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Margit Carstensen was born on 29 February 1940 in Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. She was an actress, known for The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972), Possession (1981) and Martha (1974). She died on 1 June 2023 in Heide, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.- Actor
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Hans von Borsody was born on 20 September 1929 in Vienna, Austria. He was an actor, known for A Bridge Too Far (1977), Cliff Dexter (1966) and Don Juan (1955). He was married to Karin Dittmann, Rosemarie Fendel, Alwy Becker and Heide Keller. He died on 4 November 2013 in Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.- Actor
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Rolf Zacher was born on 28 March 1941 in Berlin, Germany. He was an actor, known for Slow Attack (1980), The Confessions of Felix Krull (1982) and Heidenlöcher (1986). He was married to Gisela Getty. He died on 3 February 2018 in Seniors Residence "Am Park", Büdelsdorf, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.- Karl Dönitz (16 September 1891 - 24 December 1980) was a German admiral who briefly succeeded Adolf Hitler as head of state in May 1945, holding the position until the dissolution of the Flensburg Government following Germany's unconditional surrender to the Allies days later. As Supreme Commander of the Navy beginning in 1943, he played a major role in the naval history of World War II.
- Valeska Gert was born on 11 January 1892 in Berlin, Germany. She was an actress, known for The Threepenny Opera (1931), Ein Sommernachtstraum (1925) and Coup de Grâce (1976). She was married to Robin Hay Anderson and Helmuth von Krause. She died on 15 March 1978 in Kampen, Sylt, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
- Marianne Bachmeier was born on 3 June 1950 in Sarstedt, Lower Saxony, Germany. She died on 17 August 1996 in Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
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Martin Lüttge was born on 7 July 1943 in Hamburg, Germany. He was an actor, known for Der Lord von Barmbeck (1974), Der Tod läuft hinterher (1967) and Tatort (1970). He was married to Marlen Breitinger and Gila von Weitershausen. He died on 22 February 2017 in Plön, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.- 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.- Actress
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Ilse Werner was born in Batavia (present-day Djakarta), the daughter of the Dutch merchant O.E.G. Still and his German wife, Lilly Werner. She spent her early childhood in Batavia, before the family moved her to Frankfurt to attend secondary school. In 1936, Ilse enrolled at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna to study elocution and drama. Following her graduation, she was offered a contract with a prestigious theatre in Josefstadt and made her stage debut in 1938. 'Discovered' by the director 'Geza von Bolvary' during a performance, she first acted on screen in Finale (1938). Her career then took off at lightning speed and she became one of the most popular stars at Ufa for the next seven years.
An attractive, tomboyish brunette, Ilse had a considerable aptitude for singing, which producers brought to the fore by frequently casting her in films like Request Concert (1940), the pop musical Wir machen Musik (1942), and (as 19th century Swedish opera star Jenny Lind) in the biopic Die schwedische Nachtigall (1941). Ilse could also be called upon to handle dramatic material and gave creditable performances in Bel Ami (1939) and Great Freedom No. 7 (1944), opposite Hans Albers. She cleverly alternated her film career with appearances in cabaret and on radio.
After the war, she married an American journalist and spent several years in California. After her divorce in 1953, she returned to Germany, but a successful movie comeback eluded her. Nonetheless, she remained in the public eye after releasing several top-selling albums. Her pop song "Baciare" became a major hit across Europe in 1960. In 1970, Ilse acted in a German stage version of the musical "The King and I", and, thereafter, continued to make further sporadic appearances on stage and on television until her eventual retirement in 2000.- Actress
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Else von Möllendorff was born on 29 December 1913 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. She was an actress, known for Peter Voss, der Millionendieb (1946), Frau Luna (1941) and Neunzig Minuten Aufenthalt (1936). She died on 28 July 1982 in Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.- Actress
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Maria Garland was born on 16 May 1889 in Copenhagen, Denmark. She was an actress and writer, known for The Burning Question (1943), Lykke paa rejsen (1947) and Verdensgiften (1914). She was married to Ernst Ludwig Harthern-Jakobsen and Jean Louis Dalgas Mariboe. She died on 26 October 1967 in Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.- 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.
- He grew up as the son of a merchant family. At the age of 15 he reported for military service in the Second World War. In 1944 he became a member of the Waffen-SS and was stationed in the 10th SS Panzer Division Frundsberg. After the end of the war he was taken prisoner by the Americans until 1946. Grass then began an apprenticeship as a stonemason. In 1948 he began studying graphics and sculpture at the art academy in Düsseldorf. After completing his studies, he became a visual arts student with the sculptor Karl Hartung in Berlin in 1953. The first exhibitions of his sculptures and graphics followed. In 1954 he married Anna Schwarz. Grass first became active as a writer in 1957. Now he mainly wrote short prose, poems and plays that were poetic and absurd in character. In 1958, Grass received the "Group 47" sponsorship award for his manuscript "The Tin Drum."
Further novels such as "Cat and Mouse" and "Dog Years" were published. His excessive and provocative expression was always evident here, which earned him the reputation of a political moralist. The book "Letters across the border" was published in 1968. Here Grass commented on the topic of the Prague Spring. Further works such as "The Plebeians rehearse the uprising", "Before" and "locally anesthetized" were created. In the course of the student movement, his participation in public protests against the emergency laws increased. In 1972 the story "From the Diary of a Snail" was published. In it, Grass described the 1969 federal election campaign. The epic novel "The Butt" was published in 1977. In 1978 he divorced his wife Anna. In 1979 he married Ute Grunert for the second time. The film adaptation of "The Tin Drum" was also released in 1979 and was directed by Volker Schlöndorff. Mario Adorf, Katharina Thalbach, Otto Sander and Charles Aznavour, among others, played in the film adaptation. In 1980, "The Tin Drum" was awarded an Oscar for "Best Foreign Language Film," making it the first German film to receive this award.
From 1982 to 1993 Grass was a member of the SPD. Through his political activities, his literary work became increasingly popular with the public. In 1983, Grass and other writers, artists and scientists signed the "Heilbronn Manifesto", which called for people to refuse military service because of the stationing of the Pershing-2 rockets. Three years later, in 1986, the book "Die Rattin" was published, which was also made into a film a few years later. In 1987, Grass re-entered political life and took part in the SPD campaign for the state elections in Schleswig-Holstein. The Academy of Arts refused to hold a solidarity event for Salman Rushdie in 1989. Grass resigned from the association for this reason. Grass took the time of German reunification as an opportunity to speak out against "sudden unity based on mere annex Article 23 of the Basic Law". Grass campaigned for a cultural nation growing together. His novel "Prophecies of Doom," published in 1992, also described reconciliation between East and West. A year later, Grass resigned from the SPD because of the change in asylum law supported by social democratic votes. In other novels, such as "A Wide Field" (1995), he repeatedly brought up the problem of German history between the building of the wall and reunification.
In 1997, Grass, together with the SPD, Alliance 90/GREENS and the PDS, called on Helmut Kohl's government to resign. This year, with Egon Bahr, he also founded the "Willy Brandt Circle" for people "who have retained their independence of thought" (quote from Bahr). When the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the Turk Yasar Kemal, Grass criticized Kurdish policy. He once again turned against the change in asylum law in the Federal Republic. In 1998, Grass began campaigning for the SPD in the new federal states. In the work "My Century", which he completed in 1999, Grass tells a separate story for each year of this century. On December 10, 1999, Grass was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for his life's work. For his services to German-Polish understanding, Grass was awarded the "Gloria Artis" medal in September 2001.
Grass received the Danish Hans Christian Andersen Prize in April 2005. In the same month he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Free University of Berlin. In the run-up to the early federal elections in September 2005, Grass drew attention to himself through his public support of the SPD ruling party, for which he was also able to win over other fellow writers. In the same year, 2005, he founded the authors' circle "Lübeck Literaturtreffen". In 2006, Grass was awarded the "Brücke Prize". In August of the same year he vacated his membership for the first time ft in the Waffen-SS. In previous information he was an anti-aircraft assistant for the Wehrmacht between 1944 and 1945. Günther Grass' clarification was accompanied by great media interest. With the documentary "The Uncomfortable" snapshots of the controversial Nobel Prize winner were released in German cinemas in April 2007.
Günter Grass died on April 13, 2015 in Lübeck. - Actor
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Uwe Dallmeier was born on 27 August 1924 in Dithmarschen, Germany. He was an actor, known for Viola und Sebastian (1972), Kümo Henriette (1979) and John Glückstadt (1975). He was married to Ola Anders and Christa Diekhaut. He died on 19 November 1985 in Westerland, Schleswig-Holstein, West Germany.- Actor
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Malte Jaeger was born on 4 July 1911 in Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany. He was an actor, known for It Happened on July 20th (1955), Jud Süß (1940) and Goal in the Clouds (1939). He was married to Elisabeth Susanne von Ingersleben. He died on 10 January 1991 in Ladelund, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.- Actress
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Hella Moja was born on 18 January 1896 in Königsberg, East-Prussia, Germany [now Kaliningrad, Russia]. She was an actress and producer, known for Gräfin Walewska (1922), Figaros Hochzeit (1920) and So ein Mädel (1920). She was married to Heinz Paul. She died in December 1951 in Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.- Ulrich Wildgruber was born on 18 November 1937 in Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He was an actor, known for Super (1984), Felidae (1994) and Queen Margot (1994). He was married to Vera. He died on 30 November 1999 in Sylt, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
- Jan Peter Heyne was born on 14 April 1948 in Aumühle, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. He was an actor, known for Tatort (1970), Verbotene Liebe (1995) and Buddenbrooks (2008). He died on 16 March 2021 in Großhansdorf, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
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Ludwig Haas was born on 16 April 1933 in Eutin, Lübeck, Oldenburg [now Schleswig-Holstein], Germany. He was an actor, known for Lindenstraße (1985), Shining Through (1992) and Erfolg (1991). He was married to Marianne Simon. He died on 4 September 2021 in Neumünster, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.- Actress
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Katharina Brauren was born on 21 April 1910 in Frankfurt (Oder), Brandenburg, Germany. She was an actress, known for Madame Bovary (1937), Novemberkatzen (1986) and Fremde, liebe Fremde (1991). She was married to Konrad Mayerhoff. She died on 25 December 1998 in Ahrensburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.- Elfriede Rückert was born on 6 January 1918. She was an actress, known for Das Land der Verheißung (1960), Nebelmörder (1964) and Mit 17 weint man nicht (1960). She was married to Hansjörg Felmy and Carlos Werner. She died on 24 October 2016 in Nebel, Amrum, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
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Doris Kirchner was a pert brunette Austrian actress, frequently partnered alongside major box-office stars like Heinz Rühmann, O.W. Fischer, Hardy Krüger or Karlheinz Böhm in lightweight romantic comedies and rustic Heimatfilms of the post-war period. Kirchner studied drama at the Max-Reinhardt-Seminar in Vienna and debuted on stage in her home town Graz before enjoying a brief tenure at the famous Burgtheater. In films from 1950, she was usually cast as uncomplicated, if sometimes feisty, farmer's daughters or aspiring career girls. With the eventual decline in popularity of the Heimatfilm genre by the early 60s, a more seasoned Kirchner could be seen as a countess in period drama (Das Riesenrad (1961)) or as a heroine in crime potboilers (such as Der Fluch der gelben Schlange (1963) opposite the ever-reliable Joachim Fuchsberger). Five years before her retirement from screen acting in 1988, Kirchner took over operation of a Hamburg drama academy (the Bühnenstudio der darstellenden Künste, first established by dancer and actress Hedi Höpfner in 1959) where she taught diction and improvisation until sidelined by a stroke in 2003. She spent her final years in the dementia ward of a nursing home in Ahrensburg, near Hamburg. Doris Kirchner was respectively married and divorced from the cinematographer and director Helmuth Ashley and from writer/director Franz Josef Gottlieb.- Composer
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Rio Reiser, born Ralph Christian Möbius, in Berlin 1950, was a German singer/songwriter, poet, actor, and activist. His father Herbert Möbius was an engineer for Siemens AG, and the family moved several times because of his father's work; they lived in West Berlin, Upper Bavaria, Nuremberg, Mannheim, and Fellbach. His mother Erika supported and recognized her youngest sons artistic talents and allowed him to quite school for an apprenticeship in a photo-studio, which became short-lived but instead led on to Cello studies at the Offenbach Music Conservatory, and later in 1966 he met drummer/guitarist Ralph Peter Steitz, a.k.a. R.P.S. Lanrue) and formed the group Beat Kings. In 1967 they both moved to West Berlin, where Ralph Christian Möbius sought out and lived with his two older brothers, Gert and Peter. In Berlin he first joined the Hoffmann's Comic Teater as a musician and later the improvisation drama group Rote Steine. This excursion into the world of social theater eventually led to the formation of the alternative folk/rock group Ton Steine Scherben. They lived on for 15 years, recording, touring, and politically active on the left wing. During these years Ralph Christian Möbius became Rio Reiser when he in 1977 was offered a leading role in the feature film "Johnny West". He re-activated his nickname Rio from his teens and added Reiser from Karl Philipp Moritz's autobiographical novel "Anton Reiser". In 1985, Rio Reiser and Ton Steine Scherben finally split. He was soon offered a record deal by CBS and released his solo album "Rio 1" in November 1986, produced by Annette Humpe, from the group Ideal. For ten intensive years Rio Reiser enjoyed enormous success and appreciation in Germany. During those years he also appeared in a handful of feature films and a large number of television productions. Rio Reiser died on August 20, 1996 at the age of 46. The cause of death was diagnosed as bleeding from the varicose veins in the esophagus.- Arnim Dahl was born on 12 March 1922 in Stettin, Pomerania, Germany [now Szczecin, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland]. He was an actor, known for Wegen Reichtum geschlossen (1968), Nur eine Nacht (1950) and Schatten der Nacht (1950). He was married to Dorothea Dahl. He died on 3 August 1998 in Wedel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
- Hans Häckermann was born on 3 March 1930 in Pirna, Germany. He was an actor, known for The Country Doctor (1987), Clavigo (1970) and Sonderdezernat K1 (1972). He was married to Monika Häckermann. He died on 16 September 1995 in Ritzerau, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.