Talk:Gundula Janowitz

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[edit] German or Austrian?

Each of the 6 language editions of Wikipedia in which Gundula Janowitz has an entry identify her as an Austrian opera singer. She trained in Graz, and has certainly spent much of her professional career on the Austrian opera scene either as a performer or administrator. Nonetheless, she was born in Berlin, which to my knowledge is and always has been in Germany. Other areas of Wikipedia, including the "Janowitz" disambiguation page, identify her as a German singer. Does anyone know if her family is Austrian? Was she raised as a child in Austria? If the answers are "no" and "no" respectively, isn't it more accurate to characterize her as a German opera singer instead? 68.72.96.159 16:17, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

She is Austrian. Same case as Michael Gielen. RCS 09:16, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

She is of Austrian descent and, I believe, identifies herself as Austrian. Moreover, if you want to be technical, German nationality law does not confer, and never has conferred, citizenship on the basis of birth in Germany alone. Therefore, I think it is right to describe her as Austrian (though born in Berlin). 12 May 2008