German Famous Names Starting with Letter R

Is a former alpine ski racer. She won two gold medals and one silver at the 1976 Winter Olympics in

Is a former alpine ski racer. She won two gold medals and one silver at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria, earning her the nickname of Gold-Rosi within Germany (then West Germany).

A German singer and actress.Schwab was born in Bingen. At the age of nine, she recorded her first so

A German singer and actress.Schwab was born in Bingen. At the age of nine, she recorded her first song "Ja die Dicken sind ja so gemütlich" as Die kleine Rosemarie. It was no major commercial success. In 1958, she also appeared in the film Die Straße. Ove

A German artist, and an important figure in her country's contemporary art movement.From 1970–1978

A German artist, and an important figure in her country's contemporary art movement.From 1970–1978, Trockel studied anthropology, sociology, theology, and mathematics in pursuit of teaching career. She later studied painting at the Werkkunstschule in Cologne. Her first solo exhibitions were held in Bonn and Cologne in 1983; she gained fame by addressing contemporary concerns, particularly women and their place in the art world. Her work challenged concepts of sexuality, culture, and artistic production.Trockel's "knitting pictures", produced in 1985, consist of lengths of machine-knitted, woollen material stretched on to frames. The material is patterned with computer-generated geometrical motifs, or with recognizable logos, such as the hammer and sickle motif of the Soviet Union superimposed on a background of red and white stripes reminiscent of the US flag

Is a German Olympic fencer.

Is a German Olympic fencer.

West German alpine skiing champion who won two gold medals and one silver in the 1976 Olympic Winter

West German alpine skiing champion who won two gold medals and one silver in the 1976 Olympic Winter Games in Innsbruck, Austria, earning her the nickname of Gold-Rosi within Germany.

Is an Australian singer-songwriter and producer who is best known for his signature tune "I Am Pegas

Is an Australian singer-songwriter and producer who is best known for his signature tune "I Am Pegasus" .Ryan Was involved with music at his high school, Albany High, playing the lead in the musical, The Music Man and producing a radio program for the local station 6VA entitled "High School Half Hour." He also joined a number of local bands starting with The Sett and ending with Saffron.

Is an Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer who is best known for fronting the groups

Is an Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer who is best known for fronting the groups Daddy Cool and Mondo Rock, and for production of albums by Australian band Skyhooks.[2] He has also performed solo, and as a judge on celebrity singing TV series It Takes Two from 2005.

Is a German rower who competed for East Germany in the 1976 Summer Olympics and in the 1980 Summer O

Is a German rower who competed for East Germany in the 1976 Summer Olympics and in the 1980 Summer Olympics.In 1976 she was a crew member of the East German boat which won the gold medal in the quadruple sculls event.

Is a West German sprint canoer who competed from the mid 1960s to the early 1970s.

Is a West German sprint canoer who competed from the mid 1960s to the early 1970s.

Is a German swimmer and team handball player. She competed for East Germany and achieved Olympic med

Is a German swimmer and team handball player. She competed for East Germany and achieved Olympic medals in both swimming and handball.Roswitha Krause received a silver medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal with the East Germany national handball t

Is a former Austrian alpine skier.

Is a former Austrian alpine skier.

Is a German football player. As of January 2010, he plays for VfB Lübeck. He made his debut on the

Is a German football player. As of January 2010, he plays for VfB Lübeck. He made his debut on the professional league level in the Bundesliga for VfL Bochum on April 1, 2001 when he started in a game against FC Energie Cottbus. Schröder announced on 11 N

Is a German footballer who plays for St. Pauli. Hennings also plays for the German national U-21 tea

Is a German footballer who plays for St. Pauli. Hennings also plays for the German national U-21 team.

Is a German football player currently playing for TSV Hehlingen.

Is a German football player currently playing for TSV Hehlingen.

An Israeli – German painter, sculptor, and photographer.Talberg ranks among the most successful Is

An Israeli – German painter, sculptor, and photographer.Talberg ranks among the most successful Israeli-German contemporary artists. He is reputed to represent Young Jewish Art (YJA). In his oeuvre he deals with antagonistic positions like Nature & Alchemy, Asymmetry & Dynamics or Eros & Thanathos. During the last decade he intensified his interest for Jewish mysticism and magic. On extensive travels as recently to the USA and Spain he created new serials of photography that in turn shape the base for new painting cycles. Likewise the surfaces of his paintings teem with references to aramaic letters, Voodoo or Egyptian symbols, Chinese economic numbers.

Is an Austrian professional footballer currently playing as a striker for FK Austria Wien.Currently

Is an Austrian professional footballer currently playing as a striker for FK Austria Wien.Currently a member of the Austria Under-21 side and has played for the country at under-19-level in the 2006 European championships in Poland and under-20 level in the 2007 World Cup in Canada.

Was a professional track and road racing cyclist who won the 1962 Vuelta a España and the world cha

Was a professional track and road racing cyclist who won the 1962 Vuelta a España and the world championship in 1966. He is now a television commentator.Altig became national sprint champion in 1957 and 1958. Then Karly Ziegler, a coach, took over his pre

Was a German figure skater and now works as a TV presenter.

Was a German figure skater and now works as a TV presenter.

A retired boxer from Germany, who won the gold medal in the Featherweight division (-57 kg) for East

A retired boxer from Germany, who won the gold medal in the Featherweight division (-57 kg) for East Germany at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.

Is a German football manager, renowned for managing the highest number of national teams - to date a

Is a German football manager, renowned for managing the highest number of national teams - to date a total of 18 teams.Retiring in 1953 he took part in a coach training course under Sepp Herberger receiving his licence in 1954 before embarking on his rema

Is a German handballer, who competed for the SC Dynamo Berlin/ Sportvereinigung (SV) Dynamo. He play

Is a German handballer, who competed for the SC Dynamo Berlin/ Sportvereinigung (SV) Dynamo. He played at the world championships 1958 (3rd), 1959 (world champion), 1963 (world champion) and 1964.

Is a retired German football player. He spent 3 seasons in the Bundesliga with VfB Stuttgart.

Is a retired German football player. He spent 3 seasons in the Bundesliga with VfB Stuttgart.

Is a German former volleyball player who competed for East Germany in the 1968 Summer Olympics and i

Is a German former volleyball player who competed for East Germany in the 1968 Summer Olympics and in the 1972 Summer Olympics.

Is a German composer of classical music, pianist and academic. He is known for vocal compositions on

Is a German composer of classical music, pianist and academic. He is known for vocal compositions on texts by poets and his own, and for chamber music such as his three Chamber Symphonies. Rudi Spring received piano instructions from Alfred Kuppelmayer (1918–1977), starting in 1971. He studied chamber music in 1978 in Bregenz with Heinrich Schiff, with whom he also played in concert. He studied at the Musikhochschule München from 1981 to 1986 composition with Wilhelm Killmayer and Heinz Winbeck, and piano with Karl-Hermann Mrongovius.

Was a German composer of great promise who shortly before the First World War was considered one of

Was a German composer of great promise who shortly before the First World War was considered one of the leading talents among his generation. Stephan was a composition pupil of Bernhard Sekles at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt and of Heinrich Schwartz and Rudolf Louis in Munich, where he settled after completing his studies in 1908. He left only a few works: his liking for pointedly neutral titles along the lines of 'Music for ...' has caused him to be seen as a forerunner of the 'New Objectivity' of the post-war era, but his music is in fact in a hyper-expressive late-Romantic idiom which has more plausibly been seen by some as a kind of proto-Expressionism.