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Lead icon of the influential New German Cinema of the 70's & 80's, Schygulla's natural blonde beauty and amazing versatility keep her among the world's top actresses. She won best actress at Cannes in 1983 for The Story of Piera (1983) (aka "The Story of Piera"), an Italian/German co-production. The Turkish/German co-production, The Edge of Heaven (2007) (aka "The Edge of Heaven"), won the 2007 Cannes award for best screenplay. The now silver-haired actress appears to have shunned plastic surgery.
One of many protégés of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who gave Schygulla especially tender treatment and nurturing, while he terrorized, manipulated, and slept with many of the other actors and filmmakers Fassbinder developed in his incestuous family-like theatrical and film troupes.
Over 12 years, Hanna Schygulla appeared in 23 Fassbinder movies (including his first feature film), the most-acclaimed being The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979) (aka "The Marriage of Maria Braun") (for which she won the Silver Bear), Lili Marleen (1981) and Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980). After a disagreement with Fassbinder, she did not appear in his final 4 movies. Their mentor/muse relationship is often favorably compared with that of Josef von Sternberg and Marlene Dietrich. Schygulla met Fassbinder while she was studying romance languages and taking acting lessons in Munich, then became a member of his collective theatre troupe, "Munich Action Theatre", which eventually evolved into his film group.
After Fassbinder's 1982 death, she appeared in a few commercial films, and when she does act now, concentrates on complex roles in films with unique, international social messages. Her better known non-Fassbinder movies include Kenneth Branagh's Dead Again (1991), Casanova (1987) (with Faye Dunaway), Andrzej Wajda's A Love in Germany (1983) (aka "A Love in Germany") and Margarethe von Trotta's Sheer Madness (1983) (aka "Sheer Madness"). She's renowned for portraying strong, sensual women, and her language ability enables her to appear in films produced by many countries. Her singing was featured in Lili Marleen (1981) and Sheer Madness (1983) (aka "Sheer Madness"). Since 1997, she has turned away from movie acting, primarily to chanson singing, recording CDs, appearing in the movie, Hanna Schygulla Sings (1999) and, in 2007, a one-woman autobiographical musical (including songs of Janis Joplin, Édith Piaf, Billie Holiday, Brecht). She was the lead and sang in a live Vanessa Beecroft conceptual art piece in a German castle, with Fassbinder's long-time associate, Irm Hermann, plus 23 other women. Schygulla has worked on producing films about Berlin's Holocaust memorial, and about her work with Fassbinder.
Many of Fassbinder's film plots reflect his bizarre working relations with cast and crew, and he often reserved the most glamorous costumes and dramatic roles for Hanna Schygulla, intentionally pressuring his other talented actresses, such as his feisty ex-wife Ingrid Caven, and the abused Irm Hermann. The extremely tense relationships in the all-female The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972) (aka "Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant") somewhat reflect real-life interactions of Hermann, Schygulla (both are in the movie), Fassbinder, and his mother.
Hann Schygulla's childhood family situation somewhat parallels her role, typifying Germany's moral dilemmas at the end of World War II, in The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979) (aka "The Marriage of Maria Braun"). Schygulla was born on Christmas Day 1943, in Kattowice, Upper Silesia (then a section of Poland annexed by the Third Reich). Her German father was an infantryman in Italy, who was in a POW camp until she was 5. After the war, the German population was expelled from the Kattowice area.- Actor
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Helmut Bakaitis is attached to the world of acting in both performing, directing and screen-writing. He was born in Lauban, Silesia, Germany (later became Luban, Poland). He moved to Australia, where he was educated in Sydney at the Fort Street High School. On the steps of the Sydney War Memorial, Helmut participated in a school production of Hamlet as the title character and as such made an incredibly strong impression with his shockingly mature portrayal. Among the numerous television series appearances, films and shorts to his credit, Helmut Bakaitis is best known to most audiences (especially western) for his portrayal as the character known as The Architect in the cult science fiction films The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions (2003). In both these sequels to the 1999 predecessor The Matrix, Helmut artfully portrays The Architect as an analytical and perhaps emotionless genius who created the virtual world of The Matrix, whose memorable and informative speech in the film at last shed light to the truth behind the Matrix's creation and the purpose of The One, (played by Keanu Reeves as Neo) who must make a choice to save the human race from systematic extinction. In addition to his famed Matrix role, Helmut has appeared also in the movie Happy Feet (2006) before again contributing his talents to several film shorts.- Christiane Rücker was born on 12 June 1944 in Schertendorf, Lower Silesia, Germany [now Przylep, Lubuskie, Poland]. She is an actress, known for Bonditis (1967), Das Paradies der flotten Sünder (1968) and Carmen, Baby (1967).
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Franz Waxman (Wachsmann) pursued his dream of a career in music despite his family's misgivings. He worked for several years as a bank teller and paid for piano, harmony and composition lessons with his salary. He later moved to Berlin, where he continued his study and progress as a musician. He was able to support himself by playing and arranging for a popular German jazz band, Weintraub Syncopaters, in the late 1920s. Friedrich Hollaender, who had written some music for the Weintraubs, gave Waxman his first chance to move into movie scoring by hiring him to orchestrate and conduct Hollander's score (an arrangement of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) for the film that launched Marlene Dietrich, The Blue Angel (1930), directed by Josef von Sternberg. During 1932 Waxman, a Jew, joined many other Jews leaving Germany as the Nazi vise closed irrevocably on free society. He continued working with Germanfilm makers in France. Waxman did musical arranging and co-scoring, usually with Allan Gray, for approximately 15 European movies (his first independent score was in 1932). "The Blue Angel" producer Erich Pommer liked Waxman's work and offered him the composing job for Liliom (1934), directed by Fritz Lang in France.
Pommer decided to do Music in the Air (1934), a Jerome Kern musical, which meant going to Hollywood. Waxman was asked to come along to do the arranging. Needing no further reason to remain in Europe as the Nazi clouds darkened over it, Waxman began a new chapter in Hollywood film music history. He fortunately had some spare time to study with 'Arnold Schoenberg' after coming to Los Angeles, but he was soon talking to another new arrival, English director James Whale, about scoring Bride of Frankenstein (1935) for Universal. Waxman gave Whale what he wanted--an unusual score to fit the quirky, somewhat over-the-top content of the film (in fact, some of this score was later used in other films). As Waxman worked for Universal through the 1930s, he found himself in assembly-line mode, sometimes sharing scoring credit, and doing a lot of arranging stock music, which was usually used for the studio's many serials. This cranked up Waxman's yearly film output to around 20 or so through 1940.
By 1940, however, he was composing original music scores for other studios, beginning with the romantic music for Selznick Studios' Rebecca (1940)--the first Hollywood film for Alfred Hitchcock--and whimsical fare for MGM's The Philadelphia Story (1940). In 1941 he was doing more work for MGM with Honky Tonk (1941) and his second Hitchcock score, Suspicion (1941) from RKO. By 1943 and for the rest of the decade Waxman was usually scoring for Warner Bros., starting with Destination Tokyo (1943) and including music for some of that studio's classics of the period, such as To Have and Have Not (1944) with Humphrey Bogart. Through the decade he was nominated for an Oscar seven times for Best Film Score.
Waxman moved on to Paramount through the first half of the 1950s and garnered his two Oscars in back--to-back wins for Sunset Blvd. (1950) and A Place in the Sun (1951). This recognition finally underscored what was at the heart of all of Waxman's music: seriously focused attention on relaying a film's story through the content of the music. He would continue his scoring work for several studios into the 1960s, with three more nominations. Some of his music in the 1950s was recycled from his previous scores, as in the case of his third assignment for Hitchcock, Rear Window (1954) which contained used music. Waxman was also active in contemporary classical music. In 1947 he founded the Los Angeles International Music Festival and, as Music Director and Conductor, brought the premieres of works by world renowned contemporary composers to the Los Angeles cultural scene. Among his own output of such music was his popular "Carmen Fantasy" for violin and orchestra. Waxman also composed for TV's Gunsmoke (1955), The Fugitive (1963), Peyton Place (1964) (he had composed the music for the film the series was based on, Peyton Place (1957)) and others. Waxman died relatively young, but because of his steady output, only fellow emigrant Max Steiner (who was nearly 20 years older and whose output entailed more than 200 arrangements of stock music, rather than original scores) was a more prolific early Hollywood composer.- Gila von Weitershausen was born on 21 March 1944 in Trebnitz, Silesia, Germany [now Trzebnica, Dolnoslaskie, Poland]. She is an actress, known for Engelchen - oder die Jungfrau von Bamberg (1968), Murmur of the Heart (1971) and Itinerary of a Spoiled Child (1988). She was previously married to Dr. Hartmut Wahle and Martin Lüttge.
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Robert Wiene was born on 24 April 1873 in Breslau, Silesia, Germany [now Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland]. He was a writer and director, known for The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), Das wandernde Licht (1916) and The Knight of the Rose (1925). He died on 17 July 1938 in Paris, France.- Actress
- Soundtrack
Judy Winter was born on 4 January 1944 in Friedland in Oberschlesien, Upper Silesia, Germany [now Korfantów, Opolskie, Poland]. She is an actress, known for Woman Doctors (1984), Liebe ist nur ein Wort (1971) and Und Jimmy ging zum Regenbogen (1971).- Tatja Seibt was born on 3 March 1944 in Breslau, Silesia, Germany [now Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland]. She is an actress, known for Wahnfried (1986), Homesick (2015) and Dark (2017).
- Amadeus August was born on 6 May 1942 in Breslau, Silesia, Germany [now Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland]. He was an actor, known for Quentin Durward (1971), Bloody Friday (1972) and La conquête du ciel (1980). He died on 6 July 1992 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.
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- Composer
Alfred Balthoff was born on 8 December 1905 in Peiskretscham, Upper Silesia, Germany [now Pyskowice, Slaskie, Poland]. He was an actor and composer, known for The Marriage of Figaro (1949), Sherlock Holmes (1967) and O'Flaherty (1967). He died on 8 March 1989 in Vienna, Austria.- Actor
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The immensely prolific actor Reinhard Glemnitz was trained at the Otto-Falckenberg-School in Munich and launched his career on Cologne's cabaret scene. He worked for Bavarian radio, then went on the stage in Wuppertal and in 1961 joined the Bavarian State Theatre in Munich as an ensemble member. Some twenty years later, he was able to celebrate his greatest theatrical success in Vienna, Berlin and Munich as Colonel Juan Peron in the musical Evita. In 1996 he scored another hit as the idiosyncratic, parsimonious Horace Vandergelder (the role played by Walter Matthau in the film) in Hello Dolly at the Komödie im Bayerischen Hof .
In films from 1954, Glemnitz began by playing soldiers, public officials and attorneys. By the mid-60s, he had segued into episodic television, making repeat appearances in the cold war espionage series Die fünfte Kolonne (1963) and in Germany's first entry into the science fiction genre on TV, Raumpatrouille - Die phantastischen Abenteuer des Raumschiffes Orion (1966). However, Glemnitz was to become most famous for his crime dramas, first as narrator of the intro for Das Kriminalmuseum (1963), and, secondly, from 1968 to 1975, as Erik Ode's logical thinking offsider Inspektor Robert Heines in Der Kommissar (1969). This role garnered Glemnitz, along with three other cast members, an impressive 5 Bambi Awards (1970, 1971, 1972, 1973 and 1975). Prior to his retirement from the screen in 2006, he made guest appearances on other diverse TV shows like Der Millionenbauer (1979), Forsthaus Falkenau (1989), Derrick (1974) and Tatort (1970). He has also occasionally portrayed historical characters like Johann Reichsgraf von Aldringen (1588-1634) in the 4-part period drama Wallenstein (1978) and General Hans Speidel (1897-1984) in the American miniseries War and Remembrance (1988) .
Few others have made a more substantial contribution to the art of voice acting. Reinhard Glemnitz has been the German dubbing voice for a multitude of stars, including Patrick Stewart, Robert Duvall, Christopher Plummer, Michael Caine, Bruce Dern and Anthony Perkins. He narrated the classic Franco-German adventure series Der Seewolf (1971) from the perspective of its protagonist (Edward Meeks). He provided the German voice for Murray Hamilton in Jaws (1975), Edward Fox in A Bridge Too Far (1977), Richard Harris in Camelot (1967), Mitch Pileggi in Stargate: Atlantis (2004) and Patrick Malahide (as Walsingham, in Elizabeth I (2005)) - these, and many, many more.- Actor
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Willy Fritsch was born on 27 January 1901 in Kattowitz, Upper Silesia, Germany [now Katowice, Slaskie, Poland]. He was an actor, known for Woman in the Moon (1929), Inglourious Basterds (2009) and Amphitryon (1935). He was married to Dinah Grace. He died on 13 July 1973 in Hamburg, Germany.- Actress
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- Director
Monica Teuber was born on 12 July 1942 in Breslau, Silesia, Germany [now Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland]. She is an actress and producer, known for Magdalene (1988), Jamila (1995) and Red Heat (1985). She is married to Hans-Christoph von Goetz.- Thekla Carola Wied was born on 5 February 1944 in Breslau, Silesia, Germany [now Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland]. She is an actress, known for Ich heirate eine Familie... (1983), Spur eines Mädchens (1967) and Wie gut, daß es Maria gibt (1990). She has been married to Hannes Rieckhoff since 1992.
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Wolfgang Liebeneiner was a German-Austrian film director, stage and film actor. He was born as Wolfgang Georg Louis Liebeneiner in Liebau, Lower Silesia, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire (now Lubawka, Poland). His father was in the textile business. Wolfgang was sent to the cadet schools in Wahlstatt (now Legnickie Pole) and Berlin-Lichterfelde, and went for further schooling to Berlin-Zehlendorf. After graduating, he studied philosophy, German studies and international history in Innsbruck (Austria), Berlin and Munich. He became a professor of the Economy Spielschar. From 1930 till 1934 he played at the capital's "Deutsches Theater". In 1935 he married actress Ruth Hellberg, but the marriage went on the rocks. From 1936 till 1944 he was a member of the "Preußisches Staatstheater" in Berlin. From 1938 to 1943 he was an art director at the Film Academy in Babelsberg (now district of Potsdam). In 1942 to 1945 he was leader of the UFA Studio. He usually played young lovers in about 20 films. He also had bit parts in films that he directed. Afterwards he also worked for TV films and series.
In 1944 he married Yugoslavian actress Hilde Krahl, whom he met during the filming of Yvette (1938). They have had two daughters, of which Johanna also became an actress. Wolfgang Liebeneiner died in Mödling near Vienna, Austria.- Alexander Lockwood was born on 5 May 1902 in Polish Ostrava, Silesia, Austria-Hungary [now Ostrava, Czech Republic]. He was an actor, known for Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964) and Matinee Theatre (1955). He died on 25 January 1990 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Otto Klemperer was born on 14 May 1885 in Breslau, Silesia, Germany [now Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland]. He is known for The Darjeeling Limited (2007), Jude (1996) and Shadows and Fog (1991). He was married to Johanna Klemperer. He died on 6 July 1973 in Zurich, Switzerland.- Actor
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Wolfgang Reichmann was born on 7 January 1932 in Beuthen, Upper Silesia, Germany [now Bytom, Slaskie, Poland]. He was an actor and director, known for Othello (1968), Von Mäusen und Menschen (1968) and Der seidene Schuh (1965). He died on 7 May 1991 in Waltalingen, Zurich, Switzerland.- Actor
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Christian Brückner was born on 17 October 1943 in Waldenburg, Silesia, Germany [now Walbrzych, Dolnoslaskie, Poland]. He is an actor, known for Inglourious Basterds (2009), Tatort (1970) and Liebling Kreuzberg (1986). He has been married to Waltraut Brückner since 1966. They have two children.- Krista Keller was born on 16 April 1931 in Hindenburg, Upper Silesia, Germany [now Zabrze, Slaskie, Poland]. She was an actress, known for Mariana Pineda (1965), Clavigo (1970) and Was ihr wollt (1954). She was married to Don Domenico, 12° Principe di Cerami, Barone della Torre e Mendola, Signore di Ganno, Pietrarossa e Fontana del Conte. She died on 8 October 1988 in Munich, Bavaria, West Germany.
- Günter Spörrle was born on 2 February 1936 in Birkowitz, Oppeln, Silesia, Germany [now Bierkowice, Opole, Opolskie, Poland]. He is an actor, known for Lindenstraße (1985), Tatort (1970) and Hamburg Transit (1970).
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Siegmund Lubin was born on 20 April 1851 in Breslau, Silesia, Germany [now Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland]. He was a producer and director, known for Uncle Tom's Cabin (1903), Passion Play (1900) and Thrilling Detective Story (1906). He was married to Annie Abrams. He died on 10 September 1923 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA.- Director
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He was known as 'the man who spoke for the animals'. A public relations genius, Professor Bernhard Grzimek not only managed to create nationwide interest in the plight of endangered species and threatened habitats, but actively raised in excess of five million Marks in donations via his television show "Ein Platz für Tiere" ("A Place for Animals",1956-87). The series ran for 175 episodes, ending with Grzimek's death in1987. Entertainers performed for him without pay and he even motivated school kids to help collect funds to equip rangers for Africa's national wildlife parks. Veterinarian and behavioral scientist, Grzimek assumed the directorship of Frankfurt's Zoological Garden in 1945, a position he held until his retirement in 1974. For those 29 years, he was instrumental in modernizing zoological displays and animal enclosures, introducing educational slide shows, films and audio tapes, providing windows for the public to view food preparation and animal husbandry. In addition to breeding endangered species, Frankfurt's was the first European zoo to feature a special section which provided care for orphaned baby animals, including gorillas, orang-utans, panthers, lions and bears. Frankfurt's Zoological Society (for which Grzimek served as president) stood in the forefront of international conservation. Not shying away from controversy or confrontation, Grzimek was one of the first to vociferously oppose the factory farming of chickens on a political level.
His status as a major public figure was confirmed with the release of his documentary Bambuti (1956). An even more successful sequel followed, the Academy Award-winning Serengeti (1959). Sadly, it cost the life of Grzimek's son Michael (until then his closest collaborator), aged 24, killed in a plane crash during filming. Between 1967 and 1974, Grzimek published a 13-volume encyclopedia, entitled "Grzimeks Tierleben". He received numerous awards, including the Federal Cross of Merit (Großes Bundesverdienstkreuz). His legacy survives in zoos around the world today.- Producer
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Dieter Geissler was born on 18 January 1939 in Beuthen, Upper Silesia, Germany. He is a producer and actor, known for The NeverEnding Story (1984), Sleepy Hollow (1999) and The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter (1990).- Writer
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Joy Adamson was born on 20 January 1910 in Troppau, Silesia, Austria-Hungary [now Opava, Czech Republic]. She was a writer, known for Born Free (1998), Born Free (1966) and Living Free (1972). She was married to George Adamson, Peter René Oscar Bally and Victor Isidor Ernst Ritter von Klarwill. She died on 3 January 1980 in Shaba National Reserve, Kenya.- Actor
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Eberhard Fechner was born on 21 October 1926 in Liegnitz, Silesia, Germany [now Legnica, Dolnoslaskie, Poland]. He was an actor and director, known for Ein Kapitel für sich (1979), Winterspelt 1944 (1978) and Tatort (1970). He was married to Jannet Gefken, Ingrid Fechner and Margot Krell. He died on 7 August 1992 in Hamburg, Germany.- Actor
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Harald Dyrenforth started his career as an actor in the late thirties in the Swiss theatre and radio, came to America in 1938, appeared in a number of Broadway plays and New York radio shows, served a hitch in the U.S. Army Ski Troops and another one as a foreign language broadcaster for the Office of War Information and "voice of America" of the U.S. State Department. In 1946 he made his movie debut in a featured part, that of Walter Damrosch in the film "Carnegie Hall." He appeared in over 40 pictures and 500 TV shows. He earned a Master's Degree in Theater Arts at U.C.L.A. and taught at Chapman College in Orange, CA while working as an actor and director. In 1961 he directed "the Madwoman of Chaillot" at Long Beach State College.- Actor
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One of the most popular and prolific character comedians of post-war German cinema, Georg Thomalla began his working life as an apprentice cook. In 1932, he joined a theatrical troupe and, before long, acted on stage in Berlin. After the war, he became a celebrated star of cabaret, an ensemble member of the 'Kabarett der Komiker'. In films from 1939, it took several years before his comic talent came to the fore. Stardom eventually arrived in the wake of Helmut Käutner's farce Fanfaren der Liebe (1951), in which the diminutive Thomalla appeared in drag as a member of a female orchestra. Thereafter, he remained consistently in demand for lightweight entertainments, which benefited from his considerable improvisational skills, quick wit and staccato delivery. His stock-in-trade screen personae were eccentric, befuddled and generally accident-prone bachelors, or out-of-their-depths fathers or husbands, who usually tended to fall victim to their own ineptitude.
In addition to numerous 'Paukerfilme' and 'Klamotten' (bawdy comedies, which may, or may not, be 'old hat'), Thomalla also played his fair share of comic sidekicks or friends of the hero, a noteworthy example being Kara Ben Nemsi's loquacious, but intensely loyal manservant and companion Hadschi Halef Omar in Karl May's Die Sklavenkarawane (1958). From 1961, Thomalla devoted more and more time to appearing in television and to voice-over work. He starred in his own half-hourly TV show, Komische Geschichten mit Georg Thomalla (1961), in which he played an average Joe afflicted by middle-age angst and confronted by a variety of everyday problems. This was essentially a German derivation from the British series Hancock (1961).
Though rarely seen in 'serious' roles, Thomalla did give at least one sensitive dramatic performance as a helpful truck driver in Käutner's East-West romance Sky Without Stars (1955).- Peter Franke was born in 1941 in Breslau, Silesia, Germany [now Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland]. He is an actor, known for Die Gang (1997), Crooks Ltd. (2015) and The Genital Warriors (2014). He has been married to Donata Höffer since 1987. They have one child.
- Rüdiger Kirschstein was born on 11 January 1941 in Breslau, Silesia, Germany [now Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland]. He is an actor, known for Auf Achse (1980), Tatort (1970) and Die Wollands (1973).
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Siegfried Kühn was born on 14 March 1935 in Breslau, Silesia, Germany [now Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland]. He is a director and writer, known for Zeit der Störche (1971), Unterwegs nach Atlantis (1977) and Romeo und Julia auf dem Dorfe (1984). He is married to Irma Grefte. He was previously married to Katrin Sass and Regine Kühn.- Cinematographer
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Eugen Schüfftan moved from his motherland, Germany, to France in 1933 to escape the rising Nazi movement. He moved to the US in 1940 and became a member of Local 644, the East Coast cinematographers chapter of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE). He invented the Schüfftan Process for optical special effects that was used until it was replaced by the simpler matte method. He received the Academy Award for black and white cinematography in 1962 for The Hustler (1961).
For a variety of reasons, Schufftan did not receive proper screen credit for many films he photographed. Director Edgar G. Ulmer, who worked with Schufftan on several films, said it was because he wasn't in the ASC (American Society of Cinematographers) and therefore wasn't allowed to take screen credit. Ulmer said that on one or two of the films he made with Schufftan he was forced to credit Jockey Arthur Feindel, the camera operator, as the cinematographer because of that.- Actress
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Elfie von Kalckreuth was born on 22 May 1937 in Breslau, Silesia, Germany. She is an actress and producer, known for Face of the Frog (1959), Kein Mann zum Heiraten (1959) and Endstation Rote Laterne (1960).- Actor
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Peter Lustig was born on 27 October 1937 in Breslau, Silesia, Germany [now Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland]. He was an actor and writer, known for Löwenzahn (1981), Pusteblume (1979) and Mittendrin (1989). He was married to Astrid Berge, Elfie Donnelly and ???. He died on 23 February 2016 in Husum, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.- Liane Hielscher was born on 9 November 1935 in Schweidnitz, Lower Silesia, Germany [now Swidnica, Dolnoslaskie, Poland]. She was an actress, known for Cliff Dexter (1966), Amouren (1972) and Engel, die ihre Flügel verbrennen (1970). She died on 26 January 2000 in Bad Aibling, Bavaria, Germany.
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Peter Thomas was born on 1 December 1925 in Breslau, Silesia, Germany [now Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland]. He was a composer and actor, known for Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002), The Big Boss (1971) and Escape to Berlin (1961). He was married to Cordy Thomas. He died on 17 May 2020 in Lugano, Cantone Ticino, Switzerland.- Siegurd Fitzek was born on 24 December 1928 in Breslau, Silesia, Germany [now Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland]. He was an actor, known for Verräter (1967), Wie eine Träne im Ozean (1970) and Unruhige Nacht (1955). He was married to Evamaria Böhme. He died on 24 February 2022 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.
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Gerhart Hauptmann was born on 15 November 1862 in Obersalzbrunn, Lower Silesia, Germany [now Szczawno-Zdrój, Dolnoslaskie, Poland]. He was a writer and actor, known for Faust (1926), Rose Bernd (1919) and Die Weber (1927). He was married to Margarete Marschalk and Marie Thienemann. He died on 6 June 1946 in Jagniatków, Jelenia Góra, Dolnoslaskie, Poland.- Actor
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Herbert A.E. Böhme was born on 7 September 1897 in Breslau, Silesia, Germany [now Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland]. He was an actor, known for ...reitet für Deutschland (1941), Knight of 100 Faces (1960) and Ein Robinson (1940). He died on 29 June 1984 in Hamburg, West Germany.- Margarete Kupfer was born on 10 April 1881 in Freystadt in Schlesien, Lower Silesia, Germany [now Kozuchów, Lubuskie, Poland]. She was an actress, known for Nathan der Weise (1922), Woman in the Moon (1929) and Sumurun (1920). She died on 11 May 1953 in East Berlin, East Germany.
- Born in 1892 in Breslau, Silesia (now Wroclaw, Poland) Richthofen was the son of a hereditary baron. A daredevil for life, he was an avid hunter and mountain climber. With Germany's entrance into WW1 in 1914, Richthofen mobilized in a Silesian cavalry unit, and survived the first battle of Verdun in 1915. Soon after, he transferred to the Luftwaffe (Imperial German Air Force) as a bombardier. By 1916, however, he was tapped for training in the then-new art of fighter combat, flying an Albatros D.2 in March, 1916. By the end of 1916, Richthofen was a certified ace, having downed over 20 aircraft, including the number one British ace up to that time, Maj. Lanoe Hawker. Due to his tally, Richthofen earned the medal "Pour le Merite" (yes, the official name's in French) in December 1916. Throughout the rest of the war, the legend of the Red Baron continued to grow, as did his kill tally, officially reaching 80 kills in April 1918. On April 21 of that year, Richthofen led a routine strafing mission against the British trenches in the Somme region and was killed with a single .303 bullet to the chest, most likely fired from the ground.
- Axel Scholtz was born on 1 March 1935 in Schweidnitz, Lower Silesia, Germany [now Swidnica, Dolnoslaskie, Poland]. He is an actor, known for Tatort (1970), Verbotene Liebe (1995) and Zwei Münchner in Hamburg (1989).
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Sylvia de Leur was born on 30 May 1933 in Breslau, Silesia, Germany [now Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland]. She was an actress, known for Reagan: Let's Finish the Job (1986), De vloek van Woestewolf (1974) and De overval (1962). She died on 20 April 2006 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.- Music Department
Anita Lasker-Wallfisch was born on 17 July 1925 in Breslau, Silesia, Germany. She is known for Auschwitz (2015), We Shall Not Die Now (2019) and Pechmarie - Das Leben der Maria Mandl (2014). She was previously married to Peter Wallfisch.- Writer
- Music Department
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was born on 4 February 1906 in Breslau, Silesia, Germany. He was a writer, known for Herzlichst, Heinz Rühmann (1990) and Von Guten Mächten Wunderbar Geborgen (2020). He died on 8 April 1945 in Flossenbürg concentration camp, Bavaria, Germany.- Rochus Misch was born on 29 July 1917 in Alt Schalkowitz, Silesia, Germany [now Stare Siolkowice, Opolskie, Poland]. He was married to Gerda Lacjmund. He died on 5 September 2013 in Berlin, Germany.
- Actress
- Soundtrack
Katja Ebstein was born on 9 March 1945 in Girlachsdorf, Silesia, Germany [now Gniewków, Poland]. She is an actress, known for Look Who's Back (2015), L'homme qui vient de la nuit (1971) and Gisbert (1999). She was previously married to Klaus Überall and Christian Bruhn.- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Philipp Sonntag was born on 18 December 1941 in Bad Warmbrunn, Lower Silesia, Germany [now Cieplice Slaskie, Jelenia Góra, Dolnoslaskie, Poland]. He is an actor and director, known for The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), Sag mal Aah! (1991) and Verbotene Liebe (1995).- Actor
- Additional Crew
Randolf Kronberg was born on 23 September 1942 in Breslau, Silesia, Germany [now Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland]. He was an actor, known for Inside Out (1975), Stern ohne Himmel (1980) and Der aufrechte Gang (1976). He died on 2 March 2007 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.- Composer
- Editor
- Music Department
Hans Erdmann was born on 7 November 1882 in Breslau, Silesia, Germany [now Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland]. He was a composer and editor, known for Nosferatu (1922), The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933) and Der tolle Bomberg (1932). He died on 21 November 1942 in Berlin, Germany.