Birthday entries in Lion's iCal

I use OS X in German.
Since my upgrade to Lion the entries of the birthday calendar in iCal have changed the order the text is displayed. Before lion iCal used to display the name of the person first. E. g. "Peter Meiers Geburtstag" Now the order changed to "27. Geburtstag von Peter Meier".
Now it's impossible to see the name of the person at first glance. You have to open the entry or switch to day view to see the person having birthday.
Is it possible to change the look as it was before?

That's brilliant John - it worked, so thanks a ton (although I haven't synced yet, so let's hope it doesn't throw a wobbly). Just proves that the simple solutions are the best - if only I had the sense to do that before...
Oddly though, it changed the label colour, not that I care much.
Thanks again.

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