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Widely known for his frequent collaborations with Rainer Werner Fassbinder, a creative partnership which lasted 10 years and produced over 20 films, Ulli Lommel is one of the most consistently creative filmmakers to come from the New German Cinema movement.
The son of German comic performer Ludwig Manfred Lommel, Ulli Lommel began his career in show business as a child. His second feature film as a director Tenderness of the Wolves (1973) brought Lommel to New York, where he began working with Andy Warhol at The Factory. The Warhol / Lommel years spawned several features, including Cocaine Cowboys (1979) and Blank Generation (1980), both of which were directed by Lommel and feature Warhol in an acting role.
In the summer of 2013 Lommel went for nine months to Brazil, where he wrote a book and also made a film about Campo Bahia, the official camp for the German National Soccer Team. His autobiography, entitled Tenderness of the Wolves, is due out in late 2015.- Actor
- Director
Theodor Loos was born on 18 May 1883 in Zwingenberg, Hesse, Germany. He was an actor and director, known for M (1931), Metropolis (1927) and Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924). He died on 27 June 1954 in Stuttgart, Germany.- Writer
- Actor
- Music Department
Born 1929 in Germany as son of a surrealist painter who was banned by the Nazis in 1936. Went to Waldorf-school and deserted when he was called to the army at age of 16 in 1945. After the war he became an actor, critic and finally writer. His first big success was the children's book "Jim Knopf und Lukas der Lokomotivfuehrer" (Jim Knopf and Lukas the Engine-driver). Although he got much praise and many awards he remained modest, almost shy, preferring his fantasy world but still keeping an eye on the real world in his stories.- Watson Davis, born William Davis, was an actor, television horror host and an entertainer.
From "Find a Grave" memorial "Davis was an advertising director for the Memphis, Tennessee, based Malco Theatre chain in 1963 where he first came up with the character of "Sivad" (Davis spelled backwards). He donned a cape, cane, top hat and false vampire teeth to become the local "Monster of Ceremonies" for the WHBQ-TV weekly horror program "Fantastic Features." The Saturday evening show debuted September 1962 and showed old horror and science fiction movies.
The show began with "Sivad" driving a horse-drawn hearse (in a foggy Overton Park near the Brooks Art Gallery in Memphis, Tennessee), pulling a coffin from the back of the hearse and then opening it all to the strains of Leigh Stevens' score from the 1950 science fiction film "Destination Moon."
Savid made many personal appearances around the Mid-South in the 1960s and 1970s drawing an estimated 30,000 fans at an appearance at the Mid-South Fairgrounds in 1963. At these appearances he would play several musical instruments including the "ghoulaphone" and the "coffinola," both instruments Davis concocted. He made several novelty records including "Sivad buries Rock & Roll" which features "Dickey Drakeller" on it's flip side".
He was married to Kathryn Irene Crabtree who passed away in 1970. - Dietz Werner was born in Waiblingen in Baden-Wuerttemberg. His grandfather Caspar Alberti was an actor in Nuremberg. This animated Dietz Werner at an early age to imitate his fellow human beings especially the local pharmacist which made it difficult for the family to get medicine at the only pharmacy. He went to Rudolf Steiner School where his artistic gifts were encouraged and his desire to become an actor grew. After his three-year training in Stuttgart his first engagement led him to Lueneburg. Engagements at the Wuerttemberg national theatre Stuttgart followed where he remained for more than 30 years. He played the whole spectrum from classical to modern, large and small roles. There Swabian author Felix Huby saw him on stage and had found the personification of his famed Stuttgart superintendent Bientzle. Since 1990 Dietz Werner does two episodes of "Tatort - Superindendent Bientzle" a year. Now also different television offers came pouring in. However, Steck remained faithful to the theatre and played the "Goetz of Berlichingen" at the original setting in Jagsthausen. In Stuttgart he performed in Moliere's "The Miser" as "Entaklemmer" (Swabian title) in his best Swabian dialect. In best Saxonian dialect he played composer Richard Wagner at the premiere of the musical "Ludwig II" in Fuessen/Bavaria. Presently he performs on stage in Stuttgart at the "Komoedie im Marquardt" with Walter Schultheiss in Felix Huby's play "Gruess Gott Herr Minischter" until March 2005. He lives with his wife Hannah in Stuttgart.
- Dieter Eppler was born on 11 February 1927 in Stuttgart, Germany. He was an actor, known for Face of the Frog (1959), Die Nibelungen, Teil 1 - Siegfried (1966) and Tatort (1970). He was married to Magdalene Schnaitmann. He died on 12 April 2008 in Stuttgart, Germany.
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- Actor
- Writer
Friedrich Feher was born on 16 March 1889 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. He was a director and actor, known for The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), The Robber Symphony (1936) and William Tell (1913). He was married to Magda Sonja. He died on 30 September 1950 in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.- Additional Crew
Lucie Marie Rommel was born on 6 May 1894 in Germany. She is known for The Longest Day (1962). She was married to Erwin Rommel. She died on 26 September 1971 in Stuttgart, Germany.- Ilse Künkele was born on 25 April 1925 in Stuttgart, Germany. She was an actress, known for Sherlock Holmes (1967), Abschied vier Uhr früh (1967) and Die Sache mit dem Ring (1961). She died on 24 April 1992 in Stuttgart, Germany.
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- Writer
- Soundtrack
Erich Ponto was born on 14 December 1884 in Lübeck [now Schleswig-Holstein], Germany. He was an actor and writer, known for The Third Man (1949), Sky Without Stars (1955) and Schneider Wibbel (1939). He was married to Tony Kresse. He died on 4 February 1957 in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.- Ulrike Meinhof was born on 7 October 1934 in Oldenburg in Oldenburg, Germany. She was a writer, known for Sofronismos (2012), Bambule (1970) and Titel, Thesen, Temperamente (1967). She was married to Klaus Rainer Röhl. She died on 8 May 1976 in Stammheim, Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Hans Helmut Dickow was born on 14 April 1927 in Dresden, Germany. He was an actor, known for Fraggle Rock (1983), Ein Sommer - ein Herbst (1964) and Der Arzt wider Willen (1964). He died on 18 December 1989 in Stuttgart, Germany.- Art Director
- Director
- Animation Department
Heinz Edelmann was born on 20 June 1934 in Ústí nad Labem, Czechoslovakia. He was an art director and director, known for Yellow Submarine (1968), Schaumagazin (1966) and Der phantastische Film (1970). He was married to Anna. He died on 21 July 2009 in Stuttgart, Germany.- Actress
- Soundtrack
Ortrud Beginnen was born on 5 February 1938 in Hamburg, Germany. She was an actress, known for One or the Other (1974), The Castle (1997) and Geierwally (1986). She died on 19 January 1999 in Stuttgart, Germany.- Willy Seiler was born on 24 September 1930 in Stuttgart, Germany. He was an actor, known for Tatort (1970), Die Leute vom Domplatz (1980) and Chronik der Familie Nägele (1968). He was married to Ruth Mönch. He died on 9 June 1988 in Stuttgart, Germany.
- Producer
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- Writer
Gerhard Konzelmann was born on 26 October 1932 in Stuttgart, Germany. He was a producer and director, known for Magische Namen (1977), My Favourite Opera (1991) and Was willst du werden? (1955). He died on 28 May 2008 in Stuttgart, Germany.- Oscar Mueller was born in Stuttgart. Before he became an actor he had trained as a banker. From 1940 - 1945 he was in the army. After WW II he took acting lessons with Rudolf Ferchau. In 1946 first acting appearances in the "Stuttgart Wilhelma Theatre" and the "Komoedie im Marquardt". In 1948 Oscar Mueller's career with the South German broadcast began which lasted for more than 50 years. Apart from his television and broadcasting activities he started a career as a successful singer of songs in the Swabian dialect although he always said he could not sing.
- Irene Marhold was born on 25 July 1932 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. She was an actress, known for Der Raub der Sabinerinnen (1966), Der Hexer (1956) and Mit der Liebe spielt man nicht... (1973). She died on 25 November 2017 in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
- Ferdinand Porsche was born on 3 September 1875 in Maffersdorf, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Vratislavice nad Nisou, Liberec, Czech Republic]. He was married to Aloisia Johanna Kaes. He died on 30 January 1951 in Stuttgart, Germany.
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- Writer
- Animation Department
Gil Alkabetz was born on 2 December 1957 in Kibbutz Mash'abey Sade, Israel. Gil was a director and writer, known for Morir de amor (2005), Ein sonniger Tag (2007) and Rubicon (1997). Gil was married to Nurit Israeli. Gil died on 15 September 2022 in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.- She grew up in Tuttlingen as the fourth of seven children in a Protestant pastor's family. Her father, Helmut Ensslin, had studied in Tübingen and was in the "Normannia" fraternity there the fraternity brother of Kurt Rebmann, who later became Federal Prosecutor General, who in this position became Gudrun Ensslin's executive "opponent". In 1960 she graduated from a Catholic school. She then studied English, German and pedagogy at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen from 1960 to 1964 and later at the Free University of Berlin. Meanwhile, in 1963, together with the political writer Bernward Vesper, she founded the small publishing house "Studio for New Literature", which, however, only published publications.
In 1967, their son Felix Robert Ensslin was born from her relationship with Vesper. Like Ulrike Meinhof, Ensslin was a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation. Involved in the student unrest of the late 1960s, Ensslin became increasingly involved in the extra-parliamentary opposition and wrote left-wing agitational writings. After the student Benno Ohnesorg was shot by a police officer during the Shah of Persia's visit to Berlin on June 2, 1967, she called for "violence against a violent state" in the office of the Socialist German Student Association. Meanwhile, it is believed that she made the acquaintance of Andreas Baader, who had gone underground.
The ideas of both should escalate into militant actions. Their willingness to use violence was directed, on the one hand, against the conservative Axel Springer publishing house, which sharply criticized the student activities, and, on the other hand, against the affluent society. After arsons in department stores on April 2, 1968, Ensslin was arrested and sentenced to three years in prison along with Andreas Baader, Thorwald Proll and Horst Söhnlein. The verdict became final in November 1969, whereupon Ensslin escaped arrest and fled to France with Andreas Baader. In 1970 he returned to the Federal Republic.
This was where she first came into contact with the Hamburg journalist Ulrike Meinhof, who in turn spoke out vehemently against the omnipotence of the state with the left-wing publication "konkret". Further contacts with like-minded people such as Holger Meins and Jan-Carl Raspe arose in the early 1970s. On May 14, 1970, Gudrun Ensslin, together with Ulrike Meinhof, organized the liberation of Andreas Baader, who had now been re-imprisoned, from prison. The Baader liberation is considered the birth of the "Baader-Meinhof Group". After bank robberies, they traveled to Jordan together with Holger Meins, Baader and Meinhof to join Palestinian guerrillas with other sympathizers, who trained them with weapons for their further actions.
In 1972 they returned to Germany again and, as the "Red Army Faction", took responsibility for terrorist attacks in May, which they carried out in Augsburg, Hamburg as well as in Karlsruhe and at the US Army headquarters in Heidelberg, in which four people were killed came. Gudrun Ensslin was arrested in Hamburg on June 7, 1972. Gudrun Ensslin was imprisoned in the high-security wing of the Stuttgart-Stammheim prison. The following years of negotiations were conducted in a purpose-built armored building, which was specially built for twelve million DM, right next to the grounds of the Stuttgart-Stammheim prison. On April 28, 1977, after almost two years of trial, the RAF prisoners were sentenced to life imprisonment.
On September 5, 1977, the RAF responded to the verdict by kidnapping Hanns-Martin Schleyer, President of the Confederation of German Employers' Associations. The RAF now demanded that the Federal Republic release Baader and eleven other members who were in custody. The demand was that each of them should receive 100,000 DM and be flown out of Germany. Chancellor Helmut Schmidt refused to give in to the demand and made it clear: "The Federal Republic of Germany cannot be blackmailed." On October 13, 1977, four Arab terrorists hijacked the Lufthansa plane "Landshut" on the flight from Mallorca to Frankfurt with a new destination of Mogadishu. There were 82 passengers and 5 crew members on board the "Landshut".
The Arab kidnappers thus joined the RAF and demanded the release of the RAF members imprisoned in Germany. On October 18, 1977, a special unit of the Federal Border Guard succeeded in a spectacular operation to free the hostages on the tarmac of Mogadishu Airport (Somalia). Just a few hours later, Gudrun Ensslin, Andreas Baader and Jan-Carl Raspe committed suicide after years of solitary confinement in the Stuttgart-Stammheim prison. All efforts of the police's attempts to find and free Hanns-Martin Schleyer were unsuccessful. On October 19, 1977, Hanns-Martin Schleyer was found dead in the trunk of a car.
Gudrun Ensslin was buried together with his two fellow prisoners Baader and Raspe in the Dornhaldenfriedhof in Stuttgart. - Hermine Sterler was born on 20 March 1894 in Bad Cannstatt [now Stuttgart], Germany. She was an actress, known for Te quiero con locura (1935), Little Mother (1935) and Rasputin, Demon with Women (1932). She died on 25 May 1982 in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
- Konrad Kujau was born on 27 June 1938 in Löbau, Saxony, Germany. He was an actor, known for Talk 2000 (1997), ...mal ehrlich (1993) and Die Woche - Menschen im Gespräch (1988). He died on 12 September 2000 in Stuttgart, Germany.
- Manfred Rommel was born on 24 December 1928 in Stuttgart, Germany. He was an actor, known for Kirche zu verkaufen (1979), Dalli Dalli (1971) and Day of Days: June 6, 1944 (2014). He was married to Liselotte Daiber. He died on 7 November 2013 in Stuttgart, Germany.
- Willi Hoss was born on 27 April 1929 in Vaals, Limburg, Netherlands. He was married to Heidemarie Rohwedder. He died on 20 February 2003 in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.