Famous People with Name Gottschalk

Albert Gottschalk            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Albert Gottschalk: was a Danish painter. He was born in Stege in 1866 but moved to Copenhagen. He had a close connection, personally and artisticly, to the poets Johannes Jørgensen, Viggo Stuckenberg and Sophus Claussen.

Louis Moreau Gottschalk            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Louis Moreau Gottschalk: was an American composer and pianist, best known as a virtuoso performer of his own romantic piano pieces. He spent most of his working career outside of the United States.Gottschalk was born to a Jewish businessman from London and a white Haitian Creole in New Orleans, where he was exposed to a wide variety of musical traditions. He had six brothers and sisters, five of whom were half-siblings by his father's mulatto mistress.[1] His family lived for a time in a tiny cottage at Royal and Esplanade in the Vieux Carré. Louis later moved in with relatives at 518 Conti Street; his grandmother Buslé and his nurse Sally had both been born in Saint-Domingue (later known as Haiti).

Keith Gottschalk            Origin/Culture/Country: African

Keith Gottschalk: is a South African poet, known for his anti-apartheid poetry.He studied at the University of Cape Town 1964-70, where he was a tutor and junior lecturer to 1983. [1] Keith Gottschalk works in the Political Studies Department at the University of the Western Cape.Keith Gottschalk's poetry is 'political', and its appearance at cultural festival and mass rallies of the mass democratic movement attests to its massive success as political poetry. [2] He is a performing poet, whose work needs to be heard as well as read.He has given over one hundred performances of his poems, and also had over one hundred poems published in magazines such as New Coin, New Contrast, Phoebe, Staffrider and Agenda. [1] His first collection was "Emergency Poems" [3] In his introduction to "Emergency Poems" Peter Horn described Gottschalk's contribution as follows: "wit and conceit also seem to me to describe most adequately the poetic and aesthetic vehicles which Gottschalk chooses to address the political in poetry. Often, when critics address poetry like Gottschalk's they use the term satire, this most misplaced and displaced genre in English poetry. What is central to satire and to wit is not

Joachim Gottschalk            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Joachim Gottschalk: was a European movie star during the 1930s, a romantic lead in the style of Leslie Howard. He starred in a series of German films opposite the popular German actress Brigitte Horney. In November 1941, minutes before the expected arrival of the Gestapo, Gottschalk and his wife committed suicide by gas poisoning after sedating their son, who died with them. They are buried at the Stahnsdorf Friedhof on the south-western edge of Berlin.