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- Gernot Endemann was born on 24 June 1942 in Essen, Germany. He was an actor, known for Die Unverbesserlichen (1965), Jan Billbusch (1972) and Mandara (1983). He was married to Sabine Schmidt-Kirchner, Reinhilt Schneider and Jocelyne Boisseau. He died on 29 June 2020 in Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany.
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Billy Mo was born on 22 February 1923 in Trinidad. He was an actor, known for Übermut im Salzkammergut (1963), Schlagerparade 1961 (1961) and Die Nacht vor der Premiere (1959). He was married to Sylvia Hartjenstein, Margot Miranda and Eldica Joachim. He died on 16 July 2004 in Hannover, Germany.- Marcel Werner was born on 13 March 1952 in Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany. He was an actor, known for Michael Kramer (1984), Etwas wird sichtbar (1981) and Tatort (1970). He died on 10 June 1986 in Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany.
- Gerd von Rundstedt was born on 12 December 1875 in Aschersleben, Germany. He was married to Luise (Bila) von Goetz. He died on 24 February 1953 in Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany.
- Composer
- Soundtrack
Champion Jack Dupree was born in New Orleans, LA, in 1909. He was orphaned as a child when his parents were killed in a house fire, reportedly set by the Ku Klux Klan. He was raised in the city's Colored Waifs School for Boys--like another New Orleans jazz great, Louis Armstrong--where he learned to play the piano. He earned a living hustling money on the city's streets, and secured jobs playing piano in bars and brothels in the city's French Quarter.
In 1930 he left New Orleans for Chicago, and played at house parties and in small clubs, but left the city after a year and moved to Detroit. He decided to became a professional boxer, based out of Indianapolis, IN. He was actually successful in that endeavor, fighting more than 100 bouts and becoming lightweight champion of Indiana. He soon went back to music, however, and in 1940 returned to Chicago, where he recorded for noted producer Lester Melrose. Dupree was drafted into the US Navy in 1942, serving aboard ship in the Pacific as a cook. In 1943 he was captured by Japanese forces and spent the next two years in a POW camp. When he returned to the US after the war he settled in New York City and was soon recording for such labels as Savoy and King. His recording of "Walking the Blues" with Teddy McRae got to #6 on the R&B charts in 1955.
Fed up with the prejudice and racism he continually encountered in the US music business--at times he had to supplement his income by working as a cook when he couldn't work as a musician--in 1959 he moved to Europe, first to Paris and then to Zurich, Switzerland. He move around Europe before finally settling in Germany in the mid-'70s. He found a loyal and devoted following in Europe, recording for more than a dozen labels and performing in a series of successful concerts, enabling him to live in the kind of comfort that he never found in the US. In 1990 he returned to the US to play in the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, While there he recorded "Back Home in New Orleans" for Bullseye Blues Records. In 1991 he returned to New Orleans for the Jazz and Heritage Festival, and recorded another album for Bullseye Blues Records, "Forever and Ever", and later played at the Chicago Blues Festival.
He returned to Germany and died in 1992 in Hannover.- Actor
- Writer
- Director
Alexander May was born on 8 July 1927 in Görlitz, Germany. He was an actor and writer, known for Tätowierung (1967), Freunde fürs Leben (1992) and Johann Sebastian Bachs vergebliche Reise in den Ruhm (1980). He was married to Marga Klappert. He died on 2 May 2008 in Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany.- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Volker von Collande was born on 21 November 1913 in Dresden, Germany. He was an actor and director, known for Das Bad auf der Tenne (1943), Insel ohne Moral (1950) and Fritze Bollmann wollte angeln (1943). He was married to Irene Nathusius, Isabella Vernici, Gisela Hartwig gen. von Naso and Ingeborg Hertel. He died on 29 October 1990 in Hannover, Germany.- Viktoria Luise von Preußen was born on 13 September 1892 in Potsdam, Kingdom of Prussia [now Brandenburg], Germany. She was married to Ernest Augustus. She died on 11 December 1980 in Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany.
- After school, Bahlsen completed commercial training in Geneva. From 1879 he worked as an entrepreneur in various business areas in Hanover. Bahlsen's business activities also took him to London, where he learned a specific recipe for the typical English sweet pastry called "cakes", which he brought back to Germany. In 1888, Bahlsen initially joined a biscuit factory in Hanover as a partner. But just a year later, in 1889, he founded his own company there: the "Hannoversche Cakesfabrik H. Bahlsen". The small bakery initially had ten employees. By 1893 the number of employees had already risen to around 100. Bahlsen now also began producing the legendary "Leibniz Cake". The resourceful entrepreneur promoted what later became the most famous biscuit in the world with a short quote from the philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, after whom the product was named.
This unusual advertising method quickly promoted the spread of the biscuit. Another typical feature of Bahlsen products to this day is their special packaging, which guarantees the freshness of the product even when stored for a long time. Bahlsen patented the packaging in 1903. Bahlsen's company logo was also created shortly after the turn of the century, for which the entrepreneur sought advice from an Egyptologist: Bahlsen designed it from the hieroglyph for the word "TET", which stands for eternity and durability. Since then, the logo has symbolized the company's claim to produce a product that can be used in the long term. From 1905 onwards, Bahlsen biscuits were produced using streamlined methods, which also included the assembly line system.
Hermann Bahlsen died on November 6, 1919 in Hanover. His eldest son Hans Bahlsen and especially the second eldest son Werner Bahlsen later took over management of the company. - Vita Kowala was born on 18 November 1950. She was an actress, known for Sterne des Südens (1992), Das erste Semester (1997) and Stadtklinik (1993). She died on 13 February 1997 in Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany.
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Gunter Gabriel was born on 11 June 1942 in Bünde, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He was an actor, known for Dirndljagd am Kilimandscharo (1983), Andi Ommsen ist der letzte Lude (2003) and Läster-Lexikon (1975). He was married to Carin Grundmann, ??? and Gabriele. He died on 22 June 2017 in Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany.- Writer
- Director
Henri Nannen was born on 25 December 1913 in Emden, Germany. He was a writer and director, known for Russische Skizzen (1958), 58. Bundeswettbewerb jugend forscht Bremen 2023 (2023) and 40 Jahre Jugend forscht - Der Film (2005). He was married to Eske Nannen, Martha Kimm and Edita Zedlitz. He died on 13 October 1996 in Hannover, Germany.- Actress
- Soundtrack
Karin Stanek was born on 18 August 1946 in Bytom, Slaskie, Poland. She was an actress, known for Dwa zebra Adama (1964), O rany, nic sie nie stalo (1987) and Disco (1971). She died on 15 February 2011 in Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany.- Rainer Hirsch was born in 1948 in Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany. He was an actor, known for ZDF-Mittagsmagazin (1989) and Die Drehscheibe (1964). He died on 16 April 2009 in Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany.
- Camera and Electrical Department
Walter Bruch was born on 2 March 1908 in Neustadt an der Weinstraße, Germany. He is known for High Lights of the 1936 Olympics Berlin (1936), Dalli Dalli (1971) and Television (1985). He died on 5 May 1990 in Hannover, Germany.- Jutta von Alpen was born on 26 June 1921 in Berlin, Germany. She was an actress, known for Immer nur Du (1941), Der grüne Salon (1944) and Sommernächte (1944). She died on 24 February 1989 in Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany.
- Actor
- Additional Crew
George Costacos was born in 1964 in Athens, Greece. He was an actor, known for The Olympic Games in Antiquity (2002), Football's Greatest (2010) and Athens 2004: Games of the XXVIII Olympiad (2004). He died on 17 November 2008 in Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany.- Robert Näestelberger was born in 1887 in Graz, Austria. He was an actor, known for Parema - Das Wesen aus der Sternenwelt (1922), Holzapfel weiß alles (1932) and Trara um Liebe (1931). He died on 10 June 1942 in Hannover, Germany.
- Writer
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Heinrich Marschner was born on 16 August 1795 in Zittau, Saxony, Germany. Heinrich was a writer, known for In the Shadow of the Moon (2019), The Vampyr: A Soap Opera (1992) and De houtdief (1960). Heinrich died on 14 December 1861 in Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany.- Konrad Kittner was born on 30 March 1962 in Hannover, Germany. He was an actor, known for Kein Pardon (1993). He died on 11 May 2006 in Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany.
- Actor
- Production Manager
- Additional Crew
Hartmut Fischer was born on 26 August 1960 in Germany. He was an actor and production manager, known for Otto - Der Außerfriesische (1989), Otto - Der Liebesfilm (1992) and SOKO Wismar (2004). He died on 2 June 2012 in Hannover, Germany.- Wolfgang Ott was born on 23 June 1923 in Pforzheim, Germany. He was a writer, known for Haie und kleine Fische (1957). He died in January 2013 in Hannover, Germany.
- Oskar Negt was born on 1 August 1934 in Kapkeim, Wehlau, East Prussia, Germany [now Vishnyovoye, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia]. He was an actor, known for 'Surplus Value' & Its Images (2005), Thinking for Oneself (2005) and Was war links? (2003). He was married to Christine Morgenroth. He died on 2 February 2024 in Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany.
- Theo Altmeyer was born on 16 March 1931 in Eschweiler, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He was an actor, known for Das Paradies und die Peri (1962) and Die Markus-Passion (1964). He died on 28 July 2007 in Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany.
- Karl-Heinz Kämmerling was born on 6 May 1930 in Dessau, Germany. He died on 14 June 2012 in Hannover, Germany.
- Günter Beisse was born on 4 November 1938. He died on 28 November 2005 in Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany.
- Music Department
Georg Nettelmann was born on 20 January 1902 in Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany. He is known for Gold (1934). He died on 17 October 1988 in Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany.- Eugen Bergen was born on 23 January 1901 in Oesede, Germany. He was an actor, known for Was ihr wollt (1954), Der Kirschgarten (1959) and Dieser Platonow... (1967). He died on 31 July 1990 in Hannover, Germany.
- Zbigniew Kaczmarek was born on 31 July 1946 in Tarnowskie Góry, Poland. He was married to ???. He died on 15 May 2023 in Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany.
- Actor
- Director
- Music Department
Jean Soubeyran was born on 3 January 1921 in Paris, France. He was an actor and director, known for Das Stacheltier - Der junge Engländer (1958), Das Leben ist die größte Schau - Seltsame Geschichten und komische Begebenheiten (1964) and Der kaukasische Kreidekreis (1958). He was married to Brigitte Soubeyran. He died on 3 September 2000 in Hannover, Germany.- Thomas Schmidt was born on 23 February 1942 in Stendal, Germany. He was an actor, known for Die Geschichte vom kleinen Muck (1953), Hosianna (1961) and Die Triole auf den zwei Achteln (1960). He was married to Schmidt, Hazel. He died on 4 July 2008 in Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany.
- Willi Schatz was born on 1 February 1905 in Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany. He died on 17 February 1985 in Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany.
- Jochen Krause was an actor, known for Gangster, Geld und Rock'n'Roll (2012). He was married to Rike. He died on 6 February 2012 in Hannover, Germany.
- Dóra Csinádi was born on 15 March 1925 in Budapest, Hungary. She was an actress, known for Díszelöadás (1955). She died on 6 August 2013 in Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany.
- Josef Schaper was born on 19 March 1901 in Ungvár, Hungary, Austria-Hungary [now Uzhhorod, Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine]. He was an actor, known for Othello (1958), In freier Landschaft (1977) and Wie ein Hirschberger Dänisch lernte (1968). He died on 20 March 1984 in Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany.
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Blues guitarist Louisiana Red was born Iverson Minter in Vicksburg, MS, in 1936. His childhood in Mississippi was not an easy one--his mother died shortly after he was born and his father was lynched by the Ku Klux Klan--and he taught himself how to play the guitar and the harmonica. He moved to Pittsburgh, PA, in 1945,but the only musical jobs he could get was playing on street corners for spare change. He relocated to Chicago and had a little better luck there--he managed to record a few singles for Checker Records--but he enlisted in the US Air FOrce in the early 1950s and and left in 1958. He got back into the music business after his discharge, and in the early 1960s recorded his debut album, "Lowdown Back Porch Blues", for Roulette Records. In 1971 he recorded the album "Louisiana Red Sings the Blues" for Atco Records, but it didn't sell well and the label dropped him. Eventually he moved to Europe, where he continued to record and perform.'- From 1653 to 1661 Leibniz attended the Nikolai School in Leipzig. His enormous hunger for knowledge became clear from an early age: as an eight-year-old, he used access to his father's library to teach himself the Latin language. In 1661, Leibniz began studying at the university in his hometown. In addition to studying philosophy and law, he studied mathematics, logic, physics and, throughout his life, alchemy. In 1666, Leibniz was forced to move to the University of Altdorf near Nuremberg: in Leipzig he was denied a doctorate due to his young age - he was just 20 years old. The following year, 1667, Leibniz received his doctorate brilliantly and was then offered a professorship.
Leibniz declined because he did not expect an academic career to provide enough opportunities for development. Instead, Leibniz published a treatise on legal reform ("Nova methodus socendae discendaeque jurisprudentiae") in the same year. First he took up a position as a diplomatic advisor to the Elector of Mainz, Johann Philipp von Schönborn. He was sent to Paris in 1672 with a political mission: in order to divert France's power interests from Germany, Leibniz was supposed to persuade Louis XIV to attack Egypt - a mission that was unsuccessful. In 1675 he discovered the basics of differential calculus. From 1672 to 1676 Leibniz lived alternately in Paris and London. He trained primarily in mathematics and met many leading scholars of his time.
Leibniz had been a foreign member of the Paris "Academie des Sciences" since 1669, and in 1673 he also became a member of the London "Royal Society". A circumstance that he owed to extensive mathematical studies and the invention of a calculating machine for the four basic arithmetic operations. In 1676, Leibniz moved to Hanover, where he became a librarian and, in 1677, legal councilor to Duke Johann Friedrich. His mathematical interests initially took a backseat to this activity. However, with the founding of the "Acta eruditorum", a scientific journal, in 1682, he received and took advantage of the opportunity to regularly publish scientific research results. In 1685, Leibniz received the commission from Duke Ernst August of Hanover to write the history of the ruling dynasty of the Guelphs, a task which he fulfilled reluctantly but with his characteristic thoroughness. Ultimately, however, he did not finish the historical work.
In connection with this assignment, Leibniz also came to Rome, where he was offered to look after the Vatican Library. Since he would have had to become a Catholic, he refused. Instead, he took over the management of the library in Wolfenbüttel in 1691. In 1700, Leibniz became president of the Berlin "Society of Sciences", an institution that was founded at his instigation and with the support of the Hanoverian Princess Sophie Charlotte. Leibniz spent the years 1712 to 1714 in Vienna, where he was appointed Reichshofrat in 1713. Leibniz had also been a scientific advisor to the Russian Tsar Peter I since 1711.
Leibniz thus devoted a large part of his time to statesmanship, which deprived him of the time to write larger scientific works. He has three main works in the field of philosophy: "New Experiments on the Human Understanding" (1703), "Theodicy" (1710) and "Monadology" (1714). He also left behind an almost unmanageable amount of letters and magazine articles. Towards the end of his life there was a falling out with the court in Hanover, on the one hand because of the never-finished history of the Guelphs, but also because of the numerous trips that Leibniz undertook without official permission.
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz died on November 14, 1716 at the age of 70 in Hanover. No representatives of the court or civil servants attended his funeral. The German Research Foundation now awards the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prizes in his honor every year. - Actress
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Liselotte Malkowsky was a German-Danish singer in the class of 'Zarah Leander', Lale Andersen and Édith Piaf. She was in the German-Austrian underground against the Nazis in WWII. Right after the war, she worked for the USO in West-Germany as a singer and recorded many records for Polydor. Some of her songs in German are: "Aloha Oe", "Chanson des adieux", "La Seine", "Auf der Reperbahn Nachts um Halb eins", "La Paloma" and so many more.- Director
- Editor
- Sound Department
Alwin Elling was born on 20 April 1897 in Hanover, Germany. He was a director and editor, known for Sanatorium total verrückt (1954), Karussell (1937) and Eine Seefahrt, die ist lustig (1935). He died on 7 November 1973 in Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany.- Karl Ravens was born on 29 June 1927 in Achim, Lower Saxony, Germany. He died on 8 September 2017 in Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany.
- Eike Christian Hirsch was a writer, known for Klimbim (1973) and III nach neun (1974). He died on 7 August 2022 in Hannover, Germany.
- Vahit Terlemez was born on 15 September 1933 in Çorum, Turkey. He was a writer and actor, known for Keko Garsonlar Krali (1986), Asrin Kadini (1984) and Alkol (1985). He died on 22 September 1994 in Hannover, Germany.