Katharina von Bora, after her wedding Katharina Luther, also referred to as "die Lutherin", was the wife of Martin Luther, German reformer and a seminal figure of the Protestant Reformation. Beyond what is found in the writings of Luther and some of his contemporaries, little is known about her. Despite this, Katharina is often considered one of the most important participants in the Reformation because of her role in helping to define Protestant family life and setting the tone for clergy marriages.
Katia Mann was the youngest child and only daughter of the German Jewish mathematician and artist Alfred Pringsheim and his wife Hedwig Pringsheim, who was an actress in Berlin before her marriage. Katia was also a granddaughter of the writer and women's rights activist Hedwig Dohm. Her twin brother Klaus was a conductor, composer, music writer and music pedagogue, active in Germany and Japan. She married the writer Thomas Mann.
Christiane Susanne Kubrick is a German actress, dancer, painter, and singer. She was born into a theatrical family, and was the wife of filmmaker Stanley Kubrick from 1958 until his death in 1999.
Katharina "Kathie" Fröhlich was a lover of Franz Grillparzer. She founded the Schwestern-Fröhlich-Stiftung in Vienna, and became a patron of artists and writers.
Katharina is a feminine given name. It is a German form of Katherine. It may refer to:
Katharina Franck is a German singer, songwriter, and musician. She first achieved fame as singer, songwriter, and guitarist of pop rock band the Rainbirds in the late 1980s. Besides her work with Rainbirds, she was also a member of the band Stein, and has released several solo albums.
The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum, or: How violence develops and where it can lead is a 1975 film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Heinrich Böll, written for the screen and directed by Volker Schlöndorff and Margarethe von Trotta. Schlöndorff and von Trotta wrote the script with an emphasis on the vindictive and harsh treatment of an innocent woman by the public, the police and the media. The film stars Angela Winkler as Blum, Mario Adorf as Kommissar Beizmenne, Dieter Laser as Tötges, and Jürgen Prochnow as Ludwig. The film and the novel were also adapted into an American TV film titled The Lost Honor of Kathryn Beck in 1984.
Katharina Löwel, better known under her stage name Kitty Kat or Kitten Ket, is a German rapper and singer. She became famous as an Aggro Berlin member, where she was signed from 2006 to 2009.
Rapp is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Katharina Fritsch is a German sculptor. She lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany.
Katharina Jacob was a teacher and member of the German Resistance movement against National Socialism. She was married to Franz Jacob, a German Resistance fighter who was executed by the Nazis.
Anna Katharina Kränzlein, also known as Anna Katharina, is a German violinist. She is most known for her quick and varied technique. She is the youngest founding member of Medieval folk rock/folk metal band Schandmaul.
Katharina von Zimmern, also known as the imperial abbess of Zürich and Katharina von Reischach, was the last abbess of the Fraumünster Abbey in Zürich.
Marie Jensen was a German portrait painter.
Maria Katharina Prestel née Maria Katharina Höll, was an engraver and painter from Nuremberg, and active in London.
Henriette Lehmann, née Straßmann, known as Henni was a politically and socially active German painter and writer of Jewish ancestry.
Käthe Frida Rosa Loewenthal was a German Modernist landscape painter of Jewish ancestry. She was murdered in the Shoah. The Painter Susanne Ritscher was her sister.
Louise Elisabeth Andrae was a German Post-Impressionist landscape painter and watercolorist.
Shorter Days is a novel by Anna Katharina Hahn, published in 2009 with the German publisher Suhrkamp Verlag. The English translation by Anne Posten appeared in 2016 with Frisch & Co., a publisher of electronic books in English translation.
Alwine Schroedter or Schrödter, née Heuser, was a German painter and illustrator; associated with the Düsseldorfer Malerschule.