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Klaus Kinski was born as Klaus Günter Karl Nakszynski in Zoppot, Free City of Danzig (now Sopot, Poland), to Susanne (Lutze), a nurse, and Bruno Nakszynski, a pharmacist. He grew up in Berlin, was drafted into the German army in 1944 and captured by British forces in Holland. After the war he began acting on the stage, quickly gaining a reputation for a ferocious talent and an equally ferocious temper. He started acting in films shortly afterward, showing an utter disregard for the quality of the productions he appeared in and churning out so many that a complete filmography is almost impossible to assemble.
However, he did turn out memorable work for director Werner Herzog, a similarly driven and obsessive character. Herzog and Kinski pushed each other to extremes over a 15-year working relationship, which finally ended after filming Cobra Verde (1987), a production plagued by volcanic clashes between the star and director, involving--among other things--violent physical altercations and mutual death threats. He subsequently directed and starred in the notorious Paganini (1989), his only film as director and which was marked by (again) clashes between Kinski and his producers, who accused him of turning their movie into a pornographic film and sued him in court. His autobiography, "All I Need is Love", a vicious attack on the film industry, was withdrawn for legal reasons and subsequently re-released as "Kinski Uncut" in the US & UK, "Ich brauche Liebe" in Germany, and in various other languages.- Actress
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Ingrid van Bergen was born on 15 June 1931 in Danzig-Langfuhr, Free City of Danzig [now Wrzeszcz, Gdansk, Pomorskie, Poland]. She is an actress, known for Escape from East Berlin (1962), Roses for the Prosecutor (1959) and Was wissen Sie von Titipu? (1972).- Matthias Habich was born on 12 January 1940 in Danzig, Germany [now Gdansk, Pomorskie, Poland]. He is an actor, known for Enemy at the Gates (2001), Downfall (2004) and The Reader (2008).
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Alexander Salkind is the legendary film producer. His father, Michael Salkind, was also a well-known, successful film producer. Also known as Alex Salkind, he was the father of Ilya Salkind. They were partners for decades, teaming up on the hits The Three Musketeers (1973) and The Four Musketeers (1974), and taking credit for producing the first "comic book movie" with the blockbuster Superman (1978), which they followed with Superman II (1980) and Superman III (1983).
Together, the Salkinds are possibly one of the most successful father/son producing teams in motion picture history.- Wolfgang Völz was born on 16 August 1930 in Free City of Danzig [now Gdansk, Pomorskie, Poland]. He was an actor and writer, known for Asterix and Obelix vs. Caesar (1999), Babeck (1968) and Raumpatrouille - Die phantastischen Abenteuer des Raumschiffes Orion (1966). He was married to Roswitha Völz. He died on 2 May 2018 in Berlin, Germany.
- Eccentric, self-deprecating comedian Eddi Arent first attracted attention in a series of quirky Edgar Wallace adaptations in the 1960's. For several years, he was Germany's idea of stereotypically blithering English lords (The Strange Countess (1961), as the aptly named Lord Selwyn Moron), laconic butlers (Secret of the Red Orchid (1962)) or obtuse, clumsy second-string Scotland Yard photographers (Dead Eyes of London (1961), The Door with Seven Locks (1962). Otherwise, Arent was patently reliable as droll, vaguely effete sidekicks and comic relief in westerns and adventure films based on the ever-popular writings of Karl May. He is fondly remembered as the mild-mannered, bumbling butterfly collector Castlepool in the 'Winnetou' trilogy, beginning with The Treasure of the Silver Lake (1962). To confound those who had him perpetually typecast, Arent also donned the black garb of villainy as a murderous monk for one of his last Edgar Wallace potboilers, The Sinister Monk (1965). He must have enjoyed this change of character, since he repeated the exercise: first (not too convincingly), playing a human trafficker masquerading as a priest in Der Bucklige von Soho (1966); then, as a knife-throwing killer in the English-German co-production Psycho-Circus (1966), which had the great Christopher Lee (for once) relegated to the role of the 'red herring'.
Unlike most of his peers, Arent had little formal theatrical training. Instead, he began in cabaret, where he developed the character sketches and personae which would later make his name. Nor did he have any interest in forging a career on the legitimate stage. Films first saw him as a dramatic actor in minor supporting roles, his natural talent as a comedian not recognised until the end of the 1950's. After his hey-day in the 60's, his subsequent output was fairly unremarkable. For the most part, he fluttered around on the margins of youth-oriented low-brow pop-films. Some of his other pictures may have appealed to devotees of 'Heimatfilm' schmaltz. However, in the 80's, Arent acquired a new following with the television sketch show Harald und Eddi (1987). In conjunction with perennial audience favorite Harald Juhnke, he delighted audiences with his comedic versatility. Leaving the limelight in the 1990's, Arent then endured a series of financial and personal setbacks. Suffering from depression and increasingly afflicted by dementia, he died in May 2013 at the age of 88. - Actress
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Zeisberg was born Ingmar Muhes in Danzig (present-day Gdansk). At the outbreak of World War II, Ingmar, with her ailing, widowed mother in tow, made her way to Denmark where both languished for two years in an internment camp. At war's end, Ingmar returned to Berlin to study journalism. By 1950, her career plans now changed, she enrolled at the prestigious Max Reinhardt Academy of the Deutsches Theater to study drama. Her stage debut in a production of Goethe's Faust followed soon after. Upon graduation, Ingmar found work as a theater and film critic in Cologne and also authored several screenplays.
In 1954, Ingmar was hand-picked by the director Georg Wilhelm Pabst to appear in the marital drama Afraid to Love (1954). She then had a successful run, appearing in many entertainments of varied genres: Heimatfilms, musical comedies, costume dramas and post-war Trümmerfilms, in most of which she worked under high profile directors like Helmut Käutner, Géza von Cziffra, Victor Tourjansky and Arthur Maria Rabenalt. By the early 60s, Ingmar starred in a couple of commercially popular Edgar Wallace-based potboilers (The Strangler of Blackmoor Castle (1963), The Inn on Dartmoor (1964)) and crime thrillers (Meet Peter Voss (1959), Nebelmörder (1964)). After a three-year long hiatus, she then also conquered the TV market, her most memorable role being the mariticidal Diana Stewart in the miniseries Wie ein Blitz (1970), adapted from a work by British crime novelist Francis Durbridge. Ingmar rounded off her career with seven appearances in the hit TV police series Tatort (1970).
The actress was married five times. Her exes included the producer Klaus Stapenhorst and the director Wolfgang Staudte. She was predeceased by her fifth husband, the architect and town planner Albert Speer Jr., son of the infamous former German Reich Minister of Armaments and War Production.- Lilo Pempeit was born on 6 October 1922 in Free City of Danzig [now Gdansk, Pomorskie, Poland]. She was an actress, known for The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979), Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) and Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974). She was married to Wolff Eder and Helmut Fassbinder. She died on 7 May 1993 in Munich, Germany.
- Bernhard Goetzke was born on 5 June 1884 in Danzig, West Prussia, Kingdom of Prussia, Germany [now Gdansk, Poland]. He was an actor, known for Salamander (1928), Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922) and Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924). He died on 7 October 1964 in West Berlin, West Germany.
- Balduin Baas was born on June 9, 1922 in Free City of Danzig as Balduin Baaske. He was an actor and writer, known for playing the lead role in Federico Fellini's Orchestra Rehearsal (1978), for The Magic Mountain (1982) starring Rod Steiger, as well as for Doktor Faustus (1982) with Jon Finch and Hanns Zischler, Tatort (1970), They're Too Much (1965) and Our Charly (1995). He was married to Ruth Stephan and he was the longtime spouse of Hamburg photographer Charlotte March. He died on May 22, 2006 in Hamburg, Germany.
- Hildegard Wolf was born on 1 July 1910 in Zoppot, Free City of Danzig [now Sopot, Pomorskie, Poland]. She is an actress, known for Das erste Recht des Kindes (1932), Seinerzeit zu meiner Zeit (1944) and Gefährlicher Frühling (1943). She was previously married to Paul Klinger.
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Wolfgang Jansen was born on 3 April 1938 in Free City of Danzig [now Gdansk, Pomorskie, Poland]. He was an actor, known for Unser Herr Diener (1967), Der Floh im Ohr (1966) and Bratkartoffeln inbegriffen (1967). He died on 9 January 1988 in Hamburg, West Germany.- Actor
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Wolf-Dietrich Berg was born on 17 May 1944 in Danzig, Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia, Germany [now Gdansk, Pomorskie, Poland]. He was an actor, known for Edel & Starck (2002), The Country Doctor (1987) and Frauenarzt Dr. Markus Merthin (1994). He died on 26 January 2004 in Hamburg, Germany.- Peter Böhlke was born on 3 August 1926 in Free City of Danzig [now Gdansk, Pomorskie, Poland]. He is an actor, known for Eine Frau ohne Bedeutung (1969), Tatort (1970) and Der seidene Schuh (1965).
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Christiane Blumhoff was born on 17 June 1942 in Steegen, Danzig-West Prussia, Germany [now Stegna, Pomorskie, Poland]. She was an actress, known for Liebe, Babys und ... (2006), Sugar Baby (1985) and Die Schatzsuche - Orientierung mit der Landkarte (1991). She was married to Charles Bioudun Pearce. She died on 14 November 2023 in Munich, Bavaria, 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. - Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
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Eva Ebner was born on 14 January 1922 in Free City of Danzig [now Gdansk, Pomorskie, Poland]. She was an assistant director and actress, known for Around the World in 80 Days (2004), Lexx (1996) and Meeting Venus (1991). She died on 31 January 2006 in Berlin, Germany.- Actress
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Käte Jaenicke was born on 22 March 1928 in Free City of Danzig [now Gdansk, Pomorskie, Poland]. She was an actress and writer, known for The Tin Drum (1979), Zwischen den Zügen (1961) and Der Bär (1955). She died on 1 November 2002 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.- Else Elster was born on 22 February 1910 in Danzig, West Prussia, Germany [now Gdansk, Pomorskie, Poland]. She was an actress, known for Three Girls Around Schubert (1936), Secret of the Blue Room (1932) and Trouble Backstairs (1935). She died on 28 March 1998 in Günzburg, Bavaria, Germany.
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Dieter Wien was born on 13 October 1934 in Free City of Danzig [now Gdansk, Pomorskie, Poland]. He is an actor and director, known for Liebesau - die andere Heimat (2001), Karl May (1992) and Die Zaubergräte (1983). He is married to Madeleine Lierck.- Writer
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Wolfgang Kirchner was born in 1935 in Danzig, Free City of Danzig [now Gdansk, Poland]. He is a writer and director, known for Hamburg Transit (1970), Sechs Millionen (1978) and Priester (1987).- Ursula Schult was born on 2 March 1922 in Free City of Danzig [now Gdansk, Pomorskie, Poland]. She is an actress, known for La musica (1970), Eine Frau ohne Bedeutung (1964) and Fast ein Poet (1968).
- Eva Schauland was born in 1935 in Free City of Danzig [now Gdansk, Pomorskie, Poland]. She is an actress, known for Horrors of Spider Island (1960) and Zu viele Köche (1961).
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Heinz Rennhack was born on 5 March 1937 in Danzig, Free City of Danzig [now Gdansk, Poland]. He is an actor, known for Karriere N (1974), Kille, kille Händchen (1979) and Spuk von draußen (1987). He has been married to Annemarie since 1967. They have one child.- Jürgen Janza was born on 4 December 1934 in Free City of Danzig [now Gdansk, Pomorskie, Poland]. He is an actor, known for Doppelter Einsatz (1994), Cliff Dexter (1966) and Die Schelme im Paradies (1965).