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Lead icon of the influential New German Cinema of the 70's & 80's, Schygulla's natural blonde beauty and amazing versatility keep her among the world's top actresses. She won best actress at Cannes in 1983 for The Story of Piera (1983) (aka "The Story of Piera"), an Italian/German co-production. The Turkish/German co-production, The Edge of Heaven (2007) (aka "The Edge of Heaven"), won the 2007 Cannes award for best screenplay. The now silver-haired actress appears to have shunned plastic surgery.
One of many protégés of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who gave Schygulla especially tender treatment and nurturing, while he terrorized, manipulated, and slept with many of the other actors and filmmakers Fassbinder developed in his incestuous family-like theatrical and film troupes.
Over 12 years, Hanna Schygulla appeared in 23 Fassbinder movies (including his first feature film), the most-acclaimed being The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979) (aka "The Marriage of Maria Braun") (for which she won the Silver Bear), Lili Marleen (1981) and Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980). After a disagreement with Fassbinder, she did not appear in his final 4 movies. Their mentor/muse relationship is often favorably compared with that of Josef von Sternberg and Marlene Dietrich. Schygulla met Fassbinder while she was studying romance languages and taking acting lessons in Munich, then became a member of his collective theatre troupe, "Munich Action Theatre", which eventually evolved into his film group.
After Fassbinder's 1982 death, she appeared in a few commercial films, and when she does act now, concentrates on complex roles in films with unique, international social messages. Her better known non-Fassbinder movies include Kenneth Branagh's Dead Again (1991), Casanova (1987) (with Faye Dunaway), Andrzej Wajda's A Love in Germany (1983) (aka "A Love in Germany") and Margarethe von Trotta's Sheer Madness (1983) (aka "Sheer Madness"). She's renowned for portraying strong, sensual women, and her language ability enables her to appear in films produced by many countries. Her singing was featured in Lili Marleen (1981) and Sheer Madness (1983) (aka "Sheer Madness"). Since 1997, she has turned away from movie acting, primarily to chanson singing, recording CDs, appearing in the movie, Hanna Schygulla Sings (1999) and, in 2007, a one-woman autobiographical musical (including songs of Janis Joplin, Édith Piaf, Billie Holiday, Brecht). She was the lead and sang in a live Vanessa Beecroft conceptual art piece in a German castle, with Fassbinder's long-time associate, Irm Hermann, plus 23 other women. Schygulla has worked on producing films about Berlin's Holocaust memorial, and about her work with Fassbinder.
Many of Fassbinder's film plots reflect his bizarre working relations with cast and crew, and he often reserved the most glamorous costumes and dramatic roles for Hanna Schygulla, intentionally pressuring his other talented actresses, such as his feisty ex-wife Ingrid Caven, and the abused Irm Hermann. The extremely tense relationships in the all-female The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972) (aka "Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant") somewhat reflect real-life interactions of Hermann, Schygulla (both are in the movie), Fassbinder, and his mother.
Hann Schygulla's childhood family situation somewhat parallels her role, typifying Germany's moral dilemmas at the end of World War II, in The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979) (aka "The Marriage of Maria Braun"). Schygulla was born on Christmas Day 1943, in Kattowice, Upper Silesia (then a section of Poland annexed by the Third Reich). Her German father was an infantryman in Italy, who was in a POW camp until she was 5. After the war, the German population was expelled from the Kattowice area.- Actor
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Willy Fritsch was born on 27 January 1901 in Kattowitz, Upper Silesia, Germany [now Katowice, Slaskie, Poland]. He was an actor, known for Woman in the Moon (1929), Inglourious Basterds (2009) and Amphitryon (1935). He was married to Dinah Grace. He died on 13 July 1973 in Hamburg, Germany.- Music Department
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Franz Waxman (Wachsmann) pursued his dream of a career in music despite his family's misgivings. He worked for several years as a bank teller and paid for piano, harmony and composition lessons with his salary. He later moved to Berlin, where he continued his study and progress as a musician. He was able to support himself by playing and arranging for a popular German jazz band, Weintraub Syncopaters, in the late 1920s. Friedrich Hollaender, who had written some music for the Weintraubs, gave Waxman his first chance to move into movie scoring by hiring him to orchestrate and conduct Hollander's score (an arrangement of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) for the film that launched Marlene Dietrich, The Blue Angel (1930), directed by Josef von Sternberg. During 1932 Waxman, a Jew, joined many other Jews leaving Germany as the Nazi vise closed irrevocably on free society. He continued working with Germanfilm makers in France. Waxman did musical arranging and co-scoring, usually with Allan Gray, for approximately 15 European movies (his first independent score was in 1932). "The Blue Angel" producer Erich Pommer liked Waxman's work and offered him the composing job for Liliom (1934), directed by Fritz Lang in France.
Pommer decided to do Music in the Air (1934), a Jerome Kern musical, which meant going to Hollywood. Waxman was asked to come along to do the arranging. Needing no further reason to remain in Europe as the Nazi clouds darkened over it, Waxman began a new chapter in Hollywood film music history. He fortunately had some spare time to study with 'Arnold Schoenberg' after coming to Los Angeles, but he was soon talking to another new arrival, English director James Whale, about scoring Bride of Frankenstein (1935) for Universal. Waxman gave Whale what he wanted--an unusual score to fit the quirky, somewhat over-the-top content of the film (in fact, some of this score was later used in other films). As Waxman worked for Universal through the 1930s, he found himself in assembly-line mode, sometimes sharing scoring credit, and doing a lot of arranging stock music, which was usually used for the studio's many serials. This cranked up Waxman's yearly film output to around 20 or so through 1940.
By 1940, however, he was composing original music scores for other studios, beginning with the romantic music for Selznick Studios' Rebecca (1940)--the first Hollywood film for Alfred Hitchcock--and whimsical fare for MGM's The Philadelphia Story (1940). In 1941 he was doing more work for MGM with Honky Tonk (1941) and his second Hitchcock score, Suspicion (1941) from RKO. By 1943 and for the rest of the decade Waxman was usually scoring for Warner Bros., starting with Destination Tokyo (1943) and including music for some of that studio's classics of the period, such as To Have and Have Not (1944) with Humphrey Bogart. Through the decade he was nominated for an Oscar seven times for Best Film Score.
Waxman moved on to Paramount through the first half of the 1950s and garnered his two Oscars in back--to-back wins for Sunset Boulevard (1950) and A Place in the Sun (1951). This recognition finally underscored what was at the heart of all of Waxman's music: seriously focused attention on relaying a film's story through the content of the music. He would continue his scoring work for several studios into the 1960s, with three more nominations. Some of his music in the 1950s was recycled from his previous scores, as in the case of his third assignment for Hitchcock, Rear Window (1954) which contained used music. Waxman was also active in contemporary classical music. In 1947 he founded the Los Angeles International Music Festival and, as Music Director and Conductor, brought the premieres of works by world renowned contemporary composers to the Los Angeles cultural scene. Among his own output of such music was his popular "Carmen Fantasy" for violin and orchestra. Waxman also composed for TV's Gunsmoke (1955), The Fugitive (1963), Peyton Place (1964) (he had composed the music for the film the series was based on, Peyton Place (1957)) and others. Waxman died relatively young, but because of his steady output, only fellow emigrant Max Steiner (who was nearly 20 years older and whose output entailed more than 200 arrangements of stock music, rather than original scores) was a more prolific early Hollywood composer.- Actress
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Judy Winter was born on 4 January 1944 in Friedland in Oberschlesien, Upper Silesia, Germany [now Korfantów, Opolskie, Poland]. She is an actress, known for Woman Doctors (1984), Liebe ist nur ein Wort (1971) and Und Jimmy ging zum Regenbogen (1971).- Walter Nickel was born in 1941 in Upper Silesia, Germany [now Poland]. He is an actor, known for Tatort (1970), Die Schmuggler von Rajgrod (1980) and Police Call 110 (1971).
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Dieter Geissler was born on 18 January 1939 in Beuthen, Upper Silesia, Germany. He is a producer and actor, known for The NeverEnding Story (1984), Sleepy Hollow (1999) and The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter (1990).- Krista Keller was born on 16 April 1931 in Hindenburg, Upper Silesia, Germany [now Zabrze, Slaskie, Poland]. She was an actress, known for Mariana Pineda (1965), Clavigo (1970) and Was ihr wollt (1954). She was married to Don Domenico, 12° Principe di Cerami, Barone della Torre e Mendola, Signore di Ganno, Pietrarossa e Fontana del Conte. She died on 8 October 1988 in Munich, Bavaria, West Germany.
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Wolfgang Reichmann was born on 7 January 1932 in Beuthen, Upper Silesia, Germany [now Bytom, Slaskie, Poland]. He was an actor and director, known for Othello (1968), Von Mäusen und Menschen (1968) and Der seidene Schuh (1965). He died on 7 May 1991 in Waltalingen, Zurich, Switzerland.- Actor
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One of the most popular and prolific character comedians of post-war German cinema, Georg Thomalla began his working life as an apprentice cook. In 1932, he joined a theatrical troupe and, before long, acted on stage in Berlin. After the war, he became a celebrated star of cabaret, an ensemble member of the 'Kabarett der Komiker'. In films from 1939, it took several years before his comic talent came to the fore. Stardom eventually arrived in the wake of Helmut Käutner's farce Fanfaren der Liebe (1951), in which the diminutive Thomalla appeared in drag as a member of a female orchestra. Thereafter, he remained consistently in demand for lightweight entertainments, which benefited from his considerable improvisational skills, quick wit and staccato delivery. His stock-in-trade screen personae were eccentric, befuddled and generally accident-prone bachelors, or out-of-their-depths fathers or husbands, who usually tended to fall victim to their own ineptitude.
In addition to numerous 'Paukerfilme' and 'Klamotten' (bawdy comedies, which may, or may not, be 'old hat'), Thomalla also played his fair share of comic sidekicks or friends of the hero, a noteworthy example being Kara Ben Nemsi's loquacious, but intensely loyal manservant and companion Hadschi Halef Omar in Karl May's Die Sklavenkarawane (1958). From 1961, Thomalla devoted more and more time to appearing in television and to voice-over work. He starred in his own half-hourly TV show, Komische Geschichten mit Georg Thomalla (1961), in which he played an average Joe afflicted by middle-age angst and confronted by a variety of everyday problems. This was essentially a German derivation from the British series Hancock (1961).
Though rarely seen in 'serious' roles, Thomalla did give at least one sensitive dramatic performance as a helpful truck driver in Käutner's East-West romance Sky Without Stars (1955).- Stefanie Zweig was born on 19 September 1932 in Leobschütz, Upper Silesia, Germany [now Glubczyce, Opolskie, Poland]. She was a writer, known for Nowhere in Africa (2001), Alpha Forum (1998) and Die Johannes B. Kerner Show (1998). She was married to Wolfgang Häfele. She died on 25 April 2014 in Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany.
- Peter Aust was born on 17 March 1939 in Beuthen, Upper Silesia, Germany [now Bytom, Slaskie, Poland]. He was an actor, known for Das unsichtbare Visier (1973), Leben und Tod König Richard III. (1976) and Ikarus (1975). He was married to Friederike Aust. He died on 26 January 1996 in Bad Wildungen, Hesse, Germany.
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Friedrich Domin was born on 15 May 1902 in Beuthen, Upper Silesia, Germany [now Bytom, Slaskie, Poland]. He was an actor and assistant director, known for Ludwig II: Glanz und Ende eines Königs (1955), Schloß Hubertus (1954) and Sauerbruch - Das war mein Leben (1954). He was married to Else Domin. He died on 18 December 1961 in Munich, Bavaria, West Germany.- Actor
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Joachim Kerzel was born on 10 December 1941 in Hindenburg, Upper Silesia, Germany [now Zabrze, Slaskie, Poland]. He is an actor, known for Hinter Gittern - Der Frauenknast (1997), Es muß nicht immer Kaviar sein (1977) and Tatort (1970). He was previously married to Maria Körber.- Actor
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Alfred Balthoff was born on 8 December 1905 in Peiskretscham, Upper Silesia, Germany [now Pyskowice, Slaskie, Poland]. He was an actor and composer, known for The Marriage of Figaro (1949), Sherlock Holmes (1967) and O'Flaherty (1967). He died on 8 March 1989 in Vienna, Austria.- After his father was killed in the Second World War and the family was expelled, Nowottny lived in Westphalia. In the immediate post-war years, Nowottny initially worked as an interpreter for the British occupying forces. He then worked from 1948, first as a trainee and then as an editor for the "Freie Presse" in Bielefeld. In the 1950s he made a name for himself as a freelancer for various radio and television companies. In 1962, Nowottny joined the Saarland Radio, for which he was employed in Saarbrücken as head of the department for economic and social policy. Here in 1963 he was involved in founding the television series "The Market - Economy for Everyone", through which the journalist became known to a larger television audience for the first time.
In 1965, Nowottny was promoted to deputy editor-in-chief of Saarland Radio. Two years later he went to Bonn as deputy head of the WDR television studio, where he began working for the "Report from Bonn" series. In 1973, Nowottny was promoted to chief correspondent for ARD and head of the WDR studio in Bonn. In this role, he was remembered by the media as the presenter of the political series "Report from Bonn", of which he hosted 1,000 editions by 1985. Through his intensive reporting from the federal capital, coupled with irony and captivating humor, the correspondent, presenter and commentator became one of the best-known and most popular journalists in German television culture. In mid-1985, Nowottny handed over his duties in Bonn to his successor Ernst Dieter Lueg in order to move to Cologne as WDR director.
In 1989 he was re-elected for another six-year term as head of Germany's largest television company. In this role, Nowottny was able to defend the independence of WDR against an initiative by the CDU/CSU and FDP parliamentary groups, which was rejected in court in 1991. During his term of office, the TV offering was also expanded, with WDR becoming the first German television channel to broadcast a daily 24-hour program from the beginning of 1994. In addition to being director of WDR, he also served as chairman of ARD in 1991/92. In this role, he primarily pushed forward the merger of the broadcasters of the new federal states with ARD. Nowottny also prepared the merger of "Deutschlandfunk" in Cologne with "RIAS Berlin" and "Deutschlandsender Kultur" to form "Deutschlandradio".
In mid-1995, Nowottny handed over the role of WDR director to his successor Fritz Pleitgen. Nowottny's journalistic work has been recognized by numerous awards. In 1973 and 1982 the magazine "HörZu" awarded him the "Golden Camera". In 1986 he received the Federal Cross of Merit. In 2006 he was awarded the Honorary Prize of the Founders of the German Television Prize. In 2007 he made his debut as a talk show host when he took over pregnancy cover for Sandra Maischberger.
Friedrich Nowottny is married to Gisela Gück and has two children. - Horst Torka was born on 30 July 1926 in Gleiwitz, Upper Silesia, Germany. He was an actor, known for Geheimakten Solvay (1953), Die Liebe und der Co-Pilot (1961) and Alarm at the Circus (1954). He died on 16 March 2005 in Bernau, Brandenburg, Germany.
- Judith Dim Evans was born on 25 August 1932 in Beuthen, Upper Silesia, Germany [now Bytom, Slaskie, Poland]. Judith Dim died in June 2020 in the United States.
- Helga Molander was born on 19 March 1893 in Königshütte, Upper Silesia, Germany [now Chorzów, Slaskie, Poland]. She was an actress, known for Königin Luise, 2. Teil (1928), Die drei Portiermädel (1925) and Jolly, der Teufelskerl (1921). She was married to Max Glass. She died on 27 July 1985 in Esher, Surrey, England, UK.
- Janosch was born on 11 March 1931 in Hindenburg, Upper Silesia, Germany [now Zabrze, Slaskie, Poland]. He is a writer, known for Television Theater (1953), Janosch (1986) and Die Tigerentenbande - Der Film (2011). He has been married to Ines since 2013.
- Reinhard Michalke was born on 12 June 1934 in Gleiwitz, Upper Silesia, Germany [now Gliwice, Slaskie, Poland]. He was an actor, known for Bärchens wundersame Reise (1976), Bärchens neue Abenteuer (1977) and Bärchens Traum (1979). He died on 17 December 2001 in Berlin, Germany.
- Helmut Pampuch was born on 30 January 1940 in Groß Mahlendorf, Upper Silesia, Germany [now Malerzowice Wielkie, Opolskie, Poland]. He was an actor, known for Der Ring des Nibelungen (1980), Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (1984) and Das Rheingold (1992). He died on 20 March 2008.
- Wilhelm Koch-Hooge was born on 11 February 1916 in Patschkau, Upper Silesia, Germany [now Paczków, Opolskie, Poland]. He was an actor, known for Valter brani Sarajevo (1974), Begegnungen (1967) and Das grüne Ungeheuer (1962). He was married to Ruth Walter. He died on 2 September 2004 in Berlin, Germany.
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Reiner Zimnik was born on 13 December 1930 in Beuthen, Upper Silesia, Germany [now Bytom, Slaskie, Poland]. He was a writer and actor, known for Jackanory (1965), Ein Taxi für den Frieden (1967) and Kinderstunde (1951). He died on 8 December 2021 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.- Actor
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Georg Leopold was born on 30 March 1920 in Gleiwitz, Upper Silesia, Germany. He was an actor and director, known for Oh, diese Jugend (1962), Begegnungen (1967) and Tempel des Satans (1962). He was married to Krista-Sigrid Lau. He died on 17 June 2004 in Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany.- Maria Rouvel was born on 15 December 1914 in Kattowitz, Upper Silesia, Germany [now Katowice, Slaskie, Poland]. She was an actress, known for Der keusche Lebemann (1961), Das unsichtbare Visier (1973) and Quartett zu fünft (1949). She was married to Gustav Wehrle. She died on 20 October 2005 in Berlin, Germany.
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Hans-Joachim Kasprzik was born on 14 August 1928 in Beuthen, Upper Silesia, Germany [now Bytom, Slaskie, Poland]. He was a director and writer, known for Hände hoch oder ich schieße (1966), Gewissen in Aufruhr (1961) and Wolf unter Wölfen (1964). He died on 10 October 1997 in Berlin, Germany.- Actor
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Michael Tietz was born on 7 February 1944 in Gleiwitz, Upper Silesia, Germany. He is an actor, known for City Hunter (2024), Verbotene Liebe (1995) and The Tehran Incident (1979).- Composer
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Kurt Schwaen was born on 21 June 1909 in Kattowitz, Upper Silesia, Germany. He was a composer, known for The Gleiwitz Case (1961), Sie nannten ihn Amigo (1959) and Das Leben beginnt (1960). He was married to Ina Iske and Hedwig Stumpp. He died on 9 October 2007 in Berlin, Germany.- Writer
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Bobby E. Lüthge was born on 12 September 1892 in Gleiwitz, Upper Silesia, Germany. He was a writer and editor, known for The Csardas Princess (1934), Bon Voyage (1933) and Eine Freundin so goldig wie Du (1930). He died on 11 March 1964 in West Berlin, West Germany.- Gisela Büttner was born on 15 July 1941 in Beuthen, Upper Silesia, Germany. She is an actress, known for Hatifa (1960), Drei Kapitel Glück (1961) and Nebelnacht (1969).
- Freytag studied German in Breslau from 1835, and a year later he moved to the University of Berlin. In 1838 he received his doctorate from the classical philologist Karl Lachmann. phil. He began successful attempts at poetry while still a student. The following year, in 1839, he completed his habilitation with his work on the medieval poet Hrotsvit von Gandersheim. He then worked as a private lecturer in German language and literature in Breslau until 1844. The only twenty-three-year-old came to this position through his good relationship with his teacher, the poet and literary historian A. H. Hoffmann, better known as Hoffmann von Fallersleben. He resigned from this post due to professional differences. Gustav Freytag became a professional journalist and writer. Together with the literary historian Julian Schmidt, Freytag edited the national liberal magazine "Die Grenzboten" from 1848 onwards. In addition to political education, the literary program of the realistic representation principle was also pursued. He carried out this journalistic activity until 1870.
The liberal-minded Gustav Freytag often addressed the social problems of his time. Among other things, he was a co-founder of a charitable association for needy weavers. In 1854 he was appointed court councilor by Duke Ernst II of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. In the period from 1867 to 1870 he was a member of the Reichstag of the North German Confederation for the National Liberals. He experienced the war of 1870/1871 as a journalist. In 1881 he moved to Wiesbaden. Freytag's view of poetry was linked to the quality of the popular, which is evident, for example, in the volume of poems "In Breslau" (1845) and in his close association with Berthold Auerbach, a writer of village stories. As a playwright, Gustav Freytag celebrated his first success in 1844 with the comedy "The Bride's Journey, or Kunz von der Rosen", which received an award from the Royal Theater in Berlin. Other comedies followed, such as "The Journalists", which premiered in 1852 and gave him his greatest theatrical success. The piece refers to contemporary politics and tells of the connection between private and public conflict situations.
Freytag was appointed to the Schiller Prize Commission in Berlin. In the tragedy "The Fabians" (1959) he realized his own dramatic technique, which he later, in 1863, wrote down in the work "Technology of Drama". The author's conception of drama is based on the ancient and classical movement. In his novels he romanticized the bourgeois society of his time. The title "Debit and Credit" is his best-known narrative work, which is about the world of merchants, but in a deeper sense contains a social snapshot of the Wilhelminian era. The action of the scholarly novel "The Lost Handwriting" takes place in the educated middle class. Based on a family history in the six-volume novel series "The Ancestors", the chronological sequence of the German people from the Teutons to Freytag's present is traced. The work was published after the second German empire, which Freytag welcomed. To do this, he used his own five-volume cultural-historical work "Images from the German Past" (1859-1867) as a template.
Above all, Freytag made a name for himself as a popular author of contemporary German civil society with the successful novels "Debit and Credit", "The Lost Handwriting" and "The Ancestors", in which he carried out a literary transfiguration in a realistic style. His other works include "De initiis scenicae poesis apud Germanos" (1838), "Die Valentine" (1847), "Karl Mathy. Story of his life" (1869) and "Collected Works" (1886-1888).
Gustav Freytag died on April 30, 1895 in Wiesbaden. - Actor
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Kurt Blachy was born on 19 July 1897 in Upper Silesia, Germany. He was an actor and director, known for Was eine Frau im Frühling träumt (1929), Die Garde-Diva (1929) and Jolly Bill und die Schmuggler (1923). He died on 15 October 1980 in Hamburg, West Germany.- Director
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Piotr Lachmann was born in 1935 in Gleiwitz, Upper Silesia, Germany [now Gliwice, Slaskie, Poland]. He is a director and actor, known for Bandyta (1997), Moje pojednanie. Tadeusz Rózewicz i Niemcy (2014) and Szukamy zycia w grobach (2016). He was previously married to Jolanta Lothe.- Actor
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Willy Prager was born on 23 May 1877 in Kattowitz, Upper Silesia, Germany. He was an actor and writer, known for Um eine Nasenlänge (1931), Die Nacht ohne Pause (1931) and Um eine Nasenlänge (1949). He died on 4 March 1956 in West Berlin, West Germany.- Actress
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Barbara Dickmann was born on 21 June 1942 in Kattowitz, Upper Silesia, Germany [now Katowice, Slaskie, Poland]. She is an actress and director, known for Der Fund (1983), Hochkant (1982) and Tagesthemen (1978). She was previously married to Klaus Mahlein.- Hans Schellbach was born on 28 June 1925 in Beuthen, Upper Silesia, Germany [now Bytom, Slaskie, Poland]. He was an actor, known for Tausendundeine Nacht (1969), Sherlock Holmes (1967) and Der irische Freiheitskampf (1969). He died on 26 May 1990 in Sandesneben, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
- Ilse Stanley was born on 11 March 1906 in Gleiwitz, Upper Silesia, Germany.
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Mia Pankau was born on 14 February 1891 in Friedland in Oberschlesien, Upper Silesia, Germany [now Korfantów, Opolskie, Poland]. She was an actress and producer, known for Die Ehe der Gräfin Wetterberg (1918), Die Kraft des Herzens (1918) and Die rote Nacht (1921). She was married to Jaap Speyer. She died on 6 November 1974 in Hoisdorf, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.- Monika Lindner was born on 25 September 1944 in Gleiwitz, Upper Silesia, Germany. She was previously married to Otto Anton Eder.
- Ernst Josef Aufricht was the son of a wealthy merchant and against his father's will he chose an acting career. At 20 years old he moved to Dresden from Gleiwitz, where his family were then living. He joined an acting ensemble at the Dresdener Stadtstheater (Municipal theatre). While there he acted in "Baccarat", his one and only movie. At 25 years he moved to Berlin and after a stint with "Die Truppe" in which he acted in a string of plays, he left the acting profession and became a theatre producer. Aufricht borrowed 100,000 Marks from his father and rented the Theater am Schiffbauerdam (now the Berliner Ensamble). He met Bertolt Brecht in a Berlin cafe and acquired a play based on Gay's "Beggars Opera". Brecht took much credit for the adaptation, but it was Elisabeth Hauptmann, who was the primary translator and adaptor. Kurt Weil added music (including the popular hit "Mack the Knife". The newly named "Dreigroschenoper" (Threepenny Opera) premiered on 31 August 1928. This was a major success, and Aufricht went on to produce a number of other plays/musicals until his escape from Nazi Germany in 1933 to France (Aufricht was Jewish and also considered too left wing for the authorities). Aufricht sat the war out in the USA but returned later to Cannes where he passed away in 1971.
- Erich Franz was born on 5 November 1903 in Laurahütte, Upper Silesia, Germany [now Siemianowice Slaskie, Slaskie, Poland]. He was an actor, known for Maibowle (1959), Silvesterpunsch (1960) and Ernst Thälmann - Sohn seiner Klasse (1954). He died on 10 February 1961 in East Berlin, East Germany.
- Guido Thielscher was born on 10 September 1859 in Königshütte, Upper Silesia, Germany [now Chorzów, Slaskie, Poland]. He is known for Theophrastus Paracelsus (1916), Figaros Hochzeit (1920) and Guido im Paradies (1915).
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Peter Kupke was born on 1 May 1932 in Kreuzburg, Upper Silesia, Germany. She is a director and actress, known for Herr Puntila und sein Knecht Matti (1979), Rendezvous mit Unbekannt (1969) and Nachtasyl (1971). She was previously married to Sonja Hörbing.- Gabrielle Badura was born on 22 February 1941 in Gleiwitz, Upper Silesia, Germany. She is an actress, known for Die kleine Figur meines Vaters (1980) and Das Konzert (1964).
- Rudolf Bartsch was born on 13 September 1929 in Rosenberg, Upper Silesia, Germany [now Olesno, Opolskie, Poland]. He is a writer, known for Für Mord kein Beweis (1979) and Neumanns Geschichten (1986).
- Franciszka Sklorz was born in 1929 in Upper Silesia, Germany [now Poland].
- Mordecai Navon was born in 1908 in Hindenburg, Upper Silesia, Germany [now Zabrze, Slaskie, Poland]. He was a producer, known for Two Kuni Lemel (1966), A Night in Tiberias (1965) and Tel Aviv Taxi (1956). He died in 1966 in Israel.
- Antoni Wolny was born on 12 June 1916 in Königshütte, Upper Silesia, Germany [now Chorzów, Slaskie, Poland]. He was an actor, known for The Beads of One Rosary (1980). He died on 24 January 1998 in Katowice, Slaskie, Poland.
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Horst Winter was born on 24 September 1914 in Beuthen, Upper Silesia, Germany [now Bytom, Slaskie, Poland]. He was an actor, known for Kleine Melodie aus Wien (1948), Märchen vom Glück (1949) and G.P.U. (1942). He died on 3 December 2001 in Vienna, Austria.- Teofil Biolik was born in 1926 in Upper Silesia, Germany [now Poland].