German Famous Names Starting with Letter V

Is a composer of contemporary music. He has been studying harmony, counterpoint, form and orchestrat

Is a composer of contemporary music. He has been studying harmony, counterpoint, form and orchestration since 1993. Since 1995 he has studied composition privately with Franklin Cox (University of Maryland, USA), Bernd Asmus (Freiburg, Germany), Jan Kopp (Stuttgart, Germany) and John Palmer (composer) (University of Hertfordshire, England). In 2001 he started composing his own music. Until now Volker Ignaz Schmidt has composed several solo works for piano, cello, violin, flute, clarinet and trombone, a duo for two double-basses, a string trio, vocal pieces for female voices, songs and several works for chamber ensembles. Schmidt worked with performers like <belcanto> Solisten, New York Miniaturist Ensemble, Franklin Cox and Trio Mondala. His works have been performed in Germany, Mexico, Russia & USA.

Is a German television actor and singer. Lechtenbrink grew up in Hamburg and Bremen and started his

Is a German television actor and singer. Lechtenbrink grew up in Hamburg and Bremen and started his career at the age of 15 acting in the anti-war movie The Bridge by Bernhard Wicki. After finishing school he was educated at the Schauspielschule (drama school) Hamburg, also acting and later working as a stage director at the Ernst-Deutsch Theater, Hamburg. In 2004 - 2006 he was the intendant of that stage.

Is a triple jumper who represented East Germany. Representing SC Neubrandenburg, he holds the curren

Is a triple jumper who represented East Germany. Representing SC Neubrandenburg, he holds the current world junior record with 17.50 metres, achieved on 23 June 1985 in Erfurt. [1]

Is a German footballer who plays as a defender for Dynamo Dresden. He broke into the Dynamo first-te

Is a German footballer who plays as a defender for Dynamo Dresden. He broke into the Dynamo first-team in 2001 after the club had been relegated to the Oberliga, and has been a first-team regular ever since, through two promotions and one relegation.

Is a German former professional road bicycle racer, retiring after riding for UCI ProTeam Gerolstein

Is a German former professional road bicycle racer, retiring after riding for UCI ProTeam Gerolsteiner for ten seasons.

Berlin-based German filmmaker.

Berlin-based German filmmaker.

Is a German actor who was one of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's key collaborators. His most noted role w

Is a German actor who was one of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's key collaborators. His most noted role with Fassbinder was as the transsexual Erwin/Elvira of the film In a Year of 13 Moons (1978).

Is a German mathematician, a professor emeritus in the department of mathematics and statistics at t

Is a German mathematician, a professor emeritus in the department of mathematics and statistics at the University of Konstanz.[1] Strassen began his researches as a probabilist; his 1964 paper An Invariance Principle for the Law of the Iterated Logarithm

Is a former German team handball player and current club manager.

Is a former German team handball player and current club manager.

Is a German television actor.

Is a German television actor.

Is a retired German football player. He spent 7 seasons in the Bundesliga with Hertha BSC, Tennis Bo

Is a retired German football player. He spent 7 seasons in the Bundesliga with Hertha BSC, Tennis Borussia Berlin and FC Schalke 04. He represented Germany once in a friendly against Greece. He scored one goal in the Bundesliga from a penalty kick. He fin

German sexologist, physician and sociologist. He was from 1973 to 2006 director of the Institut für

German sexologist, physician and sociologist. He was from 1973 to 2006 director of the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft [Institute for Sexual Science] at the clinic of the Goethe-University in Frankfurt am Main.

Is a former East German sprint canoer who competed in the early to mid 1970s. Thiede also competed

Is a former East German sprint canoer who competed in the early to mid 1970s. Thiede also competed in the K-4 1000 m event at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, but was eliminated in the semifinals.

Is a German fencer. He represented the Unified Team of Germany at the 1964 Summer Olympics in the te

Is a German fencer. He represented the Unified Team of Germany at the 1964 Summer Olympics in the team épée event.[1]