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Talk:The Simpsons shorts

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This page would probably be a vauable one, if it were complete. I've made a base standard of the first episode. If all are happy with the format, I'll get to work on the rest of them later. And probably add more to the transcripts than just dialouge later.  ⇔ Thunderbird  ⇔  00:54, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

I'm not too sure about the title... perhaps this article will be better on a page called The Simpsons Shorts or something like that, with this page redirecting there. Any thoughts? BillPP 14:39, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Good Night Is Quite a clever day for maggy
And Also On 19 april 1987 maggie talked for the first time and thats pritty impreseve being -6 years old acording to maggy bieing born on september 1 1993. she said hello for the first time on the first clip not even episode clip of the simpsons AMAZING!

On DVD
Anybody know of any plans to release the shorts on DVD at all. Still haven't seen most of them (would you believe they were edited out of UK showings of The Tracy Ullman show as it was thought they wouldn't be popular in the UK! Probably by the same guy who turned The Beatles down for Decca in '62). Seems a shame that they're not generally available. Martyn Smith 19:47, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
 * I am a big Simpsons fan so I downloaded the TV-rips of these episodes. I watch them on my DivX player (DVD player that plays AVIs basically). --GoOdCoNtEnT 20:14, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

Dr. N!Godatu?
The article states that the Tracey Ullman Show shorts consisted of two separate series: The Simpsons, and Dr. N!Godatu. However, I can't find any episode of Dr. N!Godatu contained in the list of shorts in this article, which makes the article more about the Simpsons shorts than about all of the shorts that aired. Am I missing something here or is the article inaccurate/incomplete? Can whoever added the episodes about the Simpsons (and therefore presumably has access to a list of all the shorts) please add the remainder of the shorts to the list, if there are any? --DavidGC 09:11, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

 * I agree. This article is only about the Simpsons. Therefore I moved the article to reflect that. Someone could start another page called List of Dr. N!Godatu shorts or something. --Maitch 16:20, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

DVD releases
I have reverted an edit by User:BakerBaker, because it was unsourced and had peacock terms. The whole back story to why only one clip was released on the season one DVD is fascinating and it should be included, but I need a reference to a source in order to put it back in the article.

The reverted text is shown below. --Maitch 21:54, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Despite the incredible popularity of the Simpsons, the original shorts have rarely been seen since their original airdates. In spite of this however, several of the shorts were released on VHS compilations of various Simpsons episodes in the late 1990s. When the first season of the Simpsons was announced for release, it was announced that the set would feature all three seasons worth of original shorts as a bonus feature. However at the last minute, only the first sketch ("Good Night") was included. The omission was done mainly as a result of Fox not wanting to risk another drawn out legal battle with Tracy Ullman, over DVD royalties regarding the shorts, opting instead to include just the single short.

That said, "Good Night" and four additional shorts ("The Perfect Crime", "Space Patrol", "World War III", and "Bathtime". ) were shown in their entirity in the series retrospect/deleted scenes spotlight episode "The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular", which was released, uneditted, on the show's seventh season DVD set.

Most recently, Matt Groening has announced that all of the shorts will be finally available, though via mobile phones.

"electrocute but not fatally"
One of the shorts' descriptions currently includes the phrase 'electrocute but not fatally'. Since to electrocute is to kill by means of electricity, should it maybe be changed to 'recieves a minor electric shock'?

The Correct Titles?
I downloaded the entire shorts series of the Simpsons, and I noticed that "What Maggie's Thinking" is called "Maggie's Brain" at the end of that particular one. There are also conflicting titles in different sources, such as "Dinnertime" being "Eating Dinner" on some websites. I'm wondering, does Wikipedia have the official names? 208.101.173.66 17:47, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
 * The names on this list are taken from the official guide book. --Maitch 21:09, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
 * There are numerous errors in the Complete Guide books. As usual, The Simpsons Archive is more accurate. (The Complete Guide mistakes are also listed there). Scott 21:13, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

Marge's Name
I'm not sure, but I believe that Marge is never actually named throughout the shorts. Am I correct, and if so, is this worth mentioning? IceKeyHunter 05:09, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

She's usually credited as "Mrs. Simpson". I don't think they ever mentioned Marge's name within the show. Maybe they have on the actual Tracey Ullman Show. In any case, I'm sure she was always Marge in Matt Groening's mind since the Simpson family was named after his own family (with Bart [or "Brat"] replacing Matt). 208.101.173.66 14:52, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
 * On one of the commentaries on the first season DVDs, it is mentioned that she didn't have a name until the actual stand alone series. She was referred to as Juliette or Julie though. Funkynusayri (talk) 14:37, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

Articles for shorts
i think there should be seperate articles for each short —Preceding unsigned comment added by Fifaworld07 (talk • contribs) 19:47, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I disagree. None of these shorts, except Good Night, pass WP:EPISODE. -- Scorpion0422 19:52, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I'll have a look at WP:EPISODE and see if I can get any of the other episodes individual articles. --T.M.M. Dowd (talk) 10:52, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

1990
Excuse me, but i'm a little confused. IMDB lists there being shorts that aired on the show in 1990. Were there season 3 shorts that were left unaired until later? NitroMan3941 (talk) 02:21, 4 November 2009 (UTC)

 * Oh, i guess these weren't Simpsons shorts like i thought. (I thought at first Homer's credit meant it involved the Simpson Family) NitroMan3941 (talk) 02:06, 5 November 2009 (UTC)

Merge
I think this page should be merged with List of The Simpsons episodes. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.23.53.68 (talk) 18:49, 14 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Why? The shorts are different from the series. Also, the main list is already rather long, and this one uses a different table format, so combining the two would mean a long and inconsistantly formatted list. -- Scorpion 0422  19:15, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

date
Is it known when Groening pitched it to Brooks? I'm assuming some time in 1987? 50.100.39.133 (talk) 03:47, 10 November 2011 (UTC)

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 * Married to the former Paula Marie Simon of Chicago, Illinois. They have two boys, Erik and Matthew. He enjoys jogging, swimming, carpentry, furniture refinishing, and farming. His parents, Charles M. and Ruth Lee, reside in Viroqua, Wisconsin.

 * Registered professional engineer in the State of Colorado. Member of the American Angus Association and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

 * He has logged 4,500 hours flying time, predominantly in the T-38, F-4 and F-16 aircraft.

I don't think it is relevent. Andreww 08:31, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

new paragraph on removal and departure
With regards to the material on Mr. Lee's reassignment and subsequent departure from NASA, according to NASA watch it related specifically to a falling out with an individual called George Abbey, JSC Center Director at the time, on a project called the "short suit". I'm not sure whether NASA Watch is sufficiently credible to add to this page, though the explanation is certainly plausible. I hope the present link, that indicates that the removal related to a dispute with a superior rather than any accusations of misconduct or incompetence, doesn't give an unfair impression of Mr. Lee, whom I had the pleasure to meet briefly at Kennedy Space Center recently. --Robert Merkel 11:14, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

Article with Lee
There's this article on Yahoo that mentions Mark Lee. The article talks about his mother reuniting with her biological mother after 77 years. http://news.yahoo.com/mom-reunites-biological-child-77-years-later-201717607.html Not sure if it's necessary to this page, but I thought I'd share it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by StarLegacy (talk • contribs) 03:21, 3 January 2012 (UTC)

In my opinion, I think it should be added to his page. It is an interesting and heart-warming article. --Senjuto 13:19, 3 January 2012 (UTC)

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Nićifor Dučić

Archimandrite Nićifor Dučić (Нићифор Дучић; 1832–1900), was a Bosnian Serb theologian, historian, philologist, archimandrite, writer and academic.

As Archimandrite of Herzegovina Nićifor Dučić founded the Orthodox Seminarium in Cetinje in 1863. In 1880 Dučić was appointed as the head of the National Museum of Serbia, and since 1883 as a Director of National Library of Serbia.

Dučić's monographs about monasteries (Tvrdoš, Žitomislić, Morača, Ostrog) have not lost the cultural-historical value since science must further take some studies into consideration: Christmas in Montenegro (1867); Boka and Zeta (1875); Slav Manuscripts in the National Library in Paris (1889).

Biography
Nićifor Dučić was born in the village of Velji Lug, near Trebinje in southern Bosnia and Herzegovina, in 1832. He received an excellent education in Serbia, Serbian Vojvodina, and later in Paris. During the 1848 Revolution he joined the Austrians as a young volunteer, and after he returned to his native Herzegovina where at the Duži Monastery he took holy orders under the guidance of his uncle, the abbot (archimandrite). In 1858 he founded with Serafim Perović a school in Duži, and taught religion and history in Mostar. From late 1858 until 1860 he oversaw the Žitomislić Monastery, situated near the River Neretva. There he wrote several series of monographs, literary histories, archaeological questions, including the history of Metox Monastery Duži and Tvrdoš, Žitomislić Monastery, Hilandar Monastery, and about the Serbian community and the Serbian Orthodox Church of Saint Spiridon in downtown Trieste.

In 1848 in Žitomislić Monastery was founded the first school for education of Serbian children and a school for education of Orthodox priests, which were established by monks of the manastir, chiefly Nićifor Dučić and Sirafin Perović.

Dučić himself served in his youth in the Herzegovinian Uprising of 1852-1862, led by Luka Vukalović. Dučić's strength, daring and activity fitted him to shine in operations largely composed of night marches, surprises, escalades, and hand-to-hand combat. The main scene of his achievement was in Bosnia and Herzegovina and when those hostilities died down, and there was no amnesty forthcoming from the Ottoman Porte and Constantinople as promised, Dučić left for Montenegro. He had a relation in Cetinje where he settled in 1864. There he was elevated to the rank of archimandrite, and he also helped Serafim Perović, his old friend from Duži, start a school of higher learning. When Perović opened the first seminary at Cetinje, Dučić was named rector. He wrote and published the rules of the school. Conditions for the pupils were favourable, with particular considerations for the poorest among them. He also entered into Montenegrin service, and was immediately nominated to head a diplomatic mission as an intermediary between Cetinje and Belgrade.

Returning with general Milojko Lešjanin, Nićifor Dučić, now Nicholas I of Montenegro's envoy, exchanged copies of a treaty with Mihailo Obrenović III, Prince of Serbia and Prime Minister Ilija Garašanin signed October 14, 1867. Its stated purpose was to "prepare an insurrection in Turkey and unite the entire Serbian people in a single state." His pamphlets and revolutionary doctrines (that came to Austrian and Turkish attention) compelled him to leave Montenegro for Italy. In the meantime, Garašanin was preparing a general rising of all Serb lands against Turkish rule, and in 1868 Dučić was back in Belgrade. But the execution of Garašanin's plans was frustrated by the assassination of Prince Mihailo (Obrenović) on 10 June 1868 (or 28 May 1868 O.S.). Dučić was long a warm advocate of the political union of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbian Vojvodina, Kosovo Metohija, and Serbia.

With the accession of Prince Milan I of Serbia, the newly appointed prime minister Jovan Ristić employed Dučić for secret missions on behalf the Government, such as negotiating with the Turks. During September 1873, as Ristić's envoy, Dučić held consultations with Croatian politicians Matija Mrazović and Franjo Rački about the unification of all Serbian people with Serbia.

Nicifor Dučić and count Petar Vukotić had become champions of the idea of friendship and alliance with Serbia and favoured the unification of Montenegro with Serbia. They and Prince Nicholas believed that Montenegro's policy must be subject to Serbia's and that Serbian nation's salvation lays in complete unification with the rest of lands inhabited by Serbs. Filip Hristić arrived in Cetinje from Belgrade to assure Prince Nicholas that Serbia will back Montenegro in case of war with Turkey. Soon the war was declared in 1876 by Serbia in alliance with Montenegro in order to profit by the new insurrection in the Herzegovina which had begun in the summer of 1875 at Nevesinje. Dučić's love of adventure led him, during the First Serbo-Turkish War (1876–1878), to take the command of a brigade and enter into the fray. In this capacity he performed splendid service at Aleksinac, where he was wounded, by delaying Turkish advance on Belgrade before a conclusion of peace could be drawn up. The final result of the war which intensified the Balkan crisis culminated in the Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878). By the settlement of the conflict Serbia and Montenegro acquired their respective and total independence from the Ottoman Empire. He died at Belgrade in 1900.

He was awarded several medals for bravery, Order of Saint Sava, Order of Miloš the Great, Order of the White Eagle, Order of the Cross of Takovo, Order of Saint Vladimir and Bulgarian Order for civil service.

Works
Though one of the most remarkable of Serbian writers, historians and diplomatists, Nićifor Dučić laboured for many years in comparative obscurity. Dučić began to write early, and had, according to his own account, composed several articles when he was sixteen. As a contributor to newspapers and magazines, he came under the notice of Ilarion Ruvarac, who encouraged him to continue to produce well-researched historical monographs for learned societies and their periodicals and journals. He wrote a treatise about Serbs living in the port city of Trieste, entitled "The Serbian Parish in Trieste".

Njegoš's poetic works remained practically unrecognized and unnoticed by our littérateurs for more than two decades, until Nićifor Dučić wrote: Primjetbe na "Komentar Gorskog vijenca" (Belgrade, Državna Štamparija, 1870).

Dučić once complained: The Greek metropolitans ordain as clergy even such people as can hardly read the church books. (Istorija srpske pravoslavne crkve od prvijeh desetina VII viejeka to nasih dana, Beograd, 1892).

In 1869 Dučić became a member of the a Serbian Learned Society, and for a time held the post of director (librarian) of the Serbian National Library, from 1880 to 1886.

Between 1891 and 18 99 Dučić himself published his collected works with total of nine books. The study The Old Times of Hilandar and the Monograph of Hilandar was published in 1884 and then it was included into the fourth book of collected works in 1895.

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Arthromygalidae

The Arthromygalidae are an extinct family of arachnids, possibly spiders. Fossils placed in the family were all found in the Carboniferous,. They were considered by Alexander Petrunkevitch to be "mesotheles", i.e. placed in the spider suborder Mesothelae. Petrunkevitch used the family for Carboniferous fossils he regarded as mesotheles but which lacked eyes (those with eyes were placed in the Arthrolycosidae). Paul A. Selden has shown the fossil specimens only have "the general appearance of spiders", with segmented abdomens (opisthosomae), but no definite spinnerets.

Genera
Genera placed in the Arthromygalidae are shown below, together with the location of the fossils.

 * †Arthromygale Petrunkevitch, 1923 – Rakovník (Czech Republic)
 * †Eolycosa Kušta, 1885 – Rakovník
 * †Geralycosa Kušta, 1888 – Rakovník
 * †Kustaria Petrunkevitch, 1953 – Rakovník
 * †Palaranea Frič, 1873 – Czech Republic
 * †Protocteniza Petrunkevitch, 1949 – Coseley (England)
 * †Protolycosa Roemer, 1865 – Silesia, Cévennes (France)
 * †Rakovnicia Kušta, 1884 – Rakovník

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GCP

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User:Moyogo/Draft

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Greek Australians

Greek Australians (Ελληνοαυστραλοί) are Australians of Greek ancestry. Greek Australians are one of the largest groups within the global Greek diaspora. As per the 2021 Australian census, 424,750 people stated that they had Greek ancestry (whether alone or in combination with another ancestry), comprising 1.7% of the Australian population. At the 2021 census, 92,314 Australian residents were born in Greece.

Greek immigration to Australia has been one of the largest migratory flows in the history of Australia, especially after World War II and the Greek Civil War. The flow of migrants from Greece increased slightly in 2015 due to the economic crisis in Greece, with Australia as one of the main destinations for departing Greeks, mainly to Melbourne, where the Greek Australian community is most deeply established.

88% of Greek Australians speak Greek and 91% are Christians and members of the Greek Orthodox Church.

Australia and Greece have a close bilateral relationship based on historical ties and the rich contribution of Greek Australians to Australian society. In 2019, the export of Australian services to Greece was valued at $92 million, while services imports from Greece totalled $750 million. Australia's stock of investment in Greece in 2019 totalled $481 million, while investment in Australia from Greece was $192 million.

Early Greek immigration
Greek immigration to Australia began in the early colonial period in the 19th century. The first known Greeks arrived in 1829. These Greeks were seven sailors, convicted of piracy by a British naval court, and were sentenced to transportation to New South Wales. Though they were eventually pardoned, two of those seven Greeks stayed and settled in the country. One settled on the Monaro Plains in Southern New South Wales and one at Picton near Sydney. Their names were Ghikas Bulgaris known as Jigger Bulgari, and Andonis Manolis. Jigger Bulgari married an Irish woman, and they had many children. Jigger was buried at Nimmitabel Pioneer Cemetery. The Hellenic Club of Canberra laid a commemorative marble plaque over his resting place around 2000. Andonis Manolis' grave is in the old cemetery at Mittagong. The first known free Greek migrant to Australia was Katerina Georgia Plessos (1809–1907), who arrived in Sydney with her husband Major James Crummer in 1835. They married in 1827 on the island of Kalamos where Crummer, the island's commandant, met the young refugee from the Greek independence wars. In her youth, she must have been one of the last living people to speak to Lord Byron. They lived in Sydney, Newcastle and Port Macquarie. They had 11 children. The first wave of free Hellenic migrants commenced in the 1850s, and continued through the end of the 19th century, prompted in part by the recent discovery of gold in the country.

20th-century Greek immigration
From the last decade of the 19th century until World War I, the number of Greeks immigrating to Australia increased steadily and Hellenic communities were reasonably well established in Melbourne and Sydney at this time. The Greek language press began in Australia and in 1913, Australia had the first Greek weekly newspaper called Afstralia that was published in Melbourne.

Anna Perivolaris was a leading organiser of Greek culture in Sydney in the 1920s until she was head hunted to organise a Greek after school club in Perth.

There was a significant population of Greeks in Australia during World War I, especially from the Greek islands, which led to the community being heavily monitored and counted in a 'secret census' in 1916, due to questions of Greek loyalty as Greece was initially neutral during the war. Later the Greeks were raising money for the Greek Government in exile.

After the changes in Greece from the mid 1970s, including the fall of the Papadopoulos regime in 1974 and the formal inclusion of Greece into the European Union, Greek immigration to Australia has slowed since the 1971 peak of 160,200 arrivals. Within Australia, the Greek immigrants have been "extremely well organised socially and politically", with approximately 600 Greek organisations in the country by 1973, and immigrants have strived to maintain their faith and cultural identity.

By comparison, the Greek Cypriot community in Australia doubled following the Invasion of Cyprus by Turkey following a campaign of ethnic cleansing in 1974.

21st-century Greek immigration

Since the year 2000, Greek immigration to Australia has slowed down. As the economic crisis in Greece grew, the opportunities for temporary resident Greek Australians abroad were limited.

In the early 2010s, there has been an increase of Greek immigration flows to Australia due to unemployment, among other issues, because of the economic crisis in Greece. This has led to the return of many Greek Australians which had gone to Greece before the crisis and also the arrival of newcomers from Greece, who have been received by the large Greek Australian community, mainly in Melbourne.

Demographics
At the 2021 census, 424,750 people stated that they had Greek ancestry (whether alone or in combination with another ancestry), comprising 1.7% of the Australian population. At the 2021 census, 92,314 Australian residents were born in Greece.

The largest concentration of Greek Australians is in the state of Victoria, which is often regarded as the heartland of the Greek Australian community. Victoria's capital Melbourne has the largest Greek Australian community in Australia.

The 2021 census showed that the following states had the largest numbers of people nominating Greek ancestry: Victoria (181,184), New South Wales (141,627), South Australia (40,704), Queensland (32,702), Western Australia (16,117).

One study investigating the 54 most common ethnic groups in Australia found that Greek Australians had the lowest rate of intermarriage (marrying outside their ethnicity) than every other ethnicity in the first, second and third generations.

Religion
According to the 2016 Australian census, 91.4% of Australians with Greek ancestry are Christian, mainly Eastern Orthodox; however, minorities who belong to different Christian denominations like Catholics, Jehovah's Witnesses and Pentecostals also exist. Together, these other denominations make up 0.4% of the Greek Australian population. 5.6% identified as spiritual, secular or irreligious, and 2.6% did not answer the census question on religion. Greek Australians are predominantly Greek Orthodox. The largest religious body of Greek Orthodox Australians is the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia, with its headquarters at the Cathedral of The Annunciation of Our Lady in the inner Sydney suburb of Redfern.

Greek language
In 2016, the Greek language was spoken at home by 237,588 Australian residents, a 5.8% decrease from the 2011 census data. Greek is the seventh most commonly spoken language in Australia after English, Mandarin, Arabic, Cantonese, Vietnamese and Italian. The remainder of the ethnic Greek population in Australia mainly use English as their first language. Most Greek Australians speak the Greco-Australian dialect. Greco-Australian is an Australian-based dialect of Greek that is spoken by the local disapora, including by both Greek immigrants and Australians of Greek descent.

Media
The Greek language press began in Australia in 1913 when the first Greek weekly newspaper was published in Melbourne. In South Australia, the local Greek community published a short-lived newspaper called Okeanis (Oceania), around 1914 before it moved to Sydney. On 16 November 1926, George Marsellos and John Stilson published a broadsheet under the name Panellenios Keryx (Panhellenic Herald or The Greek Herald), becoming the second national Greek newspaper in Australia. In 1935 and 1936 a third newspaper, Pharos (Lighthouse), was published, and a number of short-lived titles were issued in the late 1960s, with the longest of these being Tachydromos (Mailman), founded in September 1968. In 1957, Hellenic/Greek language newspaper Neos Kosmos was founded by Dimitri Gogos, Bill Stefanou and Alekos Doukas, the latter also being an exceptionally well known author. Since 1994, a publication called Paroikiako Vema (Steps in the adopted Country) and printed in Renmark, has served the Greek community in rural South Australia.

Multicultural broadcaster SBS (Special Broadcasting Service) airs a Greek-language radio program every afternoon from 4 PM to 6 PM. The program features news, current affairs, music, interviews, and a talkback segment, where listeners can dial into the program from 5:30 PM onwards and express their opinion on a topic being focused on. Additionally, SBS also airs Greek public broadcaster ERT's Eidiseis news program every morning as part of their WorldWatch programming block.

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 * Nick (Νικήτας) Birbilis – Professor of Engineering / Executive Dean, Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment Deakin University
 * Adrian David Cheok – Professor of Pervasive Computing at City University London & Director of the Mixed Reality Lab
 * Nicholas Doumanis – Assoc. Professor of History, at the University of New South Wales
 * Nikolas Kompridis – Professorial Fellow at the University of Western Sydney in the School of Humanities & Communication Arts
 * Michael Kyrios - Emeritus Professor at Flinders University; previous Vice President and Executive Dean, College of Education, Psychology and Social Work
 * Christos Pantelis – Professor of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne
 * Maria Skyllas-Kazacos – Emeritus Professor at the University of New South Wales, chemical engineer best known for her pioneering work of the vanadium redox battery
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 * Paul Pholeros – architect
 * Tony Rafty – caricaturist
 * Stelarc (Stelios Arkadiou) – artist
 * Christos Tsiolkas – writer
 * Michael Zavros – artist/painter

Business

 * Mark Bouris – managing director of Wizard
 * George Calombaris – chef, former judge MasterChef Australia
 * Con Constantine – former chairman, Newcastle United Jets
 * Andrew Demetriou – chief executive, Australian Football League
 * Tim Efkarpidis — businessman, property developer, Molongo Group
 * Harry Katsiabanis – founder of TaxiLink and StorageX
 * Antony J. J. Lucas – businessman noted for his philanthropic activities
 * Marinos Lucas – businessman, theatre company operator
 * Andrew N. Liveris – CEO of Dow Chemical Company
 * Kostas Makris – the richest Greek in Australia (in the top 30 of the richest residents in Australia)
 * Nick Pappas – chairman, South Sydney Rabbitohs
 * Nicholas Paspaley Senior and Paspaley family (Paspalis) – Paspaley dominate the pearling industry; large property holdings in Darwin CBD and properties in Sydney
 * George Peponis – chairman, Canterbury Bulldogs
 * Geoff Polites – chief executive officer of Australian Jaguar Land RoverFPV President / Tickford managing director
 * Nick Politis – car retailer and chairman of the Sydney Roosters rugby league club
 * James Samios – Hon. MBE Museum of Contemporary Art, Circular Quay, Sydney
 * Peter V'landys – chairman of the Australian Rugby League Commission

Fashion

 * Christopher Chronis – fashion designer
 * Napoleon Perdis – make-up artist
 * Alex Perry – fashion designer

Film, theatre, and television

 * Peter Andrikidis – director and producer, Underbelly, G.P.
 * Alex Andreas – actor, Fat Tony & Co.
 * Alex Blias – actor, Home and Away
 * Elena Carapetis – actress, Heartbreak High
 * Gia Carides – actress, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, Brilliant Lies, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Strictly Ballroom
 * Zoe Carides – actress, Death in Brunswick, G.P.
 * Wayne Coles-Janess – director and producer
 * Chantal Contouri – actress, Number 96
 * Mary Coustas – comedian and actress
 * Alex Dimitriades – actor, The Heartbreak Kid, Heartbreak High, Head On, The Slap
 * Rebekah Elmaloglou – actress, Home and Away and Neighbours
 * Sebastian Elmaloglou – actor, Home and Away, brother of Rebekah
 * Damien Fotiou – actor, Kangaroo Jack, Head On
 * Nick Giannopoulos – actor, The Wog Boy, Acropolis Now and director
 * Diana Glenn – actress
 * George Houvardas – actor, Packed to the Rafters
 * Hugh Jackman – actor, Paperback Hero, Australia, Logan, The Greatest Showman
 * George Kapiniaris – actor, Acropolis Now and comedian
 * Peter Kelamis – comedian
 * Costas Kilias – actor
 * Ana Kokkinos – director, The Secret Life of Us, Head On
 * Katerina Kotsonis - actress, Neighbours
 * Nico Lathouris – actor
 * Costas Mandylor – actor, Saw, Picket Fences
 * Louis Mandylor – actor, My Big Fat Greek Wedding
 * Lex Marinos – actor, Kingswood Country, director, writer and broadcaster
 * Harry Michaels – actor, Number 96, producer, Aerobics Oz Style, and director, Sports TV
 * Bill Miller – director and producer
 * George Miller – Academy Award-winning director and producer, Babe, Happy Feet, Mad Max: Fury Road

 * Ada Nicodemou – actress, Home and Away, Heartbreak High, Police Rescue
 * Tony Nikolakopoulos – actor and director
 * Socratis Otto – actor, known for television series Young Lions, and Wentworth
 * Alex Papps – actor, Home and Away, The Henderson Kids and presenter, Play School
 * Thaao Penghlis – actor, Days of Our Lives, General Hospital, Santa Barbara (TV series)
 * Alex Proyas – director, I, Robot, Dark City, The Crow, Knowing

 * Jordan Raskopoulos – comedian and singer
 * Steen Raskopoulos – actor and comedian
 * Gina Riley – actress, Kath & Kim, comedian, entertainer and singer
 * Nathan Saidden – comedian
 * George Spartels – actor
 * Nadia Tass – director, Malcolm, The Big Steal
 * John Tatoulis – director and producer
 * Maria Theodorakis – actress
 * Alkinos Tsilimidos – director
 * Olympia Valance – actress, Neighbours, Playing for Keeps and model
 * Zoe Ventoura – actress, Packed to the Rafters
 * Helen Zerefos – actress and cabaret singer

Journalism

 * Nick Adams - also known as Nick Adamopoulos, US-based political commentator
 * Dimitri Gogos – late editor, Neos Kosmos
 * George Donikian – news presenter, Ten Network
 * Peter Frilingos – sports journalist with the Daily Telegraph in Sydney, and broadcaster and commentator with the Continuous Call Team
 * Helen Kapalos – journalist, reporter Sunday Night, Seven Network
 * Patricia Karvelas – journalist, ABC
 * Mary Kostakidis – journalist, SBS
 * John Mangos – news presenter and journalist, Sky News Australia
 * George Megalogenis – author and formerThe Australian newspaper journalist
 * Harry Nicolaides – novelist
 * Peter Peters – sports broadcaster and commentator

Justice

 * Chris Kourakis – Chief Justice of South Australia
 * Emilios Kyrou – Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria
 * John Morris – Chief Justice of Tasmania (surname originally Moros)

Music

 * Peter Andre – singer, entertainer
 * Alex Carapetis – drummer
 * Kaz James – singer and DJ
 * James Kannis – singer (Australian Idol)
 * Chris Karan – jazz drummer (Dudley Moore Trio) and studio percussionist (Bob Marley & the Wailers)
 * Vasilliki Karagiorgos (Vassy) – singer and songwriter
 * John Lemmone – flute player and composer
 * Orianthi Panagaris – guitarist/musician
 * Sally Polihronas – singer (Bardot)
 * Nick Skitz – deejay-producer
 * Costas Tsicaderis – singer-songwriter

Politics

 * Nick Bolkus – federal politician
 * Michael Costa – former Finance Minister, New South Wales
 * Steve Dimopoulos – politician, Victoria
 * Nicholas Dondas - former politician Northern Territory
 * Jim Fouras – politician, Queensland
 * Steve Georganas – federal politician
 * Petro Georgiou – federal politician
 * John Hatzistergos – Attorney General, New South Wales
 * Peter Katsambanis – former politician, Victoria
 * Steve Kons – Deputy Premier, Tasmania
 * Nicholas Kotsiras – Minister, Victoria
 * Tom Koutsantonis – Minister for Trade, South Australia
 * Fiona Martin - former federal politician
 * Michael McCormack - former Deputy Prime Minister of Australia
 * Ken Michael – politician
 * Jenny Mikakos – former Health Minister, Victoria
 * John Pandazopoulos – politician, Victoria
 * Drew Pavlou – student activist at the University of Queensland
 * Eleni Petinos – politician, New South Wales
 * Nick Staikos – politician, Victoria
 * Andrew Theophanous – federal politician, Victoria (born Cyprus)
 * Theo Theophanous – politician, Victoria (born Cyprus)
 * Kat Theophanous – politician, Victoria
 * Arthur Sinodinos – former senator and Chief of Staff, PM John Howard
 * Maria Vamvakinou – federal politician, Victoria
 * Kon Vatskalis – politician, Northern Territory
 * Nick Xenophon – politician, South Australia

 * George Georgas – former politician Queensland

Religion

 * Archbishop Stylianos Harkianakis – former Primate of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia
 * Archbishop Makarios Griniezakis – current Primate of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia

Science and technology

 * Manuel Aroney – organic chemist
 * Gerasimos Danilatos – physicist, inventor of environmental scanning electron microscope
 * George North (Tramountanas) – pastoralist, sheep farmer and first Greek to settle in South Australia in 1842
 * Christos Pantelis – psychiatrist
 * George Paxinos – Professor of Psychology at the University of New South Wales
 * Michael Kyrios – clinical psychologist

Australian rules football

 * Luke Beveridge – Melbourne, Footscray & St Kilda player
 * Ang Christou – Carlton player
 * Andrew Demetriou – North Melbourne & Hawthorn player (later League CEO)
 * Ange Postecoglou – Soccer Manager
 * Josh Francou – Port Adelaide player
 * Gary Frangalas – Sydney & Richmond player
 * John Georgiades – Footscray player
 * John Georgiou – St.Kilda player
 * Con Gorozidis – St.Kilda & Footscray player
 * Athas Hrysoulakis – Collingwood player
 * Peter Kanis – Hawthorn player
 * Arthur Karanicolas – North Melbourne player
 * Patrick Karnezis – Brisbane & Collingwood player
 * Paul Koulouriotis – Port Adelaide & Geelong player
 * Spiro Kourkoumelis – Carlton & St Kilda player
 * Anthony Koutoufides – Carlton player
 * Angelo Lekkas – Hawthorn player
 * Spiro Malakellis – Geelong player
 * Tony Malakellis – Geelong & Sydney player
 * Steve Malaxos – Hawthorn & West Coast player
 * Daniel Metropolis – West Coast & Fremantle player
 * Russell Morris – Hawthorn & St Kilda player
 * Chris Pavlou – Carlton player
 * Phillip Poursanidis – Carlton player
 * Lou Richards – Collingwood player
 * Ron Richards – Collingwood player
 * John Rombotis – Fitzroy, Port Adelaide & Richmond player
 * Tony Spassopoulos – Fitzroy player
 * Jimmy Toumpas – Melbourne & Port Adelaide player
 * Jason Traianidis – St Kilda player
 * Zeno Tzatzaris – Footscray player
 * David Zaharakis – Essendon player

Boxing and kickboxing

 * Evangelos Goussis – Kickboxer and Boxer, convicted murderer
 * George Kambosos Jr. – Professional boxer
 * Michael Katsidis – Professional Boxer, former WBA and WBO lightweight champion
 * Stan Longinidis – Kickboxer, former World Kickboxing Champion
 * Tosca Petridis – Kickboxer, former World Kickboxing Champion

Cricket

 * Jason Gillespie – cricket coach and retired Australia international cricketer
 * Peter Hatzoglou – Melbourne Renegades cricketer
 * Sam Konstas - Sydney thunder cricketer
 * Blake Nikitaras - Sydney thunder cricketer
 * Steve Nikitaras - Former WA cricketer
 * Marcus Stoinis – Australia international cricketer

Flying disc

 * Maxwell Gratton – CEO, Flying Disc Australia

Soccer

 * John Anastasiadis – former player of Heidelberg United, PAOK, South Melbourne and Yarraville Glory. Represented the Socceroos at U21 level. Coached Yarraville Glory, South Melbourne, Oakleigh Cannons and is current coach of Bentleigh Greens.
 * Panos Armenakas – player, Udinese Calcio
 * Con Blatsis – former player of South Melbourne, Derby County, Sheffield Wednesday (on loan), Colchester United, Kocaelispor and St Patrick's Athletic. Represented the Socceroos at U20, U23 and senior level.
 * Con Boutsianis – former player of South Melbourne, Heidelberg United, Collingwood Warriors, Bentleigh Greens, Perth Glory, Bolton Wanderers, Bulleen Zebras, Oakleigh Cannons, Essendon United and Malvern City. He represented the Socceroos at senior level.
 * Dean Bouzanis – player Reading, Melbourne City and former Liverpool FC
 * Jason Davidson – player Eupen, Melbourne Victory and former Socceroos
 * Chris Kalantzis – player
 * Evan Kostopoulos – player, Adelaide United
 * Stan Lazaridis – player, Perth Glory and Socceroos
 * Apostolos Stamatelopoulos – player, Adelaide United and Western United
 * Michalis 'Mike' Mandalis - player, one of Australia's all-time greats South Melbourne and Melbourne Hakoah
 * Lucas Pantelis – former player
 * Jim Patikas – former player, first Australian participant in UEFA Champions League, former Socceroos
 * Ange Postecoglou – coach Socceroos, Celtic and Spurs, former player
 * Peter Raskopoulos - player, Sydney Olympic FC
 * Nick Theodorakopoulos – coach
 * Michael Theoklitos – former player of Brisbane Roar, Melbourne Victory, South Melbourne
 * Michael Valkanis – coach, Melbourne City and Greece national football team assistant
 * Helen Caceres – player
 * Andy Vlahos – player
 * Charlie Yankos – former Socceroos captain
 * Terry Antonis – player, Western Sydney Wanderers
 * Apostolos Giannou – player, Kerala Blasters
 * Avraam Papadopoulos – player, Australian born Greece national football team member
 * Jesse Makarounas – player, Melbourne Victory
 * Dimitri Petratos – player, Mohun Bagan Super Giant
 * Kosta Petratos – player, St George City
 * Maki Petratos – player, St George City
 * Chris Ikonomidis – player, Melbourne Victory
 * Anthony Lesiotis – player, Melbourne City

Mixed martial arts

 * George Sotiropoulos – former UFC mixed martial artist
 * Alexander Volkanovski – UFC mixed martial artist

Rugby league

 * Braith Anasta – player, Sydney Roosters
 * Jason Demetriou - player/coach
 * George Gatis – player, New Zealand Warriors
 * Steve Georgallis – player/coach
 * Michael Korkidas – player, Salford City Reds
 * Nick Kouparitsas – player, Canterbury Bulldogs
 * Glenn Lazarus – player Canberra Raiders, Brisbane Broncos and Melbourne Storm
 * Billy Magoulias — player, Cronulla Sharks
 * George Peponis – former Australian captain
 * Peter Peters - player, Manly-Warringah
 * Willie Peters – player, South Sydney Rabbitohs
 * Jim Serdaris – player, South Sydney, Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs
 * John Skandalis – player, Huddersfield Giants
 * Jason Stevens – player, St-George Illawarra Dragons, Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks
 * Justin Tsoulos – player, Parramatta Eels
 * Arthur Kitinas – player/coach, South Sydney Sydney Roosters

Sailing

 * Edward Psaltis – sailor

Shooting

 * Michael Diamond – shooter – Olympic gold medallist, Sydney 2000

Skateboarding

 * Tas Pappas – former World No.1
 * Ben Pappas

Skiing

 * Lydia Lassila – skier

Tennis

 * Mark Philippoussis – player
 * Nick Kyrgios – player
 * Thanasi Kokkinakis – player

Weightlifting

 * Robert Kabbas - athlete
 * Bill Stellios - athlete

Wrestling

 * Tony Kontellis – professional wrestler
 * Spiros Manousakis (Spiros Arion) – wrestler

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Tetrapanax

Tetrapanax papyrifer, the rice paper plant (通草—tong cao), is an evergreen shrub or small tree in the family Araliaceae, the sole species in the genus Tetrapanax. The specific epithet is frequently misspelled as "papyriferum", "papyriferus", or "papyrifera". It is native to eastern and central China and Taiwan, but widely cultivated in East Asia and in other tropical to mild temperate regions as well.

The species was first described in the genus Aralia as Aralia papyrifera, and has also been treated in Fatsia as Fatsia papyrifera.

A second species, Tetrapanax tibetanus, is now regarded as a synonym of Merrilliopanax alpinus.

Description
Tetrapanax grows between 3–7 metres tall, with usually unbranched stems 2–9 cm in diameter, and bearing a rosette of large leaves atop the crown; the top of the plant can visually, albeit superficially, appear similar to a number of plants belonging to Arecaceae (the palm family). The leaves are carried on 40–60 cm petioles; the orbicular leaf blade measures from 50 to 75 cm across (to a metre across in some cultivars ), with anywhere from 5-12 deeply incised palmate lobes, the central lobes being larger and Y-forked near the end. It spreads extensively, by sprouts and runners from the root system, underground. The inflorescence is a large panicle of hemispherical or globular umbels, at the end of the stem. The flowers have 4-6 small, white petals. The fruit is a small berry 4 mm in diameter.

Uses
Tetrapanax papyrifer is used in traditional Chinese medicine. The pith from the stem is used to make a substance commonly known as rice paper, but more properly termed pith paper.

The species is cultivated as an ornamental specimen plant, and has received the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.

Cultivars
The cultivar 'Rex' is a semi-evergreen shrub or tree with huge palmate leaves up to a metre diameter. Classified by the Royal Horticultural Society as H4, it is evergreen in mild locations, deciduous where temperatures fall below freezing, and herbaceous with more prolonged freezing. It prefers a sheltered position in full sun or partial shade.

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Art Hauser Centre

The Art Hauser Centre (formerly the Communiplex) is a multi-purpose arena in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada. It was built in 1971 and is home to the Prince Albert Raiders Ice hockey team in the Western Hockey League. Its hockey capacity is 2,580 seated, plus another 786 spots that are standing-room only.

The Art Hauser Centre was formerly known as the Prince Albert Communiplex, but it was renamed late in the 2004-2005 hockey season as part of the "Bring Back The Magic" campaign. This was an endeavour to raise money for extensive renovations to the Communiplex. In just under a month, the campaign raised over $3 million.

The arena was named in honour of local businessperson Art Hauser, who made a donation of $1 million to the campaign. Renovations were completed in the spring of 2006.

Changes to the arena included new concessions at the southeast corner of the building on both levels, new washrooms at the southeast corner of the building on both levels, new seats in the entire arena, renovated dressing rooms, a new centre-ice scoreboard with video boards on all 4 sides, an expanded Ches Leach Lounge, a new front lobby named for Prince Albert-born former NHL goalie Johnny Bower with concessions and team store, and new offices for both the WHL Raiders and the City of Prince Albert.

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Geoffrey Fieger

Geoffrey Fieger is an American attorney based in Southfield, Michigan. Fieger is the founder of the law firm Fieger Law, and is an occasional legal commentator for NBC and MSNBC. His practice focuses on personal injury, civil rights litigation and medical malpractice cases.

Fieger served as the defense attorney for Jack Kevorkian and was an unsuccessful Democratic nominee for governor of Michigan in 1998.

Early life and family
Fieger grew up in Oak Park, Michigan, a northern suburb of Detroit, Michigan, the son of June Beth (née Oberer) and Bernard Julian Fieger. Fieger's father was Jewish, and his mother was of Norwegian descent. He earned B.A. (Theater, 1974) and M.A. (Speech) degrees from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 1976 and his J.D. from the Detroit College of Law (now the Michigan State University College of Law) in 1979.

Fieger and his wife Kathleen have three children and live in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Fieger is the older brother of the late Doug Fieger, lead vocalist of the late-'70s/early-'80s rock group The Knack, best known for their hit song "My Sharona" in 1979.

Legal career
Fieger has been involved with a variety of high-profile or controversial cases. In 1994, he represented Jack Kevorkian in the first of several doctor-assisted suicide trials. Kevorkian was acquitted in that trial and all subsequent trials where Fieger represented him. (Kevorkian was convicted when he represented himself in his last assisted suicide trial in 1999.) These events were made into a movie, You Don't Know Jack, aired on HBO, in which Fieger was portrayed by actor  Danny Huston.

Other notable clients and cases include:
 * The family of Scott Amedure in a 1999 wrongful death and negligence suit against The Jenny Jones Show. Fieger was unsuccessful in his representation, with the Michigan Court of Appeals holding that The Jenny Jones Show was not liable for Amedure's death.
 * The family of Isaiah Shoels, who was killed in the Columbine High School massacre.
 * Ralf Panitz, accused of killing his ex-wife Nancy Campbell-Panitz in July 2000, following their appearance along with Panitz's new wife, on a segment of The Jerry Springer Show. Panitz was convicted in 2002.
 * The family of Aiyana Jones, a seven-year-old girl who was shot during a police raid in 2010, conducted while a crew was doing a taping of the A&E reality show The First 48.
 * A lawsuit against the Michigan State Police on behalf of the family of 64-year-old Jacqueline Nichols, a pedestrian who was killed when a cruiser crashed into her during a police chase in Flint on July 3, 2014. The state agreed to settle the suit for $7.7 million.
 * A $100 million class action lawsuit in regards to the 2014-2015 Legionnaires' disease outbreak in the Flint, Michigan area, on behalf of four Genesee County residents who contracted the water borne illness during the Flint water crisis, including one woman who died seven days after entering the emergency room with a headache. The suit names McLaren Regional Medical Center in Flint and several Michigan Department of Environmental Quality officials as defendants.
 * The family of Kenneka Jenkins, a 19-year-old girl who was found dead in a Rosemont, Illinois hotel freezer in 2017 after a night of partying.
 * A $100 million lawsuit in regards to the 2021 Oxford High School shooting was filed by Fieger against Oxford Community Schools on behalf of a 17-year-old student who was shot in the neck and her sister who was walking next to her as she was shot. The suit claims that the girls are experiencing PTSD and that the school failed to protect the students by allowing the shooter to return to class after they had direct information that he was exhibiting homicidal ideation.

1998 gubernatorial campaign
In 1998, Fieger ran unsuccessfully as the Democratic nominee for Governor of Michigan. During the campaign Fieger made several inflammatory and controversial comments and statements, including
 * an assertion that his opponent John Engler was the product of miscegenation between humans and barnyard animals;
 * a claim that "rabbis are closer to Nazis than they think."
 * the observation that, "in 2,000 years we've probably made somebody who is the equivalent of Elvis into God, so I see no reason why not to believe that in 2,000 years Elvis will be God. Probably if we went back 2,000 years, and they said, you know, we think Jesus is God, and Jesus is just some goofball that got nailed to the cross."
 * a radio appearance characterizing Michigan appellate judges as "jackasses" for overturning a 15 million dollar medical malpractice judgment he had won. (A lower court reprimand based on these comments was eventually upheld by the Michigan Supreme Court.)

Other activities
In 1997, Fieger donated four million dollars to the Detroit College of Law, now the Michigan State University College of Law, to start the nation's first trial practice institute for law students, which was named the Geoffrey Fieger Trial Practice Institute.

Fieger appeared as one of the attorneys on the reality TV series Power of Attorney, and was opposing counsel in an episode of NBC's The Law Firm.

Trial and acquittal
In August 2007, Fieger was indicted on federal campaign finance charges; the U.S. government alleged that Fieger had illegally funneled $127,000 to John Edwards' 2004 presidential campaign. Fieger was defended by famed defense attorney Gerry Spence, who announced this would be his last case. A jury acquitted Fieger of all 10 charges, and Fieger's co-defendant and law partner Ven Johnson on five charges, on June 2, 2008. Johnson stated that the charges were politically motivated.

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Thierry Noir

Thierry Noir (born 1958) is a French artist and muralist based in Berlin. He is considered the first artist to paint the Berlin Wall in the 1980s. He created brightly-colored paintings across large spans of the Berlin Wall and some of these original paintings can still be seen on surviving segments of the Wall in art collections and on the East Side Gallery. Noir's work and style are now considered iconic, and Noir is also regarded as one of the forerunners of the street art movement as a whole. He continues to create murals worldwide in cities including London, Los Angeles, and Sydney.

Early life
Thierry Noir was born in Lyon, France, in 1958. At age 23 in January 1982, he moved to West Berlin with two small suitcases after purchasing a one-way train ticket. He was inspired by musicians David Bowie, Nina Hagen, and Iggy Pop who also lived in West Berlin at the time. The lyrics to Lou Reed's "Berlin" also convinced Noir to stay. He initially lived in a squat (the Georg von Rauch House) in Mariannenplatz overlooking the Berlin Wall. Upon arriving in Berlin, Noir himself became a musician and toured as a multi-instrumentalist in the German musical group, Sprung aus den Wolken.

1984–1991: Painting the Berlin Wall
In 1984, Noir began painting the Berlin Wall with fellow French artist, Christophe-Emmanuel Bouchet. Their first paintings were a reaction to the melancholy, sadness, and "pressure of daily life" they experienced living so close to the Wall. They used paint scavenged from nearby construction sites or left behind by city workers. Prior to this, graffiti on the Wall had largely consisted of anti-American slogans, racist notes, and funny messages. Noir himself noted that painting large images on the Wall had been seen as a "taboo, even among alternative people". Noir and Bouchet's status as foreigners allowed them to effectively skirt this taboo. One of the first works they painted on the wall was an homage to Jean de La Fontaine's fable of "The Tortoise and the Hare" close to Potsdamer Platz.

Initially, local Berliners were wary or even hostile in their attitude toward Noir's work. Some were concerned about the source of his potential financial backing, even suggesting that he might work for the American Central Intelligence Agency or that he might be a French spy. Noir also had to paint quickly and surreptitiously to avoid being caught by the Genztruppen (German Democratic Republic border guards). Owing to these constraints, Noir developed his now iconic style (which he dubbed "Fast Form Manifest") to portray his figures with one continuous line and just a few colours.

Despite early difficulties, Noir's work earned appreciation from Berlin residents and helped to create an artistic movement around the Wall that attracted numerous local artists like Kiddy Citny and a number of visiting international artists including Richard Hambleton and Keith Haring. Over the course of five years, Noir painted around six kilometres of the Berlin Wall, which was toppled in 1989.

1990–present: Post-Berlin Wall work

Following the fall of the Berlin Wall, Noir was one of the artists invited to create murals at the East Side Gallery, which was established in 1990. The Gallery is a 1,316-metre remnant of preserved Berlin Wall in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg that was not torn down because it stood on the other side of the River Spree in GDR-controlled East Berlin. Since 1990, Noir's murals at the East Side Gallery have come to be regarded as a fixture of Berlin.

On 23 June 1990, 33 original painted sections of the Berlin Wall featuring Noir's artwork that had been saved from destruction were auctioned off at the Hotel Metropole in Monte Carlo to an international audience. His artwork then spread internationally to collections and museums throughout the world.

Throughout the 1990s, Noir continued to work as an artist. He also collaborated with Irish rock group U2, who commissioned him to paint a series of six Trabant cars for their 1992 Zoo TV Tour. Noir's Trabants were incorporated into the lighting rigs for the tour, and images of them were used as cover art for U2 singles including "The Fly" and "Mysterious Ways". One of Noir's Trabants was also featured on the cover of U2's album, Achtung Baby. To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 2009, Noir was invited to Los Angeles to participate in the Wende Museum's The Wall Project. Ten original segments of the Berlin Wall were imported to the United States and newly painted in Los Angeles by Noir and L.A.-based artists including Shepard Fairey, Retna, and Kent Twitchell. These works were then permanently exhibited at 5900 Wilshire Boulevard near the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Noir traveled to London in 2013 to collaborate with the U.K. artist, STIK, on a large mural on the Village Underground in Shoreditch and to deliver a public lecture at Somerset House on the history of street art. While in London, Noir painted numerous new murals in his signature style on the walls of Shoreditch and Dalston. Noir also worked with Dulwich Picture Gallery on a reinterpretation of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo's baroque masterpiece Joseph Receiving Pharaoh's Ring (1755), which is now a part of the Gallery's permanent collection as a mural in Dulwich Park.

Twenty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 2014, Noir staged a retrospective exhibition in London. The exhibition featured original artworks, films, photographs, and interviews. That year, Noir was commissioned by the Museum of London to create a mural on the museum's rotunda entrance and was also commissioned by the Embassy of Germany to the U.K. to paint a mural in London's Belgrave Square to commemorate the 25th anniversary. Noir also painted the interior of the former East German Embassy building at 34 Belgrave Square. Later in 2014, Noir's retrospective traveled to Los Angeles where he painted a 100-metre long mural on South Spring Street in recognition of the Sister Cities relationship between Berlin and L.A. Noir also donated a painting to the German Consulate in the United States.

Throughout 2017, Noir painted his three largest-scale public works at the time in London, Los Angeles, and Sydney. In London, Noir painted a 37-metre high tower block in Acton which was considered the tallest mural in Britain. In Los Angeles, he completed a 15,000 square-foot mural in North Hollywood. In Sydney, he painted a former jam factory in Surry Hills.

To mark the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Noir was commissioned (along with STIK) by the Imperial War Museum in London to paint new artworks on original segments of the Wall. The two segments, titled WALL, were displayed outside the Imperial War Museum in November 2019. The two segments were later displayed at the Migration Museum in South London. Also in 2019, Noir staged a charity exhibition titled The Thierry Noir Academy of Art at Protein Studios in London. All proceeds from the exhibition were donated to the Hackney-based children's charity, The Kids Network.

Collections

Noir's painted Berlin Wall segments are on permanent display in private and public collections worldwide. His pieces can also be seen at the still-standing East Side Gallery in Berlin. Several of Noir's artworks are part of permanent museum collections, including at the Allied Museum in Berlin, the Newseum in Washington, D.C., the National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton, Ohio, the Wende Museum in Los Angeles, and the Migration Museum in London, where an adjacent segment is painted by Stik. Other segments are displayed publicly in cities throughout the world. In New York City, Noir's Wall segments can be seen at Kowsky Plaza in the Battery Park City community and at 520 Madison Avenue in Manhattan. Six segments are located on Leipziger Platz in Berlin. In Los Angeles, segments are located at 5900 Wilshire Boulevard as part of a larger display and at Loyola Marymount University. Other cities with Noir's painted Wall segments include Yokohama, Japan; Uijeongbu, South Korea; Mexico City; Reston, Virginia; and the Spanish island of Ibiza.

In 2013 during the Art Basel Fair in Miami, Florida, Noir repainted four original segments of the Berlin Wall, which are now in the public art collection of Ironside district. In 2019, Heidi Klum's husband, Tom Kaulitz, gifted her a segment of the Berlin Wall that had been newly painted by Noir for display outside her home in Los Angeles. Later in 2019, Noir presented a newly painted segment of the Wall in Plovdiv, Bulgaria to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and Plovdiv's status as a European Capital of Culture in 2019.

Film and other work
Noir and his Wall paintings can briefly be seen in the 1987 Wim Wenders film, Wings of Desire. Noir met Wenders on a number of occasions at a local restaurant where he would sell some of his artwork. After talking multiple times per week, Wenders decided to put Noir in a scene where he was depicted standing on his ladder while working on the Berlin Wall. That ladder is now in the permanent collection of the Wende Museum in Los Angeles. In 2000, Noir was featured in the German documentary Nach dem Fall (After the Fall), in which he discussed his art and the importance of the Wall to Berlin only a decade after its fall.

Noir has participated in the Berlin Festival of Lights since 2014. As part of the annual festival, Noir's artworks are digitally projected onto Berlin landmarks such as Brandenburg Gate, the Berlin Cathedral, and the P5 Tower in Potsdamer Platz.

In 2015, Noir worked with drinks firm Hennessy to create custom bottle labels with sale proceeds going to the Centrepoint charity for homeless youth. In 2016, Noir partnered with the audio equipment manufacturer Rega on a series of seven hand-painted Rega RP1 turntables. The turntables were sold at auction to raise money for Amnesty International.

Legacy
Noir's Berlin Wall paintings, featuring his signature brightly-coloured, cartoon-like figures, are now considered iconic and representative of the movement in opposition to the Wall because they attracted other artists to the movement. Noir is considered one of the forerunners of the street art movement as a whole. Despite their ostensibly "naive" style, the paintings "stood as the voice of freedom" in artistic protest against the often deadly border. They also became a symbol of new-found freedom after the reunification of Germany and the end of the Cold War.

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Template talk:Islamic art

This concept should definitely be grown. Right now there are only three articles linked and one isn't even on its own page, but this is definitely a field that could and should be expanded... Feel free to edit this and make it better gren 08:39, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

Also, some of the items linked are Arabic... and Arabic is not Islamic... I do this because there are definite talk of Islamic influence in the article and this template should direct to that information... however, in the future maybe these articles will be expanded enough to warrant the creation of an article for just the Islamic portion. gren 08:43, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

Hmmm
I don't much like this. Miniatures are not "decorative art" on any definition, and the whole concept of that doesn't work well for Islamic art. That section should be "art" and at 1 or 2. The gardens should not be so high up - really those articles ought to be merged. Normally we use "art" = "visual arts" with "arts" including music and literature. Johnbod (talk) 17:23, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
 * OK, let's use "arts" then, I was hesitating about it (maybe the template needs to be enamed, indeed). I'll move the miniatures into a new section, and sort the sections alphabetically. Thanks for the feedback. Chiswick Chap (talk) 17:25, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Personally, I'd rather keep it restricted to "art" - there are a vast number of literature articles that should go in if that is done properly, and imo literature is beast not lumped together as "Islamic" - the Persian, Arabic, Urdu etc traditions are pretty different. A section for "Arts of the Book" might be good - there are lots of articles like Ottoman illumination and muraqqa that belong there. Johnbod (talk) 17:30, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Yeah, there was lit. there already and I was trying to disturb feelings as little as possible, but it does feel out of place. So do we remove Music also? Some of the artforms span music and poetry, so the distinction is quite fragile. "Art" could also exclude Architecture (as Islamic art does). Chiswick Chap (talk) 17:33, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
 * I'm fine with architecture being there. Architectural decoration is a big part of Islamic art - far more than in most periods in the West. If we're removing lit, then its not a problem losing song forms etc. You need a group of textile/carpet articles in there. Johnbod (talk) 18:07, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Super. Architecture can stay, textiles will join. Chiswick Chap (talk) 19:24, 9 December 2015 (UTC)

Kat'i art
Kat'i art should be added in "Art of the books" segment's "Other arts" part. A brief is given below. Kat'i is the art of stenciling intricate designs into leather or paper. The paper could be a simple one or an Ebru (marbling art) paper. A "nevregen", a small sharp knife was used to carve into the paper and the leather. The process of pasting was done with a mixture called "cirisli muhallebi" in Turkish. This was a mixture of milk, rice flour and book binder's paste. The surface on which the cut-outs were pasted was called "male". Those surfaces on which the cut-outs were directly carved were called "female". Besides simple shapes, complex paper cuts were produced that showed colorful flowers, flower gardens or a landscape, calligraphyc decorations and so on, giving way to three-dimensional images. The origins of this art can be traced back to Iran. In the 15th century delicate and beautifully composed patterns in leather filigree and paper cut-out were practiced with great skills and patience. Ottoman artists, called as "Kati'an", have started used it from 16th century on in order to decorate the bindings of religious and philosophical texts. This art became very popular especially during the times of Suleyman the Magnificent. Kat'i was introduced to Europe around 17th century when western travelers took some examples with them on their journey back home. Unfortunately today there are very few Kat'i masters left; it's an art form which is dying. Cem Altınel (talk) 08:46, 26 January 2020 (UTC)

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Robert Hooks

Robert Hooks (born Bobby Dean Hooks; April 18, 1937) is an American actor, producer, and activist. Along with Douglas Turner Ward and Gerald S. Krone, he founded The Negro Ensemble Company. The Negro Ensemble Company is credited with the launch of the careers of many major black artists of all disciplines, while creating a body of performance literature over the last thirty years, providing the backbone of African-American theatrical classics. Additionally, Hooks is the sole founder of two significant black theatre companies: the D.C. Black Repertory Company, and New York's Group Theatre Workshop.

Early life
The youngest of five children, Hooks was born in Foggy Bottom, Washington, D.C. to Mae Bertha (née Ward), a seamstress, and Edward Hooks who had moved from Rocky Mount, North Carolina with their four other children, Bernice, Caroleigh, Charles Edward "Charlie", and James Walter "Jimmy". Named Bobby Dean Hooks at birth, Robert was their first child born in Washington, DC and the first to be born in a hospital. His father, Edward, died in a work accident on the railroad in 1939.

Hooks attended Stevens Elementary School. In 1945, at the insistence of his sister Bernice who was doing community arts outreach for youngsters at Francis Junior High School, he performed the lead in his first play, The Pirates of Penzance, at the age of nine. From the ages of 6 to 12, Bobby Dean journeyed with his siblings to Lucama, North Carolina to work the tobacco fields for his uncle's sharecropping farm as a way to help earn money for the coming school year in D.C.

In 1954, just as Brown vs. Board of Education was being implemented in the north, he moved to Philadelphia to be with his mother, her second husband, and his half-siblings, Safia Abdullah (née Sharon Dickerson),George E.Dickerson,Charles Dickerson, Annette Dickerson, Margie Dickerson, Robert Dickerson. Hooks experienced his first integrated school experience at West Philadelphia High School. Hooks soon joined the drama club and began acting in plays by William Shakespeare and Samuel Beckett. He was graduated in 1956, passing on a scholarship to Temple University in order to pursue a career as a stage actor at the Bessie V. Hicks School of Theatre (alongside Charles Dierkop and Bruce Dern, with whom he second-acted plays doing their pre-Broadway tryouts in Philadelphia) while working at Browning King, a men's tailor shop at Fourteenth and Chestnut streets.

Acting career
Having trained at the Bessie V. Hicks School of Theatre in Philadelphia, and after seeing A Raisin in the Sun in its Philadelphia tryout in February 1959, Hooks moved to New York to pursue acting. In April 1960, as Bobby Dean Hooks, he made his Broadway debut in A Raisin in the Sun replacing Louis Gossett Jr. who would be doing the film version. He then continued to do its national tour. He then stepped into the Broadway production of A Taste of Honey, replacing Billy Dee Williams; then repeating the same national tour trajectory as he had done for "Raisin..." the previous year. In early 1962 he next appeared as the lead in Jean Genet's The Blacks, replacing James Earl Jones as the male lead, leaving briefly that same year to appear on Broadway again in Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright before stepping back into the lead role in The Blacks in 1963. He then returned to Broadway, first in Ballad for Bimshire and then in the short-lived 1964 David Merrick revival of The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Any More (as a character created by Tennessee Williams for this revival) and starring Tallulah Bankhead and Tab Hunter in his only stage performance. Immediately thereafter, on March 24, 1964 he originated the role of Clay in Amiri Baraka's Dutchman. With this play, on the advice of Roscoe Lee Brown, Hooks became known as, Robert Hooks. He also originated roles on the New York stage in Where's Daddy? for which he won the Theatre World Award and he was nominated for Best Male Lead in a Musical for Hallelujah Baby while he was simultaneously starring in David Susskind's N.Y.P.D.—the first African American lead on a television drama.

In 1968 Hooks was the host of the new public affairs television program, Like It Is.

Hooks was nominated for a Tony for his lead role in the musical, Hallelujah, Baby!, has received both the Pioneer Award and the NAACP Image Award for Lifetime Achievement, and has been inducted into the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame. He also won an Emmy for his PBS special, Voices of Our People.

Significant roles for which Hooks is known include Reeve Scott in Hurry Sundown (1967), Mr. T. in the blaxploitation film Trouble Man (1972), grandpa Gene Donovan in the comedy Seventeen Again (2000), and Fleet Admiral Morrow in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984). He also appeared on television in an episode of the NBC crime drama series The Eddie Capra Mysteries in 1978 and portrayed Doctor Walcott in the 1980s television series Dynasty.

Arts and Culture
In 1964, as a result of a speaking engagement at the Chelsea Civil Rights Committee (then connected to the Hudson Guild Settlement House) he founded The Group Theatre Workshop, a tuition-free environment for disadvantaged urban teens who expressed a desire to explore acting. Among the instructors were Barbara Ann Teer, Frances Foster, Hal DeWindt, Lonne Elder III, and Ronnie Mack. Alumni include Antonio Fargas, Hattie Winston, and Daphne Maxwell Reid.

The Group Theatre Workshop was folded into the tuition-free training arm of the Negro Ensemble Company founded in 1967 with Douglas Turner Ward and Gerald S. Krone with a $1.3 million grant from the Ford Foundation under the auspices of W. McNeil Lowry.

From 1969 to 1972, Hooks served as an original board member of Black Academy of Arts and Letters, located in New York, alongside C. Eric Lincoln, President; John O. Killens, Alvin F. Poussaint, and Charles White. Chartered by the State of New York, its mission was to bring together black artists and scholars from around the world. Additional members included Julian Adderley, Alvin Ailey, Margaret Walker, James Baldwin, Imamu Baraka, Romare Bearden, Harry Belafonte, Lerone Bennett, Arna Bontemps, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee Davis, St. Clair Drake, Ernest Dunbar, Katherine Dunham, Lonne Elder III, Duke Ellington, Alex Haley, Ruth Inge Hardison, Vertis Hayes, Chester Himes, Lena Horne, Jacob Lawrence, Elma Lewis, Henry Lewis, Paule Marshall, Donald McKayle, Arthur Mitchell, Frederick O’Neal, Gordon Parks, Sidney Poitier, Benjamin Quarles, Lloyd Richards, Lucille D. Roberts, and Nina Simone.

In response to his hometown 1968 Washington, D.C., riots, in the wake of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., and aided by a small grant from the Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation, Hooks took a leave of absence from the Negro Ensemble Company to create The D.C. Black Repertory Company (1970–1981). The company was intended as a further exploration of the ability of the arts to create healing. The a capella group Sweet Honey in the Rock was created and developed within its workshop process.

The Inner Voices (Lorton Prison arts training program, 1971) proved to be a result of the beneficial effect of the repertory company in the D.C. area. In response to a direct plea from an inmate, Rhozier "Roach" Brown, who was serving a life sentence in Lorton, Hooks' D.C. Black Repertory Company structured the first prison-based arts program in the United States. While it is the norm now, it was then a revolutionary attempt at rehabilitation through the arts. Eventually The Inner Voices performed more than 500 times in other prisons, including a Christmas special entitled, "Holidays, Hollowdays." Due to Roach's work, President Gerald Ford commuted his sentence on Christmas Day, 1975.

His relocation to the West Coast redirected Hooks' approach to parity in the arts with his involvement with The Bay Area Multicultural Arts Initiative (1988) as a board member and grant facilitator-judge. Funded by monies from a unique coalition made up of the San Francisco Foundation (a community foundation); Grants for the Arts of the San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund, and The National Endowment for the Arts, the function of this organization was the funding of deserving local multicultural arts organizations.

In 1992, Hooks co-founded (with writer Lonne Elder III) Arts in Action. Located in South Central Los Angeles, this was a film and television training center established to guide individuals who aspired to careers in film production. It formulated strategies and training for securing entry-level jobs. Courses included: career development workshops; pre-production and production for film and television; creative problem solving in production management; directing for stage and screen—principles and practices; also the craft of assistant directors, script supervisor, technicians, wardrobe, make-up, etc.

The Negro Ensemble Company of Los Angeles (1994–1997) was created because so many New York members and original members had relocated to the West Coast. Hooks, as founder and executive director, asked Denise Nicholas, Denzel Washington, James Earl Jones, Laurence Fishburne, Richard Roundtree, Samuel L. Jackson, all alumni from New York Negro Ensemble Company to serve as board members. The goal of the Negro Ensemble Company of Los Angeles was to be a new and innovative multi-ethnic cultural project that strived to achieve the community effectiveness and professional success of its parent organization.

Personal life
Hooks is the father of actor, television and film director Kevin Hooks. He married Lorrie Gay Marlow (actress, author, artist) on June 15, 2008. Previously, he was married to Yvonne Hickman and Rosie Lee Hooks.

In 2021, Emory University began adding to its official archives material documenting Hooks' career, including scripts, printed material, contracts and financial records, notes, correspondence, writings, books and periodicals, audiovisual and digital files.

Awards

 * 1966 – Theatre World Award (1965–66) for "Where's Daddy?" (The Billy Rose Theatre)
 * 1979 – American Black Achievement Award – Ebony Magazine
 * 1982 – Emmy Award for Producing (1982) Voices of Our People: In Celebration of Black Poetry (KCET-TV/PBS)
 * 1966 – Tony Nomination, Lead Role in a Musical for Hallelujah, Baby
 * 1985 – Inducted into The Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame, recipient Oscar Micheaux Award (1985)
 * 1986 – March 2 declared Robert Hooks Day by the City of Los Angeles, Mayor Tom Bradley
 * 1987 – Excellence in Advertising and Communications to Black Communities from CEBA (Excellence in Advertising and Communications to Black Communities)
 * 2000 – Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa honorary degree, Bowie State University
 * 2000 – May 25 declared Robert Hooks Day in Washington, D.C.
 * 2005 – Beverly Hills/Hollywood Chapter NAACP Image Award for Lifetime Achievement
 * 2005 – Beverly Hills/Hollywood Chapter NAACP Trailblazer Award to the Negro Ensemble Company
 * 2005 – Trailblazer Award – City of Los Angeles
 * 2006 – The Black Academy of Arts and Letters (TBAAL), Lifetime Achievement Award (Dallas)
 * 2007 – The Black Theatre Alliance Awards / Lifetime Achievement Award
 * 2015 – Living Legend Award (2015) National Black Theatre Festival
 * 2018 – October 18 proclaimed Robert Hooks Day by Mayor Muriel Bowser, Washington, D.C.
 * 2018 – Hooks is entered into The Congressional Record by the Hon. Eleanor Holmes Norton, September 4, 2018, Vol. 164
 * 2018 – Visionary Founder and Creator Award – D.C. Black Repertory Company on its 47th anniversary

Film

 * 1967 Sweet Love, Bitter as Keel Robinson
 * 1967 Hurry Sundown as Reeve Scott
 * 1970 Last of the Mobile Hot Shots "Chicken"
 * 1970 Carter's Army as Lieutenant Edward Wallace
 * 1972 Trouble Man as "Mr. T"
 * 1975 Aaron Loves Angela as Beau
 * 1977 Airport '77 as Eddie
 * 1982 Fast-Walking as William Galliot
 * 1984 Star Trek III: The Search for Spock as Admiral Morrow
 * 1992 Passenger 57 as FBI Agent Dwight Henderson
 * 1993 Posse as David "King David" Lee
 * 1996 Fled as Lieutenant Henry Clark

Television

 * 1967-1969 N.Y.P.D. as Detective Jeff Ward
 * 1969-1974 The F.B.I. as Wilcox / Steven Harber
 * 1969 Mannix as Floyd Brown
 * 1969 Then Came Bronson as Henry Tate
 * 1970 The Bold Ones as Scott Dayton
 * 1971 The Man and the City
 * 1973 The Rookies as Barney Miller
 * 1973 McMillan and Wife as Sam
 * 1974 Marcus Welby, M.D. as Joe Lucas
 * 1974 The Streets of San Francisco as Joe Joplin
 * 1975 Police Story as Detective Ernie Tillis
 * 1975 Petrocelli as Dave Hill
 * 1976 Just an Old Sweet Song (1976 Film) (television Movie) as Nate Simmons
 * 1979 Backstairs at the White House (television mini-series) as John Mays, Doorman
 * 1979 Trapper John, M.D. as Sykes
 * 1980 The Facts of Life as Mr. Ramsey
 * 1980 The White Shadow as Dr. Luther Tucker
 * 1983 WKRP in Cincinnati as Prosecutor
 * 1983-1988 Hotel as Joe Durran / Frank "Squire" Vance
 * 1983 T. J. Hooker as Police Lieutenant Peter Ellis
 * 1984 Dynasty as Dr. Walcott
 * 1985 V as George Caniff
 * 1986 227 (TV series) as Congressman Rivers
 * 1986-1995 Murder, She Wrote (television series) as Kendall Ames / Everett Charles Jensen
 * 1989 A Different World as Phillip Dalton
 * 1992 Out All Night as Cliff Emory
 * 1993 Reasonable Doubts as Kane
 * 1993 L.A. Law as Judge Earl Gregory
 * 1993 The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air as Dean Morgan
 * 1993 The Sinbad Show as Mr. Winters
 * 1994-1995 M.A.N.T.I.S. as Mayor Lew Mitchell
 * 1994 Family Matters as Dr. Smiley
 * 1994-1995 Seinfeld as Joe Temple
 * 1995 The Commish as Captain M.A. Daniels
 * 1996 Diagnosis Murder as City Attorney Andrew Chivers
 * 1997 The Parent 'Hood as Lawrence
 * 1999 Clueless as Benjamin Davenport
 * 1999 The Hoop Life (television movie) as Joe Sherman
 * 2000 Seventeen Again (television movie) as Grandpa Gene Donovan

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Talk:Otto Klemperer

Controversial expression
The sentence "Klemperer was born in Breslau (occupied by Poland since 1945)", i.e. expression in parenthesis is somewhat controversial.

Silesia, of course, was seized by Frederick the Great in 1742, and was thereafter part of Prussia until partitioned after 1918 - 166 years. It has as a whole been in Poland since 1945 - 63 years - over a third of that time. It seems to have been the case that the University of Breslau was making entry difficult for Polish Jews before 1914, on anti-Semitic grounds. It's not entirely clear whether the city was ever anything but"occupied" by some ethnic group or other. I would propose sidestepping the issue raised by "occupied by Poland since 1945" by deleting it and trying to preserve some sort of historical accuracy by rewording it "Klemperer was born in Breslau (Wroclaw)...." since the Polish name has historic precedence and has certainly survived, and since the city in which Klemperer was born was at the time known internationally as Breslau. Delahays (talk) 16:47, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Klemperer's tempi
50% of this article is given up to a discussion of tempo trends in Klemperer's recordings. While perhaps of interest to a particular breed of record collector, this is surely not material for a work of reference, and the emphasis placed on this data is hardly to be found in any comparable source. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tngm (talk • contribs) 09:13, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Although, it has to be said that his choice of tempos (or tempi!) is one of the things about his conducting that, rightly or wrongly, is most talked about, and indeed something that often (but not always) sets his interpretations apart from others', even to the non-musically educated. Ondewelle (talk) 12:04, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

The para about tempi is a useful attempt to provide some objectivity about a notoriously controversial topic. What it doesn't do is tell us why Klemperer was so effective a conductor in the concert hall. In the 1920s Theodore Weissengrund Adorno wrote after a Klemperer performance of Fidelio at the Kroll in Berlin "Niemals brennenden wir genauer" - untranslatable but "Never did we burn so exactly" might fit. At that time Klemperer on home ground was seem as a champion of 'objectivity' and an approach which started by clarifying text and texture. Ironically, his performance of the Bach B minor Mass in the 1960s was attacked by the supporters of the new school of "authenticity" for not going as far as they had already done, with a small choir, and for his attempt, in the concert performance which followed the recording, to build the entire performance on a single constant bass pulse. (Croy 379 Croy379 (talk) 16:46, 8 December 2010 (UTC))

His private life
Well, you know... Wife? Children? Anything? 81.182.162.153 (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 21:13, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

And for crying out loud, what is is height and weight doing on here? He was a conductor and composer, not a prize fighter! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.67.61.64 (talk) 01:17, 21 October 2011 (UTC)

He was the tallest  conductor of his time.

--Georgius (talk) 11:38, 11 September 2012 (UTC)

 * So what? Someone else must have been the fattest conductor of their time, or the thinnest, or the whateverest.  Anyway, since when do we have infoboxes for classical musicians?  --   Jack of Oz   [pleasantries]  08:04, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

 * Body facts removed as no key information. Since when? I don't know and have no time to investigate, not really interested. I looked at the history of this article and saw that it had an, and the present one was . --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:30, 6 October 2014 (UTC)
 * If he was that tall, am surprised he'd fit in the box. But who was the "world's fattest conductor"? Martinevans123 (talk) 09:42, 6 October 2014 (UTC)
 * ask the project, not here ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:45, 6 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Maybe here. Martinevans123 (talk) 10:06, 6 October 2014 (UTC) p.s. Otto not a patch on Shaquille O'Neal anyway

Image
What a shitty image! tildetildetildetilde
 * Christ, guess I have to add content because some autistic wikitard is incapable of distinguishing between vandalism and valid criticism. The image used in the article should really be replaced because it is overexposed which makes it just plain terrible. I don't get how whoever added it thought it was good enough to be used. I would suggest that another image be used, one that isn't overexposed so that the reader can actually make out the subject's face. tildetildetildetilde —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.164.69.63 (talk) 18:27, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

tempi
"The passing years show a clear trend with respect to tempo: as Klemperer aged, he took slower tempi."

This is true of virtually all conductors, and usually results in sluggish -- rather than more-insightful -- performances. (Note, for example, Colin Davis's terminally torpid "Romeo and Juliette" and Sibelius symphonies on LSO.) Klemperer is unfairly singled out for this, though, because of his snooze-inducing Beethoven symphony cycle. WilliamSommerwerck (talk) 14:57, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

Royal Academy of Music
We have removed part of a sentance stating that Klemperer's archive was dontated to the Royal Academy of Music because this was not the case. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.61.65.100 (talk) 08:48, 5 July 2011 (UTC)

Did he never study an instrument?
The article says nothing about this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.95.43.249 (talk) 19:55, 13 November 2013 (UTC)

Incongruous title
The content of The early 1950s and health problems sub-chapter is all but healthward related. Please, choose a more suitable title. Carlotm (talk) 07:20, 5 August 2016 (UTC)

The early 1950s and health problems
This section talks about social and political problems he had in the 1950s, but does not discuss his health. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.255.24.21 (talk) 23:00, 11 April 2017 (UTC)

American?
"Otto Nossan Klemperer (14 May 1885 – 6 July 1973) was a German-born American conductor and composer". Out of the Italian, French, Spanish, German and English wikepdias the English one is the only one stating that Klemperer was American. The article states that he recovered his German passport after emigrating back to Europe. Why would he be considered American?
 * The English WP does not state Klemperer was American. It states his citizenship was American; due to the fact that he emigrated here after the war in 1945 and lived and worked here until he took Israeli citizenship in 1970. Thanks. Please remember to sign your posts with 4 {~}. Maineartists (talk) 14:41, 11 November 2020 (UTC)

Small issues with article
First of all, deepest thanks to Tim riley and other editors for working so hard to improve this article. There are a handful of issues in it that could be tweaked. I'd do so myself, but don't want to step on anybody's toes. So I'll just mention them here:

 * The passage about OK's 1951 Concertgebouw recordings seems to imply that they were made for Vox, which they weren't. It would be helpful if this could be clarified.
 * Done.  Tim riley  talk   11:37, 6 March 2023 (UTC)

 * Mention ought to be made that the July 1951 Mahler 2 in Amsterdam was conducted in memory of Willem Mengelberg. I believe it was supposed to have been his first concert after the end of his postwar ban, but he had died nearly four months before.
 * Coincidentally I mentioned this on the article's current FAC page, citing it as an instance where for Klemperer musical considerations took priority over any political views he may have held. But I think this level of detail is unsuitable in an encylopaedia article: certainly it is not mentioned in the Grove articles on either Klemperer or Mengelberg.  Tim riley  talk   11:37, 6 March 2023 (UTC)

 * In 1936, OK met Dmitri Shostakovich, who played to him his then new Symphony No. 4. OK committed himself to conducting its Western premiere, but ultimately was prevented from doing when Shostakovich withdrew the work until 1961.
 * I'm reluctant to single out one aborted premiere among several. Klemperer was intended to conduct, e.g., the premiere of Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress but in the end did not do so. He never conducted the Shostakovich 4th symphony (and conducted little of the composer's work) and I am inclined not to refer to it in the article.  Tim riley  talk   11:37, 6 March 2023 (UTC)

 * OK's wife Johanna ought to be fleshed out a little more in this article. She played a not inconsequential role in both his personal and professional life. Her death in 1956 ought to at least be mentioned and cited. —CurryTime7-24 (talk) 22:46, 4 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Good idea. I've added three sentences about Johanna and her relationship with Klemperer.  Tim riley  talk   11:37, 6 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you for these points. I'll get on to them in the next day or two.  Tim riley  talk   09:33, 5 March 2023 (UTC)
 * And now done.  Tim riley  talk   11:37, 6 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you for adding more about his wife. Please don't use (at least in articles) direct links to Wikpedias in other languages. They are a problem for people using screenreaders, as Graham87 explained to me. In this case: no need to change as she is on my to-do-list for at least a stub (which will provide the interlanguage connection). --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:39, 6 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Done, and linked. That is so far a poor article, just rather uncritically translating from de, which is based on her daughter's biography (to 1919), and I have no time for more right now, but a start. She was the first Marietta in Die tote Stadt, imagine! Go ahead, beat me to adding that and more ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:24, 6 March 2023 (UTC)

Persecution by the Nazi
I think more of an explanation should be given as to why Klemperer was forced to leave Germany in the 1930s. In The Coming of the Third Reich "Chapter 6: Hitler’s Cultural Revolution: Discordant Notes" Richard J. Evans writes: "Among Germany’s leading conductors, Otto Klemperer was the one who most nearly fitted the Nazi caricature of a Jewish musician. A cousin of the literature professor and diarist Victor Klemperer, he was not only Jewish but had also, as director of the avant-garde Kroll Opera House from 1927 to 1930, pioneered radical productions, and made a name for himself as a champion of modernist composers such as Stravinsky. On 12 February Klemperer conducted a controversial production of Wagner’s opera Tannhäuser in Berlin, which was condemned by the Nazi music press as a “bastardization of Wagner” and an affront to the composer’s memory. By the beginning of March the furor hade forced the withdrawal of the production; soon, Klemperer’s concerts were being cancelled on the usual specious grounds that public safety could not be guaranteed if he appeared on the rostrum. Klemperer attempted to save himself by insisting that “he was in complete agreement with the course of events in Germany”, but he soon realized the inevitable. On 4 April he, too, left the country."

I believe Evans' main source for this section is Heyworth (1996, Vol 1) but the chapter adds context on the systematic targeting of Jewish musicians. It would also be good to somewhere in the article mention his cousin Victor Klemperer. P. S. Burton (talk)  14:48, 12 March 2023 (UTC)
 * As well as Victor, the Klemperer family included a distinguished medical man, who, if memory serves, either arranged or performed the operation on OK's brain tumour. But although they are mentioned in Heyworth's two-volume biography, I don't think they call for inclusion in a 6,000-word encyclopaedia article. As to why OK left Germany in 1933, I think the essentials are clear enough in the article. We have covered the avant-garde production styles, and the quotation from Tietjen seems to me to cover the political and racial aspects.  Tim riley  talk   18:28, 12 March 2023 (UTC)

Carry over from FAC

 * Comments below copied from FAC page
 * Having read more about his wife, I have a few more questions:
 * "She retired from singing in the mid-1930s." I can't access Heyworth vol 2, but Großes Sängerlexikon notes a vocal crisis (after 1928), and several agree that her singing career was over when they left Germany in 1933 the latest. - If your sources have records of her appearing after 1928, I'd be grateful if you could add them to her article.
 * I believe that mentioning the world premieres of Die tote Stadt and Der Zwerg would actually be more related to his career than whichever years his wife stopped singing on stage, and Marietta, a role she created, would tell those who know the opera in one word what she was able to do.
 * If you know which other operas Klemperer conducted in Cologne, it might give a clue for the role pictured, possibly in 1922. It doesn't look (to me) like any of the ones already mentioned, unless perhaps Despina. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:35, 14 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
 * Berlin (next header) is also a German opera house, - I suggest to name the houses in the header, instead of "German opera houses". --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:35, 14 March 2023 (UTC)

I suggested we continue this here, and I shall research further and reply.  Tim riley  talk   19:28, 15 March 2023 (UTC)

title: Talk:Otto Klemperer