Adi drove from Bavaria to the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin with a suitcase full of spikes and persuaded United States sprinter Jesse Owens to use them, the first sponsorship for an African American.

Geering once mentioned that he was born in Berlin, but was smuggled out in a suitcase by his mother, to prevent his father discovering that he existed, which caused him to develop claustrophobia.

Relieved and elated, Charity leaves (" I'm A Brass Band ") and packs a suitcase on which is printed ' Almost Married '.

* An axe ( referring to the spoken line from " One of These Days ", " One of these days, I'm going to cut you into little pieces ", the song " Careful with That Axe, Eugene ", or the line " Run to the bedroom / In the suitcase on the left / You'll find my favourite axe " from the song " One of My Turns ")

To make matters worse, lost Soviet portable atomic demolition devices (" suitcase nukes ") are reported to have buyers in the LA area.

In the episode Attack of the Hawkmen, Star Wars veteran Anthony Daniels played Francois, a French Intelligence scientist ( in the mode of James Bond's " Q ") who gives Indy a special suitcase filled with gadgets for a special mission in Germany.

(" Give me the fucking suitcase why don't you!

West Berlin was surrounded by East German territory and East Germany proclaimed East Berlin ( described as " Berlin ") as its capital, a move that was not recognized by the western powers.

He entered the Kriegsakademie ( also cited as " The German War School ," the " Military Academy in Berlin ," and the " Prussian Military Academy ") in Berlin in 1801 ( age 21 ), studied the writings of the philosopher Immanuel Kant, and won the regard of General Gerhard von Scharnhorst, the future first chief of staff of the new Prussian Army ( appointed 1809 ).

They were nicknamed Hundemarken ( the German equivalent of " dog tags ") and compared to a similar identification system instituted for dogs in the Prussian capital city of Berlin at about the same time.

He passed his first bar exam (" Staatsexamen ") in Berlin in 1901, and the following year he received his doctorate with a dissertation on " The Theory of adequate causation.

" Ich bin ein Berliner " (, " I am a Berliner ") is a quotation from a June 26, 1963, speech by U. S. President John F. Kennedy in West Berlin.

" Das Lila Lied " (" The Lavender Song ") served as an anthem to the lesbians of Berlin.

It was started by the Berlin underground at the initiative of Matthias Roeingh ( also known as " Dr Motte ") and his then girlfriend Danielle de Picciotto.

There is also an 1, 800-seater theatre, the " Theater am Potsdamer Platz ," which doubles up as another cinema ( the " Berlinale Palast ") and the principal venue of the annual Berlin International Film Festival.

Still more outspoken against militarism is The Free Lance, the story of two kingdoms becoming united, which found its way to Germany ( as " Der Feldhauptmann ") by the time the Berlin Wall came down.

" ( Berlin, 19 January 1989 ) ( Original: " Die Mauer wird in 50 und auch in 100 Jahren noch bestehen bleiben, wenn die dazu vorhandenen Gründe noch nicht beseitigt sind ")

Both Forsters also published descriptions of their South Pacific travels in the Magazin von merkwürdigen neuen Reisebeschreibungen (" Magazine of strange new travel accounts ") in Berlin, and Georg published a translation of " A Voyage to the South Sea, by Lieutenant William Bligh, London 1792 " in 1791 – 1793.

Kennedy proclaims " Ich bin ein Berliner " (" I am a citizen of Berlin ") to cheering West Berliners.

The German Museum of Technology Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin (" German Museum of Technology ") was founded in 1982 in Berlin, Germany, and exhibits a large collection of historical technical artifacts.

From 1905 to 1930 he managed the Deutsches Theater (" German Theatre ") in Berlin and, in addition, the Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna from 1924 to 1933.

Berthold was tried in the Volksgerichtshof (" People's Court ") by Roland Freisler on 10 August and was one of eight conspirators executed by strangulation, hanged in Plötzensee Prison, Berlin, later that day.

* Tresor 140: Sender Berlin – Spektrum Weltweit ( Remixes ) ( 12 ")

* An den Tod (" O Anblick der Glanznacht ") ( Klopstock ), in Musikalischer Blumenstrauss ( Berlin, 1792 )

Lincke's march " Berliner Luft " (" Berlin Air ") is the unofficial anthem of Berlin.

Another was a cousin to Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, who was appointed as the mashgiach ruchani (" spiritual supervisor ") at the Yeshiva Chaim Berlin, but who split with Hutner on policy matters in the 1970s.

Its opening and closing lament, " The Ballad of Mackie Messer ", was written just before the Berlin premiere, when actor Harald Paulsen ( Macheath ) threatened to quit if his character did not receive an introduction ; this creative emergency resulted in what would become the work's most popular song, later translated into English by Marc Blitzstein as " Mack the Knife " and now a jazz standard that Louis Armstrong, Bobby Darin, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Michael Bublé, Robbie Williams, Ray Quinn and countless others have all covered.

She is also known for her version of the song " Ich hab noch einen Koffer in Berlin " (" I still have a ackie Messer

* Ins offene Messer, Berlin 1974

Another notable ( and defiant ) phrase in the speech was also spoken in German, " Lass ' sie nach Berlin kommen " (" Let them come to Berlin ")-- addressed at those who claimed " we can work with the Communists ", a remark which Nikita Khrushchev scoffed at only days later.

After the progress of the war induced him to flee Berlin for the rural Allgäu, where he could not do any hardware work, he designed the first high-level programming language, Plankalkül (" Plan Calculus "), in 1945 / 6.

Paul Lincke pioneered the Berlin operetta in 1899 with Frau Luna, which includes " Berliner Luft " (" Berlin Air "), which became the unofficial anthem of Berlin.

On 13 August 1961, work began on what was to become the Berlin Wall, only two months after Ulbricht had emphatically denied that there were such plans (" Nobody has the intention of building a wall ").

But by the beginning of September 1943, after a somewhat slow recovery from his wounds, he was propositioned by the conspirators and was introduced to Henning von Tresckow as a staff officer to the headquarters of the Ersatzheer (" Replacement Army " – charged with training soldiers to reinforce first line divisions at the front ), located on the Bendlerstrasse ( later Stauffenbergstrasse ) in Berlin.

On paper, the NDH was a kingdom under King Tomislav II ( Aimone, Duke of Spoleto ) of the House of Savoy, but Tomislav II was only a figurehead in Croatia who never exercised any real power, with Ante Pavelić being a somewhat independent leader (" poglavnik "), though staying obedient to Rome and Berlin.

On 18 October 1902, Hofmannsthal published a fictive letter in the Berlin Daily, Der Tag ( The Day ) titled simply " Ein Brief " (" A Letter ").

Many decades later, association with the Kristallnacht anniversary was cited as the main reason against choosing 9 November (" Schicksalstag "), the day the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, as the new German national holiday ; a different day was chosen ( 3 October 1990, German reunification ).

Fontane's first published work, the novella Geschwisterliebe (" Sibling Love "), appeared in the Berlin Figaro in December 1839.

In parts of 1928 and 1929, Oberth also worked in Berlin, Germany as a scientific consultant on the first film ever to have scenes set in outer space, Frau im Mond (" The Woman in the Moon "), which was directed and produced by the great film pioneer Fritz Lang at the Universum Film AG company.

In Berlin, Joyce could not find employment until a chance meeting with fellow Mosleyite Dorothy Eckersley got him an audition at the Rundfunkhaus (" broadcasting house ").

Ella in Berlin is still one of her best selling albums ; it includes a Grammy-winning performance of " Mack the Knife " in which she forgets the lyrics, but improvises magnificently to compensate.

* Ella in Berlin: Mack the Knife – Ella Fitzgerald

** Ella Fitzgerald for Mack the Knife-Ella in Berlin

* Ella in Berlin: Mack the Knife ( Verve, 1960 )

He had his breakthrough starring in such films as The Blue Angel ( Der Blaue Engel ) opposite Marlene Dietrich, while on stage he originated the role of " Tiger " Brown in the premiere production of The Threepenny Opera ( Die Dreigroschenoper ) at the Berlin Theater am Schiffbauerdamm in 1928, also singing Mack the Knife.

One of Fitzgerald's most acclaimed live performances, at this concert in Berlin, Fitzgerald successfully improvised the lyrics for the song, " Mack the Knife " after forgetting them.

Original Verve release from 1960 Ella in Berlin: Mack the Knife on MG VS-64041 ; featuring 9 tracks.

Verve re-issue from 1993 The Complete Ella in Berlin: Mack the Knife on Verve 314 519 564-2 ; featuring 13 vocal performances.

He trained as a psychoanalyst at the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute and the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society, and took Ruth Mack Brunswick as his training analyst.

Cover of Ella Fitzgerald's Ella in Berlin: Mack the Knife