphalia, in the cabinet of Minister-President Hannelore Kraft. In 2014 he was chairman of the Standing Conference of Interior Ministers ("Innenministerkonferenz", IMK) in Germany. Early life and education After his high school diploma ("Abitur") in 1981 Jäger finished his vocational training as a merchant in wholesale and foreign trade. Since 1983 he has been a party member of the SPD. Jäger then studied educational science in Duisburg but did not complete his studies. From 1985 to 2000 he worked as a subject specialist ("Fachreferent") for health care. Political career From 1989 to 2000 Jäger was a member of the City Council of Duisburg. In 2000 he was elected MP for North Rhine-Westphalia and was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Höhner
De Höhner ( Kölsch for "The Chickens", , ) is a band from Cologne, Germany. They sing in the local dialect of Cologne, Kölsch. The group was founded in 1972 by Peter Werner and Janus Fröhlich. During their first year, the band wore chicken costumes, and threw real feathers into the audience. They are particularly successful in the area around Cologne, although they are popular nationwide. The band is famous for performing at the Cologne carnival. Their most popular carnival songs are "''Echte Fründe''", "''Pizza wunderbar''", "''Die Karawane zieht weiter''" and "'' Viva Colonia''". Their song " Wenn nicht jetzt, wann dann?" (''If not now, then when?'') reached number one in Germany in February 2007. They performed it during the 2007 World Men's Handball Championship finals, held in Cologne. Their album '' Da Simmer Dabei! Die Grössten Partyhits'' was on the German top 50 albums chart for 8 weeks in 2007, peaking at number 9. The title is a reference to the chorus of the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Herre
Maximilian Herre (born 22 April 1973) is a German rapper, singer-songwriter and music producer who rose to fame as a member of the group Freundeskreis. He is also A&R for the record label Nesola, a joint venture with his wife Joy Denalane, among others. Early life and career Herre was born in Stuttgart. After hearing the 1990s German hip-hop group Advanced Chemistry, he decided to create hip-hop himself in German. He started his first band, Seedless Jam, when he was 15, and his first hip-hop project, Agit Jazz, four years later with music producer Philippe A. Kayser (Don Philippe). In order to perform their music live, they formed the band Maximilian und sein Freundeskreis in 1993 with another producer, DJ Friction (Martin Welzer). In the same year, Herre also founded the hip-hop group Kolchose with other Stuttgart artists. Career Freundeskreis Herre, Philippe, and Welzer signed with the label Four Music (founded by German rap pioneers Die Fantastischen Vier) in 1997, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexa Feser
Alexa Feser (born 30 December 1979), sometimes credited as Alexa Phazer is a German singer and songwriter. She is best known for taking part in '' Unser Song für Österreich''. Career Feser was born in Wiesbaden and became interested in music at age four. She states that her grandfather, a jazz pianist is her biggest musical inspiration. She has worked as a backing singer for No Angels, Juliette Schoppmann, Joana Zimmer, Thomas Anders, Ricky Martin, and Mike Leon Grosch Mike Leon Grosch (born 2 November 1976) is a German singer who came to fame as the runner-up of the third season of the television show ''Deutschland sucht den SuperStar'', the German version of ''Pop Idol''. Biography Grosch was born in Wuppe .... In January 2015, she was announced as one of the seven established artists taking part in '' Unser Song für Österreich''. She competed with the songs "Glück" and "Das Gold von morgen". [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Die Fantastischen Vier
Die Fantastischen Vier (, "The Fantastic Four"), often shortened to Fanta 4, is a German hip hop band from Stuttgart. The members are Michael Schmidt (Smudo), Andreas Rieke, Thomas Dürr, ''janitor''), and Michi Beck. They were, together with Advanced Chemistry, an early group to rap in the German language.Brown, Timothy S. "'Keeping it Real' in a Different 'Hood: (African-) Americanization and Hip-hop in Germany." In The Vinyl Ain't Final: Hip Hop and the Globalization of Black Popular Culture, ed. by Dipannita Basu and Sidney J. Lemelle, 137–50. London History In the mid-1980s, Rieke and Schmidt formed the ''Terminal Team'', which Dürr and Beck joined in 1989. Under the new name ''Die Fantastischen Vier'' they made German hip hop, or ''Deutschen Sprechgesang'' ''(German spoken-song)'' as they called it, popular in Germany. Although there were German hip-hop artists prior to them (such as Advanced Chemistry from Heidelberg), it was Die Fantastischen Vier who registered the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Demir Demirkan
Demir Demirkan () (born 12 August 1972) is a Turkish musician, Eurovision Song Contest winning composer, formerly guitarist for thrash metal band Mezarkabul. Demir Demirkan started playing music when he was 13 and played guitar with various groups in college. Demir Demirkan also wrote television jingles and composed soundtracks for television and films. Early life and influences Demirkan started playing music when he was 13 and played guitar with various groups in college. In 1990, Demir joined a heavy/rock group, Mezarkabul, based in Istanbul and wrote and played guitar in the group's second album, Trail Blazer. In 1992, he moved to Los Angeles where he studied with Scott Henderson, Frank Gambale and Paul Hanson Paul Hanson is an American bassoonist, saxophonist, duduk player, and composer with roots in jazz and classical music. Music career Paul Hanson was born in San Francisco, CA, in 1961. His parents were both musicians: his mother a classical pi ... who foun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sertab Erener
Sertab Erener (born 4 December 1964) is a Turkish singer, songwriter and composer. With her coloratura soprano voice, she started working as a backing vocalist for Sezen Aksu, and with Aksu's help she released her first studio album in the 1990s. Because of her education in classical music, she initially had difficulties in performing pop music. Although she did experimental works from time to time, she eventually preferred to focus on making pop music instead of making avant-garde works, in order to make her music heard by a larger audience. In some of her works, she combined Western music and Eastern music, and benefited from operas as well as classical Turkish music together with ethnic elements. With her entrance to Europe's market in the early 2000s, many of her works were also sold in Turkey as well as European countries. With Sezen Aksu's help, she made her debut in 1992 with the album ''Sakin Ol!'', and made herself known as a Turkish pop music artist in the 1990s by rel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tommy Engel
Tommy Engel (, ; born 1949) is a German musician and actor. He was the lead singer of German band Bläck Fööss through 1994, and has released albums as a solo performer. (confirms 1994 departure) Works (selection) * () (in cooperation with Klaus Heuser Klaus "Major“ Heuser (born 27 January 1957 in Leverkusen-) is a German musician, composer and producer. He found international fame as the lead guitarist of the Cologne rock band BAP. His musical influences are the Rolling Stones, especially ...) References {{DEFAULTSORT:Engel, Tommy German male singers German male television actors Living people 1949 births Place of birth missing (living people) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
