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Beginning his life with the same flair for the dramatic that would come to define his career, Udo Kier was born in Köln, Germany near the end of the 2nd world war. The hospital was bombed and buried Kier and his mother in the rubble. Both survived, and Kier would later move to London as a young adult to study English. Kier was discovered in London by Michael Sarne, who cast him in his first role as a gigolo in "Road To Saint Tropez". Kier then starred in Michael Armstrong's extremely controversial "Mark Of The Devil". He would go on to work with Paul Morrissey in Andy Warhol's "Flesh For Frankenstein" and "Blood For Dracula", Dario Argento in "Suspiria", and Rainer Werner Fassbinder in "The Third Generation", "Lili Marllen", and "Lola".
Kier entered the American independent cinema scene many years later after meeting Gus Van Sant at the Berlin Film Festival. Van Sant offered Kier the role of Hans, the lamp-singing john in "My Own Private Idaho" with Keanu Reeves and River Phoenix. He would later have roles in Gus Van Sant's "Even Cowgirls Get The Blues" and "Don't Worry He Won't Get Far On Foot" as well as such 90s Hollywood hits as "Ace Ventura: Pet Detective", "Johnny Mnemonic", "Barb Wire", "End Of Violence", "For Love Or Money", "Armagedden", "Blade", and "End Of Days". Kier is probably best known for his collaboration with Lars von Trier, appearing in most of his films including "Medea", "Europa", "Breaking The Waves", "Dancer In TheE Dark", "Dogville", "Manderlay", "Melancholia", "Nymphomaniac (Vol. II)" and "The Kingdom" (Danish TV). Kier's recent renaissance has seen him play memorable roles in the Activision game "Call Of Duty", numerous television roles in North America and Europe, and in the films "Iron Sky", "Brawl In Cell Block 99", "Downsizing", "American Animals", "Bacurau", "The Painted Bird", "The Blazing World" and "Swan Song", among many others.- Actor
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Stefan Kapicic is known for his work through Eastern Europe and USA. He speaks fluent English and five other languages including many dialects. He is adept in both comedy and drama and has played everything from a comedic stoner to a ruthless drug lord to a heartbreaking Savant. In his career he played more than 80 roles on film, television and theater. Stefan played iconic X men character "COLOSSUS" in 2016 highest R-rated movie of all time "DEADPOOL" and "DEADPOOL 2". "Deadpool" was nominated for Golden Globes, Critics choice awards and MTV movie awards. His other known projects are award winning show "Better Call Saul" for "AMC", NETFLIX hit show "Love, Death and Robots" and in a legendary record breaking video game franchise "CALL OF DUTY: MODERN WARFARE" 1 & 2 Next projects "Deadpool 3" and "The Last Voyage of the Demeter" for Universal and Dreamworks.
Stefan is married to an actress Ivana Horvat.- Actor
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Werner Klemperer, everyone's favorite TV German Air Force colonel, was best known for his role as the bumbling Col. Wilhelm Klink on the comedy series Hogan's Heroes (1965). Although he'll forever be known as the blustering but inept German commandant of Stalag 13, Klemperer was in fact a talented dramatic actor, as evidenced by his acclaimed performance as an arrogant, unrepentant Nazi judge being tried for crimes against humanity in Judgment at Nuremberg (1961). His identification with Nazi roles notwithstanding, Klemperer was in real life the son of a Jew who fled with his family from Nazi Germany in the 1930s. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II. When he was offered the Col. Klink role, Klemperer only agreed to do it if the show's producers promised that Klink would never succeed in any of his schemes. "Col. Klink" earned Klemperer five Emmy nominations, and he took home the trophy twice, in 1968 and 1969. After the series, Klemperer carved out an impressive musical career as a conductor and also served as a narrator with many major U.S. symphony orchestras. He was an accomplished concert violinist.- Actress
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Katharina Schüttler started acting for film and television when she was 11 years old. Her breakthrough in Germany was the International Emmy Award winning Mini-Series "Generation War" ("Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter") in which she portrayed singer Greta del Torres. She appeared in many films for cinema and television, such as Golden Globe winning production "Carlos" by Olivier Assayas, the youngest version of Hans Fallada's "Alone in Berlin" acting alongside Emma Thompson and Swedish Production "Simon and the Oaks" by Lisa Ohlin. She was in German Indie-hits "Oh Boy", "Zeit der Kannibalen" and recently portrayed Fräulein Rottenmeier in the remake of "Heidi" by Alain Gsponer. In "13 Minutes" ("Elser") by Oliver Hirschbiegel ("Der Untergang"), which premiered in the Berlinale Film Festival (out of competition), she performed Hitler assassin Georg Elser's lover Elsa and recently worked with German director Dani Levy in "Die Welt der Wunderlichs".She is best known to English-language audiences for her lead performances in the Channel 4 drama Mini-Series "The Promise" by Peter Kosminsky, alongside Claire Foy and "Run", by Jonathan Pearson, starring Olivia Colman and Katie Leung. In 2009 she received the Bavarian Film Award, the "Guenter Strack Nachwuchspreis" in 2006 and Best Actress at the Munich Film Festival in 2002. For her performance in "Generation War", which won the International Emmy Award, she received the German Television Award as well as the Bavarian TV Award with her co-actors Tom Schilling, Miriam Stein, Ludwig Trepte and Volker Bruch in 2013. In 2014 she was given the Günter-Rohrbach-Filmpreis for her performance in "Zeit der Kannibalen" together with Devid Striesow and Sebastian Blomberg. Besides her film works she is one of the leading young theatre actresses in Germany. In 2006 she received the German Theatre Award "Der Faust" as Best Actress and was voted "Actress of the Year" by the German Theatre Critics. She was the youngest actress ever to receive this honour. In 2010 she was awarded with the renowned "Ulrich Wildgruber Prize" for outstanding artistic performances.
In 2009 she won the "Bavarian Film Prize" as Best Young Actress for her performance in the terrorist-drama "The Day Will Come" ("Es kommt der Tag").
Besides her film works she is one of the leading young theatre actresses in Germany. Her works include "Hedda Gabler", "Penthesilea", "Blasted", "Joan of Arc", "Lolita" and many more.
She was awarded with the renowned "Ulrich Wildgruber Prize 2010".- Actress
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Nicole Ansari has been acting since she was 9 years old in her native Germany, where she had her first big break in the German Cop series Tatort alongside German star Goetz George, followed by guest- starring roles in other TV series like Polizeiruf and Kommissar Rex. After studying Drama and Dance in Hamburg she starred in two Independent Art house movies- "Franta", directed by Matthias Allary , an adaptation of the First World War novel and "Little King Eric" by Thomas Bahmann. She then left Germany to join the renowned Zuerich-based Repertory company Theater am Neumarkt. In Zuerich she starred in the Swiss/Iraki Filmmaker Samir's first feature Film, "Always and Forever", an adaptation of Jean Paul Sartre's "The Game is over." She also starred in the TV series Eurocops, directed by Markus Imboden. In Germany she also worked with director Thomas Jahn in the feature "Kai Raabe gegen die Vatikankiller." She then went to study further in New York and auditioned for Uta Hagen, with whom she studied for the following 2 years and also for the Actor's Studio with Susan Batson, where she got accepted as a working temporary Member. Back in Europe she was chosen out of thousands of Applicants in a grueling 3 months long Audition process to become a Member of the famed Theatre du Soleil in Paris under the director Ariane Mnouchkine and performed there and on tour for 2 1/2 years. In Paris she replaced French Film star Maria Schneider and collaborated with Corine Blue on the short Film "Quand Fred rit", alongside Valeria Bruni-Tedesci. After Paris she went to Vienna, where she played the "Muse of the four Arts" Alma Mahler on stage and in a TV Mini series for Arte, which was the start of collaborating with director Paulus Manker and writer Joshua Sobol. She subsequently performed many leads at the Public Theater (Roxanne in Cyrano de Bergerac; Irma in Irma la Douce; Romy Schneider in Romy, ich...Berenice in Berenice) and starred in the TV movie "Two women, a man and a baby", which raised the Issue of Same Sex marriage and as Desdemona in "Jago", a modern day adaptation of Othello. During that time she was also a regular on the German Cop TV series "SK Koelsch." After getting married to the Scottish actor Brian Cox and having two children with him she split her time between the US and the UK, where she kept working mostly in Television, in the UK in Phillip Saville's "The Biographer" and in the US most notably as a recurring character in the HBO Original series Deadwood. She also Co- starred in Scottish Punk- Rocker Richard Jobson's feature "a Woman in Winter." Nicole originated the part of Lenka, a Czech student of Philopsophy in Tom Stoppard's "Rock N' Roll" at the Royal court and in the West end in London and revived her role on Broadway at the Bernhard B. Jacobs Theater. Back in NY she also started producing Independent movies and has two feature Films -the Thriller "As good as dead" with Andy McDowell and the Comedy "Blumenthal" with Brian Cox, in which she also Co-stars -and a short Documentary about the Arts program in a Public school "Padim" (which she directed)-under her belt. She is a NY working actor and guest- starred as a Transsexual in the First Interactive TV show for current TV, "Bar Karma", which was produced by Sims creator Will Wright and producer Abi Hecht and in the last season of the longest running Soap "As the world turns" .She has recently worked with Steven Soderbergh in "Side effects" as well as Co-starred in the upcoming Indie "Maggie Black" and also guest-starred in the new NBC show "The Mysteries of Laura."- Actress
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Wilma Elles is a German actress known in more than 70 countries in Turkey, the Middle East, North Africa, Eastern and Central Europe for her lead-role in 'Filinta' and 'Yeter' and especially in the weekly TV series "Öyle bir gecer zaman ki" (As time goes by), which broke several viewer records and is watched with the highest ratings.
Since four years old she wanted to be an actress and performed plays for family and neighbors. She took acting classes since the age of 10 and played in about 26 theatre plays. After receiving her acting diploma from the Kaca Celan Theatre School she got her first offers for TV and cinema productions. Her breakthrough was definitely the lead role as Caroline in the record breaking TV series "As times goes by", which is now screened in 70 countries. Despite not knowing Turkish at that time she won the casting out of 800 actresses, while learning her lines phonetically. Now she speaks not only German and Turkish fluently, but also French and English, which she proved by playing a Native French and Native American English speaker in different cinema movies. Until now she gave life to the lead character in about twenty cinema movies.
Besides that she designed the worldwide first Feng Shui Fashion collection for the international brand ADL and appears as a model at various Fashion Weeks of the world. She has been on many magazine covers as Elle Bulgaria, GQ Turkey, Instyle Home, Tempo Turkey.
Wilma Elles has won twenty-one awards as Best Actress, including the European Quality Award and the World Consumer Award.- Music Artist
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Kim Petras (born 27 August 1992) is a German singer and songwriter based in Los Angeles. Between 2016 and 2020, she released music as an independent artist under her own imprint, BunHead Records, before signing with Amigo and Republic Records in 2021.
Kim Petras was born in the city of Cologne. Her mother is a choreographer and artist, her father is an architect and her older sister is also a singer. While she was assigned male at birth, her parents said that from the age of two Petras knew she was a girl. In 2006, Petras, then aged 13, appeared on a German television current affairs show in which she discussed her medical gender transition. At age 14, Petras appeared in a documentary and a talk show, in a push to get permission for early sex reassignment surgery at age 16, before the minimum age of 18 in Germany. These appearances resulted in international media coverage of her transition, touting her as the "world's youngest transsexual".
In September 2007, she was a model for a German chain of hair salons. Petras was evaluated by the head of the psychiatric unit at Frankfurt Hospital, Dr Bernd Meyenburg, and approved for gender confirmation surgery at 16 years old; Petras announced, in November 2008, that the surgery was completed. The Daily Telegraph claimed Petras was the youngest person in the world to have had that surgery at the time. About her surgery, she stated "I was asked if I feel like a woman now - but the truth is I have always felt like a woman - I just ended up in the wrong body".
In an interview with BuzzFeed, Petras said the first song she ever wrote was "about this dude in second grade who didn't like me back".[13]
Petras began recording music as a teenager, releasing her debut extended play One Piece of Tape in 2011. She independently released her debut international single in 2017 Kim Petras: I Don't Want It at All (2017), in the music video she appears together with Paris Hilton, forming a duo of explosive blondes. The song was followed by Billboard-charting singles Kim Petras: Heart to Break (2018), in the music video she is a princess and Julio Marcelino is the prince. Following her early success, Petras released a collection of digital singles which would later comprise her unofficial body of work known as Era 1. Petras released her debut album Clarity, on 28 June 2019. The record was preceded with a nine-week-long promotional campaign, during which Petras released one single per week with an accompanying visual lyric video. Clarity received acclaim from music critics, reached number seven on the Heatseekers Chart and number 26 on the Independent Albums chart. Following this, Petras released her second studio album, Turn Off the Light in October 2019. In 2020, Petras saw further success with her songs Kim Petras: Malibu (At Home Edition) (2020) accompanied by a very summery music video featuring big names like Paris Hilton who repeats with Kim and others like Demi Lovato, Charli XCX, the sisters Jessie J and AJ Michalka, Nikita Dragun and many others.
In 2021 Petras signed with Republic Records and released the 7-track EP Slut Pop in 2022.
On 30 July 2022, Petras seemingly confirmed via Twitter that the album titled Problématique had been scrapped. On 2 August 2022, many songs believed to be on the album leaked online.
Petras is a pop singer who also makes electronic dance music, dance-pop, electropop and bubblegum pop. She credits the late 1990s and early 2000s pop scene, as well as 1980s Italo disco, as the primary basis for her sound. Petras' inspirations include Katy Perry, Cher, Lady Gaga, Beyoncé, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Kylie Minogue, Madonna and the Spice Girls, as well as Boy George, Debbie Harry, Queen, Freddie Mercury, Judy Garland, Baby E, Lil Aaron, Liz Y2K., and Kesha.- Actor
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Stefan Weinert was born on 26 April 1964 in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany. He is an actor and director, known for The Photographer of Mauthausen (2018), Jaguar (2021) and Passport to Freedom (2021).- Director
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As the son of a Lufthansa manager, Henckel von Donnersmarck spent his childhood and school years in New York, Berlin, Frankfurt am Main and Brussels, where he passed his international high school diploma in 1991. He then spent two years studying in Leningrad (Saint Petersburg) with the following job as a Russian teacher. From 1993 to 1996 he studied PPE philosophy, political science and economics at New College, Oxford. In 1996 he completed a directing internship with Richard Attenborough. In 1997 he began studying feature film directing at the University of Television and Film in Munich. The four-minute short film "Dobermann" was made in 1999, for which he also wrote the book. The work received the rating "Particularly Valuable" and became part of the "Next Generation Role" of "German Cinema in Cannes". At the same time, the work marked his national breakthrough with numerous awards, including the Max Ophüls Prize in 2000.
This was followed by a commissioned work for Universal and Gaumont TV, "Les Mythes Urbains" from 2001. In 2002, he directed the short film "The Templar" in collaboration with producers Max Wiedemann and Quirin Berg. Awarded as "particularly valuable", the five-minute film was shown as part of the Hof Film Festival. The work was awarded, among other things, the Eastman Prize and the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Prize in 2003. Henckel von Donnersmarck became a German star of international cinema with his first feature film "The Lives of Others". In 2006 he was awarded the "Bavarian Film Prize", the "European Film Prize", the "Peace Prize for German Film", the "Quadriga Prize" and a nomination for the "Golden Globe".
On February 25, 2007, "The Lives of Others" was awarded the "Oscar" for "Best Foreign Language Film" at the 79th Academy Awards in Los Angeles, which also marked his international breakthrough as a filmmaker. In 2010 he directed his second feature film, the romantic thriller "The Tourist", starring Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp.
In his private life, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck is married to the lawyer Christiane Asschenfeldt and is the father of two children.- Actress
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Mina Tander was born on 4 December 1979 in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany. She is an actress, known for Forgotten (2012), Maria, ihm schmeckt's nicht! (2009) and Frau Müller muss weg! (2015). She has been married to Elmar Fischer since 2011. They have two children.- Actress
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Diana Staehly was born on 31 October 1977 in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany. She is an actress and assistant director, known for Die Rosenheim-Cops (2002), Stromberg (2004) and König von Kreuzberg (2005). She has been married to René Wolter since 2007. They have one child.- Actor
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Heiner Lauterbach was born on 10 April 1953 in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany. He is an actor and producer, known for Men... (1985), Eurocops (1988) and Rossini (1997). He has been married to Viktoria Lauterbach since 8 September 2001. They have two children. He was previously married to Katja Flint.- Actress
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Cosima Henman was born on 21 December 1996 in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. She is an actress and writer, known for Hard Feelings (2023), Beasts Like Us (2024) and Behringer und die Toten - Ein Bamberg-Krimi (2024).- Tina Ruland was born on 9 October 1966 in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany. She is an actress, known for Nicht von schlechten Eltern (1993), Tatort (1970) and Ants in the Pants (2000).
- Max von der Groeben was born on 15 January 1992 in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He is an actor, known for Suck Me Shakespeer (2013), Kidnapping Stella (2019) and Lindenberg! Mach dein Ding (2020).
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Model and singer Nico was born in Cologne, Germany in 1938. She was a part of the Andy Warhol "scene" in the 1960s. A member of The Velvet Underground experimental rock band (with John Cale), circa 1967, she made several solo albums during the 1970s. A heroin addict for the latter part of her life, she finally had kicked the habit and become clean before her death. On July 18, 1988, while bicycling in Ibiza, Spain, she suffered a minor heart attack which caused her to collapse and fall from her bicycle, resulting in a head injury that lead to her death. She was 49 year old.- Actor
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Erwin Bach was born on 24 January 1956 in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He is an actor and producer, known for Tina (2021), Maldito amor: Demasiado tarde (1999) and 60 Minutes (1968). He was previously married to Tina Turner.- Marie Zielcke was born on 3 February 1979 in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. She is an actress, known for Silvester Countdown (1997), Agnes and His Brothers (2004) and Krupp: A Family Between War and Peace (2009). She was previously married to Henry Thomas.
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Beethoven was the child of a Flamian musician family and became a member of the electoral orchestra of Bonn in 1783. In 1787 he studied at Mozart's in Vienna and in 1792 he moved all to Vienna becoming a student of Joseph Haydn. The Vienna High Society loved him as a piano player as well as as composer. In 1802 his deafness became serious making Beethoven a real eccentric until his death in 1827.- Actor
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During the heyday of German silent cinema, Rudolf Klein-Rogge was the prototype for the master criminal, the irredeemable arch villain or mad scientist. Born in Cologne, he served as a cadet in a Prussian military academy before finishing his matriculation. He then began to attend acting classes and studying art history in Berlin and Bonn, making his debut on the stage in 1909. After playing in theatres in towns and cities along the Rhine and northern Germany for nearly ten years, he started making films in 1919.
His villainous roots first came to the fore in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), but he really established his reputation in a series of classic expressionist films written by his then-wife Thea von Harbou and directed by Fritz Lang. Of these, the most memorable were his forceful Moriarty-inspired portrayals of the titular character in Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922), and its later sequel, The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933). The latter, which has an evil mastermind directing his empire from a madhouse, was so obviously aimed at the Hitler regime, that it was banned by Joseph Goebbels. Klein-Rogge's other noteworthy appearances include King Etzel in Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924) and Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge (1924); and his insane scientist C.A. Rothwang, creator of the robot creature in Fritz Lang's masterpiece Metropolis (1927). A powerful personality possessed of an almost hypnotic stare and a strong, resonant voice, Klein-Rogge continued on through the 1930's in supporting roles. However, the period of expressionist cinema in Germany had all but run its course and he died in relative obscurity in Graz, Austria, in April 1955.- Marcel was another scene-stealing character actor who came to the fore during the early years of television. He built a 40-year long career in Hollywood playing the archetypal French gendarme, maître d' or small time crook. In fact, the balding, steely-eyed little actor was born in Cologne (Germany) as Erwin Ottmar Hiller, the son of music journalist and opera singer Paul Hiller. He appeared first on stage under the name Harry Furster in order to disguise his Jewish ancestry but was eventually put in jail by the Nazis, somehow escaped, then made his way to America. He began to act in television from 1952, subsequently appearing on the Broadway stage in "The Heavenly Twins", followed by "Silk Stockings" three years later. From then on, he quickly settled on his French impersonations which would become his stock-in-trade.
Marcel excelled in comical portrayals of stereotypical characters. He was memorably larger-than-life in his first motion picture, the romantic comedy Sabrina (1954) as 'the professor' who vainly attempts to teach budding cordon bleu chef Audrey Hepburn how to break an egg. During most of the 1960s Marcel worked on the MGM lot European section where he was especially active in the spy spoof genre, notably The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964), Get Smart (1965) and I Spy (1965), often as well-meaning, but bumbling secret agents. He was also popularly employed in science fiction, appearing twice on The Twilight Zone (1959) and at the beginning and end of the third season of Lost in Space (1965), as two different characters.
One of Marcel's quirkiest caricatures was that of 'Fritz' , from the brilliantly inventive Woody Allen comedy Take the Money and Run (1969). 'Fritz' was the once-famous German film director hired by would-be bank robber Virgil Starkwell (Allen) to shoot a scene of a bank heist as a cover for the real bank job (eventually frustrated by a rival gang getting in on the act). Marcel played the part -- in what was arguably one of the funniest scenes in the film -- with a jaundiced eye towards the behavioral idiosyncrasies of real-life German director Fritz Lang. For the next decade, Marcel continued to appear on the small screen though he rarely had the same opportunities to shine that he did in the swinging 60's. Never married, he spent his remaining life in Los Angeles, where he died during complications from surgery in January 1988, aged 79. - Annette Frier was born on 22 January 1974 in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. She is an actress, known for Danni Lowinski (2010), Germanikus (2004) and Die Schlikkerfrauen (2014). She has been married to Johannes Wünsche since 30 August 2002. They have two children.
- Born in Cologne in 2009, Carl Anton Koch is known for his RTL, Vox and Netflix productions. He can speak English at a good level. Carl also dealt with theater between 2015 and 2019. He stars in the German-Czech co-production Blood Red Sky (2021) aka Translatlantic 473, which is showing on Netflix, and is counting the days for new projects.
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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala was born on 7 May 1927 in Cologne, Germany. She was a writer, known for Howards End (1992), A Room with a View (1985) and The Remains of the Day (1993). She was married to Cyrus Jhabvala. She died on 3 April 2013 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.- Christoph Schechinger was born on 26 December 1985 in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany. He is an actor, known for Käthe und ich (2019), Bad Banks (2018) and Babylon Berlin (2017).
- Joachim Paul Assböck was born on 26 October 1965 in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany. He is an actor, known for Schindler's List (1993), Equilibrium (2002) and The Pianist (2002).
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Karl John was born on 24 March 1905 in Cologne, Germany. He was an actor and director, known for Sorcerer (1977), The Longest Day (1962) and Liebe '47 (1949). He died on 22 December 1977 in Gütersloh, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany.- Actor
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Denis Moschitto was born on 22 June 1977 in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany. He is an actor and director, known for In the Fade (2017), Chiko (2008) and Closed Circuit (2013).- Christian Kahrmann started his acting career at the early age of 8. Born in Cologne, Germany he starred in numerous movies and series till the age of 13, when he landed one of the leading parts in Germany's oldest (and still running) series 'Lindenstrasse' in 1985, which brought him nation-wide popularity over night. In 1993 Kahrmann left the series after 7 ½ years and decided to set forth his work in new projects that became famous in Germany like 'Und Tschüss!', 'Das ist Dein Ende', 'Tatort: Bildersturm', 'Victor-Der Schutzengel' and recently 'Ratten - Sie werden Dich kriegen!' which earned the highest ratings of the year for its broadcasting station Pro7. German Moviegoers remember him well from feature cult-classics like 'The first Semester' or 'Bang, Boom, Bang!' (aka 'Underdogs'). In 1995 Kahrmann moved to New York where he studied acting at the renowned Herbert Berghoff-Studio with Salem Ludwig and Edward Morehouse. In 1996 he joined with his fellow students Ronald Marx and Jarreth Merz to found 'German Theater Abroad, Inc.', a New York based production company that seeks to produce and promote contemporary German drama in English translation on American territory.
Kahrmann now commutes between Berlin and New York and is currently working on new feature films and for the theatre in Germany. - Birthe Wolter was born on 4 October 1981 in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany. She is an actress, known for Tatort (1970), Feardotcom (2002) and Schulmädchen (2002).
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Henning May was born on 13 January 1992 in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He is an actor and executive, known for Goodbye Berlin (2016), Juju feat. Henning May: Vermissen (2019) and Trüberbrook (2019).- Actor
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Tobias Licht was born on 29 December 1977 in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany. He is an actor, known for Im weißen Rössl - Wehe Du singst! (2013), Die Inselärztin (2018) and Never Too Late for Justice (2016). He has been married to Nora Huetz since 28 September 2016. They have one child.- Actress
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Judith Hoersch was born March 15th in Cologne, Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany. Right after high school she attended drama school Cologne. An accomplished screen and stage actress best known for the ITV Drama Albert's Memorial (2009), The Driver (2014) and a huge number of German television dramas and shows such Tatort, Der Kriminalist, Im Spessart sind die gesture los and many more. On the big screen she gained attention as Karin in Lieben (2006), Buddy (2013), Guys and Balls and will be internationally seen in Gore Verbinskis Horror Thriller A Cure for Wellness (2017) She has continued working with various acclaimed directors since then, such as Gore Verbinski, Jamie Payne, David Richards, Hannu Salonen, Michael 'Bully' Herbig, Connie Walther, Stephan Wagner and many more.- Gabriel Harms Kelly was born on 3 July 2001 in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
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Wolfgang Müller was born on 10 August 1953 in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany. He is an actor and writer, known for Tristan + Isolde (2006), X-Men (2000) and Tatort (1970).- Sina Martens studied acting at the Hochschule for Music and Theater 'Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy' in Leipzig. Already during her studies, collaborations began with directors, such as Hans-Werner Kroesinger, Rainald Grebe and Sebastian Hartmann. She was then discovered by Oliver Reese, who engaged her at the Schauspiel Frankfurt and subsequently, at the Berliner Ensemble, where she took on leading roles in productions by Alexander Eisenach, Bernadette Sonnenbichler, Frank Castorf, Lena Brasch, Michael Thalheimer and Robert Borgmann.
She has received many awards for her outstanding acting talents, including the Award of the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research, the Fellowship of the German National Academic Foundation and the International Forum of the Berlin Theatertreffen, and was voted Young Actress of the Year by the theater magazine Theater heute.
Her work in film include leading roles in productions by directors like Andreas Dresen, Irene von Alberti, Lars Becker, Marc Schießer, Arman T. Riahi and Michael Krummenacher like 'From Hilde with Love', 'I don't work here' and 'Trunk'. - Janine Kunze was born on 20 March 1974 in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany. She is an actress, known for Hausmeister Krause - Ordnung muss sein (1999), Knockin' on Heaven's Door (1997) and Barefoot (2005). She has been married to Dirk Budach since 2002. They have three children.
- Daniela Wutte was born on 11 March 1974 in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany. She is an actress, known for Alarm für Cobra 11 - Die Autobahnpolizei (1996), Rote Rosen (2006) and Tatort (1970). She is married to Volker Büdts. They have two children.
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Leon Seidel was born on 22 November 1996 in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He is an actor, known for Land of Mine (2015), Tom Sawyer (2011) and Wintertochter (2011).- Anna Schäfer was born on 8 July 1973 in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany. She is an actress, known for Manhunt: Escape to the Carpathians (2016), Knallerfrauen (2011) and Cologne P.D. (2003). She is married to Jochen Kilian. They have two children.
- Mariele Millowitsch was born on 23 November 1955 in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany. She is an actress, known for Freundschaft mit Herz (1995), Nikola (1997) and Der Mordsfilm (1997).
- Music Department
- Composer
- Writer
Jacques Offenbach, the son of a synagogue cantor, was born in Cologne, Germany, June 20, 1819. So strong were his musical talents that the Paris Conservatory waived the rule forbidding foreigners and enrolled him. At the completion of his studies he began playing the cello in the orchestra of the prestigious Opera-Comique. In 1850 he was appointed musical director of the Comedie Frangaise, another of France's principal theaters; he continued in this position for five years. During this period he began writing comic operas. When he realized that he would be unable to get them performed by established production organizations, he decided to open a theater of his own -- Bouffes Parisiens--in 1855. There he wrote and presented twenty-five musical satires, farces, and comic operas within a three-year period. In response to this work, he became the idol of Parisian theater-goers. In the years that followed he remained the master of French comic opera, enjoying great popularity and irregular financial success. He travelled to America in 1876 on a performance tour. His desire to write musical work of a more serious nature led him to consider the opera project which eventually resulted in The Tales of Hoffmann. Although the work was almost complete at his death, he never lived to see the opera performed. He died in Paris on October 4, 1880, four months before the opera's premiere. Although The Tales of Hoffmann is undeniably Offenbach's greatest work, his delightful lighter efforts are still produced periodically throughout the world. Among the most popular of these are Orpheus in the Underworld, La belle Helehne, La Grand Duchesse de Gerolstein, and La Perichole.- Actress
- Soundtrack
Ingrid Schoeller was born in 1942 in Cologne, Germany. She is an actress, known for 008: Operation Exterminate (1965), My Son, the Hero (1962) and They Paid with Bullets (1969).- Alwy Becker was born on 23 January 1937 in Cologne, Germany. She is an actress, known for Johannisnacht (1966), Amouren (1964) and Der Tod läuft hinterher (1967).
- Sarah Kim Gries was born on 3 March 1990 in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. She is an actress, known for Die Wilden Kerle 5 (2008), Die Wilden Kerle 2 (2005) and The Wild Soccer Bunch 6 (2016).
- Nina Vorbrodt was born on 17 January 1972 in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany. She is an actress, known for Tatort (1970), Lindenstraße (1985) and Auf Achse (1980).
- Director
- Writer
- Producer
Hussain Abdullah was born on 9 June 1984 in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He is a director and writer, known for Skyfall (2012), GymWars (2024) and Türkuza (2022).- Camilla Renschke was born on 15 March 1980 in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany. She is an actress, known for Egoshooter (2004), Paradise Mall (1999) and Tatort (1970).
- Actress
- Costume and Wardrobe Department
When she was two years old, her parents divorced. Nitsch therefore grew up in a renowned boarding school, where she also graduated from high school. After school she trained as a costume designer. During her training, Nitsch came into contact with the film world. She took part in some filming, which made her decide to become an actress. Nitsch took on her first smaller roles in television series such as "Forsthaus Falkenau", "Derrick", "Der Alte" and "Freunde fürs Leben" in the late 1980s and early 1990s. But Nitsch was also represented on the big screen from the beginning: in 1989 she played a smaller role in "Bomerang" by Hans Wilhelm Geißendörfer; Her first leading role in the cinema was in Sönke Wortmann's "Alone Among Women" in 1990. Nitsch achieved her first breakthrough and greater popularity in 1993 in the lead role in the ZDF series "Nur einer kleine Affair", for which she received the Adolf Grimme Prize and the Bavarian Television Prize the following year.
She celebrated further success in 1994 as the hardened head of a special operations team in the Pro7 series "The Streets of Berlin". In 1996, directed by Dieter Wedel, she appeared as a shady hairdresser in the television production "Der Schattenmann" on ZDF. In the cinema, Nitsch shone as a bank robber in the film "Thieves" in 1996 and in the comedy "Women Don't Lie" in 1997 and in the thriller "Shock - A Woman in Fear". In her performance she impressed with her distinctive voice as an emancipated, combative woman. In addition to acting, Nitsch also ran a company where she lived in Munich that dealt with event management. In mid-September 2004, the actress was seen with her last performance in the posthumous premiere of the ARD production "Judith Kemp".
Jennifer Nitsch fell to her death from the fourth floor of her attic apartment in the Schwabing district of Munich on June 13, 2004 under the influence of alcohol. Suicide can only be assumed.- Philipp Danne was born on 22 April 1985 in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany. He is an actor, known for Die LottoKönige (2012), In aller Freundschaft - Die jungen Ärzte (2015) and Tessa - Leben für die Liebe (2006).