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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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Christian Friedel was born on 9 March 1979 in Magdeburg, East Germany [now Saxony-Anhalt, Germany]. He is an actor and music artist, known for The Zone of Interest (2023), 13 Minutes (2015) and Babylon Berlin (2017).- Actress
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Saskia Rosendahl was born on 9 July 1993 in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. She is an actress, known for Lore (2012), Never Look Away (2018) and The Girl in the Spider's Web (2018).- 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.- Writer
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Friedrich Nietzsche was raised having five women around him - his mother, grandmother, two aunts and a sister, all living together. His father, a Lutheran pastor, died when Nietzsche was 5 years old. After a Catholic school he studied music and Greco-Roman culture at the famous Schulpfora from 1858-1864, continued at the universities of Bonn, Leipzig and Basel, where he was a professor of classic philology for 12 years. His influences were: classic history, Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, writer Fyodor Dostoevsky and Jesus Christ, whom he called "Superman".
His main books are "The Gay Science", "Thus Spoke Zarathustra", "Beyond Good and Evil", "Twilight of the Idols" and the radical "Antichrist". Nietzsche analyzed foundations of values and morality through transformations of human nature and society. His contention that traditional values, religion and God, are not working in the modernized world, led to his conceptual statement: "God is dead." In replacement of God comes his concept of a superman - a rational, secure and highly independent individual. He lists Jesus, Socrates, Leonardo da Vinci, Shakespeare, Goethe and Napoleon as models or prototypes of a superman. His idealistic superman was often misinterpreted as a role for a dictator in a totalitarian society. Nitzsche's goal for this concept was mainly individualistic because of his despise of any crowd and attention to him. He considered any crowd as a main source of lies and manipulations. According to Nietzsche it is the independence that allows a superman to be truly original and creative.
His sarcastic humor and contradictory ideas, often misunderstood in metaphysical context, caused misinterpretations of his personality and his works. His nihilism resulted from frustrations in search of meaning. For self-liberation Nietzsche terminated his German citizenship and remained a stateless person for the rest of his life. He distanced himself from Richard Wagner being repelled by the banality of the Bayreuth shows and the baseness of the crowd. He suffered from migraine headaches and from shortsightedness to the degree of blindness that caused his retirement from University of Basel. After he saw a brutal beating of a horse on a street, Nitzsche had a mental breakdown at age 44, and he retreated into solitude as a self-defense from crowds and manipulations. He lived with his mother and sister until his death of pneumonia in 1900. Most researchers regard his breakdown as irrelevant to his works. He received postmortem recognition by existentialists and by 20th century postmodern philosophers.
Nietzsche's idea of a day in a life repeating itself again, and again, and again was written at the end of the Book IV of "The Gay Science" (1887). It is used in the film 'Groundhog Day (1993)'.
Nietzsche listed laughter and humor as vital qualities of being a superman. He only failed to add a superwoman on his list of models to make it really serious.- 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).- Composer
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Martin Luther was born on 10 November 1483 in Eisleben, Mansfeld, Holy Roman Empire [now Saxony-Anhalt, Germany]. He was a composer, known for Gangs of New York (2002), Alias Nick Beal (1949) and Mitt folk är icke ditt (1944). He was married to Katherine Von Bora. He died on 18 February 1546 in Eisleben, Mansfeld, Holy Roman Empire [now Saxony-Anhalt, Germany].- One of the Nazi Party's inner circle, Martin Bormann was a power-hungry racist, whose lust for power was matched only by his hatred of Jews and Slavs. The #2 man in Nazi Germany, he was always by Adolf Hitler's side, and many historians have theorized that it was he who was the de facto power in Nazi Germany from 1941-1945, as he decided who would see Hitler and what would and could be said to him. When Hitler and the remnants of his regime were being surrounded by Russian forces in Berlin at the very end, accounts differ as to Bormann's actual fate. Some say he tried to break through Soviet lines and get out of the city in a tank, but that it was hit and destroyed. Others say he took cyanide and died in the bunker with his Fuhrer. There is, however, the possibility that he actually did escape, made his way to Italy and eventually found his way to South America (there were many stories over the years that he was alive and living in Argentina, which for a long time after World War II was a well-known safe haven for escaped Nazi war criminals). Although the West German government declared that his remains had been found, this was perhaps to try to stop the Nazi hunters from looking for him.
- 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).
- 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.
- Lyudmila Artemeva was born on 10 February 1963 in Dessau, GDR [now Saxony-Anhalt, Germany]. She is an actress, known for Svaty (2008), Lady Into Lassie (1995) and The Big Moment (2021).
- 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.
- Ursula Lillig was born on 2 September 1938 in Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. She was an actress, known for Girl from Hong Kong (1961), Raumpatrouille - Die phantastischen Abenteuer des Raumschiffes Orion (1966) and The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time (1985). She died on 16 June 2004 in Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany.
- Jutta Hoffmann was born on 3 March 1941 in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. She is an actress, known for Der Dritte (1972), Ein Teil von uns (2016) and Motzki (1993). She is married to Nicolaus Haenel. They have one child. She was previously married to Herrmann Zschoche.
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Regina Ziegler was born on 8 March 1944 in Quedlinburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. She is a producer and production manager, known for Gladbeck (2018), The Weissensee Saga (2010) and Heinrich (1977). She was previously married to Wolf Gremm and Hartmut Ziegler.- Otto von Bismarck was born on 1 April 1815 in Schönhausen, Jerichow II, Province of Saxony, Prussia [now Stendal, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany]. He was a writer, known for Die Entlassung (1942), Film socialisme (2010) and Royal Cousins at War (2014). He was married to Johanna von Puttkamer. He died on 30 July 1898 in Friedrichsruh, Aumühle, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
- 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).
- Katja Streso was born on 10 December 1980 in Magdeburg, East Germany [now Saxony-Anhalt, Germany].
- Georg Listing was born on 31 March 1987 in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. He is an actor, known for Tokio Hotel: Durch den Monsun (2005), Tokio Hotel: Schrei (2005) and Tokio Hotel: Rette mich (2006).
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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 A House of Animals (2010).- Writer
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Fritz Meinecke was born on 24 May 1989 in Magdeburg, German Democratic Republic [now Saxony-Anhalt, Germany]. He is a writer and producer, known for 7 vs. Wild (2021), Kick auf Eis (2022) and Big Brother Knossi Edition (2023).- Susanne Daubner was born in 1962 in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. She is an actress, known for Verkauftes Land (2003), Browser Ballett - Satire in Serie (2021) and Extra Drei (1976).
- Actor
- Producer
Kai Pflaume was born on 27 May 1967 in Halle, German Democratic Republic [now Saxony-Anhalt, Federal Republic of Germany]. He is an actor and producer, known for Nur die Liebe zählt (1993), Buschow (2015) and Klein gegen Groß - Das unglaubliche Duell (2011). He has been married to Ilke Pflaume since 10 August 1996. They have two children.- Music Artist
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Ramon Roselly was born on 7 December 1993 in Merseburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. He is a music artist and actor, known for Ramon Roselly: Eine Nacht (2020), Landesschau (1957) and MDR um 11 (2000).- Remo Schulze was born on 1 May 1988 in Wernigerode, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. He is an actor, known for Partners in Justice (2014), Verbotene Liebe (1995) and Reiff für die Insel (2012).