Katharina Rapp was born in war-torn southern Germany. After completing her high school education, she moved to Paris to study at the Sorbonne, then to London where she met her husband. She later moved to Switzerland, where she had two children, and to Scotland, where she had her third child. She then moved to Australia, where she still works as an artist today.
Her dominant medium is the oil painting, with over-the-top and humorous characterisation in vivid colours. Stylistically, she has been likened to the Dutch painter Kees van Dongen.
Katharina von Bora, after her wedding Katharina Luther, also referred to as "die Lutherin", was the wife of the German reformer Martin Luther and a seminal figure of the Protestant Reformation. Although little is known about her, she is often considered to have been important to the Reformation, her marriage setting a precedent for Protestant family life and clerical marriage.
Christiane Susanne Kubrick is a German actress and painter. She was born into a theatrical family, and was the wife of filmmaker Stanley Kubrick from 1958 until his death in 1999.
Katharina Thalbach is a German actress and stage director. She played theatre at the Berliner Ensemble and at the Volksbühne Berlin, and was actress in the film The Tin Drum. She worked as a theatre and opera director.
Katharina is a feminine given name. It is a German form of Katherine. Notable people with this name include:
Susan von der Lippe was an American competition swimmer for Stanford University, a 1984 Olympic gold and silver medalist, and a United States Masters world record-holder in multiple events.
The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum, or: How violence develops and where it can lead is a 1975 German political drama film based on Heinrich Böll's 1974 novel of the same name, adapted 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, police, and media. The film stars Angela Winkler as Blum, Mario Adorf as Kommissar Beizmenne, Dieter Laser as Tötges, and Jürgen Prochnow as Ludwig. In 1984, the film and the novel were adapted into an American TV film, The Lost Honor of Kathryn Beck.
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 Kepler was a woman from Leonberg, Württemberg, who was the mother of the famous astronomer Johannes Kepler. She was accused of witchcraft in 1615, but was defended by her son and released.
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.
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.
Maria Katharina Prestel née Maria Katharina Höll, was an engraver and painter from Nuremberg, and active in London.
Elizabeth Christ Trump was a German American businesswoman. She was the paternal grandmother of Donald Trump, who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021 and is currently the president-elect.
Katharina Focke was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). She served as Federal Minister of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth from 1972 to 1976.
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.
Katharina Konradi is a Kyrgyzstani operatic soprano based in Germany, at the Hamburg State Opera from 2018. She has performed at major opera houses, especially as Mozart's Susanna and Zdenka in Arabella, and at the Bayreuth Festival. She is also known as a lieder singer with a broad repertoire including contemporary music, performed at Wigmore Hall in London among others.
Lady Katharina Brandis née Hasse was a German artist. She married Dietrich Brandis, inspector general of forests in India, and lived in British India for several years. Living mainly in Shimla and Dehradun, she painted plants and landscapes from the Himalayas in watercolour.
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