2009 BMW Open – Doubles
Michael Berrer and Rainer Schüttler were the defending champions, but chose not to participate this year.
Rainer Kirsch
Rainer Kirsch( 17 July 1934 – 4 September 2015) was a German writer and poet.
Ali al-Qaradaghi
Sheikh Ali al- Qaradaghi( born in Qaradagh, Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan, Iraq) is an influential Sunni scholar of Islam, an expert on Sharia and Fiqh combined with Islamic economics.
He is a professor of Jurisprudence at the Faculty of Sharia and Islamic Studies of the Qatar University in Doha and he has a Qatarian citizenship.
Ioana Pârvulescu
Ioana Pârvulescu( 1960) is a Romanian writer.
She was born in Braşov and studied at the University of Bucharest.
She graduated in 1983 and went on to complete a PhD in literature in 1999.
She teaches modern literature at the same university.
She has worked at the literary journal" România literară", and has translated the works of Maurice Nadeau, Angelus Silesius and Rainer Maria Rilke.
She is a member of the Romanian Writers' Union.
She won the EU Prize for Literature for her book" Viaţa începe vineri Life Begins on Friday").
David Ji
David Longfen Ji is an American businessman who co-founded Apex Digital, an electronics manufacturer.
In 2004, he was arrested in China following a dispute with Sichuan Changhong Electric, a supplier owned by the city of Mianyang and the province of Sichuan.
Changhong accused him of defrauding them through bad checks.
Ji was taken, according to an account by his lawyer, to the senior management and told, "I decide whether you live or die."
He has been held in China without charges.
Ji's case highlighted an "implicit racism" in dealings with American businessmen.
As a U.S. citizen he was not granted the same treatment by authorities as non-ethnically Chinese businessmen sharing the same nationality.
Burkhard Driest
Burkhard Driest( born 28 April 1939 in Stettin, Germany, now Szczecin, Poland) is a German actor, writer and director, perhaps best known for his acting work in Sam Peckinpah's" Cross of Iron" and Rainer Werner Fassbinder's" Querelle".
A R Shamsud Doha
Aminur Rahman Shamsud Doha (January 24, 1929 – March 3, 2012) was a Bangladeshi politician.
Volker Schlöndorff
Volker Schlöndorff( born 31 March 1939) is a German filmmaker who has worked in Germany, France and the United States.
He was a prominent member of the New German Cinema of the late 1960s and early 1970s, which also included Werner Herzog, Wim Wenders, Margarethe von Trotta and Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
He won an Oscar as well as the Palme d'or at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival for" The Tin Drum"( 1979), the film version of the novel by Nobel Prize- winning author Günter Grass.
Sarah Kirsch
Sarah Kirsch( 16 April 1935 – 5 May 2013) was a German poet.
She was born Ingrid Bernstein in Limlingerode, Prussian Saxony.
She changed her first name to Sarah in order to protest against her father's anti-semitism.
She studied biology in Halle and literature at the Johannes R. Becher Institute for Literature in Leipzig.
In 1965, she co-wrote a book of poems with writer Rainer Kirsch, to whom she was married for ten years.
She protested against East Germany's expulsion of Wolf Biermann in 1976, which led to her exclusion from the Socialist Unity Party of Germany( SED).
One year later she left the country herself, nevertheless being critical of the west as well.
She is mainly known for her poetry, but she also wrote prose and translated children's books into German.
According to" complete reviewthe great German- language post -war poets were largely East German( or Austrian) born in the mid to late 1930s which included towering figures such as Volker Braun, Heinz Czechowski" and Sarah Kirsch who was" the most prominent female representative of that generation."
She won many prizes and honors including the German international literary Petrarca- Preis in 1976, the Peter- Huchel Prize in 1993 and the Georg Büchner Prize in 1996.
From 1960- 1968 she was married to lyricist Rainer Kirsch.
Sarah Kirsch died in May 2013 following a brief illness.
Wu Yiwen
Wu Yiwen( born August 5, 1986 in Shanghai) is a Chinese female synchronized swimmer, reaching in height.
She won a silver medal in team competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics, and previously swam in the 2006 Asian Games in Doha and 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou.

Question: Were A R Shamsud Doha and Rainer Kirsch of the same nationality?
Answer: no