by HF | Mar 10, 2013
Biography • From the USA to the GDR Dean Reed (1938-1986) was an American actor and singer who was better known behind the Iron Curtain in East Germany than in his homeland. Born in Denver, Colorado in 1938, Dean Reed died in a lake on the outskirts of East Berlin in...
by HF | Mar 7, 2013
The Final Resting Place of Notable People – Part 2 Where are they buried? Welcome to Part 2 of our guide to notable people buried in Germany. In most of the entries below, we use the German word for cemetery (der Friedhof, FREED-hohf). If you want to learn more...
by HF | Mar 7, 2013
The Final Resting Place of Notable People The graves of the famous deceased from the German-speaking countries have long been one of my favorite subjects. Over the years, my wife and I have enjoyed touring the many cemeteries across Europe where these late...
by HF | Mar 7, 2013
Stefanie (“Steffi”) Graf | Former German Tennis Pro and Champion Although she now lives in Las Vegas, Stefanie Maria Graf was born in Mannheim, West Germany on 14 June 1969. She would later become the world’s number one female tennis player. In the 1980s...
by HF | Mar 2, 2013
Dresden, the capital of Saxony Dresden is the capital city of the Free State of Saxony (Freistaat Sachsen) in eastern Germany. During DDR/GDR (East German) times Dresden was the capital of the district of Dresden. Today, with a population of over half a million, it is...
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