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Konrad Brenski (born c. 1993) is a German-Polish actor from Wesel, Germany. Fluent in German, Polish, and English, he trained at renowned institutions such as the Herbert Berghof Studio and The Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute. Influenced by a diverse range of actors, he has built a versatile career, appearing in both national and international films across various genres. With a passion for storytelling and character exploration, Konrad Brenski continually pushes his artistic boundaries, taking on challenging roles that highlight his depth, versatility, and dedication to his craft.

Joachim von Ribbentrop was born on 30 April 1893 in Wesel, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He was married to Anna Elisabeth Henkell. He died on 16 October 1946 in Nuremberg, Germany.

Raimund Berens was born on 4 May 1977 in Wesel, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany. He is a producer and actor, known for Siege on Liperti Street (2019), Master Harold ... and the Boys (2010) and Wolf Night. He is married to Tracy Ann Bryan.

Ben Bernschneider, born April 6th 1976, wrote several scripts at the Kölner Filmhaus after studying German - and American studies. He worked for WDR, MTV and atlantique films as an assistant director to finally win several prizes, including The One Show/Gold, the golden award of Montreaux, Gold World Medal at the New York Festival, a Grand Award NYC and many others while working 5 Years for the prestigious German agency weigertpirouzwolf.

Since April '05 Ben Bernschneider works as an author and director for music videos, commercials and the first German underground- mystery-pod cast-series "sinister bay". His last full-length prime-time-Pro7-thriller-script "Gonger" will air on German TV in the Fall of 2008.

In 2008 Ben is working on a sequel to "Gonger" with his fellow co-writer Erol Yesilkaya. Besides that on one romantic comedy and the action-thriller "project Ikarus".

Thomas Brinx was born in 1963 in Wesel, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany. He is a writer, known for Krimi.de (2005), Weißblaue Wintergeschichten (1994) and Rookies (2020).

After graduating from high school, he began studying business administration at the University of Cologne in 1970, which he completed in 1974. While still studying, Hofer took up odd jobs at Deutsche Welle, WDR and Deutschlandfunk. Hofer completed a traineeship at Deutsche Welle in Cologne from 1974 to 1976. In 1976 he joined Südwestfunk Baden-Baden, where he began working in radio. But in the same year he moved to Saarländischer Rundfunk, where he initially worked in radio at SR1 Europawelle Saar until 1984. In between, Hofer completed a stay in the USA in 1982, where he made school television in Chicago for four months. After his return, he entered German television for the first time in 1984: until 1986 he worked at S3, the regional program of Saarland Radio.

In 1986, the chief anchor of the "Tagesschau", Karl-Heinz Köpcke, brought the young journalist into the ARD news program, for which he worked as a news anchor from then on. In addition to his work at the Tagesschau, Hofer also worked as an editor and presenter of the satirical magazine "Showbiss" at Hessen 3 from 1987 to 1989. He also moderated the NDR talk show from 1989 to 1991 with Margarethe Schreinemakers and other German television personalities. In the first half of the 1990s, Hofer also hosted 60 episodes of the jazz program "Swing Rarities" on ARD. Hofer, already known as a Tagesschau speaker, became even more popular with television audiences through his own talk show, which has been broadcast by MDR since 1992 under the title "Riverboat Talkshow", initially from Dresden and has been broadcast from Leipzig since mid-2000.

Hofer's talk show has now made a name for itself as the most popular and successful talk show on ARD's third programs. At the same time, Hofer appeared as a presenter at the "Golden Europe" German show award ceremony on ARD from 1995 to 1999. He was and is also involved in the production and direction of several television projects for public broadcasters. In addition to his journalistic work on German television, Hofer also works as a business consultant for companies, informing them about communication technology and media manipulation. In 2002, Hofer was named the most popular Tagesschau speaker. Therefore, when the Tagesschau chief anchor Jo Brauner retired in October 2004, he was chosen as his successor: Since mid-October 2004, Hofer has been the new chief announcer for the successful news program on Erste.

The central news program on ARD television has been broadcast since the 1950s and in half a century has only had five chief anchors: Karl-Heinz Köpcke, Werner Veigel, Dagmar Berghoff, Jo Brauner and now Jan Hofer. Since November 2005, Jan Hofer has been an ambassador for the children's hospice of Central Germany for terminally ill children. He is also a special ambassador for the DRK (German Red Cross). From 2011 to 2015 he was a jury member for "Dalli Dalli" and "Das ist Spitze!" with moderator Kai Pflaume. On October 26, 2018, he married for the second time Phong Lan Hofer, née Truong. Together they are parents of a son. He was already the father of three children from his first marriage.

Sandra Sprünken was born in 1985 in Wesel, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. She is an actress, known for Only Lovers Left Alive (2013), Mitternachtsspitzen (1988) and SOKO Loco.

Charlotte Crome was born on 17 January 1966 in Wesel, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. She is an actress, known for Maybe, Baby! (2017), Kebab Connection (2004) and Tatort (1970).

Marcel Batangtaris was born in 1976 in Wesel, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He is an actor, known for Danni Lowinski (2010), Beinahe negativ (2013) and Lady Europa (2012).

Michael Sommer was born on 17 January 1952 in Büderich, Wesel, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He is married to Ulrike Sommer. They have one child.

Manfred Berg was born on 4 December 1959 in Wesel, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Lilo Friedrich was born on 2 February 1949 in Wesel, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. She is an actress, known for Horst Schlämmer - Isch kandidiere! (2009), Aufgemerkt! Pelzig unterhält sich (1999) and Münchner Runde (1996).

Until the age of four, Nuhr spent his childhood in Wesel and then moved with his family to Düsseldorf, where he later graduated from the Leibniz Gymnasium. He has one brother. Nuhr comes from a Catholic family and was an altar boy. From 1981 he studied fine arts and history at the University of Essen. In 1988 he passed the first state examination for this. He began his stage appearances in a school theater group. He drafted his first performance texts during a project of the theater group at the Düsseldorf Schauspielhaus. In 1986 he founded the cabaret duo V.E.V.-K.Barett with Frank Küster. In 1987, they made their first joint appearances with the program Haben Sie sich Ihre Schranknummer gemerkt? In 1989 they created the program Pralle Pracht, and from 1990 they performed under the slightly changed name V.E.V.-Kabarett with the next program Schrille Stille. Zipfeltreffen was the name of the duo's last joint program. From 1994, Nuhr was on the road with his first solo program Nuhr am nörgeln!

For his program Nuhr weiter so he received the German Cabaret Award in 1998. In 2003, he received the German Comedy Award for the best live performance. After 22 years, he gave up in 2022 the moderation of the cabaret festival in the Wühlmäusen in favor of his fine art and still received a special prize, which he had often handed over. Numerous television appearances also made him known beyond the cabaret scene, for example in Scheibenwischer, Hüsch und Co., Die Harald Schmidt Show, Quatsch Comedy Club, Genial daneben, Schillerstraße or 7 Tage, 7 Köpfe.His program Ich bin's Nuhr was seen by about half a million people. After his first appearance on Sat.1 in 2004in 2004, he has been on ZDF since 2006 with a similar program at the end of the year. In mid-2007, ZDF broadcast two episodes of Nuhr - Wer's glaubt, wird selig, in which Nuhr dealt with questions about faith and religion. On October 24, 2008, Nuhr took over the moderation of the German Comedy Award for the first time. From November 3, 2009, he was live on ZDF with the four-part comedy series Nuhr so on four Tuesday evenings.

In 2009, he participated in A Tribute to Die Fantastischen Vier for the twentieth anniversary of the hip-hop group.On the compilation, artists from different directions cover songs by the Stuttgart-based group.Nuhr played all the instruments himself on Buenos Dias Messias and recorded the song in his study with the technology otherwise used for radio broadcasts. Since January 2011, he has hosted the ARD program Satire Gipfel and replaced Mathias Richling, whose contract ended in December 2010. In October 2014, the show was renamed nuhr im Ersten.In 2010, he produced a two-part special for RTL on the 2010 World Cup, in which he commented ironically on the subject of soccer.He also produces weekly cabaret features for the radio station WDR 2. From July 2012 to March 2013, he co-hosted the quiz show Null gewinnt with Ralph Caspers on ARD's early evening program. Since 2012, he has regularly participated in the ARD theme week with contributions appropriate to the respective theme, most recently in 2022. In 2013, Nuhr hosted the Comedy Award for the sixth time. In October 2014, Carolin Kebekus followed him as host after six years; in 2015 and 2016 he was chairman of the jury.In 2014, Nuhr was a regular guest on the RTL show Mario Barth deckt auf! and presented several cases of tax waste together with Barth.In 2015, the ARD format Nuhr ab 18 started with him as host.In the 30-minute show, he presented four young comedians at a time.] In 2022, he is on tour in Germany and Switzerland with his program Kein Scherz!

He is married and has a daughter (* 1996). Since 2014, he has played tennis for the age group 50 team of TC Bovert in the Niederrheinliga. Nuhr also devotes himself to conceptual photography and exhibits his photos, some of which are post-processed on the computer, in galleries and museums; first in 2008 in Hamburg, 2010 and again in 2015 in the Museum Ratingen, in the City Museum of Siegburg and in the Gallery Küper in Beijing.In 2017, his work was shown at Villa Stahmer in Georgsmarienhütte. Since 2017, Nuhr has also exhibited his work across Europe and in Asia, such as at Gallery Pékin Fine Arts in Beijing, in Shanghai at Photo Fair, at Luxehills Art Museum in Chengdu, at Galerie Reiners Contemporary Art in Marbella, at the 15th.Shanghai Photography Art Exhibition, at the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana in Venice, and at the Musée Théodore-Monod d'Art Africain in Dakar. He had some of his pictures auctioned off for charitable purposes.

René Heß was born on 21 April 1983 in Wesel, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He is a writer and director, known for On Strings (2010) and A Woman in Berlin (2008).

1970 to 1974 Elementary school in Stenern; 1974 to 1983 St. Josef Grammar School of the Capuchins in Bocholt; 1983 to 1988 Studies in Business Administration at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster, degree Diplom; 1984 to 1986 Studies in Catholic Theology, degree Vordiplom. 1988 to 1992 research assistant at the Chair of Finance at the University of Münster, doctorate Dr. rer. pol; 1992 to 1998 research assistant at the University of Münster and at the University of Augsburg, habilitation Dr. rer. pol habil.; 1998 to 1999 private lecturer C1 at the University of Augsburg and substitute professor for finance at the University of Münster; 1999 to 2001 university professor C3 for finance and investment at the Hamburg University of Economics and Politics; 2001 to 2004 university professor C4 for finance and banking at the University of Bayreuth. 2004 to 2011 mayor of the municipality of Lindlar; 2012 to 2017 district administrator of the Rheinisch-Bergisch district. Member of the Bundestag since October 2017, full member of the Finance Committee, full member of the Committee for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth since 20th WP, deputy member of the Committee for Transport and Digital Infrastructure. Chairman of the Catholic Working Group for Family Recreation e.V. and the Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft Familienerholung since 2018, head of the cathol. association ND (Bund Neudeutschland) since 2020.

Hendrik Höfken was born on 5 March 1977 in Wesel, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany.

Norbert Leygraf was born in 1953 in Büderich, Wesel, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

York Hovest was born in 1978 in Wesel, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He is a writer and producer, known for Heroes of the Sea (2022), Planet Wissen (2002) and Wir in Bayern (2003).

Alain Bieber was born on 27 December 1978 in Wesel, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He is a producer, known for About: Kate (2013) and Arte Journal (1998).

Peter Herzig was born on 4 August 1954 in Wesel, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Mirko Boland was born on 23 April 1987 in Wesel, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.