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Rudolf Von Waldenfels
Rudolf Freiherr von Waldenfels (born April 26, 1965) is a German writer, journalist and actor. He is a member of the Waldenfels family, a German ''Adelsgeschlecht'' (noble lineage of Barons) that dates back to the 13th century AD. He lives in Berlin and in his ancestral hometown of Lichtenberg, Bavaria, Lichtenberg, in Bavaria. He is the grandnephew of Wehrmacht Panzer general Rudolf Freiherr von Waldenfels. Biography Raised in Heidelberg, Waldenfels studied theater from 1987 to 1990 at the public College of Music and Performing Arts (''Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst'') in Frankfurt am Main. As part of his studies he worked for Claus Peymann at the Burgtheater in Vienna. In 1992 he chose to leave this job to undertake a bicycle trip across Asia that would last several years. His experiences on this trip influenced his first novel (Over the Border), which was published in 2006 by Mitteldeutscher Verlag and received well by critics. In 2010 he published ''Der schwar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jülich
Jülich (; in old spellings also known as ''Guelich'' or ''Gülich'', nl, Gulik, french: Juliers, Ripuarian: ''Jöllesch'') is a town in the district of Düren, in the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. As a border region between the competing powers in the Lower Rhine and Meuse areas, the town and the Duchy of Jülich played a historic role from the Middle Ages up to the 17th century. Geography Jülich stands in the Rur valley on the banks of the river Rur. The town is bordered by the town of Linnich in the north, the municipality of Titz in the northeast, the municipality of Niederzier in the southeast, the municipality of Inden in the south, and by the municipality of Aldenhoven in the west. Its maximum size is 13.3 km from east to west and 10.9 km from north to south. The highest point in Jülich is in Bourheim, 110 m above sea level (excepting Sophienhöhe, an extensive artificial mountain made up of overburden from a nearby open-pit lignite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
