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Arp, Jean b. September 16, 1887 d. June 7, 1966
Artist, Poet. Born in Strasbourg, France, he began his career as a poet, before he developed a succesful work on sculpture and painting (but never abandoing writing poetry). He was a founding member of the Dada movement, becoming one of the most respected abstract artists of his time. In 1950, he executed a relief for the Harvard University Graduate Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts and also a mural at the UNESCO building in Paris. In 1954, Arp won the Grand Prize for Sculpture at the Venice...[Read More] (Bio by: José L Bernabé Tronchoni)
Cimitero di Locarno, Locarno, Ticino, Switzerland
Ball, Hugo b. February 2, 1886 d. September 14, 1927
Artist. Regarded as the "Father of Dadaism", he founded "Cabaret Voltaire". He was the inventor of dadaist phonetic poetry, and wrote essays about "Siddhartha" author Hermann Hesse. (Bio by: Apats)
S. Abbondio Church Cemetery, Montagnola, Ticino, Switzerland
Caracciola, Rudolph b. January 30, 1901 d. September 28, 1959
Auto Race Car Driver. Born in Remagen, Germany, he began working at a local Mercedes-Benz dealer as a clerk. He persuaded his employers to allow him to race and his first big event was in 1823 when he drove a Mercedes M218 supercharged 8-cylinder car at AVUS and won. His exceptional speed in the rain resulted in his nickname “Der Regenmeister” (the Rainmaster). He became a specialist at the German Grand Prix, winning five times from 1928 to 1939. He became to favorite of the Mercedes-Benz team...[Read More] (Bio by: Paul Narramore)
Cemetery of Castagnola, Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland
Fröhlich, Gustav b. March 21, 1902 d. December 22, 1987
Actor. He debuted on stage with the name Gustav Geef. In 1922 he made his debut on screen, with "Paganini" in the role of the composer Franz Liszt. But he is best remembered for his role in classic german film of Fritz Lang "Metropolis." In the 1930s, he appeared in different German version of American movies like "Die heilige Flamme" (30) and "Kismet" (31). One of his greatest successes was in "Oberwachtmeister Schwenke" (1934). Between 1931 and 1935 Gustav Fröhlich was get married with the...[Read More] (Bio by: José L Bernabé Tronchoni)
Brissago Cemetery (Brissago, Lago Maggiore), Ticino, Ticino, Switzerland
Goddard (Levy), Paulette (Pauline Marion) b. June 3, 1914 d. April 23, 1990
Actress. A child model, she made her show business debut at the age of thirteen in the Ziegfeld Follies. She quickly became very famous for her work in the show, and by the age of fifteen had already gotten married for the first time. However, the marriage didn't last long, and in 1931 she headed for Hollywood. At first she appeared only in minor roles, but found herself getting noticed nevertheless because of her good looks. One of her most important minor roles from this period of her career...[Read More] (Bio by: Carrie-Anne)
Cause of death: Heart failure
Ronco Village Cemetery, Ronco sopra Ascona, Ticino, Switzerland
Helm, Brigitte b. March 17, 1908 d. June 11, 1996
Actress. Most famous for her first film role as 'Maria' and her robot doppleganger in Fritz Lang's 1927 classic film "Metropolis" (she was only 19 at the time). She starred in more than thirty films throughout the late 1920s and early 1930s, such as "Desire", "The Mistress of Atlantis" and "Am rand der Welt" (At the Edge of the World). Working with a perfectionist Lang on "Metropolis" was so physically tasking that she refused to make another film with him. She was Josef Von Sternberg's first...[Read More]
Ascona Cemetery, Locarno, Ticino, Switzerland
Hesse, Hermann b. July 2, 1877 d. August 9, 1962
Poet and Novelist. In 1946 he win Nobel prize for literature and the Goethe Prize. His parents were religious publishers. In 1891 Hesse he was expelled from the school and after that he worked on several jobs. His first work was published in 1899 and he became a freelance writer in 1904. After his visit to India in 1911 he interested in studies of eastern religions and in 1922 he published the novel "Siddhartha." He published "Demian" after World War I in 1919. His next novel "Steppenwolf" was...[Read More] (Bio by: Jelena)
S. Abbondio Church Cemetery, Montagnola, Ticino, Switzerland
Highsmith, Patricia b. January 19, 1921 d. February 4, 1995
Author. Born Mary Patricia Plangman in Fort Worth, Texas, she is widely recognized as one of the most original mystery writers of her time. Her first novel, "Strangers on a Train", was made into a classic film by Alfred Hitchcock. She is perhaps best known for her creation of Tom Ripley, the chameleon-like protagonist of several of her novels. During her career Highsmith received the O. Henry Award, the Edgar Allan Poe Award, and the French Grand prix de littérature policière. In 1990 she was...[Read More] (Bio by: José L Bernabé Tronchoni)
Cimitero di Tegna, Ticino, Ticino, Switzerland
Lee, Steve b. August 5, 1963 d. October 5, 2010
Rock Musician. Best known as lead singer of Gotthard, one of Switzerland´s most renowned rock bands, with great international recognition and millions of albums sold worldwide. In 1992 he formed the band Krak with some musical friends of his home town, Lugano. Later that same year, the name was changed to Gotthard and their debute album was released. He soon became the obvious frontman of the band, and was concidered by many to be one of the best singers of rock industry, strongly influenced by...[Read More] (Bio by: Peter Robsahm)
Porza Cemetery, Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland
Mara, Lya b. August 1, 1897 d. March 1, 1960
Actress. She is remembered for her brief but spectacular career as a star of the German silent screen. Born Aleksandra Gudowicz to a Polish family, she was raised in Latvia and originally intended to follow in Madame Currie's footsteps as a chemist. Relocating to Warsaw in 1913 she began her stage career as a dancer and made her 1916 silver screen bow in the short feature "The Rival". Billed as Mia Mara she had her first major role in Alexander Hertz's "I Want a Husband" (also 1916) then...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob Hufford)
Ronco Village Cemetery, Ronco sopra Ascona, Ticino, Switzerland
Palmer, Robert b. January 19, 1949 d. September 26, 2003
Rock Singer. Two-time Grammy winning singer/songwriter who's career over the past four decades was as colorful as some of the bands he was a member of and the styles of music he embraced. His earliest musical influences were Lena Horne and Nat King Cole, and he would eventually become an opening act for The Who and Jimi Hendrix early in his career. His first solo release was 1974's "Sneakin' Sally Through the Alley," but he didn't achieve real success until 1978 with the release of the single "...[Read More] (Bio by: Allcalmap)
Cause of death: Heart attack
Lugano Cemetery, Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland
Randolph, Jane b. October 30, 1915 d. May 4, 2009
Movie Actress. She appeared in around twenty films during the 1940s, and was best known for playing Alice Moore in the 1942 "Cat People". Born Jane Roemer, she was raised in Kokomo, Indiana, and moved to Hollywood in 1939 to study acting. Briefly under contract to Warner Brothers, she had some small roles, but was to get larger parts after switching to RKO; her first major role was in the 1942 "Highways by Night"...this was followed by her turn as one of the two human characters in Disney's...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob Hufford)
Ronco Village Cemetery, Ronco sopra Ascona, Ticino, Switzerland
Regazzoni, Clay (Gianclaudio) b. December 5, 1939 d. December 15, 2006
Formula One racing driver and winner of five Grand Prix races. Gianclaudio "Clay" Guiseppe Regazzoni was born in Lugano, in the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino, Switzerland. He began motor racing in the mid-1960s,making an impact in 1967 with de Tomaso and Tecno. In 1968 he became a regular race winner although his year was marred by a fatal collision with Chris Lambert at Zandvoort. In 1970 he won the European F2 Championship in his Tecno. In 1970 he had a drive in a Ferrari F1 car...[Read More] (Bio by: 380W)
Porza Cemetery, Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland
Remarque, Erich Maria b. June 22, 1898 d. September 25, 1970
Novelist. He wrote the powerful World War I Classic "All Quiet on the Western Front."
Ronco Village Cemetery, Ronco sopra Ascona, Ticino, Switzerland
Sirk, Douglas b. April 26, 1897 d. January 14, 1987
Noted Screenwriter and Motion Picture Director. He began his career in Germany with films as "April, April" (1935), "Stützen Der Gesellschaft" (1935) and "Zu Neuen Ufern" (1937). He arrived to Hollywood in the 30's fleeing nazism. He directed an antinazi film in 1943, "Hitler's Madman". But he is best remembered for his classic melodramas (often remakes of Jonh M. Stahl' Dramas, but with a critic sense): "Magnificent obsession" (1954), "All that heaven allows" (1955), "Written in the wind" (...[Read More] (Bio by: José L Bernabé Tronchoni)
Cemetery of Castagnola, Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland
Walter, Bruno b. September 15, 1876 d. February 17, 1962
Conductor. Born Bruno Walter Schlesinger, he began his musical education at the age of eight at the Stern Conservatory, Germany and was nine when he made his first public appearance as a pianist. In 1893, he made his conducting début there with Lortzing's Waffenschmied and the following year went to the Hamburg Opera to conduct. He joined the Court Opera in Vienna in 1910 and in Vienna the following year gave his first performance of the Ninth Symphony, having also prepared the score for...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
S. Abbondio Church Cemetery, Montagnola, Ticino, Switzerland

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