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- Urs Rechn was born in the former GDR, on January 18. 1978, in Halle/Saale, (Saxony - Anhalt, Germany,) to Günther Rechn (a renowned painter and graphic artist from Eastern Germany, GDR) and Beate Rechn, and was the second of their three children.
From 1987 onwards, Urs Rechn attended the Special Grammar School for Music "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" in Halle, where he excelled in Violoncello, French Horn and Singing. After the Fall of the Berlin Wall, the family relocated to Cottbus, Brandenburg, where Urs Rechn attended the 1. Academic High School for Music and Fine Arts "Heinrich Heine" and the Konservatorium Cottbus, where he protrude from the classes as the Junior Conductor of the youth symphony orchestra and brass band.
Despite having received no formal previous teaching in acting, Urs Rechn segued into an acting career, encouraged by the honoured and renowned East German Director and Impresario Christoph Schroth. He appeared on the stage plays "Hamlet" (1995), "The Beaver Coat" (1996) and "Steig' in das Traumboot der Liebe" (1996)and as a chorister in the Opera "The Magic Flute" (1995) on the State Theater Cottbus.
In 1997, owing to conscription , Urs Rechn went to the German paratroops and later to the German special forces. In the meantime, he played in several TV episodes thanks to an agreement with his Colonel. Upon completion of the active service in 2002, Urs Rechn attended the University of Music and Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" and graduated in 2004. He became then - and still is - a visiting scholar at this very institution.
Urs Rechn has been performing most of his acting time on stage: 2003-2005 Staatsschauspiel Dresden, 2005-2007 Landestheater Tübingen, 2008-2013 Theater Chemnitz, e.g.: "The Seagull" - Treblev / "A Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" - Brick / "The Merchant of Venice" - Antonio / "Julius Caesar" - Marcus Antonius / "Caligula" - Caligula / "A Streetcar Named Desire" - Stanley Kowalski / "The Threepenny Opera" - Jonathan Peachum. - Music Department
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Born February 23 1685 in Halle, Germany, he was christened "Georg Friederich Händel" but always signed his name "Georg Friedrich Händel". His father intended for him to go into law, but Händel studied music clandestinely and was eventually allowed to study under an organist. He achieved some success early on, and toured Italy in 1706. He briefly worked in Hannover before departing for London in 1711. While in England Händel composed a number of anthems, operas, and church music, and in 1723 he became a British citizen. He premiered "Messiah" in Ireland as a charity aid, and this quickly became his most famous work. He died early in the morning on 14 April 1759, and was buried in Westminster Abbey under a monument that reads: "George Frederic Handel". 3,000 people attended his funeral.- Actor
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Christoph Letkowski was born on 16 June 1982 in Halle/Saale, East Germany [now Halle (Saale), Saxony-Anhalt, Germany]. He is an actor and director, known for Parkour (2009), Nachtschicht (2003) and Blochin: Die Lebenden und die Toten (2015).- Reinhard Heydrich began his career as an officer in the post-World War I German navy. He was dishonorably discharged after becoming involved in an illicit love affair. The young woman became pregnant, but instead of marrying her, Heydrich met and soon got engaged to Lina von Osten. In 1930 Heydrich, now unemployed, was persuaded by his wife to join Adolf Hitler's National Socialist (Nazi) party, which he did the next year; he also became a member of the SS at that same time. As one of its first officers, Heydrich was tasked by Heinrich Himmler to expand the small organization into an internal security force to monitor the Nazi party. The result was the creation of the SD (Sicherheistdienst [Security Service]), which was combined, in 1934, with the Gestapo (Gestaatspolizei, or state secret police) to form the much feared SS Security Police, which Heydrich--now an SS Brigadier General--commanded. He played a major role in the destruction of the SA, known as the "storm troopers", which was an internal security service set up by Hitler but which he now suspected of plotting against him; the organization was destroyed and many of its officers, including its leader, Ernst Röhm, were murdered in June of 1934. For his services Heydrich was made a Lieutenant-General in the SS.
At the start of World War II Heydrich became commander of the consolidated Reich security forces, which he formed into the Reich Security Central Office of the SS. Also, by this time, Heydrich had become a major figure in the rounding up and planned extermination of Europe's Jews. On his orders, the SS-Einsatzgruppen--Special Groups--were created for the purpose of hunting down, rounding up and exterminating Jews in Poland and Russia. Three years later, in 1942, he chaired the infamous Wannsee Conference, where the decision was made to exterminate all the Jews of Europe. Promoted to SS-General (Obergruppenfuhrer), Heydrich was made the Reich Governor of Czechoslovakia at the start of 1942. Aware of how powerful, cunning and dangerous Heydrich was, British intelligence agents put together an operation designed to kill him, and trained and dispatched three Czech exiles to Prague. The assassination was carried out in May of 1942. Heydrich died a short while later, on June 4th, the same day of the historic Battle of Midway in the Pacific.
If ever a truly monstrous and evil man existed, it was Reinhard Heydrich, one of the masterminds of the Holocaust. In a horrific act of revenge, called "Operation Reinhard," Hitler had the entire village of Lidice, Czechoslovakia--near where Heydrich was killed--exterminated. All male inhabitants above the age of 15 were shot; all other residents were sent to concentration camps, and the village itself was physically wiped off the face of the earth. Heydrich was buried with full honors. His grave on the Invalidenfriedhof in Berlin is now anonymous in order to prevent any form of remembrance. - Karl Ludwig Diehl was born on 14 August 1896 in Halle an der Saale, Germany. He was an actor, known for Masken (1930), Der Mann, der nicht nein sagen kann (1938) and The Story of Vickie (1954). He was married to Mary von Ruffin. He died on 8 March 1958 in Gut Berghof, Penzberg, Bavaria, Germany.
- Henning Peker was born on 1 September 1966 in Halle an der Saale, German Democratic Republic. He is an actor, known for In the Fade (2017), Dark (2017) and Das Feuerschiff (2008).
- Paul Weigel was born on 18 February 1867 in Halle an der Saale, Province of Saxony, Prussia [now Saxony-Anhalt, Germany]. He was an actor, known for The Great Dictator (1940), Me und Gott (1918) and Mademoiselle Midnight (1924). He died on 25 May 1951 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Christian Schmidt was born on 13 May 1970 in Halle an der Saale, German Democratic Republic. He is an actor, known for The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008), Downfall (2004) and The Country Doctor (1987).- Director
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- Producer
Helga Reidemeister was born on 4 February 1940 in Halle an der Saale, Germany. She was a director and writer, known for Is This Fate? (1979), Gotteszell - Ein Frauengefängnis (2001) and Mein Herz sieht die Welt schwarz - Eine Liebe in Kabul (2009). She died on 29 November 2021 in Berlin, Germany.- Hilmar Thate was born on 17 April 1931 in Dölau, Saalkreis, Province of Saxony, Prussia [now Halle/Saale, Saxony-Anhalt], Germany. He was an actor, known for Veronika Voss (1982), Wege in die Nacht (1999) and Professor Mamlock (1961). He was married to Angelica Domröse and Lore. He died on 14 September 2016 in Berlin, Germany.
- Blanche Kommerell was born on 10 March 1950 in Halle an der Saale, German Democratic Republic. She is an actress, known for Jacob the Liar (1974), Little Red Riding-Hood (1962) and Eine Pyramide für mich (1975). She was previously married to Alexander Weigel and Achim Scholz.
- Johannes Kienast was born on 9 February 1986 in Halle an der Saale, Germany. He is an actor, known for Nymphomaniac: Vol. I (2013), Tradition (2019) and Axel der Held (2018).
- Marie Seiser was born on 10 May 1986 in Halle/Saale, East Germany [now Halle (Saale), Saxony-Anhalt, Germany]. She is an actress, known for Eyjafjallajökull Tam-Tam (2011), The Ground Beneath My Feet (2019) and SOKO München (1978).
- Uta Kargel was born on 28 May 1981 in Halle (Saale), East Germany [now Saxony-Anhalt, Germany]. She is an actress, known for Rote Rosen (2006), A Dream of a Man with a Light Bulb (2018) and Sunny Hill (2008).
- Gerhard Adolph was born on 20 September 1937 in Halle, Saale, Germany.
- Paul Paulsen was born on 21 January 1882 in Halle an der Saale, Germany. He was an actor, known for Thomas Müntzer (1956), Das verurteilte Dorf (1952) and Ernst Thälmann - Führer seiner Klasse (1955). He died on 29 June 1963 in Dresden, German Democratic Republic.
- He grew up as the son of the lawyer Kurt Genscher and the farmer's daughter Hilde Kreimein in Reideburg, then in nearby Halle, where the family moved in 1933. In 1943 he was drafted into the Second World War as an anti-aircraft assistant after leaving school at a high school in Halle. He was later deployed in the Reich Labor Service and again in military service in 1945. He was temporarily taken prisoner by the Americans, but was able to return to Halle immediately after the end of the war. There he initially made ends meet as an unskilled worker. In 1946 Genscher obtained his high school diploma. In the following 10 years, Genscher battled tuberculosis, which forced him to be hospitalized frequently. At the same time, he began studying law in Halle in 1946, which he later continued in Leipzig. After the first state law examination, Genscher worked as a court trainee in Halle from 1949 to 1952. In the meantime, the division of Germany had been sealed by the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic. Genscher moved to the Federal Republic, where he completed his studies at the University of Hamburg in 1954 with the second state examination.
Genscher's political commitment, which began in 1946 when he joined the Liberal Democratic Party, led him to the FDP in the West in 1952. In addition to his work as a lawyer in Bremen, he became involved with the local Young Democrats from 1954 onwards. From 1956 he dedicated himself to politics full-time: He initially worked in Bonn for the FDP parliamentary group, where he served as its managing director from 1959 to 1965. At the same time, he held the office of federal manager of his party from 1962 to 1964. In 1965, Genscher entered the Bundestag for the first time for the FDP, where he served as his party's parliamentary manager until 1969. In 1968 he was nominated as deputy party leader of the FDP. In Willy Brandt's social-liberal coalition government, Genscher headed the Interior Ministry from 1969 to 1974. Under Helmut Schmidt's subsequent chancellorship, he was put in charge of the Foreign Ministry, which he was to hold from 1974 to 1982.
During his 18 years as foreign minister, Genscher developed a continuous East-West dialogue that gave his détente policy a personal touch. He advocated the further development of the EC as a precursor to European unification. After the Soviet head of state and party leader Mikhail Gorbachev came to power, the German Foreign Minister strongly supported the reform process in the USSR, including with the West, which earned his détente and reconciliation course the label of "geneticism". Together with Chancellor Helmut Kohl, Genscher played a key role in the dramatic events in the fall of 1989 that led from the worsening crisis in the GDR to the waves of emigration and ultimately to the fall of the Wall. He prepared the diplomatic ground for German reunification in countless negotiations with his European neighbors, the USA and the USSR. The essential framework for achieving German unity was the integration of Germany into Europe, whose political union Genscher energetically promoted.
On May 18, 1992, Genscher resigned from the leadership of the Foreign Ministry at his own request, which passed to Klaus Kinkel. During his foreign policy work, Genscher also rose to become the leading figure in his party. From 1974 to 1985 he succeeded Walter Scheel as federal chairman of the FDP. On the occasion of the new elections in 1982, Genscher was significantly involved in the so-called "turnaround", which led to his party distancing itself from the SPD and turning to the CDU/CSU as the new coalition partner. In 1992, Hans Dietrich Genscher was made honorary chairman of the FDP. From 1994 to 1995 he accepted an honorary professorship in political science at the Free University. In 1999 he resumed his legal practice at the Büsing, Müffelmann and Theye law firm in Berlin. In 2000 he became managing partner of Hans-Dietrich Genscher Consult GmbH, providing advice, information and analysis on international, European and foreign trade issues. Although the politician continues to speak out critically in the public debate, he no longer ran for political office.
Genscher has received several awards for his services to German and European unity. For the same reason, he received the "Radio Rainbow Award" in Karlsruhe in March 2005 together with Kohl and Gorbachev. In 2014 he received the Marion Dönhoff Prize and in 2015 he was awarded the European Culture Prize.
Hans-Dietrich Genscher died on March 31, 2016 in Wachtberg-Pech. - Elisabeth Böhm was born in 1994 in Halle an der Saale, Germany. She is an actress, known for Tierärztin Dr. Mertens (2006), Inga Lindström (2004) and Liebe verlernt man nicht (2009).
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- Writer
Holger Hagen was born on 27 August 1915 in Halle (Saale), Germany. He was an actor and writer, known for Man on a String (1960), Das Glas Wasser (1960) and The Captain from Köpenick (1956). He was married to Bruni Löbel. He died on 16 November 1996 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.- Actor
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Lutz Harder was born in 1956 in Halle an der Saale, German Democratic Republic. He is an actor, known for Tatort (1970), Sounds of Emerging Beings: Part I (2023) and Sounds of Emerging Beings: Part II (2023).- Margot Honecker was born on 17 April 1927 in Halle/Saale, Germany. She was married to Erich Honecker. She died on 6 May 2016 in Santiago de Chile, Chile.
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- Music Department
- Actor
Heino Gaze was born on 20 February 1908 in Halle, Saale, Germany. He was a composer and actor, known for Wir tanzen auf dem Regenbogen (1952), Cuba Cabana (1952) and Musikparade (1956). He died on 24 October 1967 in West Berlin, West Germany.- Bodo Wolf was born on 18 August 1944 in Halle an der Saale, Germany. He was an actor, known for The Country Doctor (1987), In the Name of the Law (1994) and Coast Guard (1997). He died on 24 November 2023 in Neusalza-Spremberg, Görlitz, Saxony, Germany.
- Ernst Albert Schaach was born on 12 October 1900 in Halle an der Saale, Germany. He was an actor, known for G.P.U. (1942), The Hound of the Baskervilles (1937) and Rheinische Brautfahrt (1939). He died on 23 July 1975 in Berlin, West Germany.
- Music Department
- Composer
Max Reese was born on 15 August 1878 in Halle en Saale, Germany. He was a composer, known for Five Weeks in a Balloon (1962), Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961) and Pirates of Tortuga (1961). He was married to Josepha Seidel. He died on 22 December 1962 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Hans-Dieter Schlegel was born on 31 December 1925 in Halle/Saale, Germany. He was an actor, known for Karbid und Sauerampfer (1963), Das unsichtbare Visier (1973) and Der Hexer (1962). He died on 17 December 1987 in Bautzen, German Democratic Republic.
- Costume Designer
- Costume and Wardrobe Department
Saskia Richter-Haase was born on 1 April 1967 in Halle an der Saale, German Democratic Republic. She is a costume designer, known for Beloved Berlin Wall (2009), La fine del mare (2007) and Conversation with the Beast (1996).- Reinhold Nietschmann was born on 15 February 1907 in Halle an der Saale, Germany. He was an actor, known for Cliff Dexter (1966), Der versteinerte Wald (1957) and Die Affaire Dreyfus (1968). He died on 25 July 1971 in Hamburg, West Germany.
- Rene Schubert was born in 1966 in Halle an der Saale, German Democratic Republic. He is an actor, known for Das Versprechen (1994), Befreite Zone (2003) and Der Kinoerzähler (1993).
- Director
- Writer
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Christa Mühl was born on 11 June 1947 in Halle an der Saale, Germany. She was a director and writer, known for Für alle Fälle Stefanie (1995), Fritze Bollmann will nicht angeln (1994) and Stubbe - Von Fall zu Fall (1995). She died on 14 October 2019 in Berlin, Germany.- Music Department
Eva-Maria Pieckert was born on 7 September 1955 in Halle an der Saale, German Democratic Republic. She is known for Mensch, Oma! (1984), Marta, Marta (1979) and Zwischen Frühstück und Gänsebraten (1959).- Karl-Heinz Schulze was born on 15 October 1937 in Halle an der Saale, Germany. He is an actor, known for Rasputin (1966), Baby Bitchka (2020) and We Are Fine (2015).
- Director
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Writer
Michael Knof was born in 1949 in Halle an der Saale, German Democratic Republic. He is a director and assistant director, known for Lord Hansi (1991), Police Call 110 (1971) and Tatort (1970). He is married to Barbara Schnitzler.- Ludwig Achtel was born on 17 September 1929 in Halle an der Saale, Germany. Ludwig was a writer, known for Karriere N (1974), Ultimatum (1959) and Die Bombe (1961). Ludwig died on 27 May 2007 in Berlin, Germany.
- Monika Stenzel was born in 1949 in Halle an der Saale, Germany. She is an actress, known for Tatort (1970), Kein Pardon (1993) and Burning Life (1994).
- Producer
- Art Department
- Production Designer
Claudia Schölzel was born on 29 April 1976 in Halle an der Saale, German Democratic Republic. She is a producer and production designer, known for Joko und Klaas gegen ProSieben (2019), Joko gegen Klaas - Das Duell um die Welt (2012) and Antibodies (2005).- Sound Department
- Composer
- Editorial Department
Florian Marquardt was born in 1978 in Halle (Saale), German Democratic Republic. Florian is a composer, known for Entzauberungen (2010), Swinki (2009) and The Summer House (2014).- Production Designer
- Art Department
Lothar Kuhn was born on 30 April 1946 in Halle an der Saale, Germany. He was a production designer, known for Tatort (1970), Der Verdacht (1991) and Platz oder Sieg? (1981). He died on 13 January 2017.- Camera and Electrical Department
- Editorial Department
- Actor
Markus Kreuzwirth was born on 3 September 1983 in Halle an der Saale, German Democratic Republic. He is an actor, known for The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023), Uncharted (2022) and Munich: The Edge of War (2021).- Thilo Koch was born on 20 September 1920 in Kanena, Saalkreis, Province of Saxony, Prussia [now Halle/Saale, Saxony-Anhalt], Germany. He was a writer and actor, known for Interview mit der Geschichte (1964), Diesseits und jenseits der Zonengrenze (1960) and Thilo Koch berichtet (1964). He died on 12 September 2006 in Hausen ob Verena, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
- Walter Kröter was born on 22 June 1917 in Halle an der Saale, Germany. He was an actor, known for Zeit zu leben (1969), Der Staatsanwalt hat das Wort (1965) and Ich - Axel Caesar Springer (1968). He was married to Dolores Kröter. He died on 21 June 1992 in Berlin, Germany.
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- Music Department
Johannes Bauer was born on 22 July 1954 in Halle an der Saale, German Democratic Republic [now Germany]. He was an actor, known for Bernd Alois Zimmermann - Die Soldaten (2012), Soldier of the Road: A Portrait of Peter Brötzmann (2012) and Impro Quartet (1989). He died on 6 May 2016 in Berlin, Germany.- Writer
- Additional Crew
- Script and Continuity Department
Wolfgang Ebeling was born on 25 March 1929 in Halle an der Saale, Germany. He is a writer, known for Chingachgook, die grosse Schlange (1967), He Du! (1970) and Pyat dney - pyat nochey (1961).- Ilka Willner was born in 1975 in Halle an der Saale, German Democratic Republic. She is an actress, known for Caraba (2019), The Chairs Game (2018) and Das schaffen wir schon (2017).
- Writer
- Art Department
- Additional Crew
Alexander Kent was born on 17 September 1929 in Halle an der Saale, Germany. He was a writer, known for Mutter heiratet (1979), Ein Hahn im Korb (1978) and Krach im Hochhaus (1976). He died on 27 May 2007 in Berlin, Germany.- Additional Crew
- Writer
- Script and Continuity Department
Hedda Gehm was born on 5 January 1943 in Halle an der Saale, Germany. She was a writer, known for Die Leuchtturminsel (1977), Theo schützt sich vor Lärm (1978) and Dornröschen war ein schönes Kind (1988). She died on 1 January 2024 in Dresden, Saxony, Germany.- Producer
- Additional Crew
Mario Fischer was born on 2 June 1971 in Halle, Saale, Germany. He is a producer, known for Devotion (2003) and Der letzte Remix (2015).- Director
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- Editor
Born in Halle, East Germany in 1977. Raised in a small town of East Germany's most polluted industrial area and, at primary-school age, in northern Africa. At the age of 15, when the wall came down, back in Germany, he started creative work for several home computer companies, developing computer games.
In 2004 he founded the micro-budget film label VEB Film Leipzig with co-producer Thomas P. Bechholds.
Now living in Leipzig, Germany and Davos, Switzerland.- Huschke von Hanstein was born on 3 January 1911 in Halle an der Saale, Germany. He was an actor, known for Glückspilze (1971), Freie Fahrt (1962) and Als sie noch jung waren (1965). He was married to Ursula von Kaufmann. He died on 5 March 1996 in Stuttgart, Germany.
- Writer
- Editor
- Director
Nancy Brandt was born in 1979 in Halle an der Saale, German Democratic Republic. Nancy is a writer and editor, known for Elected (2015), What to Drink? (2003) and Die gute Lage (2006).