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- Birgit Minichmayr was born on 3 April 1977 in Linz, Upper Austria, Austria. She is an actress, known for Downfall (2004), The White Ribbon (2009) and Everyone Else (2009). She is married to Hannes Minichmayr. They have two children.
- Maria Hofstätter was born on 30 March 1964 in Linz, Austria. She is an actress, known for Paradise: Faith (2012), Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005) and Fox in a Hole (2020).
- Actress
- Soundtrack
Gerlinde Locker was born on 28 April 1938 in Linz, Austria. She is an actress, known for Geld.Macht.Liebe (2009), Die Fledermaus (1959) and Die Kaiserin (1962). She has been married to Richard Rüdiger since 1974. She was previously married to Kurt Wilhelm.- Composer
- Music Department
- Sound Department
Paul Haslinger is an Austrian musician and composer. He lives and works in Los Angeles.
Paul began his career as a member of Electronic Music pioneers Tangerine Dream. He toured with the band extensively from 1985-90 and contributed to projects such as the album "Underwater Sunlight" (1986), as well as the films "Near Dark" (1987) and "Miracle Mile" (1988). In 1990, the band received a Grammy Nomination for their score to the Miramar Documentary 'Canyon Dreams'.
Paul moved to Los Angeles in 1991 to expand his creative scope. This led to a number of collaborations and began to shift his focus towards film scoring. It was his programming work for composer Graeme Revell that caught the attention of Hollywood executives which lead to his first solo credit, scoring HBO's Cheaters in 2000.
Paul's unique approach to scoring is based on his belief that, music in any genre, including film and television, should represent and be relevant to the time in which it was written. He received an Emmy nomination for his work on the Showtime Series 'Sleeper Cell' (2007)
Notable Projects Include: Fear The Walking Dead (2015 and 2016) Halt And Catch Fire (2014 - 2016) Rainbow Six Siege (2016) Underworld Awakening (2012) The Three Musketeers (2011) Rise Of The Lycans (2009) Takers (2009) Death Race (2008) Shoot Em Up (2007) Crank (2006) Sleeper Cell (2006) Underworld (2003) Blue Crush (2002) Minority Report (2002)
Notable Collaborations Include: Jon Hassell, Brian Williams (aka Lustmord), Christian Fennesz, Adam Jones, Snorri Bros, Nona Hendryx, Sussan Deihim, and Shenkar.
Upcoming Projects: Resident Evil: The Final Chapter- Actress
- Soundtrack
Hannelore Auer was born on 30 May 1942 in Linz, Austria. She was an actress, known for Holiday in St. Tropez (1964), Hotel der toten Gäste (1965) and Übermut im Salzkammergut (1963). She was married to Heino and Alfred Prinz von Auersperg. She died on 8 November 2023 in Kitzbühel, Austria.- Matthias Hack was born on 22 November 1977 in Linz, Upper Austria, Austria. He is an actor, known for Pagan Peak (2018), Spuren des Bösen (2010) and Eismayer (2022).
- Hedwig Bleibtreu was born on 23 December 1868 in Linz, Upper Austria, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. She was an actress, known for The Third Man (1949), Der Spieler (1938) and Pygmalion (1935). She was married to Alexander Roempler and Peter Petersen. She died on 24 January 1958 in Vienna, Austria.
- Sascha Weingarten was born in 1991 in Linz am Rhein, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. He is an actor, known for Orpheus' Song (2019), Wir werden unsterblich sein (2023) and Tatort (1970).
- Gerlinde Döberl was born on 1 October 1951 in Linz, Upper Austria, Austria. She was an actress, known for Onkel Silas (1977), Der Jäger von Fall (1974) and Schloß Hubertus (1973). She died on 14 June 1989 in Thessaloniki, Greece.
- Geli Raubal born Angela Maria Raubal, June 4, 1908 in Linz, Upper Austria, Austria-Hungary, was rumoured to be Adolf Hitler's mistress. Geli and her young sister Elfriede accompanied their mother, Angela Raubal, half sister of Adolf Hitler, when she became Hitler's housekeeper in 1925. Raubal was 17 at the time and spent the next six years in close contact with her half-uncle, who was 19 years her senior. Her mother was given a position as housekeeper at the Berghof villa near Berchtesgaden in 1928. Geli Raubal moved into Hitler's Munich, Prinzregentenplatz apartment in 1929, when she enrolled in medicine at Ludwig Maximillian University. She did not complete her medical studies. On the morning of Sept 19,1931, members of Hitler's staff found Geli Raubal dead from a gunshot wound to the lung in her room in Hitler's Munich apartment, Prinzregentenplatz 16 second floor. Hermann Göring would later tell attorneys at the Nuremberg trials that Geli Raubal's death (1931) had devastated Hitler to such an extent that it changed his views and relationships with all other people.
- Producer
- Actress
Fran Kirchmair was born on 7 October 1996 in Linz, Austria. She grew up in Carinthia, Austria until the age of eleven when she moved to Geneva, Switzerland. After graduating from Institut Le Rosey, Fran began pursuing a degree in economics at City University London. In late 2016, she began working with acting coach Bernard Hiller and shortly after already co-starred in Academy-Award winner AR Rahman's film "Le Musk". This was Fran's break into the film industry, incentivizing her to ultimately move to Los Angeles. In Los Angeles she began attending Pepperdine University where she pursued a degree in Film, Television and Media Production. During this time she produced a web- commercial, the "DRE Enduro Tuscany Experience", for the Italian motorcycle brand "Ducati" and the short film "La Ricetta della Mamma", directed by Dario Piana, based on bestselling author Giorgio Faletti's eponymous short story. Meanwhile, Fran continues to act and model. Furthermore, she is also on the "Lotusland" committee for which she organizes and helps promote social and charity events within the Southern California community.- Actor
- Soundtrack
Wolfgang Böck was born on 14 January 1953 in Linz, Austria. He is an actor, known for Trautmann (2000), The Red Violin (1998) and Brüder III - Auf dem Jakobsweg (2006). He has been married to Sonja Krensner since 2004. They have one child.- Dajana Rajic was born in 2008 in Linz, Austria. She is an actress, known for Barbarians (2020), Vienna Blood (2019) and SOKO Linz (2022).
- Director
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- Editor
Alexander Hammid was born on 17 December 1907 in Linz, Austria-Hungary [now Upper Austria, Austria]. He was a director and cinematographer, known for Power Among Men (1959), Crisis (1939) and The Forgotten Village (1941). He was married to Hella Heyman and Maya Deren. He died on 26 July 2004 in New York City, New York, USA.- Actor
- Writer
- Director
After school, he attended the Academy for Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, which he successfully completed. In 1924, Fritz Eckhardt had his first engagement at the Wilhelma Theater in Stuttgart, where his father was director. Just two years later he made his screen debut in the silent film "Rosenkavalier". A few roles at smaller theaters followed until he came to "Lieber Augustin" in 1936. In addition to his work as an actor, Eckhardt began writing and directing plays.
During the war years of the Second World War from 1939 onward, Fritz Eckhardt anonymously wrote pieces for the "Wiener Werkel", the only cabaret in Vienna during the time of the Nazi regime under Adolf Hitler. Banned from working because of his half-Jewish descent, he fled to America for a while, where he mainly wrote radio plays. After the end of the war in June 1945, Eckhardt, together with Carl Merz and Kurt Nachtmann, managed to reopen the "Lieber Augustin". Carl Merz took over management in the following years. From 1946 to 1948, Fritz Eckhardt directed the Vienna "Kunsttheater".
He also took part in the "Kleine Brettl" in 1947 and wrote some pieces for cabarets in German-speaking countries. Fritz Eckhardt became a sought-after actor and author in post-war cinema. He became a popular series actor and therefore known to a wider audience through his role in "Hello... Hotel Sacher, Portier!". Eckhardt also wrote scripts, including for "The Leitner Family", for some of his "Tatort" episodes and for "Swabian Stories". One of his most successful films was "When the Father with the Son..." with Heinz Rühmann from 1955.
This was later followed by the role of Inspector Marek in "Tatort", where he was very popular with his audience. During his life he wrote over 30 plays and more than 200 film and television scripts. In 1989, Eckhardt published his autobiography under the title "I like to remember". The book "An actor must be able to do everything" followed in 1992. In 1993 his wife died, whose death he was unable to overcome. This was followed by health problems, because of which he had to undergo several operations.
Fritz Eckhardt died on December 31, 1995 in Klosterneuenburg near Vienna.- Actor
- Composer
- Producer
Second only to the great Caruso, Austrian opera singer Richard Tauber is revered as one of the world's finest Mozartian tenors to come out of early to mid-20th century Europe.
He was born on May 16, 1891 of modest means in Linz, Austria, the illegitimate son of soubrette Elisabeth Seiffert, who sang locally as well as toured. His father, Richard Anton Tauber, a legit actor, was not married to his mother and, in fact, was unaware of his parental status for quite some time after his son's birth. Richard traveled with his mother at a young age where he developed an ardent passion for the musical arts, but it proved a grueling and impossible undertaking for the actress who was continually on the road. The boy was finally sent to live with his father at age 6 who then took over his upbringing.
Trained in voice, Tauber initially seemed to lack fire and dimension, drawing unimpressive responses from his music masters. Unequipped to sing the heavy scores of the Romanticist composer Richard Wagner, who was his idol, Tauber subsequently studied piano and composition before coming under the tutelage of famed voice teacher Professor Carl Beines. It was Beines who redirected his pupil back to voice with the prospects of interpreting the classical works of Mozart.
Finally realizing and acknowledging his operatic niche, Tauber progressed quickly and made his public concert bow in 1912. A year later came his stage debut as Tamino in Mozart's "The Magic Flute" with the help of his father, who had become the Intendant of both the Municipal and Stadt-Theater in Chemnitz. A few days later he played Max in "Der Freischütz" and, as a result, was offered a five-year contract with the Dresden Opera. The Vienna and Berlin companies were to follow where he worked up a rich repertoire of roles in such operas as "Don Giovanni," "Tosca," "Mignon," "Faust" and "Carmen." During this time he also recorded extensively.
Richard extended his lyrical tenor in a then-unheard move to include lighter-styled operettas. His first performance of a Franz Lehár work was in Berlin in 1920 with "Zigeunerliebe". In 1922 he was offered the part of Armand in Lehár's "Frasquita" at the Theater an der Wien, which proved to be a resounding success. He not only singlehandedly revived Lehár's flagging career but greatly expanded his own audience of admirers. Lehár went on to compose several new works specifically designed for Tauber's voice. These included "Der Zarewitsch" (1926), "Friederike" (1928), "The Land of Smiles" (1929), "Beautiful Is the World" (1930), and "Giuditta."
Tauber's vast talents also included conducting at the Vienna Theater, where he met and married soprano Carlotta Vanconti. With their busy schedules they managed to occasionally tour in operettas together. After about a year of marriage, however, the bloom was off the rose and they separated in 1928, divorcing two years later. Tauber also tested the virtually new waters of talking pictures with such breakthrough musical films as Das Land des Lächelns (1930) [The Land of Smiles], Never Trust a Woman (1930) [Never Trust a Woman], The Alluring Goal (1930) [The Golden Goal], The Big Attraction (1931) [The Big Attraction], and Right to Happiness (1932) his more prominent vehicles.
Part Jewish on his father's side, the rise of Nazism in his native Austria had Richard making frequent out-of-country appearances in London. He also starred in several popular musical films in England. Following skirmishes with Nazi purists, he eventually emigrated to London. He appeared again in filmed musicals and earned fine notices for his portrayal of composer Franz Schubert in April Blossoms (1934), as well as for his work in Heart's Desire (1935), the Leoncavallo tragedy A Clown Must Laugh (1936), and Forbidden Music (1936). He met and married frequent British co-star Diana Napier in 1936.
Making his London operatic debut with "The Magic Flute" in 1938, the U.S. was willing to embrace Tauber with open arms but the artist remained true to England throughout the war years. As there was no opera staged in wartime Britain, he made ends meet with concerts, conducting and composing operettas, radio broadcasts and recordings. One of his operettas, "Old Chelsea," produced his signature song, "My Heart and I." In 1947, Tauber sought help for an aggravated cough which was subsequently diagnosed as lung cancer.
Despite extreme difficulties in breathing and the collapse of one lung, Tauber gave a bravura performance in one of his favorite roles, Don Ottavio in "Don Giovannia" at Covent Garden on September 27, 1947 and fulfilled this engagement the following day at the Camden Theatre, having begun and ended his formidable career performing Mozart. Three days later, on October 1st, he entered Guy's Hospital for the removal of a cancerous lung; the surgery took place the next day--only five days after his final performance.
Tauber died of complications on January 8, 1948. His devoted second wife Diana published her first biography of her husband a year after his death; her second "My Heart and I" was published in 1959.- Stefko Hanushevsky was born in 1980 in Linz, Austria. He is an actor, known for Mute (2018), M - A City Hunts a Murderer (2019) and WaPo Duisburg (2022).
- Actress
- Soundtrack
Mercedes Echerer was born on 16 May 1963 in Linz, Austria. She is an actress, known for Eine Sache der Perspektive (2020), Halbe Welt (1995) and New York November (2011). She is married to Rupert Henning.- Paul Wilk was born in 1993 in Linz, Upper Austria, Austria. He is known for Retribution (2023), Hades - Eine (fast) wahre Geschichte aus der Unterwelt (2023) and Die Bergretter (2009).
- Director
- Writer
- Actress
Valie Export was born on 17 May 1940 in Linz, Upper Austria, Austria. She is a director and writer, known for The Practice of Love (1985), Body Tape (1970) and Die süße Nummer: Ein friedliches Konsumerlebnis (1969).- Walter Schmidinger was born on 28 April 1933 in Linz, Austria. He was an actor, known for Caspar David Friedrich - Grenzen der Zeit (1986), Opera Ball (1998) and Hölderlin-Comics (1994). He died on 28 September 2013 in Berlin, Germany.
- Ulli Fessl was born on 5 January 1942 in Linz, Austria. She is an actress, known for Sophie's Choice (1982), Come Sweet Death (2000) and Maria Theresia (1980). She was previously married to Kurt Junek.
- Music Artist
- Music Department
- Actress
Christina Stürmer was born on 9 June 1982 in Altenberg/Linz, Austria. She is a music artist and actress, known for Alles was zählt (2006), Christina Stürmer: Du fehlst hier (2017) and Die liebe Familie - Next Generation (2007).- Nadine Mirada was born on 15 February 1989 in Linz, Austria.
- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Veit Relin was born on 24 September 1926 in Linz, Austria. He was an actor and director, known for Chamsin (1972), Die Pfarrhauskomödie (1972) and Love Under 17 (1971). He was married to Maria Schell, Angelika Loether and Margarete Lendi. He died on 23 January 2013 in Sommerhausen, Bavaria, Germany.