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Margit Carstensen was born on 29 February 1940 in Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. She was an actress, known for The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972), Possession (1981) and Martha (1974). She died on 1 June 2023 in Heide, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.- Actor
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Hans von Borsody was born on 20 September 1929 in Vienna, Austria. He was an actor, known for A Bridge Too Far (1977), Cliff Dexter (1966) and Don Juan (1955). He was married to Karin Dittmann, Rosemarie Fendel, Alwy Becker and Heide Keller. He died on 4 November 2013 in Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.- Actress
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Ilse Werner was born in Batavia (present-day Djakarta), the daughter of the Dutch merchant O.E.G. Still and his German wife, Lilly Werner. She spent her early childhood in Batavia, before the family moved her to Frankfurt to attend secondary school. In 1936, Ilse enrolled at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna to study elocution and drama. Following her graduation, she was offered a contract with a prestigious theatre in Josefstadt and made her stage debut in 1938. 'Discovered' by the director 'Geza von Bolvary' during a performance, she first acted on screen in Finale (1938). Her career then took off at lightning speed and she became one of the most popular stars at Ufa for the next seven years.
An attractive, tomboyish brunette, Ilse had a considerable aptitude for singing, which producers brought to the fore by frequently casting her in films like Request Concert (1940), the pop musical Wir machen Musik (1942), and (as 19th century Swedish opera star Jenny Lind) in the biopic Die schwedische Nachtigall (1941). Ilse could also be called upon to handle dramatic material and gave creditable performances in Bel Ami (1939) and Great Freedom No. 7 (1944), opposite Hans Albers. She cleverly alternated her film career with appearances in cabaret and on radio.
After the war, she married an American journalist and spent several years in California. After her divorce in 1953, she returned to Germany, but a successful movie comeback eluded her. Nonetheless, she remained in the public eye after releasing several top-selling albums. Her pop song "Baciare" became a major hit across Europe in 1960. In 1970, Ilse acted in a German stage version of the musical "The King and I", and, thereafter, continued to make further sporadic appearances on stage and on television until her eventual retirement in 2000.- Karl Dönitz (16 September 1891 - 24 December 1980) was a German admiral who briefly succeeded Adolf Hitler as head of state in May 1945, holding the position until the dissolution of the Flensburg Government following Germany's unconditional surrender to the Allies days later. As Supreme Commander of the Navy beginning in 1943, he played a major role in the naval history of World War II.
- 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. - Marianne Bachmeier was born on 3 June 1950 in Sarstedt, Lower Saxony, Germany. She died on 17 August 1996 in Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
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Rolf Zacher was born on 28 March 1941 in Berlin, Germany. He was an actor, known for Slow Attack (1980), The Confessions of Felix Krull (1982) and Heidenlöcher (1986). He was married to Gisela Getty. He died on 3 February 2018 in Seniors Residence "Am Park", Büdelsdorf, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.- Director
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Peter Schulze-Rohr was born on 25 May 1926 in Leipzig, Germany. He was a director and producer, known for Hautnah (1985), Tatort (1970) and Sonderdezernat K1 (1972). He was married to Christa Schulze-Rohr. He died on 22 September 2007 in Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.- Actor
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Uwe Dallmeier was born on 27 August 1924 in Dithmarschen, Germany. He was an actor, known for Viola und Sebastian (1972), Kümo Henriette (1979) and John Glückstadt (1975). He was married to Ola Anders and Christa Diekhaut. He died on 19 November 1985 in Westerland, Schleswig-Holstein, West Germany.- Actor
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Erwin Linder was born on 29 October 1903 in Weinheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. He was an actor, known for Hans im Glück (1936), Das Halstuch (1962) and Jeanne oder Die Lerche (1966). He was married to Wika Krautz and Marianne Wischmann. He died on 21 March 1968 in Westerland, Sylt, Schleswig-Holstein, West Germany.- Actor
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Martin Lüttge was born on 7 July 1943 in Hamburg, Germany. He was an actor, known for Der Lord von Barmbeck (1974), Der Tod läuft hinterher (1967) and Tatort (1970). He was married to Marlen Breitinger and Gila von Weitershausen. He died on 22 February 2017 in Plön, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.- Actress
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Katharina Brauren was born on 21 April 1910 in Frankfurt (Oder), Brandenburg, Germany. She was an actress, known for Madame Bovary (1937), Novemberkatzen (1986) and Fremde, liebe Fremde (1991). She was married to Konrad Mayerhoff. She died on 25 December 1998 in Ahrensburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.- Actress
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Maria Garland was born on 16 May 1889 in Copenhagen, Denmark. She was an actress and writer, known for The Burning Question (1943), Lykke paa rejsen (1947) and Verdensgiften (1914). She was married to Ernst Ludwig Harthern-Jakobsen and Jean Louis Dalgas Mariboe. She died on 26 October 1967 in Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.- Director
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Otto Meyer was born on 1 April 1910. He was a director and assistant director, known for Schatten über den Inseln (1952), Die Insel der Amazonen (1960) and Blick zurück im Film (1963). He died on 16 June 2000 in Tinnum, Sylt, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.- Actor
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Peter Lustig was born on 27 October 1937 in Breslau, Silesia, Germany [now Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland]. He was an actor and writer, known for Löwenzahn (1981), Pusteblume (1979) and Mittendrin (1989). He was married to Astrid Berge, Elfie Donnelly and ???. He died on 23 February 2016 in Husum, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.- Actor
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Ludwig Haas was born on 16 April 1933 in Eutin, Lübeck, Oldenburg [now Schleswig-Holstein], Germany. He was an actor, known for Lindenstraße (1985), Shining Through (1992) and Erfolg (1991). He was married to Marianne Simon. He died on 4 September 2021 in Neumünster, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.- Actress
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Else von Möllendorff was born on 29 December 1913 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. She was an actress, known for Peter Voss, der Millionendieb (1946), Frau Luna (1941) and Neunzig Minuten Aufenthalt (1936). She died on 28 July 1982 in Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.- Ulrich Wildgruber was born on 18 November 1937 in Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He was an actor, known for Super (1984), Felidae (1994) and Queen Margot (1994). He was married to Vera. He died on 30 November 1999 in Sylt, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
- Otto von Bismarck was born on 1 April 1815 in Schönhausen, Jerichow II, Province of Saxony, Prussia [now Stendal, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany]. He was a writer, known for Die Entlassung (1942), Film socialisme (2010) and Royal Cousins at War (2014). He was married to Johanna von Puttkamer. He died on 30 July 1898 in Friedrichsruh, Aumühle, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
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Hans Hessling was born on 22 March 1903 in Hamburg, Germany. He was an actor, known for Nights in Andalusia (1938), Das tapfere Schneiderlein (1941) and The Buddenbrooks (1959). He was married to Gerda Tschechne. He died on 24 February 1995 in Bad Oldesloe, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.- Composer
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Rio Reiser, born Ralph Christian Möbius, in Berlin 1950, was a German singer/songwriter, poet, actor, and activist. His father Herbert Möbius was an engineer for Siemens AG, and the family moved several times because of his father's work; they lived in West Berlin, Upper Bavaria, Nuremberg, Mannheim, and Fellbach. His mother Erika supported and recognized her youngest sons artistic talents and allowed him to quite school for an apprenticeship in a photo-studio, which became short-lived but instead led on to Cello studies at the Offenbach Music Conservatory, and later in 1966 he met drummer/guitarist Ralph Peter Steitz, a.k.a. R.P.S. Lanrue) and formed the group Beat Kings. In 1967 they both moved to West Berlin, where Ralph Christian Möbius sought out and lived with his two older brothers, Gert and Peter. In Berlin he first joined the Hoffmann's Comic Teater as a musician and later the improvisation drama group Rote Steine. This excursion into the world of social theater eventually led to the formation of the alternative folk/rock group Ton Steine Scherben. They lived on for 15 years, recording, touring, and politically active on the left wing. During these years Ralph Christian Möbius became Rio Reiser when he in 1977 was offered a leading role in the feature film "Johnny West". He re-activated his nickname Rio from his teens and added Reiser from Karl Philipp Moritz's autobiographical novel "Anton Reiser". In 1985, Rio Reiser and Ton Steine Scherben finally split. He was soon offered a record deal by CBS and released his solo album "Rio 1" in November 1986, produced by Annette Humpe, from the group Ideal. For ten intensive years Rio Reiser enjoyed enormous success and appreciation in Germany. During those years he also appeared in a handful of feature films and a large number of television productions. Rio Reiser died on August 20, 1996 at the age of 46. The cause of death was diagnosed as bleeding from the varicose veins in the esophagus.- Charlotte Joeres was born on 28 September 1916 in Dortmund, Germany. She was an actress, known for Der Prozeß Carl von O. (1964), Ein Frauenarzt klagt an (1964) and Heinrich Penthesilea von Kleist (1983). She died on 21 January 2007 in Ramstedt, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
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Erich Ringelband was born on 12 March 1925. He was a cinematographer, known for Farming (1957), Der merkwürdige Tod des Herrn Hammersköld (1961) and Aus erster Hand - Interviews mit den führenden Männern unserer Zeit (1958). He died on 1 March 2000 in Niendorf an der Stecknitz, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.- Gisela Stein was born on 2 October 1935 in Swinemünde, Pomerania, Germany [now Swinoujscie, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland]. She was an actress, known for Ich räume auf (1979), The Betrothed (1989) and Das Vergnügen, anständig zu sein (1966). She died on 4 May 2009 in Mohrkirch, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
- Hans Häckermann was born on 3 March 1930 in Pirna, Germany. He was an actor, known for The Country Doctor (1987), Clavigo (1970) and Sonderdezernat K1 (1972). He was married to Monika Häckermann. He died on 16 September 1995 in Ritzerau, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
- Elfriede Rückert was born on 6 January 1918. She was an actress, known for Das Land der Verheißung (1960), Nebelmörder (1964) and Mit 17 weint man nicht (1960). She was married to Hansjörg Felmy and Carlos Werner. She died on 24 October 2016 in Nebel, Amrum, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
- Valeska Gert was born on 11 January 1892 in Berlin, Germany. She was an actress, known for The Threepenny Opera (1931), Ein Sommernachtstraum (1925) and Coup de Grâce (1976). She was married to Robin Hay Anderson and Helmuth von Krause. She died on 15 March 1978 in Kampen, Sylt, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
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He was born on 29th of April in 1915 at Hamburg. After attending Secondary School he learned acting at an agency before private actors school tuition by Willi Maertens from the Thalia Theatre in Hamburg. He got his first engagement at the Landestheater Neuss, where he had his debut in November 1936. After World War II he went back to Hamburg. Since 1949 he was engaged at the famous Ohnsorg-Theater Hamburg, where he stayed until today. In November 2001 he celebrated his 65th stage anniversary as active actor.- Actor
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Kurt Mühlhardt was born on 11 September 1903 in Berlin, Germany. He was an actor, known for Madame hat Ausgang (1931), Reserve hat Ruh (1931) and Annie Get Your Gun (1965). He died on 20 June 1980 in Eckernförde, Schleswig-Holstein, West Germany.- Actress
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Gerty Molzen was born on 30 January 1906 in Flensburg, Germany. She was an actress, known for The American Friend (1977), Sonderdezernat K1 (1972) and Hamburg Transit (1970). She died on 31 August 1990 in Glücksburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.- Lina Heydrich was born on 14 June 1911 in Avendorf, Fehmarn, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. She was married to Mauno Manninen and Reinhard Heydrich. She died on 14 August 1985 in Fehmarn, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
- Renate Delfs was born on 27 March 1925 in Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. She was an actress, known for A Quiet Love (2004), Rheinland and Tatort (1970). She died on 14 May 2018 in Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
- Erich Raeder was born on 24 April 1876 in Wandsbek, Hamburg, Germany. He died on 6 November 1960 in Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
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Both of his parents were involved in the art history field. After graduating from high school in 1976, Willemsen began studying German, philosophy, art history and ethnology. He initially studied in Bonn, but then also went to Florence, Munich and Vienna. His preferred area of research, which also influenced his doctorate, was the work of the writer Robert Musil. Willemsen initially worked in the scientific field. From 1984 to 1986 he was an assistant for literary studies, then in 1986/87 he was a lecturer at the University of Munich. From 1988 to 1990 Willemsen lived in London, where he worked as a freelancer for print media and broadcasting. At the same time, the humanities scholar also began working as a freelance writer and translator. He primarily published art and cultural travel guides, but also studies on social issues and portraits of special people and their fates.
Willemsen entered television in 1991/92, where he initially moderated the interview program "0137" on the pay-TV channel Premiere and interviewed numerous international stars and celebrities. In 1993/94 the talk show "Willemsen - The TV Talk" followed on the same station. As a moderator, Willemsen made a name for himself primarily because of his sensitive conversation style, his spontaneous conversation and his grammatically correct and linguistically sophisticated expression. However, Willemsen became known to the wider German television audience through his popular talk show "Willemsen's Week", which was broadcast on ZDF from 1994 to 1998. It went down in recent television history as an intelligent and intellectual TV talk.
Willemsen then moved to WDR at the beginning of 1999 to present the cultural program "Nachtkultur mit Willemsen", which was broadcast until November 2000. Willemsen also appeared again and again as presenter of the ZDF cultural format "aspekte", alternating with other colleagues. In the 1990s, Willemsen also produced and/or directed several TV productions that were shown as documentaries on ZDF and Arte. The contributions were created as part of his own TV production company, which Willemsen founded under the name "Noa-Noa Fernsehenproduktion GmbH". From 1995 to 1996 he took on a visiting professorship for literary studies at the University of Munich. He also taught at the University of Film and Television in Munich. In 1996 the portrait episode "Willemsen's Contemporaries" was broadcast. In the same year he made his directorial debut with the documentary "Non Stop - A Journey with Michel Petrucciani" on ZDF.
From 1999 to 2001 Willemsen also produced and presented "Willemsen's Music Magazine" for the Second German Television. Willemsen contributed his own project to the EXPO in Hanover in 2000: the video installation "Welcome Home - Artists See Germany" documented the image of Germany by numerous artists in the German Pavilion. He also moderated the "Stage Talk" at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg during the 2000/01 season. From the summer of 2001, Willemsen continued to distinguish himself as a producer and presenter of the interactive AOL program "Talk am Millerntor" and the ZDF portrait series "Gipfeltreffen". In the latter, until the end of 2001, he presented double portraits of two prominent residents for a selected city. After 11 years of commitment to television, Willemsen temporarily withdrew from the TV business at the end of 2001. He then undertook a trip through the Federal Republic that lasted several months, the literary result of which was Willemsen publishing the successful book "Deutschlandreise" in 2002.
In February 2004, Willemsen returned to electronic media as presenter of the "Literature Club" on Swiss television (SF). In the same year, the book "Gute Tage. Encounters with People and Places" marked another highlight in his literary work. The work, which was also presented at the Frankfurt Book Fair in October 2004, describes the author's encounters with people of our time and around the world, from the Dalai Lama to Harald Schmidt to Madonna. Willemsen was awarded the Golden Cable and the Bavarian Television Prize in 1992 for his "0137" moderation. A year later he received the Adolf Grimme Prize. Since 2010 he has been an honorary professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin. He also became a member of the PEN Center Germany and the editorial advisory board of the magazine Kulturtausch.
He was awarded the German Audio Book Prize in 2015 for "The High House. A Year in Parliament". In the same year it was announced that Willemsen was suffering from cancer.
Roger Willemsen died on February 7, 2016 in Wentorf, Hamburg.- Jochen Schenck was born on 30 April 1929 in Hamburg, Germany. He was an actor and director, known for Der schönste Mann von der Reeperbahn (1974), Cowboys, Quiddjes und Matrosen (1978) and Die spanische Fliege (1990). He died on 24 November 2016 in Elmshorn, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
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Gero Erhardt was born on 17 February 1943 in Berlin, Germany. He was a director and cinematographer, known for Hals über Kopf (1987), Das Erbe der Guldenburgs (1987) and Oliver Maass (1985). He was married to Jutta Erhardt. He died on 23 September 2021 in Jersbek, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.- Erna Raupach-Petersen was born on 11 November 1904 in Flensburg, Germany. She was an actress, known for Tratsch im Treppenhaus (1966), Und oben wohnen Engels (1967) and Und oben wohnen Engels (1978). She was married to Walter Raupach. She died on 21 November 1997 in Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
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After finishing school with his Abitur, he studied history and German at the University of Munich. He didn't finish his studies because he was already working as a journalist. In 1958 Gaus began working as a political editor at "Spiegel". In 1961 he moved to the "Süddeutsche Zeitung", where he attracted attention mainly through his portraits until 1965. At this time he also began working regularly at Second German Television (ZDF). On April 10, 1963, the first broadcast of the interview series "On the Person - Portraits in Question and Answer" was broadcast. His first guest was the then Federal Minister of Economics Ludwig Erhard. He later continued the series, sometimes under different titles, on different channels. During the broadcast, only his interview partners were visible, Gaus always from behind, which earned him the nickname "most famous back of the head". Two years later, in 1965, Günter Gaus was appointed program director and deputy director of Südwestfunk.
In the same year he published his first book entitled "Bonn without a government? Chancellor regiment and opposition", in which, among other things, he examined Ludwig Erhard's style of government. He was awarded the Adolf Grimme Prize in 1964 and 1965 for his achievements. In 1966, the recordings of conversations with Herbert Wehner were published under the title "State-preserving opposition or has the SPD capitulated?" appeared. Gaus also became head and presenter of the first TV news magazine "Report". He worked as editor-in-chief of "SPIEGEL" from 1969 to the end of March 1973. During this time, Gaus was considered an important supporter of the détente policy initiated by Willy Brandt and Egon Bahr. Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt appointed Gaus State Secretary in 1973. The official appointment as Permanent Representative of the Federal Republic in the GDR took place after the Basic Treaty came into force on June 21, 1973. The question of establishing the permanent representations of the Federal Government and the GDR in East Berlin and Bonn was initially due to irreconcilable differences of opinion and a general hardening of the negotiating climate on ice for some time. The corresponding protocol was finally signed in Bonn in mid-March 1974 by Günter Gaus and GDR Foreign Minister Kurt Nier.
Gaus' services as the federal government's "chief negotiator" include a total of 17 agreements that were negotiated with the GDR, including the transport contracts for the construction of a new motorway connection between Hamburg and Berlin and the flat rate of road usage fees for domestic German travel from 1979. Due to differences with Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, Gaus was replaced as permanent representative of the Federal Republic by the then government spokesman Klaus Bölling in the post in East Berlin. He then took over the office of Science Senator in the newly formed Berlin Senate led by Governing Mayor Hans-Jochen Vogel in January 1981. After the early elections to the House of Representatives and the success of the CDU, which formed a new Senate with the FDP under Richard von Weizsäcker, Gaus' term of office ended in June 1981. Gaus now devoted more time to his work as a journalist and publicist. In his books he preferred to analyze the societies of the GDR and the Federal Republic of Germany.
In October 1981, Brandt appointed him domestic and foreign policy advisor to the International Commission of the SPD executive board. In 1983 his book "Where Germany Lies - A Location Determination" was published. Gaus dealt with the living conditions he observed in the GDR "niche society". The work was named "Political Book of the Year" in 1987. In 1984, "Germany and NATO - Three Speeches" was published with his reflections and thoughts on security policy, followed in 1986 by "The World of the West Germans. Critical Considerations", a psychogram of West German society. Günter Gaus was awarded the honorary Adolf Grimme Prize in 1988. After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, he suggested a "Germany conference of the four victorious powers". He saw the goal as a Central European confederation for the peaceful development of German-German relations.
In 1990, Gaus published the story "Wendemut", in which he expressed his pessimism for the first time about the establishment of internal unity in Germany. In the same year he became co-editor of the left-wing weekly newspaper "Freitag". In 1991 he was awarded the German Critics' Prize and he also became a member of the newly founded broadcasting advisory board of the new federal states. Günter Gaus caused a stir again in 1998 with the publication of "Kein einig Vaterland. Texts from 1991 to 1998". In 2001, Gaus left the SPD after almost 30 years of membership. As a reason for that He cited the Schröder government's "unrestricted solidarity" with the USA after the terrorist attacks of September 11th.
Günter Gaus died on May 14, 2004 at the age of 74 from serious cancer. He left behind his wife Erika, whom he married in 1955, and their daughter Bettina (1956).- 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.
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Doris Kirchner was a pert brunette Austrian actress, frequently partnered alongside major box-office stars like Heinz Rühmann, O.W. Fischer, Hardy Krüger or Karlheinz Böhm in lightweight romantic comedies and rustic Heimatfilms of the post-war period. Kirchner studied drama at the Max-Reinhardt-Seminar in Vienna and debuted on stage in her home town Graz before enjoying a brief tenure at the famous Burgtheater. In films from 1950, she was usually cast as uncomplicated, if sometimes feisty, farmer's daughters or aspiring career girls. With the eventual decline in popularity of the Heimatfilm genre by the early 60s, a more seasoned Kirchner could be seen as a countess in period drama (Das Riesenrad (1961)) or as a heroine in crime potboilers (such as Der Fluch der gelben Schlange (1963) opposite the ever-reliable Joachim Fuchsberger). Five years before her retirement from screen acting in 1988, Kirchner took over operation of a Hamburg drama academy (the Bühnenstudio der darstellenden Künste, first established by dancer and actress Hedi Höpfner in 1959) where she taught diction and improvisation until sidelined by a stroke in 2003. She spent her final years in the dementia ward of a nursing home in Ahrensburg, near Hamburg. Doris Kirchner was respectively married and divorced from the cinematographer and director Helmuth Ashley and from writer/director Franz Josef Gottlieb.- Ann-Marie Kyrath was born on 18 January 2006 in Elmshorn, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. She died on 25 January 2023 in Train RE70 Kiel -> Hamburg, near Brokstedt, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
- Anneliese Würtz was born on 4 August 1900 in Lübeck, Germany. She was an actress, known for The Punch Bowl (1944), Kongo-Express (1939) and Dr. Mabuse vs. Scotland Yard (1963). She was married to Edgar Pauly. She died in April 1981 in Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
- Werner Toelke was born on 12 September 1930 in Hamburg, Germany. He was an actor and writer, known for Das unsichtbare Visier (1973), Die große Wut des Philipp Hotz (1964) and Akcja pod Arsenalem (1978). He was married to Brigitte Achterberg. He died on 19 October 2017 in Oldendorf, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
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Hans Mierendorff was born on 30 June 1882 in Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. He was an actor and producer, known for Der goldene Pol (1918), Der Gast aus der vierten Dimension (1918) and Die Einsame Insel (1920). He was married to Antonie Katsch, Hertha Katsch and Gertrud Schmidt. He died on 26 December 1955 in Eutin, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.- Anneliese Kaplan was born on 12 March 1933 in Hamburg, Germany. She was an actress, known for The Last Waltz (1953), Der Fischer vom Heiligensee (1955) and Captain Bay-Bay (1953). She was married to Martin Böttcher. She died on 11 August 2020 in Westerrönfeld, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
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Christa Wehling was born on 6 March 1928 in Elmshorn, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. She was an actress and writer, known for Die spanische Fliege (1990), Landarzt Dr. Brock (1967) and Dreizehn Briefe (1967). She was married to Jochen Schenck. She died on 17 March 1996 in Elmshorn, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.- Hannelore Telloke was born on 26 March 1940 in Breslau, Germany. She was an actress, known for Sabine Wulff (1978), Praha nultá hodina (1963) and Laut und leise ist die Liebe (1972). She died on 14 October 2019 in Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
- Günther Fielmann was born on 17 September 1939 in Stafstedt, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. He was married to Heike Fielmann (born: Eggert). He died on 3 January 2024 in Lütjensee, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
- Actor
- Additional Crew
- Soundtrack
Malte Jaeger was born on 4 July 1911 in Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany. He was an actor, known for It Happened on July 20th (1955), Jud Süß (1940) and Goal in the Clouds (1939). He was married to Elisabeth Susanne von Ingersleben. He died on 10 January 1991 in Ladelund, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.- Lotte Brackebusch was born on 19 February 1898 in Berlin, Germany. She was an actress, known for Rosen im Herbst (1955), Am Abend ins Odeon (1960) and Frau Holle (1971). She was married to Hannes Brackebusch. She died in 1978 in Husum, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.