Birth Name: Ernst Wilhelm Wenders
Place of Birth: Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Date of Birth: 14 August 1945
Ethnicity: German, Dutch
Family info: Wim Wenders is an Oscar-nominated German filmmaker.
He was born into a traditional Catholic family.
Use of the Dutch name, “Wim”, a shortened version of the baptismal name “Wilhelm/Willem”, reflected his mother’s Dutch provenance, but the Dutch version was rejected by the civil registration authorities in 1945 as “un-German”.
Source: http://www.wim-wenders.com/bio/wim_wenders_bio.htm
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