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- Ottilie "Tilly" Fleischer was born on October 2, 1911 in Frankfurt am Mein, Hessen, Germany. Her father was a butcher. Tilly initially became interested in sports as a child and trained as a teenager in a variety of athletic activities that include shot put, pentathlon, and the discus and javelin throw. Fleischer won the bronze medal in the women's javelin throw and finished fourth in the women's discus throw at the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles, California. Tilly subsequently went on to win the gold medal in the women's javelin throw at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, Germany and holds the distinction of being the first German woman to win a gold medal at an Olympics event. After retiring from athletic competitions Fleischer took up playing handball and was a member of the Eintracht Frankfurt handball club that won the German championship in 1943. Tilly was married twice and had two daughters from her first marriage. Fleischer opened a leather goods shop in Lahr, Germany in 1948. Tilly died at age 93 on July 14, 2005.
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Walther Ludwig was a German tenor, and played opposite Zarah Leander in The Way to Freedom (1941) ("The Way to Freedom", "Le Chemin de la liberté"). He studied law, medicine and voice in Königsberg, Germany, where he also debuted in 1928. From 1929 to 1932 he was resident in Schwerin, Germany.
Between 1932 and 1945 he worked at the State Opera House in Berlin, at the Scala in Milano (Italy), at Covent Garden in London and in Rome, Barcelona, Salzburg, giving concert tours throughout Europe and USA.
From 1952 to 1969 he was a Professor at the Westberliner High School, and in 1971 he specialized in singing the music of Mozart.- Writer
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Marie Luise Droop was born on 15 January 1890 in Stettin, Pomerania, Germany [now Szczecin, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland]. She was a writer and producer, known for Das Fest der schwarzen Tulpe (1920), Auf den Trümmern des Paradieses (1920) and Die Teufelsanbeter (1921). She died on 22 August 1959 in Lahr, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.