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Jannis Niewöhner was born on 30 March 1992 in Krefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He is an actor, known for Munich: The Edge of War (2021), Ruby Red (2013) and Godless Youth (2017).- Director
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Writer
Samira Radsi was born in 1968 in Krefeld, Germany. She is a director and assistant director, known for Anduni - Fremde Heimat (2011), Deutschland 83 (2015) and The Typist (2018).- Actor
- Producer
- Writer
Heiko Pinkowski was born on 8 October 1966 in Krefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He is an actor and producer, known for Heavy Girls (2012), Reuber (2013) and I Feel Like Disco (2013).- Composer
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- Director
Ralf Hütter was born on 20 August 1946 in Krefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He is a composer and actor, known for Swordfish (2001), 17 Again (2009) and The Lego Batman Movie (2017).- Producer
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- Production Manager
Born in Krefeld, Germany as the son of a lawyer couple, he started making short films. After school in 1991 he studied business, but left to work in the movie business in different jobs from production assistant to unit manager. In 1994 he started studying sat HFF Munich Filmschool, where he produced more than 15 short films and commercials. His biggest success was the short "If it don't fit, use a bigger hammer" by his friend Peter Thorwarth for which they got a foreign 'Student Academy Award'-Nomination. During Hof Film Festival he met former Kinowelt founder Thomas Häberle and formed in 1997 the production companies 'Indigo Filmproduktion GmbH' and 'Becker & Häberle Filmproduktion GmbH'. With their F.A.M.E. Film & Music Entertainment AG, Christian Becker and Thomas Häberle merged their labels with Curt Cress (Artforce music publishing) and Michael Bischoff (mb Medienvertriebs LLC) and took the company public on Germany's booming Neuer Markt stock exchange in Frankfurt in August 2000.
Subsequently, Becker and his old Indigo team went on to found 'Rat Pack Filmproduktion' and 'Westside Filmproduktion' together with European power house Constantin Film in 2001 where they produced over 100+ feature films & Fernseher series.- Writer
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Jan wrote, directed, and produced his debut-feature RUNNING AGAINST THE WIND (2019), Ethiopia's official Oscar entry in the category "Best International Feature," and he received the prestigious Bernhard Wicki German Film Award for Peace. RUNNING AGAINST THE WIND is distributed worldwide, with by Samuel Goldwyn in the U.S. and Canada, and Netflix Africa.
Jan founded R&B RÄUBER & BANDITEN FILM UG after graduating in 2006, of which he is still today the owner and managing director. He is also the managing director of AC INDEPENDENT UG & Co. KG, which financed the feature film RUNNING AGAINST THE WIND and produced it in cooperation with R&B FILM.
In 2016, he was a student at Werner Herzog's Rogue Film School. Herzog has been Jan's mentor ever since. As a participant of Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami's masterclass in Cuba, Jan shot the feature film "Buena Vista Chico" (2016). The film is still unreleased after the sudden death of Abbas Kiarostami.
He studied Film Production and Media Business at University of Television and Film (HFF) Munich, and Anthropology & Art History at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, and has worked as an assistant director and unit manager on more than forty films, television shows, and commercials.
Jan was born 1987 in Krefeld, Germany, as the eldest of three children. He works in Los Angeles where he currently resides to work on his slate of feature film projects. He is authorized to work in the United States as Producer, Director, and Writer.
HUMANISTIC ACTIVITIES Karlheinz Böhm personally invited Jan to Ethiopia to see the development projects of his foundation Menschen für Menschen after he raised 23.500 Euros donations as an 8th grade student. While still at school, Jan founded a fundraising association that has collected over 120.000 Euros to date for the funding of two schools in Ethiopia since 2008.- Dagmar Geppert was born on 29 May 1980 in Krefeld, Germany. She is an actress, known for Die letzte Seite (2014), Die Rosenheim-Cops (2002) and Notruf Hafenkante (2007).
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Beuys took part in the Second World War as a fighter pilot. During a mission in 1943 he crashed over the Crimea. During his sick bed, Beuys was treated with tallow and wrapped in felt. This experience was decisive for him and his later art materials, because alongside wax and copper, fat and felt were among his preferred materials from which he formed works of art. Between 1946 and 1955 he joined the Kleven Artists' Association. From 1947, Joseph Beuys studied painting and sculpture at the Düsseldorf Art Academy. He was a student of Josef Enseling and later a master student of Ewald Mataré. In 1953 he had his first solo exhibition of sculptures and drawings in Wuppertal and Kranenburg. Beuys suffered from depression due to his war experiences. That's why he stayed in Kranenburg for a long time in 1957. In 1961 he was appointed professor at the Düsseldorf Art Academy. He taught there until 1972. In 1964 he took part in the Kassel art exhibition documenta for the first time. From then on he exhibited there regularly.
In 1965 his first exhibition was organized in Alfred Schmeler's gallery in Düsseldorf. In 1967, Beuys founded the "German Student Party" on the occasion of the unrest surrounding the Shah's visit to Germany and the murder of the student Benno Ohnesorg. Beuys wanted to advocate for universities to operate autonomously and for a fairer admissions process. In 1970 he founded the "Organization of Non-Voters, Free Referendum". In the same year an exhibition took place in the Hessian State Museum in Darmstadt. In addition to drawings and pictures, the so-called "Beuys Block", multi-part room installations, were also shown there. In 1971 Beuys founded the "Organization for Direct Democracy through Referendums". In a spectacular action that same year, Beuys and his students occupied the secretariat of the Düsseldorf Art Academy. He also allowed students who had previously been rejected by the academy to take part in his lessons.
The following year he took part in documenta 5. There he exhibited an office of his "Organization for Direct Democracy through Referendum" and was present there every day of the hundred days of the exhibition. Once again, Beuys filled the academy secretariat with rejected university applicants. He received notice of termination from Johannes Rau, the North Rhine-Westphalian Minister for Science and Research. Public protests against the termination came from Martin Walser, Peter Handke, Heinrich Böll and Gerhard Richter, among others. In 1973 he founded the "Free International University for Creativity and Interdisciplinary Research". Three years later he took part in the Venice Biennale and the Berlin Zeitgeist exhibition. In 1978, the legal dispute over Beuys' dismissal because of the occupation of the secretariat was ended. The artist had sued against the dismissal and was granted justice. The termination was unlawful. Beuys agreed to a compromise that granted him the title of professor and the rights to use the studio.
In 1978 he accepted a visiting professorship at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. A year later he received a retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York and he ran for the European Parliament. In 1980 he took up a visiting professorship at the Städel Art School in Frankfurt/M. true. He tried for a seat in the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia for the Green Party. In 1984, Beuys exhibited his works at the Seibu Museum in Tokyo. His other exhibitions include the event "Cross and Sign - Religious Foundations in the Work of J.B." in 1985. and participation in "German Art in the Twentieth Century Painting and Sculpture 1905-1985" in London. In addition to his efforts to unite nature and spirit in art, Beuys also valued the political commitment to which he used his work. The basis for the politicization of art was his idea of applying the artist's creativity to all areas of life.
In practical terms, he carried out actions such as planting 7,000 oak trees and setting up 7,000 basalt steels for dokomenta 7 (1982) in order to draw attention to the problems of environmental destruction. Beuys often used his variety of artistic forms of expression for counter-projects, which he equipped with magical-religious elements in order to demonstrate his rejection of a purpose-oriented rationalism.- Ruth Niehaus was born on 11 July 1928 in Krefeld, Germany. She was an actress, known for Studentin Helene Willfüer (1956), Das Haus in Montevideo (1951) and Adrienne Mésurat (1969). She was married to Ivar Lissner. She died on 24 September 1994 in Hamburg, Germany.
- Michael Cromer was born on 21 August 1939 in Krefeld, Germany. He was an actor, known for Dr. Fummel und seine Gespielinnen (1970), Loves of a French Pussycat (1972) and Flitterwochen (1980). He was married to Mara Cramer. He died on 4 September 2007 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.
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Walter Janssen was born on 7 February 1887 in Krefeld, Germany. He was an actor and director, known for Maria Stuart, Teil 1 und 2 (1927), Irrende Seelen (1921) and Die Alm an der Grenze (1951). He died on 1 January 1976 in Munich, Bavaria, West Germany.- Bruno Wick was born on 2 May 1892 in Krefeld, Germany. He was an actor, known for The House on 92nd Street (1945), Walk East on Beacon! (1952) and Rocky King, Detective (1950). He died in November 1979 in Flushing, New York, USA.
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- Writer
Heinrich Giskes was born on 3 April 1946 in Krefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He is an actor and writer, known for Heinrich (1977), Unter dem Pflaster ist der Strand (1975) and Die Kumpel (2001).- Music Artist
- Actress
- Soundtrack
Andrea Berg was born on 28 January 1966 in Krefeld, Germany. She is a music artist and actress, known for Love Steaks (2013), Andrea Berg x Vanessa Mai: Unendlich (2022) and Grünwald - Freitagscomedy (2003). She has been married to Ulrich Ferber since 2007. She was previously married to Olaf Henning.- Actress
- Additional Crew
Alice Franz was born on 19 May 1912 in Krefeld, Germany. She was an actress, known for Lindenstraße (1985), Tatort (1970) and Strong Hearts in the Storm (1937). She was married to Gen Golch. She died on 23 September 2011 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.- Director
- Writer
- Additional Crew
Hans Neuenfels was born on 31 May 1941 in Krefeld, Germany. He was a director and writer, known for Das blinde Ohr der Oper (1990), Journey Into a Secret Life (1983) and Heinrich Penthesilea von Kleist (1983). He was married to Elisabeth Trissenaar. He died on 6 February 2022 in Berlin, Germany.- Actor
- Producer
Ingo Lenßen was born on 2 January 1961 in Krefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He is an actor and producer, known for Lenßen & Partner (2003), Lenßen - Der Film (2011) and Lenßen übernimmt (2020).- Gisela Keiner was born on 29 June 1941 in Krefeld, Germany. She was an actress, known for Celestina (1967), Achtung Zoll! (1980) and Tatort (1970). She died on 6 June 2021 in Vettweiß, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
- Jens Kipper was born on 14 November 1975 in Krefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany. He is an actor, known for Loverboy (2017), Tatort (1970) and Spielgefährten - Freunde fürs Leben (2005). He has been married to Ilva Melchior since 2008.
- Hermann Speelmans was born on 14 August 1906 in Uerdingen, Krefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He was an actor, known for Danton (1931), Our Flags Lead Us Forward (1933) and A Certain Mr. Gran (1933). He died on 9 February 1960 in Berlin, Germany.
- Composer
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Stefan Maria Schneider was born on 28 December 1980 in Uerdingen, Krefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He is a composer, known for Walking Tall (2004), How to Train Your Dragon (2010) and Aslan (2015).- Actress
- Additional Crew
Pinar Erincin was born on 18 February 1983 in Krefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. She is an actress, known for En garde (2004), Müslüm (2018) and Tatort (1970).- Producer
Ben Neumann was born on 27 May 1966 in Krefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Ben is a producer, known for Dark World (2008).- Luke Christopher Niethen Kelly was born on 29 June 2000 in Krefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
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- Soundtrack
Achim Konejung was born on 14 March 1957 in Krefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He is an actor and writer, known for Superstau (1991), Neander-Jin: The Return of the Neanderthal Man (2011) and Balko (1995).- Ulrich Klever was born on 1 June 1922 in Krefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He was an actor, known for Dalli Dalli (1971), Was wäre, wenn ... (1971) and Die Drehscheibe (1964). He died on 11 February 1990 in Sankt Georgen, Traunreut, Bavaria, Germany.
- Oliver Hörner was born on 24 April 1967 in Krefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany. He is an actor, known for The Air Rescue Team (1997), Leonie Löwenherz (1991) and The Country Doctor (1987).
- Karl Armster was born on 4 December 1883 in Krefeld, Germany. He was an actor, known for Das Medium (1921), Fasching (1921) and Jenseits des Stromes (1922). He died on 4 July 1943 in Hebron-Damnitz, Poland.
- Peter Longerich was born in 1955 in Krefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He is known for The Abyss: Rise and Fall of the Nazis (2021), Annihilation (2014) and Signs of Evil - The Runes of the SS (2016).
- 1972 Abitur. Studied to be a teacher in 1985, graduated from high school in Krefeld-Uerdingen. 1985 to 1986 military service in the German Air Force. 1986 to 1992 law studies and first state examination in Freiburg im Breisgau, second state examination in 1995 in Düsseldorf.
Since 1995 attorney in Krefeld; June 1996 to September 2002 parliamentary advisor to the FDP parliamentary group for legal policy and parliamentary law in Bonn and Berlin.
Member of the German Bar Association, the German Jurists' Day, the Federal Bar Association and the Krefeld Local History Association; since April 2005 member of the Administrative Board of the Federal Agency for Real Estate Tasks (BImA), since March 2004 member of the Chamber for Public Responsibility of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD).
Member of the FDP since 1989; from 1996 to 1998 and since 2002 Deputy District Chairman of the Krefeld FDP.
Member of the Bundestag since 2002; since September 2004 member of the committee on federal loan financing issues, since November 2005 chairman of the budget committee.m (English, sports science) in Bochum; legal traineeship in Gelsenkirchen-Buer.
1980 to 1992 secondary school teacher in Schwerte, 1992 to 1994 active at Schwerte Comprehensive School.
Member of the AWO, various sports clubs, various booster clubs, the Iserlohn Animal Welfare Association and the German Animal Welfare Association. Vice President of the German Athletics Association since 2001.
Member of the SPD since 1975. 1989 to 1999 council member and chairwoman. - Director
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Kai Meyer-Ricks was born on 12 March 1967 in Krefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Kai is a director and assistant director, known for Alarm für Cobra 11 - Die Autobahnpolizei (1996), Lifelines (2018) and Heartbeat (2010).- Pedro Casado was born on 9 February 1970 in Krefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He is an actor, known for Hospital Central (2000), Dying of Laughter (1999) and El comisario (1999).
- Marcus Siepen was born on 8 September 1968 in Krefeld, Germany. He is an actor, known for Travelers at the Edge of Time (2011), Metal Evolution (2011) and Blind Guardian: Imaginations from the Other Side - Live in Oberhausen (2020).
- Manfred Köhnlechner was born on 1 December 1925 in Krefeld, Germany. He was married to Marianne Lindner. He died on 10 April 2002 in Grünwald, Bavaria, Germany.
- Ina Bauer was born on 31 January 1941 in Krefeld, Germany. She was an actress, known for Kauf dir einen bunten Luftballon (1961), On Thin Ice (1961) and Shipstads & Johnson Ice Follies (1966). She was married to Istvan Szenes. She died on 13 December 2014 in Krefeld, Germany.
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- Actor
Director. Writer. Studied theatre sciences. Travelled through Europe and North Africa between 1945 and 1955. Has written poems, novels, essays as well as plays. In 1966 his novel 'Venedig liegt bei Cleve' was published. 1973 his radio play 'Der Tod meines Vaters' (1972) has been awarded with the 'Hoerspielpreis der Kriegsblinden'. Co-founder of the german distribution company 'Filmverlag der Autoren'. Between 1975 and 1977 he worked as a lecturer at the Hochschule fuer Fernsehen und Film (HFF) in Munich. In the recent past he concentrated on TV and directed several movies of the 'Tatort' series, a TV co-production of Austria, Germany and Switzerland.- Marta Hillers was born on 26 May 1911 in Krefeld, Germany. Marta is a writer, known for A Woman in Berlin (2008). Marta was previously married to Karl Albert Dietschy.
- Markus Oehlen was born in 1956 in Krefeld, Germany.
- Samer Nassif was born on 20 January 1977 in Krefeld, Germany. He was an actor, known for Die Biester (2001), Ina & Leo (2004) and Sommer und Bolten: Gute Ärzte, keine Engel (2001). He died on 14 February 2004 in Kassel, Hesse, Germany.
- Hans Hubberten was born on 19 December 1929 in Krefeld, Germany. He was a writer, known for Peter Alexander präsentiert Spezialitäten (1969), Hallo, Paulchen! (1960) and Karussell (1963). He died on 11 June 1988 in Bad Kohlgrub, Bavaria, Germany.
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Peter Ahrweiler was born on 6 January 1915 in Krefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He was an actor and director, known for Endstation Süden (1963), The Captain from Köpenick (1956) and Das hat man nun davon (1971). He died on 3 September 2004 in Hamburg, Germany.- Carsten Rüger was born on 23 February 1971 in Krefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
- Julia Sontag was born on 5 July 1988 in Krefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. She is an actress, known for Verbotene Liebe (1995), The Ratman and His Muses (2011) and In aller Freundschaft (1998).
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Carl Jöken was born on 3 November 1893 in Krefeld, Germany. He was an actor, known for Schuberts Frühlingstraum (1931), Liebe auf den ersten Ton (1932) and Victoria and Her Hussar (1931). He was married to Edith Schollwer and Käthe Jöken-König. He died in 1972 in Hamburg, Germany.- Rolf Ketan Tepel was born in 1956 in Krefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
- Karl-Heinz Leven was born on 14 April 1959 in Krefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
- Norbert Walter-Borjans was born on 17 September 1952 in Uerdingen, Krefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
- Anna Poleska was born on 20 February 1980 in Krefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
- Jochen Bludau was born on 2 July 1941 in Krefeld-Hüls, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. He was a writer and producer, known for Texas - Doc Snyder hält die Welt in Atem (1993), Unter Geiern - Der Geist des Llano Estacado (1973) and Die verflixte 7 (1984). He was married to Brigitte Biermann. He died on 9 March 2023 in Elspe, Lennestadt, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
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Raphaela Selge was born in 1985 in Krefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Raphaela is a director and writer, known for Facing Krampus (2021), Winter Days (2019) and Devin (2018).