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Jonas Nay was born in Lübeck, Germany on September 20th, 1990. He is an actor as well as a composer, known for his roles in projects such as 4 Against Z (2005), Line of Separation (2015), Homevideo (2011), Deutschland 83 (2015), Deutschland 86 (2018) and Deutschland 89 (2020). He has won German Television Awards and Grimme Awards for his role in Home Video (2011).- Actress
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Mack was born in Germany but moved with her family to Long Beach, California, when she was 2. She began acting at 4 with print work and commercials, and began studying at The Young Actors Space in Los Angeles when she was 7. Before joining the cast of Smallville (2001), Allison starred in the short-lived and sorely under-rated Fox television comedy Opposite Sex (2000). Prior to that, she was a regular on Hiller and Diller (1997), working alongside great talents such as Richard Lewis, Kevin Nealon, and Eugene Levy. Allison has also guest-starred in the WB family drama 7th Heaven (1996) as a teenager caught up in the "cutting" trend.
Mack has starred in many movies for television, including the cable film My Horrible Year! (2001), which was directed by Eric Stoltz and starring Karen Allen, Mimi Rogers, and Stoltz himself. She was also in A Private Matter (1992) with Sissy Spacek and Aidan Quinn, Living a Lie (1991) with Peter Coyote and Jill Eikenberry, Unlikely Angel (1996) with Dolly Parton and Roddy McDowall, and Stolen Memories: Secrets from the Rose Garden (1996) starring Mary Tyler Moore and Linda Lavin. Allison is also an accomplished dancer and singer and she currently living in Los Angeles. She enjoys reading, going to movies and plays and spending time with her friends and family.- Eric Braeden is a German actor in America who began his career playing Nazis and eventually became a star of daytime soap operas. Born Hans Gudegast in Kiel, Germany, during the Second World War, he was a superb athlete who excelled in track-and-field events. As a teenager, he immigrated to the United States and worked in Texas and Montana as a translator, a cowhand, and a lumber millhand. His athleticism won him a scholarship to Montana State University. While attending college, he and friend Bob McKinnon made a film, The Riverbusters, about their successful attempt to be the first men to take a boat from the source to the mouth of the Salmon river and back again. He traveled to Los Angeles in hopes of finding a distributor for the documentary, but instead found that his handsome visage and accented English made him a valuable commodity as an actor. He appeared in small parts under his real name before landing the leading role of the antagonist, Captain Hans Dietrich, on the World War II television series The Rat Patrol (1966).
The series was a hit, and Gudegast's sympathetic German officer was very popular. He appeared in a few movies and television films thereafter in supporting roles, then was given the lead in Universal's science-fiction computer thriller Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970). His delight at this huge career boost was muted by the studio's insistence that he change his name. With extreme reluctance, he agreed and became known subsequently as Eric Braeden. Braeden worked continuously in television movies for the next decade. He also worked on Broadway and in Los Angeles area theatre. In 1980, he reluctantly accepted a role in a daytime drama, The Young and the Restless (1973), and gained a stardom in this medium that had just eluded him in film and prime time television. As lead Victor Newman, Braeden brought a gravity and a strong center to the program. Amazingly handsome and athletic into his sixties, Braeden maintained the charisma that first brought him notice in "The Rat Patrol".
His infrequent film work during his nearly quarter century on "The Young and the Restless" included a prominent role as John Jacob Astor in Titanic (1997). A five-time Emmy nominee for his "The Young and the Restless" role (he won in 1998), he was also nominated eleven times for the Soap Opera Digest Outstanding Leading Actor Award, winning three times. In 1987, he was appointed, along with Henry Kissinger, Paul Volker, Steffi Graf, Alexander Haig, and Katherine Graham, to the German-American Advisory Board, and in 1991 received the Federal Medal of Honor from the president of his native land, Germany. He married his college sweetheart Dale Russell in 1966. Their son, Christian Gudegast is a screenwriter. - Actress
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Jeanne Goursaud was born on 4 April 1996 in Pinneberg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. She is an actress, known for Blood Coast (2023), Barbarians (2020) and Para - We Are King (2021).- Actor
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David Kross was born on July 4, 1990 in Bargteheide, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany next to Hamburg. He attended Eckhorst High School in Bargteheide till 2007. In this period, he first appears in the German movie Verzauberte Emma oder Hilfe, ich bin ein Junge... ! (2002). He also receives his first leading role in the movie Tough Enough (2006) directed by Detlev Buck.
In 2007 Stephen Daldry cast Kross in the adaption of his best selling novel "The Reader (2008)" provided that Kross had to learn English until the start of shooting. Later, Kross was honored with the Chopard trophy at the 62nd Cannes Festival playing on of the leading roles, opposite Kate Winslet and Ralph Fiennes.
He subsequently stars in War Horse (2011) and Into the White (2012).- Dieter Laser is a German actor. He is known to English-speaking audiences for his roles: Mantrid in Lexx, Prof. Otto Blaettchen in The Ogre and Dr. Joseph Heiter in The Human Centipede (First Sequence), for which he won Best Actor at the Austin Fantastic Fest. In 1975, he was awarded the German Film Award in Gold in the category of Best Actor for his title role in John Glueckstadt.
He was born in Kiel. On a cold winter afternoon at the age of sixteen, Dieter Laser went to the stage door of the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg at that time the most famous theatre in Germany and he asked the doorman how to become an actor. There was an extra missing for the Christmas fairy tale afternoon-performance for children and 30 minutes later he stood on stage among a bunch of "sailors". That was the beginning of his career as an extra. - He had grown up in a fundamentalist Christian sect where the Theatre was regarded as devil's work. As a brainwashed believer he had to hazard the consequences. Therefore he made a deal with the devil: 'I will become an actor and I'll pay later on - in hell!' - Watching as an extra the famous actors "The Gods" by doing their marvelous work during rehearsals and performances became his "drama school". Gradually he got a word to speak in a play - then two words - even a sentence - a tiny part - another little part - and one day he suddenly got a contract and overnight his dream had come true: he now was a real actor with whom the "Gods" shook hands. - After 14 passionate years on stage and as a co-founder and member of the board of the meanwhile most famous German theatre, the Schaubuehne in Berlin, he decided to become a freelancer and got his first work for the cinema: the title role in John Glueckstadt. For this performance he won the German Film Award in Gold. Since then, and besides countless guest appearances on the most important stages of Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Luxemburg, with parts like Don Juan, Valmont, Peer Gynt, Macbeth, Captain Ahab etc. Dieter Laser played in about 65 films, at times co-starring with "Gods" like Burt Lancaster, Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland, Glenn Close, John Malkovich etc.. - Actor
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Film/TV role in Better Call Saul in 2018 as Werner Ziegler Better call Saul is the prequel to AMC's Breaking Bad. Bock was the engineer who designed and built Gus Fringe's underground Meth lab.
Winner (2018) ... Werner Ziegler- Wiedersehen (2018) ... Werner Ziegler
- Coushatta (2018) ... Werner Ziegler
- Something Stupid (2018) ... Werner Ziegler
- Piñata (2018) ... Werner Ziegler
- Quite a Ride (2018) ... Werner Ziegler
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Justus Von Dohnanyi was born in 1960 in Lubeck (Northern Germany) as a son of the conductor Christoph von Dohnanyi; his uncle is the politician Klaus von Dohnanyi. He worked at the city theaters in Frankfurt and Zurich and at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg after studying at the Hochschule fur Musik und darstellende Kunste in Hamburg. His first appearance in the American cinema was in Jakob the Liar (1999). He was seen on the PBS presentation of Bonhoeffer: Agent of Grace (2000) as well as in the James Bond adventure The World Is Not Enough (1999). He has made many appearances on German television, mostly in TV movies. In 2001 he was awarded a Deutsche Filmspiel Award in Gold as Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Experiment (2001).- Actress
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Judith Malina was born on 4 June 1926 in Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. She was an actress and director, known for The Addams Family (1991), The Secret of My Success (1987) and When in Rome (2010). She was married to Hanon Reznikov and Julian Beck. She died on 10 April 2015 in Englewood, New Jersey, USA.- Actress
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Margit Carstensen was born on 29 February 1940 in Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. She was an actress, known for The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972), Possession (1981) and Martha (1974). She died on 1 June 2023 in Heide, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.- Actor
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Torben Liebrecht is best known for his performance as Colonel Ivan Carrera in Netflix's International hit series, Altered Carbon Season 2.
Most recently, he had a standout role in MGM's thriller Operation Finale opposite Sir Ben Kingsley, Oscar Isaac and Melanie Laurent, directed by Chris Weitz.
Liebrecht first entered the big screen in 2002 in the international co-production Deathwatch; only a year later he played Emperor Charles V in Luther by the side of Sir Peter Ustinov and Joseph Fiennes. In 2015 he guest starred in an episode of Homeland's fifth season.
For his role as Franz Faber in CBC's X Company, Liebrecht received the Canadian Screen Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Supporting Role in a Dramatic Program or Series in 2016.
His most important German credits include The Manns - Novel Of A Century, Halbe Hundert and Adidas vs Puma, where he convinced a wide audience in the lead role of Rudolf Dassler.
Adidas vs Puma was awarded at the New York City International Film Festival 2017 in eight different categories and Torben received the award for Best Actor.
Liebrecht speaks English, German and French. He resides in Berlin.- The blond, steely-eyed bad guy of European westerns and potboilers was born in Lübeck, Germany, the son of a porcelain painter. Horst Frank financed his acting studies by working part-time as a babysitter and night watchman. He actually failed his final exams at the Musikhochschule Hamburg, but nonetheless managed to secure an acting position in his home town. For some time after, his work was primarily confined to small parts on stage and in radio. His first screen role saw him as a cowardly pilot in Der Stern von Afrika (1957). Frank then won a critic's award for his next role as member of a U-Boat crew in the war drama Haie und kleine Fische (1957).
Of athletic, lithe build and owner of a somewhat cold, hypnotic gaze (with a voice to match), Frank soon found himself typecast to disturbingly good effect as psychotic murderers in German and international productions (The Black Panther of Ratana (1963), Das Mädchen vom Moorhof (1958), Der Greifer (1958)). Alternatively, he proved an ideal henchman for spaghetti westerns (Bullets Don't Argue (1964), Johnny Hamlet (1968) and Django, Prepare a Coffin (1968)). Frank didn't seem to mind turning out copies of the same negative in a seemingly endless gallery of ruthless killers and impassive assassins. He did so with relish well into the 1980's and 90's, enjoying guest spots on popular TV crime time shows like Tatort (1970) and Derrick (1974). If Horst Frank was in the cast, you knew pretty much from the start 'whodunnit'.
Behind the menacing heavy, there was a family man and author of poems and chansons. In addition to his screen acting, Frank lent his voice to dubbing work (for the likes of fellow tough guys Jack Palance, Ernest Borgnine and Chuck Connors); and to radio, where he voiced Captain Nemo in "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" and "The Mysterious Island".
Likely because of his lack of work in major American or British productions, Frank never quite achieved the international recognition he undoubtedly deserved. He died quite suddenly in May 1999 of a brain hemorrhage, just short of his 70th birthday. - Melanie Marschke was born on 3 December 1969 in Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. She is an actress, known for Leipzig Homicide (2001), SOKO: Der Prozess (2013) and The Bill (1984). She was previously married to Hartmut Beyer.
- Lisa Tomaschewsky was born on 22 July 1988 in Itzehoe, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. She is an actress, known for The Girl with Nine Wigs (2013), Verbotene Liebe (1995) and Deutschland 83 (2015).
- Peter Chatel was born on 7 December 1943 in Bad Segeberg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. He was an actor, known for Fox and His Friends (1975), Martha (1974) and Who Saw Her Die? (1972). He died on 25 August 1986 in Hamburg, West Germany.
- Janina Uhse was born on 2 October 1989 in Husum, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. She is an actress, known for Blame the Game (2024), Unsere Zeit ist jetzt (2016) and It's for Your Own Good (2020).
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Birge Schade was born on 7 February 1965 in Wilster, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. She is an actress, known for The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter (1990), Baader (2002) and Katzenzungen (2003). She was previously married to Max Hacker.- Actor
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Directed his first movie at the age of 21. Studied at the 'Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie' (DFFB) til 1989. Founded the Boje Buck Filmproduktion in 1991. Founded the Boje Buck Produktion GmbH together with Claus Boje in 1992.- Composer
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At the age of 7 Ralph demonstrated a natural interest and aptitude in all things musical. In his younger years Ralph's innate musical talents were nurtured by private lessons with many highly accomplished tutors mostly focusing in the disciplines of Jazz, Latin and Rock. Under the guidance and training of his tutors Ralph began playing the electric bass, guitar, drums and percussion.
At the age of 16 Ralph decided to take music to a professional level and started classical lessons on piano and the upright bass which led him to study classical music for four years in one of the most esteemed Music Conservatories in Germany. His Conservatory training included, music history composition, upright bass, piano and classical orchestra. This gave Ralph the foundation to create musical styles which combine almost all music genres.
His global success began In 1991 Ralph joined the world famous rock band The Scorpions as the new Bass Player. During his 12 year career as a member of "The Scorpions" Ralph recorded 8 gold and platinum awarded albums that sold millions of copies all over the world. In addition to his contributions as Bass Player, Ralph wrote the song titled "Mysterious" which was to be the last most successful song for "The Scorpions" since "Winds of Change". That song went to 3rd on the American charts. Throughout his tenure with "The Scorpions" Ralph has toured the world six times.
Then in 1999 while still touring with "The Scorpions" he was offered his first film score in Lancelot: Guardian of Time (1997), starring, 'Mark Singer (I)', Claudia Christian, and John Saxon.
Having become involved in his first Feature Film Ralph realized that scoring for cinema and Film Producing would be his new life's work. This experience then led him to co-produce and co-finance Gangland (2001), Starring 'Costas Mandylor', Sasha Mitchell, Kathleen Kinmont, Ice-T, Coolio, Jennifer Gareis, Kristanna Loken. In addition to producing Gangland (2001), Ralph also acted in and wrote the two main title tracks. Becoming more involved in the movie industry he took on the feature Redemption (2002) (V) as Composer. For Redemption (2002) (V) he created the entire score, 16 songs and the title track. From here on film became his life. Ralph started becoming more passionate about working in the film industry than touring around the world, and ended his work with the "The Scorpions" in 2004 and since leaving the band Ralph has created the Film Scores for more then 38 Feature films.
Also won 3 Awards (including Nyciff 2011 Genre Award Best Original Score Ralph Rieckermann / "The Last Gamble"
In addition Ralph also took on the responsibility of the music supervision for over 26 films.
The natural combination of digital and live instrumentation allows Ralph the creative flexibility and tools to compose for any genre of music from rock to classical.
Ralph's intimate knowledge of music and composition and a wide range of talents and tools allows him to create scores for any film style and genre. Also his professional training and education combined with his many years of Rock and film industry experience makes Ralph Rieckermann one of the most promising new composers to watch.- Thomas Mann was probably Germany's most influential author of the 20th century, receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929. Born on 6 June 1875 in Lübeck, his family moved to Munich in 1893, where he lived until 1933 and wrote some of his most successful novels like "Buddenbrocks" (1901), "Death in Venice" (1912) or "The Magic Mountain" (1924). After the Nazi takeover, the humanist and anti-fascist, married to Katia Pringsheim, daughter of a secular Jewish family, emigrated to Switzerland, then to Princeton and Pacific Palisades in the United States, where he finished his great tetra-logy "Joseph and His Brothers" in 1942. Two years later, he became a naturalized US citizen, but finally returned to Europe in 1952. The famous analyst and critique of the German and European soul died on 12 August 1955 in Kilberg near Zurich.
- Pippa Steel was born on 15 April 1948 in Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. She was an actress, known for The Vampire Lovers (1970), Department S (1969) and UFO (1970). She died on 29 May 1992 in London, England, UK.
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Nick Wilder was born on 3 December 1952 in Insel Fehmarn, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. He is an actor and writer, known for Stargate (1994), The Bourne Supremacy (2004) and S.O.S. Barracuda (1997). He has been married to Christine Mayn since 1998.- Actor
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His stepfather was a chief petty officer in the Navy. He spent his childhood and youth in Neustadt, Holstein. After secondary school, he attended secondary school, switched to vocational school and then to technical high school, where he completed his technical high school diploma. He then studied music and mathematics at the University of Education for five semesters. He dropped out of his studies without graduating. He then trained at the Kiel Drama School from 1982 to 1985. As a result, Prahl worked as a theater actor at the Schleswig-Holstein State Theater as well as in touring theater and other stages. The artist then moved to Berlin in the early 1990s, where he received engagements at the Renaissance Theater, the GRIPS Theater and the Kammerspiele of the German Theater.
Prahl then switched to film and television. In 1994 he got his first TV engagement in the television series Bella Block. With the multi-award-winning, episodic film "Nachtgestalten", in which Prahl plays a police officer, a closer collaboration with director Andreas Dresen developed from 1999 onwards. He also appeared under him in the productions "Halbe Stapel" (2002) and "Willenbrock" (2004) as a cheated husband and a resourceful used car dealer. He was awarded the Bavarian Film Prize for his performance in "Half Stairs". In 2002 he played a German sergeant in the Holocaust drama "The Pianist" under the renowned director Roman Polanski. Axel Prahl has made a name for himself among audiences primarily through his versatility.
The mime masters his craft from comedy to tragic figures. His great acting achievements also include the embodiment of "little people" and narrow-minded scofflaws, as in the TV production "Hope Dies Last" (2002), which he co-created as the revenge-seeking district leader Eddy, in the award-winning TV drama "Das Miracle of Lengende" (2003), in which he plays a miner, or in the film "Befreite Zone" (2004), in which he can be seen as vacuum cleaner salesman Rolf Kubicek. He was once again awarded the Adolf Grimme Prize for his excellent casting in "Hope Dies Last". Pahl appears in the role of a representative in a music video released in 2006 for the song "If it happens" from "We Are Heroes".
Axel Pahl has been known to a larger series audience since 2002 as Chief Inspector Frank Thiel from Münster in the international television series "Tatort". In 2011, the actor separated from his second wife, with whom he has twins, after 12 years of marriage. He moved from Marienwerder in Brandenburg back to Berlin.- Justus Johanssen was born in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Justus is an actor, known for True Demon (2019), Nachtwache (2022) and Arthurs Gesetz (2018).
- Annika Ernst was born on 14 March 1982 in Schleswig, Germany. She is an actress, known for Maata meren alla (2009), A Coffee in Berlin (2012) and Beck Is Back! (2018).
- Daniel Giersch was born on 24 May 1974 in Itzehoe, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. He was previously married to Kelly Rutherford.
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Till Franzen was born on 18 May 1973 in Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein, West Germany. He is a director and actor, known for Weinberg (2015), A Quiet Love (2004) and Die große Operation (2001). He is married to Katharina Schüttler. They have two children.- Leonie Parusel was born on 8 October 1983 in Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. She is an actress, known for Dr. Nice (2023), Hanna (2019) and Die Bergretter (2009).
- Heike Trinker was born on 17 June 1961 in Nortorf, Schleswig-Holstein, West Germany. She is an actress, known for Invasion (2012), Verbotene Liebe (1995) and Alles was zählt (2006).
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Philipp Laude was born on 29 June 1990 in Kappeln, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. He is an actor and producer, known for Potato Salad (2015), Almania (2021) and Wer rettet Emily (2021).- Birgit Bergen was born on 17 August 1938 in Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. She is an actress, known for Brass Target (1978), Liebesgrüße aus der Lederhos'n (1973) and Maciste contro i mostri (1962).
- Jan Hartmann was born on 24 October 1980 in Kaltenkirchen, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. He is an actor, known for Eine Liebe am Gardasee (2006), Alisa: Follow Your Heart (2009) and Herzflimmern - Liebe zum Leben (2011).
- Carsta Löck was born on 28 December 1902 in Deezbüll, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. She was an actress, known for Ein fröhliches Haus (1944), Emil i Lönneberga (1974) and The Buddenbrooks (1959). She died on 19 October 1993 in Berlin, Germany.
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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.- Director
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Sven Unterwaldt Jr. was born on 21 April 1965 in Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, West Germany. He is a director and writer, known for School of Magical Animals 2 (2022), Otto's Eleven (2009) and 7 Dwarves: The Forest Is Not Enough (2006).- Cinematographer
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Timm Kröger was born on 17 November 1985 in Itzehoe, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Timm is a cinematographer and writer, known for The Universal Theory (2023), The Council of Birds (2014) and The Trouble with Being Born (2020).- Lukas Heller was born on 21 July 1930 in Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. He was a writer, known for Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964), Flight of the Phoenix (2004) and The Dirty Dozen (1967). He died on 2 November 1988 in Camden, London, England, UK.
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Timo Jacobs started his movie career in 2003 in the movie "3 Minuten Heroes", directed by the german director legend Klaus Lemke. Together with Lemke, four more movies with Jacobs as leading actor followed, as well as many more international and german TV and cinema-productions.
2008, Timo Jacobs acted in the movie "The Man Who Will Come" (L'Uomo Che Verra) by Giorgio Dirittis, together with actress Alba Rohrwacher. The movie was award with the Grand Prize of the Jury at the Rome International Film Festival in 2009. For his role in "Beach Boy", Timo Jacobs was awarded the New Berlin Film Award. For his leading role in "Pete the Heat!" he was awarded with the Montblanc Movieprize at the Hamburg Film Festival in 2001. In the war epic by Spike Lee "Buffalo Soldiers" he played a Sniper in the german Wehrmacht and in the hooligan drama "Gegengrade" the leading role at the side of Mario Adorf in 2011. In 2014 he was awarded with the "Bambi" in the category TV-Event of the Year for his participation in "Bornholmer Straße". For his appearance in "Tatort: Borowski und der Himmel über Kiel" by director Christian Schwochow, Jacobs was nominated for the German Actor Award 2016.
Since 2016 he is part of the main cast of the german crime series "Der Kriminalist". He just finished shooting for various episodes in german shows in 2017, among others: Wilsberg, Bad Cop, Welser.
Timo Jacobs is also producer, director, writer and leading actor of two movies. 2011 his first movie "Klappe Cowboy!" was released and awarded with the audience award at the Achtung Berlin Film Festival, the prize of the Deposhir Film festival in St. Petersburg, Russia, as well as the prize of the jury at the International Film Festival in Louisville KY.
His second movie with him as producer, director, writer and leading actor "Mann im Spagat - Pace, Cowboy, Pace" was released german cinemas in 2017.- Thomas Chemnitz was born in 1963 in Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. He is an actor, known for The Constant Gardener (2005), Deutschland 83 (2015) and Frauen, die Geschichte machten (2013).
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Volkert Kraeft was born on 7 August 1941 in Timmendorfer Strand, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. He is an actor, known for Buddenbrooks (1979), S.Y. Arche Noah (1986) and Zwei Münchner in Hamburg (1989). He has been married to Edeltraut Kraeft since 1987.- Actor
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Christian Redl was born on 20 April 1948 in Schleswig, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. He is an actor, known for Downfall (2004), Der Hammermörder (1990) and Tattoo (2002).- Actor
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Helmut Zierl was born on 6 October 1954 in Meldorf, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. He is an actor, known for Wie gut, daß es Maria gibt (1990), Nesthocker - Familie zu verschenken (1999) and The Country Doctor (1987). He was previously married to Dolly Dollar.- He grew up in Hamburg in middle-class circumstances. After completing middle school and a technical high school, he initially completed a commercial apprenticeship in the automotive industry. At this time he was already taking singing lessons in Hamburg. He started his professional life as a car salesman from 1957 to 1961. Shortly afterwards he found his way into broadcasting through the SWF in Baden-Baden. In Peter Frankenfeld's TV youth show "toi-toi-toi" he was able to attract attention for the first time as singer "Dieter Heck". In 1962 he sang in the preliminary round of the Eurovision de la Chanson, but was defeated by Conny Froboess with "Two Little Italians". From 1964 to 1966 he became a disc jockey for Radio Luxembourg. In 1966 he moved to Europawelle Saar in Saarbrücken and started there with the program "Die Deutsche Schlagerparade", which quickly developed into one of the most popular radio programs.
To avoid confusion with a colleague, he moderated under the double name Dieter "Thomas" Heck. In 1967 he was awarded the "Golden Arrow". Together with Dr. Reimund Hess from Saarländischer Rundfunk founded the "Golden Europe" award for successful German artists. His breakthrough came from January 1969 when he moderated the show "ZDF-Hitparade". In a very short time, this music program became the most successful format on German television, with international stars also appearing as guests. In particular, Heck's quick moderation, in which he read out the people involved in the recording, became unique on German television. In 1970 he received the "Golden Camera" from HÖRZU magazine. In 1973, Heck's TV puzzle game "4 against 4" started. His autobiography with the title: "My life is like the hit parade" was published in 1974.
In October 1976, Dieter Thomas Heck married Ragnhild Möller. Her daughter Saskia Fee Isabel comes from this connection. Heck had two sons, Rolf-Nils and Thomas-Kim, from his first marriage with his wife Edda. From 1978 he hosted the quiz show "The Pyramid". From 1981 onwards, the presentation of "The Day of the German Schlager" followed. The concept included the idea of promoting and honoring German-speaking performers and authors who were awarded the "Golden Tuning Fork". In the following years, the award developed into the most recognized prize of its kind. From 1983 onwards, it was broadcast by ARD under the title "The Golden Tuning Fork". In addition to his television appearances such as in "A Heart for Children", Dieter Thomas Heck repeatedly took on radio tasks, such as the programs "From the Telephone to the Microphone", "Good Mood from Südwest" for Südwestfunk from 1983 onwards or the program "For 13 years" for Bayerischer Rundfunk. Happy weekend".
In 1984, Heck was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit. In December 1984, after 184 recordings, the "ZDF Hit Parade" series ended. In 1985, Heck started the big ZDF show "Melodies for Millions", with which he supports the German Cancer Aid. The TV show "Superhitparade" (a gala evening in aid of German World Hunger Aid) and the program "Showpalast" on ZDF followed every year. He started another quiz show in April 1987 with "Your Stake Please". The program "Black on White" also started in the same year. In 1986, Dieter Thomas Heck acquired the baroque Aubach Castle in Lauf in the Black Forest. Dieter Thomas Heck continued to present "Music is in the Air" and "This is your life" on ZDF until 1997. He also moderated the program "The Big Los" for Aktion Sorgenkind (now Aktion Mensch). Since 1999, Heck has also produced and moderated the "Sommerhitfestival" on ZDF.
Heck produced, among other things, with his production company DITO Multimedia Production-GmbH from the beginning of 1988 to the end of 2000 the "Deutsche Schlagerparade" for the third ARD programs, as well as the "Schlagerparade der Volksmusik", which has been broadcast on the first ARD program since 1996 , the "Golden Tuning Fork" and the "German Schlager Festival". He also appeared several times as an actor. Dieter Thomas Heck was seen, among other things, in the 1970 television film "The Million Game", in "Tatort" (1981) and in the TV series "Café Wernicke" (1981 to 1983) and "Praxis Bülowbogen" (1988). by Günter Pfitzmann. His publications as a singer include albums such as "It's Midnight John" and "My Very Personal Wish Concert - Evergreens". His second autobiographical book entitled: "The sound makes the music" followed in 1987.
In 1999, Heck was honored with the Saarland Order of Merit and in 2000 with the Baden-Württemberg Medal of Merit for his social donations. Privately, Heck has been involved in the Grit-Jordan-Verein e.V., which he founded, since 2000. In 2008, he was awarded the "Echo Special Prize" for outstanding contributions to German-language music. In 2009, Dieter Thomas Heck received the award Bundesverdienstkreuz 1st class of the Federal Republic of Germany. In 2014 and 2017 he was awarded the Hans Rosenthal Honorary Prize and the Golden Camera for his life's work. His last appearance on a TV show was "Our Greatest Hits" in 2016, hosted by Johannes B. Kerner.
Dieter Thomas Heck died on August 23, 2018 at the age of 80 in a Berlin hospital. - Jaime Ferkic was born on 9 September 1989 in Elmshorn, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. He is an actor, known for Rapunzel (2009), The Wave (2008) and Das fliegende Klassenzimmer (2003).
- Julian Paeth was born on 5 March 1987 in Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein, West Germany. He is an actor, known for The Country Doctor (1987), Die Cleveren (1998) and The Peppercorns (1999).
- Carl Lange was born on 30 October 1909 in Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. He was an actor, known for Mistress of the World (1960), Der seidene Schuh (1965) and Schloß Hubertus (1973). He died on 23 June 1999 in Ostfildern, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
- Rainer Reiners was born, the youngest of five children on a small farm in a tiny village in Northern Germany, where he lived a childhood of unimaginable freedom.
At 15 he was forced to move to the Palatinate. There was a new father and he had to attend the high school. He became a left-wing radical, grew his hair long, learned to play the guitar, dropped out of school and sought his happiness in such unpretentious occupations as construction worker, miner and lumberjack.
He didn't find it, either professionally or otherwise. He wrote love songs full of weltschmerz and just missed becoming the German answer to Leonard Cohen. Then he became a lighting technician, which enabled him to witness the wonderful one-man play, "The Double Bass", by Patrick Süskind.
In 1985, he attempted to become a film director by studying advertising in Berlin, hoping to somehow become the German answer to Woody Allen. He also performed "The Double Bass" on stage and afterwards switched his field of study to acting at Die Etage, Berlin, a program from which he graduated in 1990.
Since then, Rainer has worked in many theatre productions as well as in international films, TV movies and series. - Actress
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Helga Franck was born in 1933 in Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. She was an actress, known for Horrors of Spider Island (1960), Wiener Luft (1958) and Heiraten verboten (1957). She was married to Lothar E. Stickelbrucks. She died in February 1963 in Munich, West Germany [now Germany].- Peter Heinrich Brix was born on 13 May 1955 in Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein, West Germany. He is an actor, known for Neues aus Büttenwarder (1997), The Country Doctor (1987) and Großstadtrevier (1986). He is married to Angelika.
- Willy Brandt was born on 18 December 1913 in Lübeck [now Schleswig-Holstein], Germany. He was married to Brigitte Seebacher, Rut Brandt and Carlota Thorkildsen. He died on 8 October 1992 in Unkel, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.