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Greta Isabella Conte was born on 24 August 1990 in Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Greta Isabella is a cinematographer and director.

Rolf Kanies was born on 21 December 1957 in Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He is an actor and producer, known for Downfall (2004), Hitman: Agent 47 (2015) and Einstein (2017).

Martin Bretschneider was born on 22 December 1974 in Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He is an actor and writer, known for Red Cell (2020), Phantomschmerz (2018) and The Miracle of Bern (2003).

Jana Nawartschi was born in Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. She is an actress and writer, known for Hunters (2020), Simon (2023) and Deranged Granny (2020).

Barbara Orbison was born on 10 January 1950 in Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. She was a producer, known for Roy Orbison: I Drove All Night (1992), Forbidden Apple (2018) and Roy Orbison Live in Texas (1986). She was married to Roy Orbison. She died on 6 December 2011 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Bernhard Schlink is a German lawyer, academic, and novelist. He is best known for his novel The Reader which was first published in 1995 and became an international bestseller.

He was born in Großdornberg to a German father (Edmund Schlink) and a Swiss mother, the youngest of four children. His mother, Irmgard, had been a theology student of his father, whom she married in 1938. Bernhard's father had been a seminary professor and pastor in the Confessing Church. In 1946, he became a professor of dogmatic and ecumenical theology at Heidelberg University, where he would serve until his retirement in 1971. Over the course of four decades Edmund Schlink became one of the most famous and influential Lutheran theologians in the world and a key participant in the modern Ecumenical Movement. Bernhard Schlink was brought up in Heidelberg from the age of two. He studied law at West Berlin's Free University, graduating in 1968.

Schlink became a judge at the Constitutional Court of the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia in 1988 and in 1992 a professor for public law and the philosophy of law at Humboldt University, Berlin. He retired in January 2006.

Schlink studied law at the University of Heidelberg and at the Free University of Berlin. He worked as a scientific assistant at the Universities of Darmstadt, Bielefeld and Freiburg. He had been a law professor at the University of Bonn and Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main before he started in 1992 at Humboldt University of Berlin. His career as a writer began with several detective novels. One of these, Die gordische Schleife, won the Glauser Prize in 1989.

In 1995, he published The Reader (Der Vorleser), a novel about a teenager who has an affair with a woman in her thirties who suddenly vanishes but whom he meets again as a law student when visiting a trial about war crimes. The book became a bestseller both in Germany and the United States and was translated into 39 languages. It was the first German book to reach the number one position in the New York Times bestseller list. In 1997, it won the Hans Fallada Prize, a German literary award, and the Prix Laure Bataillon for works translated into French. In 1999 it was awarded the Welt-Literaturpreis of the newspaper Die Welt.

In 2000, Schlink published a collection of short fiction called Flights of Love. In 2008, Stephen Daldry directed a film adaptation of The Reader. In 2010, his non-fiction political history, Guilt About the Past was published by Beautiful Books Limited (UK).

Timm Oberwelland was born on 4 November 1969 in Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He is a producer and executive, known for The Most Beautiful Girl in the World (2018), A Whole Life (2023) and Catweazle (2021).

Ingolf Lück is a German actor, comedian, and television host, best known for anchoring the sketch comedy show "Die Wochenshow" on Sat.1 from 1996 to 2002. He began his career in theater before transitioning to television, where he also hosted programs like "Formel Eins" and "Pack die Zahnbürste ein." Lück's filmography includes roles in "Bang Boom Bang - Ein todsicheres Ding" (1999) and "Der Formel Eins Film" (1985). Beyond acting, he has directed theater productions and participated in various entertainment formats, showcasing his versatility in the German entertainment industry.

Isabell Horn was born on 31 December 1983 in Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. She is an actress, known for Alles was zählt (2006), Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten (1992) and Offscreen (2017).

Jannik Mioducki was born in 1993 in Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He is an actor, known for A Good Place (2023), Der Staatsanwalt (2005) and #ichbingenug (2017).

Thomas Möller was born on 12 February 1974 in Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He is a writer and director, known for Stundenhotel (2000), Schneller als der Zug (2000) and Sprengstoff (2025).

Matthias Müller was born in Bielefeld, West Germany on March 29, 1961. He first became interested in filmmaking while he was a student in Arts and German Literature at Bielefeld University in the 1980s. In 1985 Müller co-founded the Alte Kinder Film Collective with friends Christiane Heuwinkel and Maja-Lene Rettig. The members of Alte Kinder collectively produced and distributed a series of cutting edge films on Super-8, the film gauge preferred by Germany's post-punk wave of underground filmmakers. Müller first gained international attention with the release of his 1989 film, Aus Der Ferne, a meditation on loss and mourning. Müller's next film, Home Stories (1990), used a mesmerizing montage of shots from technicolor melodramas of the 1950s and 60s to comment on Hollywood conventions. The film went on to win numerous awards and to establish Müller's international reputation as an important new star of the film and art worlds. Since then, Müller has continued to create some of the most stunning works to come out of the avant garde in years. Vacancy (1999), a nostalgic glance into the past, examines the hopes and dreams of a post-World War II, pre-Kennedy assassination world. The film's flickering cuts between 1961 and the present are a heartbreaking reminder of promises left unfulfilled. In 1999, Müller and collaborator Christoph Girardet were commissioned to create a series of works based on the films of Alfred Hitchcock for the Oxford Museum of Modern Art. The result, Phoenix Tapes (2000), is an entertaining study of the themes and techniques of the master of suspense. Müller's short film, Breeze (2000), was used as an advertisement for the Vienna International Film Festival.

Bernd-Christian Althoff was born in 1983 in Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He is an actor, known for Der Lehrer (2009), Neandertaler (2016) and Tatort (1970).

Hanno Olderdissen was born in 1976 in Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He is a director and assistant director, known for Lassie - Ein neues Abenteuer (2023), Robin (2008) and Rock My Heart (2017).

Known for his intense on-screen presence. German actor Wolf Danny Homann studied at the Lee Strasberg Theater & Film Institut before becoming part of the Young Ensemble at the renowned Burgtheater Vienna. Than he completed a four-year acting diploma at the University Mozarteum Salzburg. His movies include work with directors such as Oscar winning Director Caroline Link. He has also appeared in English-speaking features, such as "The von Trapp Family: A Life of Music (2015) ". Homann is based in England and Germany.

Ulrich Wildgruber was born on 18 November 1937 in Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He was an actor, known for Super (1984), Felidae (1994) and Queen Margot (1994). He was married to Vera. He died on 30 November 1999 in Sylt, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Reiki von Carlowitz was born in 1987 in Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. She is an actress and casting director, known for The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), Die Ironie des Lebens (2024) and The Space Between the Lines (2019).

Hannes Wader was born on 23 June 1942 in Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He is an actor, known for Toni Erdmann (2016), Der Havarist (1984) and Lothars Liedertreff (2020). He has been married to Cordula Finck since 1986. They have two children. He was previously married to Susanne Tremper.

Abdelkarim Zemhoute was born on 6 October 1981 in Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He is an actor and writer, known for Das Gipfeltreffen - Schubert, Sträter und König retten die Welt (2020), Berlin, Berlin (2020) and nich nich nich (2021).

Nicole Ernst was born on 14 August 1972 in Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. She is an actress, known for Achtzehn minus Elf (2010), Tatort (1970) and I Phone You (2011).

Susann B. Winter was born in 1962 in Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. She is an actress, known for Die Tigerin (1992), Die Spider Murphy Gang (1983) and Der Schneemann (1985).

Tom Trambow was born in 1969 in Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He is an actor, known for 7500 (2019), A Hologram for the King (2016) and Antichrist (2009).

Yve Fehring was born in 1973 in Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Torben Kessler was born on 8 January 1975 in Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He is an actor, known for Tatort (1970), Verbotene Liebe (1995) and Contra (2020).

Ingo Oschmann was born on 3 August 1969 in Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He is an actor, known for Geisterjäger John Sinclair: Edition 2000 (2000), Lippe blöfft (2004) and Die witzigsten Werbespots der Welt (1996).