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Otto is a given name of Germanic origin meaning wealthy.

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Given name[link]

• Otto (mayor of the palace) (died 643 or 644), mayor of the palace of Austrasia briefly in the mid-7th century
• Otto I, Duke of Saxony
• the Ottonian dynasty
  • Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (912-973)
  • Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor (955-983)
  • Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor (980-1002)
• Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor (1175/1176-1218)
• Otto Dowling (1881-1946), 25th Governor of American Samoa
• Otto of Freising (c. 1114-1158), bishop and chronicler
• Otto of Greece (1815-1867), King of Greece
• Otto of Driebruggen (1994-2087), King of Driebruggen and BTO
• Otto of Bavaria (1848-1916), King of Bavaria
• Otto Adler, president of the Jewish Association of Romania
• Otto Frank (1889–1980), father of Anne Frank
• Otto Freundlich (1878 1943), German painter and sculptor
• Otto Graham (1921-2003), professional American football and basketball player
• Otto Graf Lambsdorff (1926-2009), German politician
• Otto Grotewohl (1894-1964), East German politician
• Otto Herschmann (1877–1942), Austrian Olympic fencing and swimming medalist^[1]
• Otto Klemperer (1885-1973), German-born conductor and composer
• Otto Lilienthal, German aviator
• Otto Peterson, American comedian (Otto & George ventriloquism act)
• Otto Plath (1885-1940), father of American Poet, Sylvia Plath, and entomologist
• Otto Preminger (1905-1986), Austro–Hungarian-born American film director
• Otto Rehhagel, German football coach
• Otto Scheff, Austrian Olympic swimming champion
• Otto Schmitt (field hockey), Argentine field hockey goalkeeper
• Otto Skorzeny (1908-1975), Austrian-born Waffen-SS commando
• Otto Soglow, American cartoonist
• Otto Christian Archibald von Bismarck (1897-1975), German politician and diplomat
• Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898), Prussian/German statesman
• Otto von Habsburg (1912-2011), head of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine from 1922 to 2007
• Otto Waalkes (born 1948), German comedian and actor
• Otto Wahle (1879-1963), Austrian-born American Olympic swimming medalist and Hall of Fame
• Otto Dix (1891-1969), German painter and printmaker, noted for his ruthless and harshly realistic depictions of Weimar society and the brutality of war.

Fictional characters[link]

• Otto Flick, a character in the BBC sitcom 'Allo 'Allo!
• Otto Maddox, a character in the movie Repo Man, played by Emilio Estevez.
• Otto Mann, character on the animated TV series The Simpsons.
• Otto Meyer, a character in the 1963 movie It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, played by Phil Silvers.
• Otto Normalverbraucher, a home coming soldier in a 1948 movie played by Gert Fröbe, is used in German to denote the average consumer (literally) or the small man on the street
• Otto Octavius, fictional Marvel Comics supervillain otherwise known as Doctor Octopus. One of Spider-Man's nemeses.
• Otto Rocket, the main character of Nickelodeon's Rocket Power.
• Otto the Dog, a dog belonging to one of the characters in the comic strip Beetle Bailey.
• Otto the Gorilla, Dr Satan's fretful right hand man in Rob Zombie's satire comedy The Haunted World of El Superbeasto
• Otto the Autopilot, the blow-up autopilot doll in Airplane! (1980)
• Otto West, a character in the 1988 movie A Fish Called Wanda.

Animals[link]

• Otto (dog) (1989-2010), world's oldest dog
• Otocinclus - Sucking catfish, often known as 'Otto'.

Company[link]

• Otto GmbH, a German mail-order company, also called the Otto Group
• Otto Group, a German waste-management company

See also[link]

• Operation Otto (1938), Nazi Germany's plan for the annexation of Austria
• Operation Otto, Axis powers anti-partisan operation in Croatia in 1943
• MV Otto, a German coaster

References[link]

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Otto Waalkes
Born	Otto Gerhard Waalkes (1948-07-22) 22 July 1948 (age 63) Emden
Occupation	comedian, actor
Website
www.otto-waalkes.com

Otto Waalkes live (2005)

Otto Gerhard Waalkes (born 22 July 1948 in Emden, Germany) is a Frisian comedian and actor. He became famous in the 1970s and 1980s in Germany with his shows, books and movies. His perhaps most famous trademark are the 'Ottifanten' ('Ottiphants'), elephant-like comic characters of his own design. They featured on the cover of his first album release.^[1]

He shares a close friendship with tennis player Steffi Graf, who also makes an appearance in the movie Otto - Der Außerfriesische. He has one child ("Benjamin Karl Otto Grigori Waalkes") with his first wife Manuela Ebelt, and was later married to actress Eva Hassmann until November 2011,^[2] who co-starred with him in Otto - Der Katastrophenfilm.

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Filmography[link]

• Otto – Der Film ('Otto – The Film') (1985)
• Otto – Der neue Film ('Otto - The New Film') (1987)
• Otto – Der Außerfriesische ('Otto - The Outer-Frisian') (1989)
• Otto – Der Liebesfilm ('Otto – The Romance film) (1992)
• St. Pauli Nacht ('St. Pauli Night') by Sönke Wortmann (1999)
• Otto – Der Katastrophenfilm ('Otto - The Disaster film') (2000)
• 7 Zwerge – Männer allein im Wald ('7 Dwarves – Men Alone in the Wood') (2004)
• 7 Zwerge – Der Wald ist nicht genug ('7 Dwarfs – The Wood Is Not Enough') (2006)
• Otto's Eleven (2010)

See also[link]

• German television comedy

References[link]

External links[link]

• (German) Official website
• Otto Waalkes at the Internet Movie Database
• (German) Website dedicated to Otto's Ottiphants

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Marco Travaglio
Marco Travaglio in Trento, 2010.
Born	Marco Travaglio (1964-10-13) October 13, 1964 (age 47) Turin, Italy
Years active	1988 – present

Marco Travaglio (Italian pronunciation: [ˈmarko traˈvaʎʎo]; born 13 October 1964) is an Italian investigative journalist, writer and commentator.

Biography[link]

Travaglio was born in Turin and earned a degree in history from the University of Turin. In 1992 he began to pursue journalism as a career. He started out writing for Catholic publications such as Il nostro tempo ("Our time"), then worked under the renowned journalist Indro Montanelli for newspapers such as Il Giornale and La Voce and gained the attention of Montanelli himself who once used to say about him: "No, Travaglio does not kill anyone. With a knife. He uses a more refined and not legally punishable weapon: the archives"

Since 14 September 2006, Marco Travaglio has been a regular guest in the TV program AnnoZero, hosted by Michele Santoro (also mentioned by Berlusconi in the Bulgarian Edict).

Recently, Travaglio has contributed as a columnist to prominent national newspapers and magazines, such as La Repubblica, L'Unità (with his old columns "Bananas", "Uliwood Party" and "Zorro") and Micromega. He still contributes to L'espresso with the column "Signorno'". In September 2009 he contributed to the formation of the independent newspaper, called Il Fatto Quotidiano ("The Daily Fact").

Political and judicial events of national importance, ranging from Mani pulite to the troubles of controversial political figure Silvio Berlusconi, have been Travaglio's main area of interest.

The journalist became well known in 2001, after participating in a TV show on state-owned national channel Raidue called Satyricon and hosted by Daniele Luttazzi. There, He presented his brand-new book, and bestseller, L'odore dei soldi ("The Smell of Money", co-authored by Elio Veltri), which investigates the origin of Mr Berlusconi's early fortunes. Berlusconi started a lawsuit for slander, but since the book reports official facts already known by the judiciary authorities, he was condemned to pay the legal expenses.^[1]

The show, aired during the campaign for the Italian general election, was heavily criticized by Berlusconi and his party and labeled by them as a politically motivated, non-objective personal attack. After Mr Berlusconi's victory at the elections, both Travaglio and Luttazzi (together with other prominent journalists that had criticized Mr Berlusconi's or investigated his history) have never appeared again on state-owned TV shows until September 2006 (shortly after Berlusconi lost the elections and left power), causing a long debate about freedom of information and censorship in Italy.

Awards and Honors[link]

The National Association of German Journalists (DJV Deutscher Journalisten-Verband) honored Marco Travaglio in 2009 bestowing on him the award for "Press Freedom". The decision, taken by the seven members jury of the association, was accompanied by the following statement from Michael Konken, President of the association of german journalists. Konken stated: «We honour in Marco Travaglio a brave and talented colleague, fighting againsts many obstacles to defend freedom of speech and press in Italy». Other recipients of the Award in previous years include the journalist Miroslav Filipović and the Russian reporter Ol'ga Kitova. Filipović received the award for his articles on the atrocities committed against civilians in Kosovo by the Yugoslav Army, while Olga Kitova was honoured for her struggle in denouncing corruption in Russia.

Publications[link]

Books by Marco Travaglio (usually co-authored with other investigative journalists) include:

• Bravi ragazzi (Italian for Good fellas), published in 2003 and reporting on politicians Cesare Previti and Silvio Berlusconi's alleged (and later confirmed by court's sentence ^[2]) corruption of judges
• Lo chiamavano Impunità ("They Call Him Impunity", a humorous reference to the spaghetti western Lo chiamavano Trinità), published in 2003, about the SME-Ariosto inquiry and court trial
• Mani Sporche (Italian for "Dirty Hands") that reports about the years following the national scandal "Mani pulite" (Italian for "Clean Hands")
• Il Bavaglio ("The Gag") mostly about the Italian politicians' plans to limit freedom of speech and the investigative means of Italian Prosecutors investigating political corruption
• Per chi suona la banana ("For Whom the Banana Tolls"; the title is a pun on For Whom the Bell Tolls, with a reference on the banana republic)
• Italia Anno Zero, Chiarelettere, 2009, ISBN 978-88-6190-051-6 (coauthors: Beatrice Borromeo and Vauro Senesi)

On 10 May 2008, Marco Travaglio commented on Renato Schifani's election as president of the Senate that one should "simply ask of the second highest office of the state to explain those relationships with those men who have subsequently been condemned for association with the Mafia" on the RAI current affairs talk show television program Che tempo fa.^[3][4][5]

The statement of Travaglio resulted in fierce and almost universally negative reactions including from the centre left, except for Antonio Di Pietro who said that Travaglio was "merely doing his job". Some called for chief executives at RAI to be dismissed.

The popular political commentator Beppe Grillo supported Travaglio, while Schifani announced he would go to Court and sue Travaglio for slander.^[6] Schifani said Travaglio's accusation was based on "inconsistent or manipulated facts, not even worthy of generating suspicions", adding that "someone wants to undermine the dialogue between the government and the opposition."^[5] Mister Schifani himself enjoys immunity as leader of the parliament.

In 2009, the German Association of Journalists awarded Travaglio its yearly prize for Freedom of the Press, describing him as a "brave and critical colleague [...] exposing continually the attempts of Italian politicians, especially Silvio Berlusconi, to influence the media to their advantage and to negate critical reports."^[7]

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External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Marco Travaglio

• Il fatto quotidiano Independent journal of which Travaglio is the vice director.
• Voglio scendere Blog by Travaglio and fellow journalists and authors Pino Corrias and Peter Gomez (Italian)
• L'Antefatto Official website of Travaglio's independent newspaper, Il Fatto Quotidiano (Italian)
• Unofficial Fan site featuring a column and some other contributions by Travaglio not published elsewhere (Italian)
• Interview with Marco Travaglio (Italian)
• La Repubblica newspaper: the controversial interview with Travaglio by Luttazzi (Italian)
• Signornò [1] L'Espresso-Opinioni (Italian)
• V-day 8 September 2007 Bologna Video (Italian)
• V2-day 25 April 2008 Turin Video (Italian)
• No CAV day 8 July 2008 Rome (Italian)

Otto Heinrich "Pim" Frank (12 May 1889 – 19 August 1980) was a German-born businessman and the father of Anne Frank and Margot Frank. As the sole member of his family to survive the Holocaust, he inherited Anne's manuscripts after her death, arranged for the publication of her diary in 1947, and oversaw its translation to the stage and screen.

Early life[link]

Frank was born in Frankfurt. He was the second son of Michael Frank and Alice Stern Frank. His siblings were Robert Frank, Helene (Leni) Frank, and Herbert Frank. Otto was a cousin of the well known furniture designer Jean-Michel Frank, and a grandson of Zacharias Frank. Frank served in the German army as an officer during the First World War. He worked in the bank his family ran until it collapsed in the early 1930s. He married Edith Holländer—an heiress to a scrap-metal and industrial-supply business—on 12 May 1925 in Frankfurt, and their first daughter, Margot Betti, was born on 16 February 1926, followed by Anne (Annelies Marie) on 12 June 1929.^[2]

World War II[link]

As the tide of Nazism rose in Germany and anti-Jewish decrees encouraged attacks on Jewish individuals and families, Frank decided to evacuate his family to the safer western nations of Europe. In August 1933 he moved his family to Aachen, where his wife's mother resided, in preparation for a subsequent and final move to Amsterdam in the Netherlands. There he started a company, Opekta, that sold spices and pectin for use in the manufacture of jam. After Germany invaded Holland in May 1940, Otto made his business look "Aryan" by transferring control to non-Jews.

In 1938 and 1941, Frank attempted to obtain visas for his family to emigrate to the United States or Cuba. He was granted a single visa for himself to Cuba on 1 December 1941, but no one knows if it ever reached him. Ten days later, when Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy declared war on the United States, the visa was canceled by Havana.^[3][4]

Otto Frank took his family into hiding on 6 July 1942 in the upper rear rooms of the Opekta premises on the Prinsengracht. They were joined a week later by Hermann van Pels, who was known as Herman van Daan in Anne's diary, and his wife and son, and in November by Fritz Pfeffer, also known in Anne's diary as Mr. Dussel. Their concealment was aided by Otto Frank's colleagues Johannes Kleiman, whom he had known since 1923, Miep Gies, Victor Kugler, and Bep Voskuijl.

They were concealed for two years, until they were betrayed by an anonymous informant in August 1944. Frank, his family, the four people he hid with, and Kugler and Kleiman were arrested by SS Officer Karl Silberbauer. After being imprisoned in Amsterdam, the Jewish prisoners were sent to the Dutch transit camp of Westerbork and finally to Auschwitz. It was here, in September, that Frank was separated forever from his wife and daughters. He was sent to the men's barracks and found himself in the sick barracks when he was liberated by Soviet troops on 27 January 1945. He travelled back to the Netherlands over the next six months and set about tracing his arrested family and friends. By the end of 1945, he knew he was the sole survivor of the family, and of those who had hidden in the house on the Prinsengracht.

Post-war life[link]

After Anne Frank's death was confirmed in the summer of 1945, her diary and papers were given to Otto Frank by Miep Gies, who had rescued them from the ransacked hiding place. He left them unread for some time but eventually began transcribing them from Dutch for his relatives in Switzerland. He was persuaded that Anne's writing shed light into the experiences of many of those who suffered persecution under Nazis and was urged to consider publishing it. He typed out the diary papers into a single manuscript and edited out sections he thought too personal to his family or too mundane to be of interest to the general reader. The manuscript was read by Dutch historian Jan Romein, who reviewed it on 3 April 1946, for the Het Parool newspaper. This attracted the interest of Amsterdam's Contact Publishing, and in the summer of 1946, they accepted it for publication.

On 25 June 1947, the first Dutch edition of the diary was issued under the title Het Achterhuis (meaning literally: "the back house"). Its success led to an English translation in 1952, which subsequently led to a theatrical dramatisation and a cinematic version.

Otto Frank married a former neighbor from Amsterdam and fellow Auschwitz survivor, Elfriede Geiringer (1905–1998), in Amsterdam on 10 November 1953, and both moved to Basel, Switzerland, where he had family, including children with which he shared his experiences.

In response to a demolition order placed on the building in which Otto Frank and his family had hidden during the war, he and Johannes Kleiman helped establish the Anne Frank Foundation on 3 May 1957, with the principal aim of saving and restoring the building, to allow it to be opened to the general public. With the aid of public donations, the building (and its adjacent neighbour) was purchased by the Foundation. It opened as a museum (the Anne Frank House) on 3 May 1960, and it can still be visited today. Otto Frank died of lung cancer on 19 August 1980 in Basel.^[5]

References[link]

Further reading[link]

• The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank ISBN 0-553-29698-1
• Anne Frank Remembered, Miep Gies and Alison Leslie Gold ISBN 0-671-66234-1
• The Hidden Life of Otto Frank, Carol Ann Lee ISBN 0-670-91331-6
• Roses from the Earth: the biography of Anne Frank, Carol Ann Lee ISBN 0-670-88140-6
• Love, Otto, Cara Wilson ISBN 0-8362-7032-0
• Eva's Story, Eva Schloss ISBN 0-9523716-9-3

External links[link]

• Profile of Otto Frank's early life, written by the Anne Frank House
• Otto Frank during World War One, written by the Anne Frank House
• Article about Otto Frank and the opening of the Anne Frank House
• BBC video interview with Otto Frank in 1976 (requires Realplayer)
• Video interview with Otto Frank's second wife (Requires Quicktime)
• Short article about Otto Frank's last years, with a photo taken in 1979
• Otto Frank Returns