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Pam Ferris was born on 11 May 1948 in Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany. She is an actress, known for Matilda (1996), Children of Men (2006) and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004). She has been married to Roger Frost since August 1986.- Actor
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Chris Barrie was born Christopher Jonathan Brown on March 28, 1960, in a British military hospital in Hanover, Germany. He was brought up in Northern Ireland and was a boarder at Methodist College Belfast. He was Head Boy in his final year and played the lead in a "Dial M for Murder" production. He started a business course at Brighton Polytechnic but dropped out. After working at various jobs and developing his impressionist skills, he decided to shift careers to television and film.
He originally met Rob Grant and Doug Naylor on Jasper Carrott's Carrott's Lib (1982), and eventually went on to perform on the radio, for a show called "Son of Cliche", which both Rob Grant and Doug Naylor were working on. Around this time, he was working on the television show, Spitting Image (1984).
This association with Rob Grant and Doug Naylor later caused the two of them to have him audition for Red Dwarf (1988). A few years after the beginning of Red Dwarf (1988), he brought life to another character in the sitcom The Brittas Empire (1991).
He lives in Berkshire, England, with his wife Alecks.- Director
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Born in 1973 in Hannover, Germany, Dennis Gansel studied at Munich Film School HFF. Remarkably his first feature length movie Das Phantom (2000) was shot while he was still studying. Between his movies Girls on Top (2001), Before the Fall (2004) and The Wave (2008) he spent a long time struggling for the budget of the films. During these times he shot commercials. Dennis Gansel lives in Berlin.- Actress
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- Music Department
Lena Meyer-Landrut was born on 23 May 1991 in Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany. She is an actress and composer, known for What a Man (2011), Lena: If I Wasn't Your Daughter (2017) and Lena: Thank You (2018). She has been married to Mark Forster since 2020. They have one child.- Actor
- Producer
- Writer
Erdogan Atalay was born in Hannover, Germany, on September 22, 1966 to a Turkish father and a German mother. Erdogan took up acting classes at "Hochschule fur Musik und darstellende Kunst" in Hamburg in 1984. After guest-starring in various TV movies and series, Erdogan landed the leading role of Detective Superintendent "Semir Gerkhan" in the series "Alarm fur Cobra 11 - Die Autobahnpolizei" in 1995 - this until today.- Writer
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- Actress
Dörrie completed her schooling at a humanistic high school, from which she graduated in 1973 with her Abitur. In the same year he spent two years in the USA. There she studied film and acting at the Drama Department at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. This was followed by studies at the New School of Social Research in New York. She also worked in cafés and as a projectionist in the Goethe House in New York. In 1975 she returned to Germany. She then studied at the University of Television and Film in Munich. At the same time, she worked as a film critic journalist for the Süddeutsche Zeitung.
Her final film is entitled "The First Waltz" and was broadcast on Bavarian television as "Max and Sandie". Doris Dörrie made various documentaries until 1982. In 1983 she made her first feature film in Munich called "Mitten ins Herz". Three years later she had a cinema hit with the title "Men". The well-known actors Uwe Ochsenknecht and Heiner Lauterbach star in the chaotic relationship comedy. The play became the most successful German film of 1986. Doris Dörrie was married to Helge Weindler from 1988 to 1996. Their daughter Carla was born in 1990.
In 1991 she had another cinema success with the title "Happy Birthday, Turk". She filmed the novel by the German writer Jakob Arjouni, a novel in the Kayankaya series. The witty film is in the tradition of classic detective films and tells the story of the search for a missing person in the Frankfurt milieu. The Turkish private detective Kayankaya, played by Hansa Czypionka, experiences police corruption. In 1994, Doris Dörrie shot the comedy film "Nobody Loves Me" with Maria Schrader. This production is about personal happiness. The work was honored with the silver film ribbon, the leading actress Maria Schrader with the gold film ribbon.
Her other film works include "No Trace of Romanticism" from 1980, "Between" from 1981, "Love in Germany" from 1989 and "Enlightenment Guaranteed" from 1999. Among all her film works The director also wrote the script herself. The films were often cast with well-known actors such as Senta Berger, Gottfried John or Uwe Ochsenknecht. She also shot the documentary entitled "What can it be?" In addition to her role behind the camera, she also performed guest roles in front of the camera. For example, she played in the film "The Leading Man" from 1977 or in "King Kong's Fist" and in "Back to Go" from 2000.
In addition to her film work, Doris Dörrie realized literary projects. This is how the short stories entitled "Love, Pain and All the Damned Stuff" and "What Do You Want from Me?" were created. She also wrote the short story "The Man of My Dreams" and the novel "What Do We Do Now?" In 1991 her collection of short stories entitled "Forever and Ever" was created. The 300-page work was well received by critics. In 2002 her film work entitled "Naked" and her novel "Happy" followed. In 2005 she staged Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Rigoletto" at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich under the musical direction of Zubin Mehta.
In the same year, 2005, she directed Giacomo Puccini's "Madame Butterfly" at the Gärtnerplatztheater. At the Salzburg Festival in 2006 she staged Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "La finta Giardiniera".- Director
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Veit Helmer was born on 24 April 1968 in Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany. He is a director and producer, known for Tuvalu (1999), Surprise! (1995) and Absurdistan (2008).- Director
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- Writer
Nele Wohlatz was born in 1982 in Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany. She is a director and producer, known for The Future Perfect (2016), Sleep with Your Eyes Open (2024) and Ricardo Bär (2013).- Actor
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- Soundtrack
Helmfried von Lüttichau was born on 20 November 1956 in Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany. He is an actor and writer, known for Hubert ohne Staller (2011), Der letzte Bulle (2010) and Zwei Ärzte sind einer zu viel (2006). He has been married to Gabriela Raible since 2015. He was previously married to Karin Werner.- Actor
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- Music Department
Klaus Meine was born on 25 May 1948 in Hannover, Germany. He is an actor and composer, known for Hellboy (2019), On Deadly Ground (1994) and Knight and Day (2010). He has been married to Gabi Meine since 24 March 1976.- Actress
- Editor
- Director
Barbara Kowa was born on 5 March 1973 in Hannover, Germany. She is an actress and editor, known for Dreaming Mali (2010), Blues (2012) and Lexx (1996).- Writer
- Producer
- Director
Bora Dagtekin was born on 27 October 1978 in Hannover, Germany. He is a writer and producer, known for Suck Me Shakespeer (2013), The Perfect Secret (2019) and Türkisch für Anfänger (2012).- Actress
- Soundtrack
Caro Cult was born on 27 June 1994 in Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany. She is an actress, known for Tatort (1970), Babylon Berlin (2017) and Fucking Berlin (2016).- Actress
Rike Schmid was born on 19 July 1979 in Hannover, Germany. She is an actress, known for Don 2 (2011), Schwere Jungs (2006) and Rote Rosen (2006).- Nazan Gökdemir was born on 31 December 1980 in Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany. She is an actress, known for Stralsund (2009), Wilsberg (1995) and Familie Fröhlich - Schlimmer geht immer (2010).
- Hanns Lothar was born on 10 April 1929 in Hannover, Germany. He was an actor, known for One, Two, Three (1961), The Buddenbrooks (1959) and The Buddenbrooks (1959). He was married to Wiemer, Gabriele, Ingrid Andree and Kari Noller. He died on 11 March 1967 in Hamburg, West Germany.
- Actor
- Producer
Oliver Broumis was born in Hannover, Germany where he grew up.
Right after College he went to the Hamburg University of Music and Dramatic Arts for a 4 years education in acting. Since then, he also did a lot of training in Los Angeles with M. K. Lewis (Film Tech), Sam Christensen (S. Chr. Process) and Frank Betzelt, Berlin (Meisner Technique). He began his professional life with the German/Swiss film "Immer & Ewig"/"Always & Forever", a modern version of the Jean Paul Sartre play "The game is over". At the same time he also started in theaters all over Germany with plays of Shakespeare, Goethe and others.
Through the war movies "Stalingrad" and "Hasenjagd"/"The quality of mercy" he discovered his fondness and ability to play emotional disturbed and volatile characters.
In 2002 his interest in film politics made him one of the co-founders of the "film.lounge.berlin", a meeting and networking spot for the Berlin film industry.
In 2004 he played the German zoologist and wild life activist "Bernhard Grzimek" who was responsible for the conservation of natural world heritage like the Tanzanian Serengeti National Park. As a boy of 4 years he grew up with Bernhard Grzimek's monthly TV show and he decided to become this fighting man - 3 decades later that happened.
Also in 2004 he produced the documentary "Zwischen Kopf and Himmel" of a young first time director. It is a movie about the life of women in East Africa.
At the moment he his working with a German director on the script of "Rigby". A film about death and the process of dying. The story explores the question If you are able to live in the presence of your own mortality and transience, what benefits for your life you will get out of it ?! For research he worked a few weeks in a local hospice. He will also play the main part in the film.
He is also working on two documentaries for the first time. In 2013 he did the "Raindance Berlin Documentary Foundation Course" (Raindance Film Festival) to expand his abilities as a filmmaker.
From 2013 to 2015 he was a coach and director for prison theater in womens prison Berlin - Pankow, projects "Home" and "Identity"
In Feb. 2021 he took part with 184 other LGBTQIA+ Actors in the Initiative #Actout of the famous german SZ-Magazin.
In his private life he is an enthusiastic traveler around the world.
Oliver Broumis is based in Berlin.- Markus Boysen was born on 3 September 1954 in Hannover, Germany. He is an actor, known for Kanzleramt (2005), Wer erschoß Boro? (1987) and Ku'damm 56 (2016).
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- Location Management
Marc Schölermann was born on 14 October 1971 in Hannover, Germany. He is a director and production manager, known for Pathology (2008), Inner City Blues (1998) and Ende (1998).- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Dieter Borsche was born on 25 October 1909 in Hannover, Germany. He was an actor and director, known for Die große Versuchung (1952), Fanfaren der Liebe (1951) and No Greater Love (1952). He was married to Ursula Willick, Monika Drum and Ursula Poser. He died on 5 August 1982 in Nuremberg, Bavaria, West Germany.- Matthias Fuchs was born on 3 November 1939 in Hannover, Germany. He was an actor, known for Der erste Frühlingstag (1956), Ferien auf Immenhof (1957) and Lola (1981). He was married to Ilse Welter. He died on 31 December 2001 in Hamburg, Germany.
- Kathrin Kühnel was born on 10 January 1977 in Hannover, Germany. She is an actress, known for Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013), Die Novizin (2002) and Tatort (1970).
- Nikolaus Okonkwo was born in 1963 in Hannover, Lower Saxony, West Germany. He is an actor, known for Unsere Zeit ist jetzt (2016), Tatort (1970) and Der Ärgermacher (2003). He has been married to Cheryl Shepard since August 2006. They have three children.
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- Director
Lena Kalisch was born in 1989 in Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany. She is an actress and director, known for The Awakening of Motti Wolkenbruch (2018), Tatort (1970) and Fucking Drama (2017).- Editor
- Editorial Department
- Producer
Alexander Dittner was born in 1967 in Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany. He is an editor and producer, known for Die Wolke (2006), Mack the Knife - Brecht's Threepenny Film (2018) and 13 Minutes (2015).- Sineb El Masrar was born in 1981 in Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany.
- Tanja Tischewitsch was born on 18 August 1989 in Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany. She is an actress, known for Asphaltgorillas (2018), Alles was zählt (2006) and Herz über Kopf (2019).
- Annemarie Carpendale was born on 29 October 1977 in Hannover, Germany. She is an actress, known for Das Traumschiff (1981), The Country Doctor (1987) and Men in the City 2 (2011). She has been married to Wayne Carpendale since 28 September 2013. They have one child.
- Actor
- Writer
- Producer
Oliver Kalkofe was born on 12 September 1965 in Hannover, Lower Saxony, West Germany. He is an actor and writer, known for Der Wixxer (2004), The Vexxer (2007) and Kalkofes Mattscheibe (1994).- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Actor
Jürgen Jürges was born on 12 December 1940 in Hannover, Germany. He is a cinematographer and actor, known for Wege in die Nacht (1999), Schatten der Zeit (2004) and Sawdust Tales (1997). He has been married to Gunda Jürges since 27 June 1978.- Arendt spent her childhood and youth in her Jewish parents' home with social democratic attitudes. After school she began studying theology and philosophy at the universities of Marburg, Freiburg im Breisgau and Heidelberg. She was a student of, among others, Martin Heidegger, Karl Jaspers and Edmund Husserl. In 1928 she completed her studies with a doctorate. Phil off. Her dissertation is entitled "Augustin's concept of love". Her doctoral supervisor was Karl Jaspers, with whom she maintained a friendly relationship throughout her life. In 1929 she moved to Berlin. There she married the philosopher Günther Anders in the same year. During this time she worked on German Romanticism. The research was completed in 1933 and she summarized the results under the title "Rahel Varnhagen. Life story of a German Jew from the Romantic period". The book was only published in 1959. It is a successful biography about the wife of the writer Karl August Varhagen von Ense.
Rahel Varnhagen had a great influence on contemporary literary life through her famous salon, in which Adalbert von Chamisso, Heinrich Heine, Wilhelm von Humboldt and the philosopher and theologian Friedrich Ernst David Schleiermacher frequented. The research for this biography introduced Hannah Arendt to the conditions of social adaptation for Jews. She further developed her findings into existential philosophical views. In 1933, the year the National Socialists came to power, Hannah Arendt was briefly arrested by the Gestapo (Secret State Police). She then emigrated to Paris via Switzerland. There she worked as a social worker at Jewish institutions. During this time she joined the "World Zionist Organization" initiative and met the philosophical writer Walter Benjamin, which resulted in a friendly relationship.
In 1935 she traveled to Palestine for the first time. Two years later her marriage ended in divorce. In 1940 she married the philosopher Heinrich Blücher. In the same year, 1940, she moved to the USA. There she worked as a journalist and wrote political articles for the German-Jewish weekly newspaper "Aufbau". From 1944 to 1946 she held the position of research director at the Conference on Jewish Relations. She then worked as an editor at Salman Schocken Verlag for three years. From 1948 to 1952 she was the head of the Jewish Cultural Reconstruction Organization, whose mission was to preserve Jewish cultural assets. In the two years 1949 and 1950 she visited Germany for the first time after the end of the war. In 1951 Hannah Arendt became an American citizen.
In the same year her major work "Origins of Totalitarianisme" was published. The treatise was published in Germany in 1955 under the title "Elements and Origins of Total Domination". In her studies of the conditions of totalitarianism in the 19th century, she linked these to the emergence of anti-Semitism and made comparisons between fascism and Stalinism. With this work she made a name for herself as a respected researcher on social and political science topics. In 1953 she accepted an appointment at Brooklyn College in New York. Hannah Arendt became a corresponding member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry in 1958. The following year she was honored by the city of Hamburg with the Lessing Prize. In 1960 her study "Vita activa or active life" was published. In her theory of action presented therein, she names work, production and action as three types of human activity.
In 1961 she reported on the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem for the New Yorker magazine. Her articles sparked controversial discussions because of her critical comments on the behavior of the Jewish councils and the portrayal of Adolf Eichmann. Arendt compiled these journalistic contributions into a book entitled "Eichmann in Jerusalem. A report on the banality of evil." The work was published in 1963, as was the title "On the Revolution", which is about the destruction of political rule. In 1963, Hannah Arendt accepted an appointment at the University of Chicago. In 1966 she met the writer Uwe Johnson. The following year she moved to the New School for Social Research in New York. In 1968 she headed the Institute of Arts and Letters as vice president. Two years later her work was edited with the title "Power and Violence". Hannah Arendt joined the board of the American PEN Center in 1973.
Hannah Arendt died on December 4, 1975 in New York. - Cinematographer
Holly Fink was born on 28 February 1964 in Hannover, Lower Saxony, West Germany. He is a cinematographer, known for Charité (2017), Verbotene Küsse (2001) and Hat er Arbeit? (2001).- Herbert Bötticher was born on 19 December 1928 in Hannover, Germany. He was an actor, known for Dream City (1973), Blut floss auf Blendings Castle (1967) and Hamlet (1960). He was married to Doris Gallart. He died on 8 October 2008 in Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
- Marvin Linke was born on 9 June 1992 in Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany. He is an actor, known for Not My Day (2014), In aller Freundschaft (1998) and No Future war gestern! (2016).
- Jelena Mitschke was born on 19 January 1978 in Hannover, Germany. She is an actress, known for Rote Rosen (2006), Urlaub vom Leben (2005) and Method (2011).
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Matthias Jabs was born on 25 October 1955 in Hannover, Germany. He is an actor and composer, known for Queen: Die Show (2006), Scorpions: Believe in Love (1988) and Scorpions: Wind of Change (1991).- Fritz Odemar was born on 13 January 1890 in Hannover, Germany. He was an actor, known for M (1931), The Hound of the Baskervilles (1937) and 1914, die letzten Tage vor dem Weltbrand (1931). He was married to Erika Nymgau-Odemar. He died on 6 June 1955 in Munich, Germany.
- David Rodigan was born on 24 June 1951 in Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany. He is an actor, known for The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1984), Icebound in the Antarctic (1983) and Doctor Who (1963).
- Anja Tanas was born on 25 May 1970 in Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany.
- Lucas Prisor was born on 23 September 1983 in Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany. He is an actor, known for Elle (2016), My Zoe (2019) and Young & Beautiful (2013).
- Michael Schiller was born in 1963 in Hannover, Lower Saxony, West Germany. He is an actor, known for Schindler's List (1993), Lotta in Love (2006) and The Country Doctor (1987).
- Florian Thunemann was born on 29 July 1980 in Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany. He is an actor, known for Leipzig Homicide (2001), Herzstolpern (2023) and Inga Lindström (2004).
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Eberhard Schröder was born on 18 November 1933 in Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany. He was an assistant director and director, known for Massage Parlor '73 (1972), Madame and Her Niece (1969) and Hausfrauen-Report (1971). He died on 1 April 1974 in Munich, Bavaria, West Germany.- Set Decorator
- Production Designer
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Sigfrido Burmann was born on 11 November 1891 in Hannover, Germany. Sigfrido was a set decorator and production designer, known for A Fistful of Dollars (1964), Face of Terror (1962) and El rayo desintegrador (1966). Sigfrido died on 22 July 1980 in Madrid, Spain.- Production Designer
- Art Department
- Art Director
Sebastian T. Krawinkel was born on 19 May 1969 in Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany. He is a production designer and art director, known for V for Vendetta (2005), Anonymous (2011) and Inglourious Basterds (2009).- Actor
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Daniel Axt is a German actor, voice artist, and musician, best known for his role as Nick in Disneys "Rock it!", as Jannik Anders in the German TV-Series "Forbidden Love" and as Jürgen Neuhaus in Die Brücke (2008).
Axt was born in Langenhagen in 1991 and he got into acting in Hanover in 2005. At age 13, Axt started attending an acting school called TASK. When a tape from a camera acting class was sent to the corresponding kids and teens agency TASK, they saw his potential and signed him at the age of fifteen. He has been with his manager for ten years now. In 2007-08 he started to appear on the German TV-Show crime.de and soon after that starred in the remake of Die Brücke (2008), which starred Franka Potente.
In 2009, at age 17, he got cast in Disney's "Rock it!" for the leading role Nick which he was later nominated for a "New Faces Award" for best actor. The movie's band "Rock it!" (of which Axt was lead singer) played some festivals before they split up. In 2009-10, he signed with the FC Norden 02 agency. In 2010, he started working as a voice actor, when he dubbed the voice of "Hickup" (in German) in Paramount Pictures' How to Train Your Dragon (2010) and How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014). He also did the German dubbing for the role of "Winston" in The Maze Runner film franchise.
When he graduated from school in 2011 he moved to New York City to perfect his English and to study acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse School Of The Theatre, where the Meisner technique is taught. After being asked back to the second year in 2012, he graduated from the two year full-time acting program in 2013.
Before he moved back to Germany in 2013 he starred in Jeffrey Sweets play "Cover" as Marty and in Murphy Guyers play "Loyalties" as Rudy in the Rita Morgenthau Theatre, NYC. He appeared as "Wining Boy" in August Wilson's "The Piano Lesson" and as Eric in Jason Katims's "The Man Who Couldn't Dance" at the Signature Theatre (Off-Broadway).
When Axt was seven years old he started playing the guitar and took guitar lessons for seven years. He has been playing ever since and started songwriting early on. In 2012, he was introduced to some some musicians who he later released his first EP "54th street" with (in September 2014). At age 22, he was asked to direct the stage adaptation of "Rock it!" for the theatre at Kurfürstendamm in Berlin. The production including 70 people on stage (orchestra, band, choir and ensemble) premiered in March 2015, ran again in September/October 2015 and in June 2017. From 2011-17 he appeared in several German television shows, TV movies and shorts.
Axt is fluent in German and English.- Actor
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Herman Rarebell was born on 18 November 1949 in Hannover, Germany. He is an actor and composer, known for Hellboy (2019), Knight and Day (2010) and Rock of Ages (2012).- Actor
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Herbert Mensching was born on 11 January 1928 in Hannover, Germany. He was an actor, known for Mord im Pfarrhaus (1970), Die Bilder laufen (1972) and Der Stoff aus dem die Träume sind (1972). He died on 28 September 1981 in Hamburg, West Germany.- Director
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Max Zähle was born on 1 September 1977 in Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany. He is a director and writer, known for Raju (2011), Bist du glücklich? (2018) and Schrotten! (2016).- Ulrich Pleitgen was born on 1 November 1942 in Hannover, Lower Saxony, West Germany. He was an actor, known for Nicht von schlechten Eltern (1993), Die Kinder (1990) and K3 - Kripo Hamburg (2003). He was married to Monika Koepchen. He died on 21 February 2018 in Hamburg, Germany.