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Sunday, 8 May 2016

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, 1915–2006 (German-British soprano and voice teacher)

* Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf was among the foremost singers of lieder, and was renowned for her performances of Viennese operetta. She starred in five feature films for Reich Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels, in which she acted, sang and played the piano. After retiring from the stage in 1971, she was a voice teacher internationally. Schwarzkopf died in her sleep during the night of 2–3 August 2006 at her home in Schruns, Vorarlberg, Austria, aged 90. Her reputation has remained tarnished by what seems to have been an active Nazi party membership.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Olga Maria Elisabeth Friederike Schwarzkopf, 9 December 1915, 16:00 (4PM) CET (-1), Jarocin, Poland (51n59, 17e31). ASC: 23 Gemini. RR: A (From memory). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield cites an account of her birth written by her father: "Der 9. Dezember 1915 Nachmittag ca. 4h wurde unsere Elisabeth geboren, in Jarotschin, Breslauerstr. 7, im 2. Stock, in dem grossen Schlafzimmer, das nach der Strasse zu lag..." Translation: 'On 9 December 1915 at four o'clock in the afternoon our Elisabeth was born in Jarotschin, Breslauerstr. 7, 2nd floor, in the large bedroom, which faced the road...' (The account is quoted from the newsletter of Schubertiade Schwarzenberg/Hohenems, December 2015) [www.fembio.org/biographie.php/frau/biographie/elisabeth-schwarzkopf].

Tuesday, 16 February 2016

Heiner Müller, 1929–1995 ([East] German dramatist, poet, writer, essayist and theatre director)

* Heiner Müller has been described as "the theatre's greatest living poet" since Samuel Beckett, and he is arguably the most important German dramatist of the 20th century after Bertolt Brecht. His "enigmatic, fragmentary pieces" are a significant contribution to postmodern drama and postdramatic theatre.

Müller died in Berlin of throat cancer on 30 December 1995, aged 66, acknowledged as one of the greatest German authors.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Reimund Heiner Müller, 9 January 1929, circa 21:30 (9:30 PM) CET (-1), Eppendorf, Saxony, Germany (50n48, 13e14). ASC: 10-20 Virgo. RR: B (from auto/biography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes from his autobiography, "Werke: Eine Autobiographie" by Heiner Müller (Suhrkamp, 2005), p. 9: "Ich war eine schwere Geburt. Sie hat lange gedauert, von früh bis neun Uhr abends. 9. Januar 1929." Translation: I had a difficult birth. It took a long time, from morning till nine at night on 9 January 1929.

However, perhaps he was taking poetic licence (all those nines) because 10pm is given in several biographies including "Heiner Müller" by Jan-Christoph Hauschild (Rowohlt, 2000), p. 15: "Am 9. Januar 1929 abends gegen zehn Uhr wird ihr erstes Kind geboren, Reimund Heiner Müller." Translation: Their first child, Reimund Heiner Müller, was born on 9 January 1929 at ten o'clock in the evening.

Therefore 9:30pm is used.

Inge Müller, 1925–1966 (East German author)

* As a writer, Inge Müller, remained above all a poet. Although she created nearly 300 lyrical works, only a few have been published, mostly in the anthology In diesem besseren Land.

Müller also published children's books, Wölfchen Ungestüm (1955) and Zehn Jungen und ein Fischerdorf (1958); the radio drama Die Weiberbrigade; and the collaboration with Wiktor Rosows Auf dem Wege. With her third husband, Heiner Müller, she created the dramas Der Lohndrücker (1956), Die Umsiedlerin (1956), Die Korrektur (1957), Klettwitzer Bericht (1958) and Unterwegs (1963).

Inge Müller stood in the shadow of Heiner, who considered her more a coworker than an equal partner. She began an affair with his 16 year–old brother Wolfgang Müller in 1956 which failed and relations with her husband worsened noticeably. The awarding of the Heinrich Mann Prize to the both of them in 1959 did nothing to improve the situation. Plagued by depressions and psychosomatic troubles she attempted suicide several times. She was finally successful after an attempt on 1 June 1966. Only 41 years old, the writer died in her apartment on Kissingenplatz 12 of medication overdose and poisonous gas.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Ingeborg Meyer, 13 March 1925, 05:15 (5:15 AM) CET (-1), Berlin, Germany (52n30, 13e22). ASC: 10 Aquarius. RR: AA (quoted birth record). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes from Ÿbbotaprag. heute. geschenke. schupo. schimpfen. hetze. sprüche. demonstrativ. sex. DDRbürg. gthierkatt: ausgewählte essays, fliess- & endnotentexte 1989-98 by Annett Gröschner (Kontext, 1998), p. 126: "Geboren worden war sie am 13. März 1925, 5.15 Uhr, so steht es im Geburtenbuch des Standesamtes." Inge Müller hat später die Umstände ihrer Geburt beschrieben. Veröffentlicht wurde die Geschichte nie. Sie war Teil des Jona-Romans, einem ehrgeizigen Projekt, das sie nicht fertiggestellt hat. Das Bedürfnis zu sterben war stärker, als der Wille, einen Roman zu beenden..." Translation: She was born on 13 March 1925 at 5:15 AM, so it is stated in the birth register of the registry office. "Inge Müller has described later, the circumstances of her birth, in an unpublished story which was part of a novel, an ambitious project, uncompleted because the will to die was stronger than the will to finish a novel...

Sunday, 15 November 2015

Otto Sander, 1941–2013 (German film, theatre, and voice actor)

* Otto Sander's best-known film roles include the angel Cassiel in Wings of Desire (1987) and its sequel Faraway, So Close! (1993) by Wim Wenders, and a shell-shocked U-boat commander, Kapitänleutnant Philipp Thomsen, in Wolfgang Petersen's Das Boot (1981). Sander also appeared in The Tin Drum (1979) as a trumpeter.

Sander died, aged 72, in Berlin on 12 September 2013, having battled cancer for several years.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: 30 June 1941, 20:08 (8:08pm) CEDT (-2), Hanover, Germany (52n24, 9e44). ASC: 17 Sagittarius. RR: B (from biography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes from Otto Sander: ein Hauch von Anarchie darf schon dabei sein by Klaus Dermutz and Karin Messlinger (Henschel, 2002), p. 11: "Der ersehnte Stammhalter erblickte am Montag, den 30. Juni 1941, um 20 Uhr 08 in der Landesfrauenklinik Hannover das Licht der Welt."

Translation: The longed-for son and heir was born on Monday, 30 June 1941, first seeing the light at 20:08 in the national women's clinic at Hannover.

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Wednesday, 12 August 2015

Marie-Luise Marjan (German actress)

* Marie-Luise Marjan is best known for her role as Helga Beimer in the German Television Series Lindenstraße (created by Hans W. Geißendörfer in 1985). She was the heroine in Wolfgang Petersen's drama Smog and has also played in films by Werner Schroeter (Palermo oder Wolfsburg, Tag der Idioten) and Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Berlin Alexanderplatz). In the German Version of Murder, She Wrote, Immer wenn sie Krimis liest (1994), she has portrayed a detective, Anita De Winter, like Angela Lansbury. In Shrek 2 and Shrek 3 Marie-Luise Marjan is the German voice of Queen Lilian (Julie Andrews). In 2010, she was presented with the Cross of Merit, First class of the Federal Cross of Merit.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Marlies Lause Marjan, 9 August 1940, 13:00 (1pm) CEDT (-2), Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany (51n28, 7e01). ASC: 27 Libra. RR: A (from memory). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes her discussing her 75th birthday in an interview: "Ich bin ein Sommerkind, ich bin auch an einem 9. August an einem Sonntag geboren um 13 Uhr, und genau zwei Stunden später werde ich meine Geburtstagsfeier beginnen." ("Marie-Luise Marjan zum 75. Geburtstag" by Birgitt Schippers, domradio.de, 9 August 2015).

Translation: 'I am a summer child. I was born on 9 August, a Sunday, at 13:00, and exactly two hours later I'm going to start my birthday party.' NB: 9 August 1940 was actually a Friday.

Monday, 2 June 2014

Michael Zühlke‏ (German pornstar)

* What does a guy need to become a pornstar? Michael Zühlke‏ (alias Pornfighter Long John) has a 23.5 cm (9.25 inch) genital appendage which no doubt helped, but certainly so did his Scorpio stellium including Mars in the 9th House. Sagittarius and the 9th are all about abundance and excess. Zühlke‏ has Pisces on his ascendant ruled by Neptune in Sagg in the 9th: he has performed in or produced 2300 erotic films. Venus on the MC in Sagittarius can translate into physical intimacy with a lot of young females. Zühlke claims to have had sex with 4888 women, many times in gang-bangs. For the sheer sake of pleasure, Jupiter in Taurus (in mutual reception with Venus on the MC) can make for one very happy and very lucky guy. And perhaps also, a very worn out one!

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Michael Zühlke, 10 November 1976, 14:30 (2:30 pm) CET (-1), Berlin, Germany (52n30, 13e22). ASC: 19 Pisces. RR: B (from autobiography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes "23,5 cm harte Arbeit: Mein Leben als erfolgreichster deutscher Pornodarsteller" by Michael Zühlke and Christoph Brandhurst (Riva Verlag, 2012): "Der 10. November 1976. ... Nicht länger als nötig wollten sie im Kreißsaal der Berliner Charité herumstehen und noch viel weniger am nächsten Tag, ... um 14.30 Uhr, kam ich zur Welt." Abridged translation: On November 10, 1976 in the delivery room of the Berlin Charité (hospital), I came into the world at 14.30 o'clock.

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Thursday, 21 November 2013

Joseph Pilates (German-American bodybuilder, inventor of the "Pilates" method)

* Joseph Pilates (1883–1967) invented and promoted the Pilates method of physical fitness. His birth certificate has been published online revealing 12:30 a.m. as his time of birth. (The writing says "halb ein uhr" (half to one) rather than "halb vier uhr" (half to four) if we compare with the hand-writing of "neunten" in the same document). Pilates had health-conscious Uranus rising in Virgo and a control-freak triple conjunction of Pluto-Chiron-Saturn, with Pluto in the last degree of Taurus, the sign of the physical body. The Pilates method was first called "Contrology" by Mr. Pilates, based on the idea of muscle control. His Moon is in muscular Aries sextile his Saturn and Part of Fortune.

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Thursday, 11 July 2013

A. B. Guthrie, Jr., 1901–1991 (American writer)

* A. B. Guthrie, Jr ― who won the 1950 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for his novel The Way West (about the journey of American expansion in the old west) ― had the North Node in the first degree of Sagittarius ruled by Jupiter in the same sign, being its own sign.

WIKIPEDIA BIOGRAPHY

Alfred Bertram Guthrie, Jr (January 13, 1901 – April 26, 1991) was an American novelist, screenwriter, historian, and literary historian. The author called himself "Bud" because he felt that Alfred Bertram was "a sissy name."

His novels include Murders at Moon Dance, which was published during 1943. The Big Sky appeared during 1947, with a young person's edition during 1950. Guthrie continued to write predominantly western subjects, including the Academy Award-nominated script for the movie Shane during 1953 and the novel These Thousand Hills during 1956. During 1960, he published his first collection of short stories, The Big It and Other Stories.

Tuesday, 26 March 2013

Jacob Schiff, 1847-1920 (Banker, businessman, philanthropist)

* A transcription of Jacob Schiff's birth record includes a birth time of five o'clock in the morning.

Jacob Henry Schiff (born Jakob Heinrich Schiff; January 10, 1847 – September 25, 1920) was an American banker, businessman, and philanthropist. He helped finance, among many other things, the Japanese military efforts against Tsarist Russia in the Russo-Japanese War.

Born in Frankfurt, Germany, Schiff migrated to the United States after the Civil war, and joined the firm Kuhn, Loeb & Co. From his base on Wall Street, he was the foremost Jewish leader from 1880 to 1920 in what later became known as the "Schiff era", grappling with all major Jewish issues and problems of the day, including the plight of Russian Jews under the Tsar, American and international anti-semitism, care of needy Jewish immigrants, and the rise of Zionism. He also became the director of many important corporations, including the National City Bank of New York, Equitable Life Assurance Society, Wells Fargo & Company, and the Union Pacific Railroad. In many of his interests he was associated with E.H. Harriman.

Thursday, 21 March 2013

Fanny Mendelssohn / Hensel (New Astrology data and chart)

* According to a biographer, Fanny Mendelssohn was born at 6:30 in the morning of the very day of Napoleon's triumphant entry into Vienna.

Fanny Mendelssohn (14 November 1805 – 14 May 1847), later Fanny [Cäcilie] Mendelssohn Bartholdy and, after her marriage, Fanny Hensel, was a German pianist and composer, the sister of the composer Felix Mendelssohn and granddaughter of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn. She was the grandmother of the philosopher Paul Hensel and the mathematician Kurt Hensel.

Fanny Mendelssohn composed over 460 pieces of music. Her compositions include a piano trio and several books of solo piano pieces and songs. A number of her songs were originally published under Felix's name in his opus 8 and 9 collections. Her piano works are often in the manner of songs, and many carry the name Lied ohne Worte (Song without Words). This style (and title) of piano music was most successfully developed by Felix Mendelssohn, though some modern scholars assert that Fanny may have preceded him in the genre.

She also wrote, amongst other works for the piano, a cycle of pieces depicting the months of the year, Das Jahr ("The Year"). The music was written on coloured sheets of paper, and illustrated by her husband Wilhelm . Each piece was also accompanied by a short poem.

Monday, 25 February 2013

Michael Fassbender (New Astrology data and chart)

Michael Fassbender is a German-Irish actor. His most popular roles include Lieutenant Archie Hicox in the film Inglourious Basterds (2009), Magneto in the superhero film X-Men: First Class (2011), and the android David in the science fiction film Prometheus (2012).

His other credits include the fantasy action film 300 (2007); the drama film Fish Tank (2009); the romantic drama film Jane Eyre (2011); the historical film A Dangerous Method (2011), the biographical film Hunger (2008) and the drama film Shame (2011), both directed by Steve McQueen. For his role in Shame, he won the Volpi Cup best-actor award at the 68th Venice International Film Festival held in August 2011 along with being nominated for a Golden Globe Award and BAFTA.

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