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- Actress
- Soundtrack
Monika Peitsch began her working life as a dental assistant while simultaneously engaged as an extra at the Berlin Hebbel Theater. Encouraged by the veteran Erik Ode to seriously pursue her acting ambitions, she went on to take drama classes under Marlise Ludwig and duly made her screen debut in 1957. Between 1960 and 1965, she was able to further hone her craft as an ensemble member of the Schillertheater in Berlin. On various German stages she has subsequently excelled in plays like Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Look Back in Anger.
A film career of note never quite materialised, merely a handful of appearances in lurid thrillers and crime dramas like Hotel der toten Gäste (1965) and Der Bucklige von Soho (1966). Faring considerably better on television, the actress achieved significant audience popularity through her role as daughter of the redoubtable Inge Meysel in the landmark family drama Die Unverbesserlichen (1965). She further cemented that popularity as co-star (with Anita Kupsch) of Okay S.I.R. (1972), playing half of a dynamic (not to mention glamorous) globe-trotting duo of crime fighters in service of a (fictitious) organization called EUROPOL, confronting all manner of hair-raising perils to rescue agents in order to save secret formulas from falling into the wrong hands, smashing drug syndicates and bringing to justice slavers, murderers, thieves and extortionists. The series has often been described as a kind of German Charlie's Angels (1976).
Peitsch has also guested in popular crime shows (Der Kommissar (1969), Dem Täter auf der Spur (1967), etc.), enjoyed recurring supporting roles in family dramas (Das Erbe der Guldenburgs (1987), Der Millionenerbe (1990)) and occasionally headlined in literary adaptations like Fontane's Die Geschichte des Rittmeisters Schach von Wuthenow (1966). Usually cast as elegant, insightful women, she acted against type at least once, essaying a murderess in the Francis Durbridge TV thriller Plötzlich und unerwartet ... (1985).
Peitsch has won a silver 'Bravo Otto' award as Germany's second most popular television actress of 1973 (American Susan Dey picked up top honours for that year). In addition to her long and varied TV career, she has also done radio plays (for instance, Perry Rhodan) and provided the German dubbing for stars like Diana Rigg, Barbara Stanwyck, Deborah Kerr, Doris Day, Audrey Hepburn and Morgan Fairchild.- Writer
- Director
- Producer
German film director E.A. Dupont was an influential critic and newspaper columnist before breaking into the film industry. He wrote several screenplays and worked as a story editor for Richard Oswald before turning to directing in 1917. Over the next eight years Dupont became a respected exponent of the German expressionist movement. He was particularly acclaimed for his film Variety (1925), which stood out for brilliant lighting effects and fluid camera work. Encouraged by his success, Dupont left Decla-Bioskop and joined Universal in Hollywood, but only completed one film. Crossing the Atlantic again, he signed with British National Pictures in 1928. He briefly became their leading director, again demonstrating his visual flair with two prestige productions: Moulin Rouge (1928) and Piccadilly (1929). The latter was BIP's most expensively made picture up to this time.
After the advent of sound Dupont's career began to falter. His first "talkie", the "Titanic" story Atlantic (1929)-- shot in both English and French-- was an expensive flop, due mainly to poor dialogue and stilted performances. His next two ventures, respectively in France and Germany, had an even worse critical reception. Dupont next tried his luck in Hollywood. After 1933 he worked at different times for Universal, Paramount and Warner Brothers. Critical success proved elusive, as almost all of his assignments were low-budget second features. After being fired from the set of Hell's Kitchen (1939) for slapping a junior member of the cast who had mocked his accent, Dupont spent most of the 1940s in Hollywood as a talent agent and publicist. He eventually resumed his directing career with an offbeat minor film noir, The Scarf (1951), and a watchable precursor to The Flight of the Phoenix (1965), The Steel Lady (1953). Among his last films was the notorious sci-fi stinker The Neanderthal Man (1953). He died of cancer in December 1956.- Actor
- Director
Wolf-Dietrich Sprenger was born on 11 October 1942 in Zeitz, Germany. He is an actor and director, known for Mostly Martha (2001), Winckelmanns Reisen (1990) and And Jimmy Went to the Rainbow (2008). He is married to Victoria Trauttmansdorff. They have two children.- Inge Schulz was born on 9 July 1923 in Zeitz, Germany. She was an actress, known for Heimatglocken (1952), The White Rose (1982) and Chîsana baikingu Bikke (1974). She died on 28 February 2014 in Germany.
- Actress
- Soundtrack
Kathleen Vogel was born in 1982 in Zeitz, East Germany [now Saxony-Anhalt, Germany]. She is an actress, known for Verbotene Liebe (1995) and Eine wie Keine (2006).- Anna Magdalena Bach was born on 22 September 1701 in Zeitz, Germany. She died on 22 February 1760 in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany.
- Michael Specht was born on 9 September 1976 in Zeitz, German Democratic Republic. He is an actor, known for Tatort (1970), Freies Land (2019) and In the Aisles (2018).
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Horst Wende was born on 5 November 1919 in Zeitz, Germany. He was an actor, known for Die grosse Chance (1957) and ZDF Hitparade (1969). He died on 23 January 1996 in Hamburg, Germany.- Cinematographer
- Director
- Writer
Julia Kunert was born on 12 February 1953 in Zeitz, German Democratic Republic. She was a cinematographer and director, known for Die Wespen (1996), Berlin, Bahnhof Friedrichstraße, 1990 (1991) and Oshilongo Shange - Mein Land (1992). She died on 13 November 2022.- Michael Krüger was born on 9 December 1943 in Wittgendorf, Zeitz, Germany.
- Production Manager
- Actor
- Producer
Hans Fries was born on 4 November 1920 in Zeitz, Germany. He was a production manager and actor, known for 18 fertig los - Der junge Kraftfahrer (1973), Wehe, wenn Schwarzenbeck kommt (1979) and Hau drauf, Kleiner (1974). He died in 2003.- Director
- Actor
- Writer
After graduating from high school in Leipzig, he began studying German, modern history and sociology in Halle in the immediate post-war years. However, Merseburg then moved to Marburg, where he completed his studies. In 1950 Merseburger joined the SPD. After a traineeship at the "Hannoversche Presse", Merseburger began his journalistic career there. After moving to NDR in Hamburg in 1956, he worked for the "Neue Ruhr-Zeitung". From 1960 to 1965 Merseburger worked for "Spiegel" in Hamburg. He then returned to NDR, where he directed and moderated "Panorama" until 1977. He decisively shaped the political magazine as a product of investigative, critical journalism, which often provoked censorship intervention by politicians.
From 1968, Merseburger was also responsible as editor-in-chief for the NDR current affairs department. In 1977, Merseburger moved to Washington as an ARD correspondent, where he worked until 1982. However, the journalist aroused the interest of a wider television audience through his subsequent work as a correspondent from East Berlin. Through his impressive reporting on everyday life in the GDR between 1982 and 1987, he not only shaped the image of the GDR among the German public, but also the self-reflection of the GDR population. In 1987, Merseburger was appointed head of the ARD studio in London, succeeding Wolf von Lojewski. He resigned from this position when he retired early in 1991.
As a journalist and documentary filmmaker, Merseburger continues to play an important role in political journalism in the Federal Republic. Merseburger received several awards for his journalistic work. His life's work was recognized in 1991 with the "Fritz Singer Prize". Since retiring from the television business, the journalist, who lives in Berlin and southern France, has worked as a freelance writer. In this role he became known, among other things, for his biographies of Kurt Schumacher, Rudolf Augstein and Willy Brandt. He received the German Book Prize in 2003 for his Brandt biography.- Bernd Bauchspieß was born on 10 October 1939 in Zeitz, Germany.
- Set Decorator
Graduated from high school in Lützen. Then worked as a turbine operator at the Deuben lignite combine. 1974 to 1975 basic military service. 1976 to 1980 studied electrical engineering at the Technical University of Dresden.
From 1980 to 1990, area engineer at the Erfurt Energy Combine, Bleicherode branch; from October 1990 to June 1994, first district councilor and head of department at the Heiligenstadt district administration.
No party political affiliation until 1990. Spokesman for the Heiligenstadt Citizens' Initiative in fall 1989; joined the CDU in January 1990.
Member of the Bundestag since 1994; Parliamentary Director of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group since October 1998.- Tissy Bruns was born on 1 January 1951 in Zeitz, German Democratic Republic. She died on 20 February 2013 in Berlin, Germany.
- Jürgen Sidow was born on 29 May 1927 in Zeitz, Germany. He is an actor, known for Tage der Rache (1970), John Klings Abenteuer (1965) and Bürgerkrieg in Russland (1967).