Ria Thiele
Maria "Ria" Thiele (18 March 1904 – 20 April 1996) was a German actress, dancer and Choreography, choreographer who appeared in theatres of European capitals, including the Volkstheater, Vienna, Deutsches Volkstheater in Vienna and Theater des Westens in Berlin. Career Born in Kleve, Thiele was the daughter of Otto Thiele and his wife Maria, who had six daughters and a son. The family moved to Düsseldorf-Oberkassel shortly after her birth. When she was aged 15, her father sent her to the Hochschule für Bühnenkunst of the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, run by Louise Dumont and . She appeared on stage the same year, for example with Gustaf Gründgens, another student, at the garden restaurant ''Vossen Links'' in Oberkassel and on the Düsseldorf stage as a fairy in Shakespeare's ''A Midsummer Night's Dream, Ein Sommernachtstraum''. She made her official debut on 8 June 1920 as Wendla Bergmann in Wedekind's ''Spring Awakening (play), Frühlings Erwachen''. When the Düsseld ...
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Kleve
Kleve (; traditional en, Cleves ; nl, Kleef; french: Clèves; es, Cléveris; la, Clivia; Low Rhenish: ''Kleff'') is a town in the Lower Rhine region of northwestern Germany near the Dutch border and the River Rhine. From the 11th century onwards, Cleves was capital of a county and later a duchy. Today, Cleves is the capital of the district of Cleves in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The city is home to one of the campuses of the Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences. Territory of the municipality In addition to the inner city, the territory of Kleve comprises fourteen villages and populated places: Bimmen, Brienen, Donsbrüggen, Düffelward, Griethausen, Keeken, Kellen, Materborn, Reichswalde, Rindern, Salmorth, Schenkenschanz, Warbeyen and Wardhausen. History The name ''Kleff'' probably derives from Middle Dutch ''clef'', ''clif'' 'cliff, bluff', referring to the promontory on which the Schwanenburg castle was constructed. Since the city's coat of ...
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