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- Renata Dancewicz was born on 7 February 1969 in Leszno, Wielkopolskie, Poland. She is an actress, known for Pulkownik Kwiatkowski (1995), Tato (1995) and Deborah (1995).
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Peter Lindbergh was born on 23 November 1944 in Leszno, Wielkopolskie, Poland. He was a director and actor, known for Everywhere at Once (2008), The Heist (2015) and Die Toten Hosen: Unsterblich (1999). He was married to Petra Sedlaczek and Astrid Lindbergh. He died on 3 September 2019 in Paris, France.- Director
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Ottomar Anschütz was a German inventor, photographer, and chronophotographer. Between 1864 and 1868, he studied photography under some of the well-known photographers of the time. He received recognition for his photograph of John of Saxony on horseback in 1867, and then took over his father's company in Lissa, mainly working as a portrait photographer and as a decorative painter. In 1881, he made his first instantaneous photographs. In 1882, he developed his portable camera and made a name for himself with sharp photographs of imperial military demonstrations in Breslau the same year, and gained more fame with pictures of flying white storks in 1884 - the first photographs of birds on the wild. In 1885, he made his first chronophotographs of horses. The quality of his pictures was generally regarded to be much higher than that of the chronophotography works of Eadweard Muybridge and Étienne-Jules Marey. In 1886, he developed the Electrotachyscope, an early device that displayed short motion picture loops with 24 glass plate photographs on a 1.5 meter wide rotating wheel that was hand-cranked to the speed of circa 30 frames per second. Each image was illuminated by a sparking spiral Geissler tube and displayed on a small opal glass window in a wall in a darkened room for up to seven spectators. Different versions were developed and shown at many international exhibitions, fairs, conventions and arcades from 1887 until at least 1894, and probably inspired many other pioneers in the history of film technology.- Wlodzimierz Bednarski was born on 27 March 1935 in Leszno, Wielkopolskie, Poland. He was an actor, known for The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings (2011), Milosc z listy przebojów (1985) and Le retour d'Arsène Lupin (1989). He died on 12 June 2020 in Poland.
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Hanna Orsztynowicz was born on 4 May 1950 in Leszno, Wielkopolskie, Poland. She is an actress, known for Palace Hotel (1977), Krab i Joanna (1982) and Dziewczynka z hotelu Excelsior (1988).- Gerd Blahuschek was born in 1943 in Leszno, Wielkopolskie, Poland. He is an actor, known for Archiv des Todes (1980), Märkische Chronik (1983) and Einer muß die Leiche sein (1978).
- Adam Krajewicz was born on 14 June 1925 in Leszno, Wielkopolskie, Poland. He was an actor, known for Zaczarowane podwórko (1974). He died on 23 October 1988 in Poznan, Wielkopolskie, Poland.
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Lucjan Dembinski was born on 30 September 1924 in Leszno, Wielkopolskie, Poland. He was a writer and director, known for Mis Uszatek (1975), Zima w dolinie Muminkow (1987) and Szczesliwe dni Muminkow (1985). He died on 22 May 1998 in Lódz, Lódzkie, Poland.- Rudolf Leonhardt was born on 27 October 1889 in Lissa, Prussia, Germany [now Leszno, Wielkopolskie, Poland]. He was a writer, known for The Love of Jeanne Ney (1927), Diary of a Lost Girl (1929) and Das Haus zum Mond (1921). He died on 19 December 1953 in East Berlin, East Germany.
- Baeck had four sisters with whom he spent his childhood and youth in his hometown. There he attended the Johann-Amos-Comenius-Gymnasium from 1881 to 1890. He came into close contact with Jewish culture and religion at a young age. After his schooling, Baeck moved to the Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslau, today's Polish Wroclaw. There he trained as a rabbi from 1891 to 1894. During this time he also enrolled at the University of Breslau in the Faculty of Philosophy for two years. In 1994 Baeck left Breslau and moved to Berlin. There he studied philosophy, history and religious philosophy. In the same year he attended the Institute for the Study of Judaism. Baeck received his doctorate in 1895 with the well-known philosopher Wilhelm Dilthey with a thesis on "Spinoza's first influence on Germany". He later published his dissertation. In the same year he moved to what is now Opole, Poland, to serve as a rabbi in the community for ten years.
In 1896 Baeck married Nathalie Hamburger. After they settled in Duisburg in 1905, his work on religious philosophy appeared under the title "The Essence of Judaism"; In it he refers to Adolf von Harnack and his work "The Essence of Christianity". Baeck presented himself as a committed supporter of Jewish liberalism. In 1912 Baeck left Duisburg and moved to Berlin. There he worked in the synagogue on Fasanenstrasse. He also held a teaching position as a lecturer at the University for the Study of Judaism. During the First World War he worked as a field rabbi on the Western and Eastern Fronts from 1914 to 1918. Baeck then worked as a representative of the Jewish community in Berlin, maintaining important connections with leading politicians. He founded the Christian-Jewish Conversations and worked as a speaker on Jewish-Christian cooperation on religious and cultural issues. In this role, Baeck played an important mediating role.
In 1919 he was responsible for Jewish issues in the Prussian Ministry of Culture. As chairman of the General German Rabbinical Association, he successfully mediated between the orthodox and liberal wings of the association. In 1924 he became president of the Jewish welfare order "Bnei Brith Lodge". Baeck joined the "Central Association of German Citizens of Jewish Faith", the Palestine Fund "Keren Hajessod", the "Central Welfare Office of German Jews" and the "Jewish Agency". In 1933, the year the National Socialists came to power, Baeck became president of the "Reich Representation of German Jews". Baeck remained as a high representative of Judaism in National Socialist Germany in order to effectively support Jews there against Nazi terror. In 1938 he became chairman of the "Reich Representation of the Jews", which had been decreed by the National Socialists. This was closed by the Gestapo in 1943.
In the same year he and his family were deported to the Theresienstadt camp. Baeck survived the Nazi terror and moved to London in 1945. There he headed the "Council of Jews from Germany" and the "World Union for Progressive Judaism". In 1947 he founded the "Institute for Research into the History of Judaism in Germany since the Enlightenment," which was renamed the Leo Baeck Institute in 1954. Baeck made a name for himself as a reconciler between Jews and Christians. As part of this task, he revived Christian-Jewish discussions. For him, this understanding between groups took priority over condemning those guilty of genocide. From 1948 to 1956 he taught at European and American universities.
Leo Baeck died on November 2, 1956 in London. - Director
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Mikolaj Haremski was born on 15 December 1957 in Leszno, Wielkopolskie, Poland. He was a director and assistant director, known for Gabriel (2013), Television Theater (1953) and Uzdrowisko (2020). He died on 7 January 2023 in Lódz, Lódzkie, Poland.- Gert Kollat was born on 9 June 1906 in Lissa, Prussia, Germany [now Leszno, Wielkopolskie, Poland]. He was an actor and writer, known for Heinz Erhardt Festival (1961), The Gypsy Baron (1954) and Spy for Germany (1956). He died on 28 August 1982 in West Berlin, West Germany.
- Paul Cinquevalli was born on 30 June 1859 in Lissa, Prussia, Germany [now Leszno, Wielkopolskie, Poland]. He died on 14 July 1918 in Brixton, Devon, England, UK.
- Lord Knud was born on 18 March 1944 in Leszno, Poland. He died on 14 June 2020 in Berlin, Germany.
- Michael Mansfeld was born on 4 February 1922 in Leszno, Wielkopolskie, Poland. He was a writer and actor, known for Das unsichtbare Visier (1973), Dr. med. Mark Wedmann - Detektiv inbegriffen (1974) and Glücksritter (1957). He was married to Gerda Corbett. He died on 26 May 1979 in Rosenheim, Bavaria, West Germany.
- Stanislaw Grochowiak was born on 24 January 1934 in Leszno, Wielkopolskie, Poland. He was a writer, known for Czerwone i zlote (1969), Obok prawdy (1965) and Kalosze szczescia (1958). He died on 2 September 1976 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.
- Jerzy Prazmowski was born on 20 October 1932 in Leszno, Wielkopolskie, Poland. He was an actor, known for The Scar (1976), Dom na pustkowiu (1949) and Zerwane cumy (1979). He died on 30 April 1983 in Otwock, Mazowieckie, Poland.
- Zdzislaw Jan Nowicki was born on 17 May 1924 in Leszno, Wielkopolskie, Poland. He was an actor, known for Czysta chirurgia (1977). He died on 16 June 1996 in Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland.
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Dorota Fórmanowska was born on 19 October 1972 in Leszno, Wielkopolskie, Poland. She is an actress and director, known for I walk on (2020), Don't Come Too Early (2020) and SLAVIC (2022).