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Wolfram de Marco was born into a family where music was a part of daily life, with his education beginning at age six with violin and piano at 13. After his luthier grandfather introduced him to the first chords on a guitar, it became the instrument that called his name. At 15 years old, he began to study classical guitar, in time winning important awards and ultimately leading to a professional career as a classical guitarist. Following five years of classical guitar and piano studies at the Hochschule Für Musik in Würzburg, he found work in Frankfurt as a session guitarist, arranger, composer and producer for music in advertising and corporate movies. During his time in Frankfurt he also released several Electronica and Drum & Bass tracks. However after writing his first score for a movie and a TV series in Germany, he decided to concentrate on film music and moved to Los Angeles in 1999. After a few years of struggle, hard work and finally establishing a reputation with the music for an award winning short film, his talents were recognized and in 2003 he was selected to participate in the prestigious ASCAP Film scoring Workshop.The same year he started working as an arranger and additional composer on several blockbuster movies, including "Pirates of the Caribbean, Curse Of The Black Pearl", "Constantine", "Catwoman", "16 Blocks" and "Poseidon". Finding that he was not satisfied with the limitations of only writing "additional music", he earned the chance to score his first feature "The Wedding Party" directed by Oscar nominated director Dominique Deruddere. This score was recorded in 2005 in Studio 2 at Abbey Road in London and was the beginning of a long string of movies that garnered critical and commercial success. A desire to push the envelope on his talent lead to scoring the original Belgium, record breaking box office hit, LOFT, and the German TV station ZDF trusted him with the ambitious and very successful production of their 2011 miniseries "Schicksalsjahre". In 2012 his composition "Fantasia For A Forgetful Angel" for guitar and string quartet was performed by Prof. Jürgen Ruck and members of the Sharoun Ensemble. It premiered at the International Guitar Week in Ansbach and was recorded and aired by the Bayrischen Rundfunk. This same year he had the opportunity to score a childhood favorite book series from Enyd Blyton- which became the very successful German franchise of "Famous Five l - lV". He most recently finished the score for Jamie Dornan's star-turn in "Racing Hearts" aka "Flying Home" (picked up by Universal Pictures), which saw his return to collaboration with Dominique Deruddere. Gifted with a talent for finding just the right emotional complexity that a scene needs, Wolfram de Marco also knows when to allow silence to be the best companion. His directors have counted on him to create themes and atmospheres that seamlessly bind tension, building arcs, crescendi and the ability to keep audiences focused with baited breath for a release. Having worked with orchestras and musicians in cities as varied as Los Angeles, London, Berlin, Munich, Prague and Macedonia, his musical individuality is apparent and a force to be reckoned with. Wolfram de Marco lives with his wife Marie-Alise Recasner in Windsor Hills, California.- Katja Brenner was born on 13 July 1973 in Ansbach, Bavaria, Germany. She is an actress, known for Tatort (1970), Shoppen Munich (2006) and Euphoria (2017).
- Hermann Fegelein was born in Ansbach, Germany, in 1906. In his youth he worked as a stable boy for Christian Weber, one of the original members of the German Nazi party. He enlisted in the German army in 1925, staying for three years, and when his service was up he joined the Bavarian State Police and was posted to Munich. In his capacity as a policeman he came into contact with many members of the Nazi party, found the party's philosophy to his liking, and quit the state police to join the party in 1930. In 1931 he transferred to the SS. His rise through the ranks of the SS was impressive, and in 1937 he was appointed by Heinrich Himmler as head of the SS Riding School, a prestigious institution restricted only to members of German royalty and wealthy industrialists (who, not coincidentally, were major financial backers of the Nazi party). In 1943 he was briefly posted to the Russian front--where his unit was accused of massacring thousands of civilians--but, after being wounded, he was transferred back to Germany and went to work as Himmler's personal assistant. In 1944 Fegelein married Gretl Braun, the sister of Adolf Hitler's mistress, Eva Braun. It was apparently a marriage of political and career expediency for Fegelein, as Hitler had been trying to marry off Gretl for some time so as to have a legitimate reason to present Eva to visitors and have her accompany him to official functions; Gretl had a reputation for being extremely promiscuous, and it was getting more and more difficult for Hitler to find a man who would want anything to do with her (she was, in fact, pregnant with another man's child when she married Fegelein). Now that Fegelein had performed such a valuable favor for "Der Fuhrer", though, his personal stock went up with Hitler and his professional stock went up with Himmler.
However, as the war began to turn against the Nazis, Fegelein's duties as commandant of the SS horse farm, headquartered in Fischhorn Castle near Zell am See, began to include the distribution to various high Nazi officials of large amounts of gold, works of art, jewelry and other valuables looted from most of occupied Europe, along with new ID papers that would allow them to escape capture after Germany's defeat and make their way to countries outside Europe. In April of 1945 Himmler, Fegelein's boss, tried to negotiate a secret surrender to the Allies, with himself as leader of postwar Germany. The Allies would have nothing to do with Himmler or his offer, but Hitler found out what Himmler had done and ordered his arrest. Although Himmler escaped capture by the SS, Fegelein didn't; he was caught trying to escape to Sweden with large amounts of cash and forged passports and brought back under arrest to the Chancellery bunker where Hitler and the remnants of his Nazi regime were making their last stand.
It is here where accounts of Fegelein's fate differ. He was charged with desertion--punishable by death--and tried by court-martial. Some of those present in the bunker say Fegelein apparently had a mental breakdown and was unable to defend himself at the court-martial, resulting in the trial being postponed, and an outraged Hitler then had him hanged by SS executioners. Others believe he was shot in his cell after he was returned there, and there are even some who claimed he escaped and made his way out of Berlin. Most knowledgeable sources, however, agree that he was indeed executed in the bunker, although it will probably never be known exactly how or when. - Make-Up Department
- Special Effects
Silke Dotzauer was born on 26 March 1982 in Ansbach, Bavaria, Germany. Silke is known for And Tomorrow the Entire World (2020), Hanni & Nanni 3 (2013) and Hanna's Journey (2013).- Writer
- Script and Continuity Department
Birgit Maiwald was born in 1979 in Ansbach, Bavaria, Germany. Birgit is a writer, known for 23 Morde (2019), Großstadtrevier (1986) and Lotta (2010).- Sound Department
- Editor
M. Seth Dunavant was born on 4 March 1977 in Katterbach, Ansbach, Bavaria, Germany. M. Seth is an editor, known for The Other Side of the Tracks (2008), Fog Warning (2008) and Time's Up (2009).- Camillo Gadiel was born on 19 December 1895 in Ansbach, Germany. He is known for Der Floh im Ohr (1980), Lautlose Jagd (1965) and Sonderdezernat K1 (1972).
- Director
- Writer
- Editor
Bernd Kilian was born in 1964 in Ansbach, Bavaria, Germany. Bernd is a director and writer, known for Roulette Prohlisienne (2011), 5 Uhr 53 (2003) and Der Abschied (2009).- Doris Reisinger was born in 1983 in Ansbach, Bavaria, Germany.
- Caroline Otto was born on 30 September 1976 in Ansbach, Bavaria, Germany. She is an actress, known for Beyond Silence (1996) and An American Love (1994).
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Franz Eichhorn was born in 1904 in Ansbach, Bavaria, Germany. He was a director and writer, known for Die Göttin vom Rio Beni (1950), Paixão nas Selvas (1955) and River of Evil (1963). He died in 1982.- Georg Volkert was born on 28 November 1945 in Ansbach, Bavaria, Germany. He was married to Isolde. He died on 16 August 2020 in Erlangen, Bavaria, Germany.