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- Thomas Kretschmann was born in East Germany. Before becoming an actor, he was a swimmer. He has acted in several popular American movies, such as Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004), The Pianist (2002), U-571 (2000), In Enemy Hands (2004), etc. He has three children, Nicolas, Stella and Sascha with his ex-girlfriend Lena.
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He grew up in middle-class circumstances with two sisters. Before his hometown was 90 percent destroyed by air raids, his parents brought him to Quedlinburg. After the war, Didi Hallervorden returned to Dessau, where he completed primary school as one of the best in the district. The SED leadership still did not want to allow Hallervorden to attend a high school. His father then fought successfully for months to get his son transferred. Hallervorden graduated from high school at the age of 17. He then studied Romance languages at East Berlin's Humboldt University and showed tourists around as an interpreter. Since he did not adhere to the guidelines of the "workers' and farmers' state" in this work, he got into trouble with the authorities, which led him to flee to West Berlin in 1958.
At the Free University of Berlin, Hallervorden continued his studies in Romance studies, journalism and theater studies. He soon turned his hobby, theater, into a career by securing a training position with Marlise Ludwig at what was then the most renowned private school in Berlin. Hallervorden often played theater, dropped out of his studies and founded the political-satirical cabaret "Die Wühlmäuse" with colleagues in West Berlin. Hallervorden is still the director of the cabaret today. He wrote around two dozen programs, toured Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Denmark many times and soon received offers from radio and television stations. But Hallervorden also got into trouble and was banned from appearing at all stations for five years because of censorship violations. Afterwards he achieved many successes again.
His programs and appearances on WDR, for example in "Strange Encounter", "Millionaire Game", "Springteufel", "Abramakabra", "Grand Gala" and "Lästerlexikon" made him a star. He moved to SDR, where he produced "Nonstop Nonsens" and had his greatest success on television. In 1981 he received the media award "Bambi" for "Nonstop Nonsens". Hallervorden released numerous long-playing records, over 30 singles and ten films, the most successful of which include "Alles im Bucket" (1981), "Didi, the Doppelgänger" (1984) and "Didi, the Expert" (1988). In addition, there were ten episodes of the "Didi" show and the founding of his company "Halliwood", with which he produced the "Spottschau". From his first marriage to his long-time stage partner Rotraud Schindler, Hallervorden became the father of Dieter (1963) and Nathalie (1966). He also has another daughter, who was born in 1986. His second marriage is to Elena Blume, who gave birth to their son Johannes in 1998. Dieter Hallervorden lived alternately in Berlin and Trégastel, France, on an idyllic private island.
From 1994, Hallervorden worked for ARD again and brought out his political-satirical series "Spott-Light", which became a long-lasting success and ran until the new millennium. For moderation of the session "Do you understand fun?" Hallervorden received the "telestar" in 1996. On March 4, 2000, ARD showed a "Spott-Light Special" in honor of the 40th anniversary of the cabaret "Die Wühlmäuse". Hallervorden's next TV project was called "Zebralla" (2000/01), a grotesque family series. In January 2004, Hallervorden was awarded the honorary prize of the "German Comedy Prize". In 2005 he was awarded the honorary award of the "Bavarian Cabaret Prize". In November 2005 he published his autobiography under the title "Whoever tries to smile... An autobiographical look back to the future". In 2006 Hallervorden was made an honorary citizen of the city of Dessau. In 2012, he played a child molester in the thriller "The Child." In 2013 he starred in the film drama "His Last Race". In 2014 he portrayed a man suffering from Alzheimer's in "Honey in the Head".- Actress
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Brigitte Grothum was born in Dessau (Saxony-Anhalt), the daughter of an engineer and a teacher and a niece of German aviation pioneer Hans Grade. In Berlin from the age of fifteen, she completed her matriculation at the Ricarda Huch School. Early on, she had aspirations of becoming a pianist, but a broken finger put paid to that. Instead, she took acting lessons under Marlise Ludwig and Herma Clement and debuted on the stage, now aged nineteen, at the Tempelhofer Zimmertheater. Since then, Grothum has been almost continuously engaged at various theatres, mainly in Berlin, but also in Frankfurt and Zurich. From 1987, she added to her reputation as a stage director/producer, beginning with her adaptation of Jedermann by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Grothum was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2000 for her contribution to the theatre.
In films from 1955, Grothum had an early lead as the titular heroine in the equestrian wartime drama Das Mädchen Marion (1956). She was then cast as Grethe Weiser's daughter in the comedy Lemkes sel. Witwe (1957) and Elisabeth Bergner's in the family saga Die glücklichen Jahre der Thorwalds (1962). Her main breakthrough came opposite the eccentric Klaus Kinski (with whom she developed a long-standing friendship) in the Edgar Wallace thriller Die seltsame Gräfin (1961). She appeared in two more Wallace adaptations, Das Gasthaus an der Themse (1962) (again with Kinski as the shady Gregor Gubanoff, who worked ostensibly in "imports and exports") and Der Fluch der gelben Schlange (1963). Her roles on the small screen have included the Dürrenmatt adaption of Romulus der Große (1965), the three-part Francis Durbridge miniseries Ein Mann namens Harry Brent (1968) and guest appearances in episodes of popular crime shows like Tatort (1970), Der Alte (1977) and Der Kriminalist (2006). In the long-running cult TV series Drei Damen vom Grill (1977) she was acclaimed for her dual role of Magda Färber/Marion Mann alongside veterans Brigitte Mira and Harald Juhnke.
In addition to that substantial volume of work on stage and screen, Grothum has also been (from 1957) a prolific voice-over actress, dubbing for, among others, Diana Rigg (in The Avengers (1961)), Lee Remick, Barbara Eden, Angie Dickinson, Diane Keaton, Carol Lynley and Yvonne De Carlo.
Grothum has been married twice. Her second husband (of fifty years) was the orthopedist Manfred Weigert with whom she had two children, the actress Debora Weigert and production manager Tobias Weigert.- Alexandra Gottschlich was born in 1982 in Dessau, Germany. She is an actress, known for 1899 (2022), Die Toten von Marnow (2021) and Über die Grenze (2017).
- Lyudmila Artemeva was born on 10 February 1963 in Dessau, GDR [now Saxony-Anhalt, Germany]. She is an actress, known for Svaty (2008), Baryshnya-krestyanka (1995) and Bolshaya sekunda (2021).
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Kurt Weill was born on 2 March 1900 in Dessau, Germany. He was a composer and writer, known for Die Dreigroschenoper (1963), Knickerbocker Holiday (1944) and The Thomas Crown Affair (1999). He was married to Lotte Lenya. He died on 3 April 1950 in New York City, New York, USA.- Horst Bollmann was born on 11 February 1925 in Dessau, Germany. He was an actor, known for Das ausgefüllte Leben des Alexander Dubronski (1967), Wie ein Blitz (1970) and Tatort (1970). He was married to Hetty Jockenhöfer. He died on 7 July 2014 in Berlin, Germany.
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Ursula Herking was born on 28 January 1912 in Dessau, Germany. She was an actress, known for Die 4 Gesellen (1938), Tim Frazer (1963) and Frau Luna (1941). She was married to Dr. Ulrich Glass and Dr. Johannes Semler. She died on 17 November 1974 in Munich, Bavaria, West Germany.- Actor
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Helmut Straßburger was born on 11 January 1930 in Dessau, Germany. He was an actor and director, known for Unser kurzes Leben (1981), Emilia Galotti (1958) and Mohr und die Raben von London (1968). He was married to Erika Straßburger and Astrid Strassburger. He died on 19 June 2010 in Berlin, Germany.- Actress
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Susanne Evers was born on 6 January 1970 in Dessau, East Germany. She is an actress, known for Lindenstraße (1985), Lindenstraße: Finstere Weihnacht (2006) and Lost in Generation (2006).- Greta Meyer was born on 7 August 1883 in Dessau, Germany. She was an actress, known for De jantjes (1922), Mister Dynamite (1935) and The Nuisance (1933). She died on 8 October 1965 in Gardena, California, USA.
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Katja Frenzel-Röhl was born on 17 May 1974 in Dessau, German Democratic Republic [now Saxony-Anhalt, Federal Republic of Germany]. She is an actress, known for Unter uns (1994), Rote Rosen (2006) and Tiere bis unters Dach (2010).- Director
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Gerd Kroske, born in Dessau (former GDR) in 1958, was an apprentice concrete worker and subsequently pursued studies in the arts & cultural sciences (1980-87). Before that He was a long year political leader\youth instructor for the East German SED Party. He began working as a dramatist and screenwriter for the DEFA documentaries Studio in Berlin in 1987 and completed a study in directing at the HFF-Babelsberg. Has been directing his own documentaries since 1989. Producer of Realistfilm since 1996.- Director
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Peter Voigt was born on 26 May 1933 in Dessau, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. He was a director and writer, known for Ein Mann seltener Art (1970), Knabenjahre (1989) and Bertolt Brecht: Bild und Modell (2006). He died on 12 March 2015 in Berlin, Germany.- Director
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Petra Lataster-Czisch was born on 18 June 1954 in Dessau, German Democratic Republic. She is a director and writer, known for De kinderen van juf Kiet (2016), Als we het zouden weten (2008) and Verhalen van een rivier (1994).- Joost Siedhoff was born on 27 June 1926 in Dessau, Germany. He was an actor, known for Æon Flux (2005), Beyond the Sea (2004) and Los amantes del Círculo Polar (1998). He died on 28 June 2022 in Germany.
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Maria von der Osten-Sacken was born on 17 November 1901 in Dessau, Germany. She was a writer and producer, known for Der dunkle Stern (1955), Sterne über Colombo (1953) and Mein Mädchen ist ein Postillion (1958). She died on 17 December 1985 in Munich, Germany.- Writer
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Anne Dessau was born on 9 February 1934 in Dessau, Germany. She is a writer and actress, known for Die Millionen der Yvette (1956), Zur See (1977) and Kriminalfälle ohne Beispiel (1967). She was previously married to Helmut Müller-Lankow.- Director
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Sigrid Faltin was born in 1956 in Dessau, East Germany [now Saxony-Anhalt, Germany]. She is a director and writer, known for La Paloma. Sehnsucht. Weltweit (2008), Kinder! Liebe! Hoffnung! Ein dramatisches Jahr mit einer Patchwork-Familie (2013) and Die Kanarischen Inseln (2013).- Music Department
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Detlef Rothe was born in 1954 in Dessau, German Democratic Republic. He is an actor, known for Salto postale (1993), Das war der wilde Osten (1992) and Salto kommunale (1998).- Fritz Brünske was born on 22 December 1905 in Dessau, Germany. He is an actor, known for Das Herz der Königin (1940), Das ist Stern schnuppe (1964) and Autoverleih Pistulla (1974).
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Nadja Götze started her career in Moscow where she started painting at the Art Academy Moscow before she moved to Austria where she studied architecture at the academy of fine arts in Vienna and won her first two architecture prizes. After graduating she worked as a stage design assistant at the renown Burgtheater Vienna. During her studies in the production design class at the Filmacademy of Baden-Württemberg, she worked for many different Filmproductions. Shortly after she successfully finished her studies at the Filmacademy of Baden-Württemberg in 2016, she was awarded twice for "Best Art Direction" at the New York Festival and Young Ones ADC. Nadja Götze lives and works as a production designer and art director in Berlin and Leipzig.- Karl-Heinz Kämmerling was born on 6 May 1930 in Dessau, Germany. He died on 14 June 2012 in Hannover, Germany.
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Werner Kreiseler was born on 12 January 1920 in Dessau, Germany. He is a director and actor, known for Drei Landratten und das Meer (1963), Alle treiben Sport (1969) and Zeugen der Vergangenheit (1959).- Edda Renger was born on 23 October 1941 in Dessau, Germany. She is an actress, known for Schwarz Rot Gold (1982), Die Schwarzwaldklinik (1985) and Die Pfefferkörner (1999).