People with a strong Berlin connection - P
- Erwin Piscator Principal Producer of the Berlin Volkstheater during the 1920s. Spent 1931-6 in Russia. Returned to Germany in 1951 and became director of the Berlin Freie Volksbühne.
- Max Planck Born in Kiel, but became Professor at Berlin University. In 1900, he unveiled his quantum theory.
The younger of his two sons died in the First World War. He had twin daughters, one of whom died in childbirth. The other twin ended up marrying her sister's husband but she too died in childbirth. In 1944, Planck's house was bombed, destroying all his possessions and much of his work. His last son then became involved in a plot to assassinate Hitler and was executed.
- Andre Previn
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