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Volker Bruch (German: [ˈfɔlkɐ ˈbʁʊx]; born 1980) is a German television and film actor.He is best known internationally for his leading roles as Wilhelm Winter in the television drama Generation War (2013) and as Inspector Gereon Rath in the neo-noir series Babylon Berlin (2017–present); for the latter, he was awarded the 2018 Grimme-Preis, Germany's most prestigious television award.
On 16 November 1832, the brothers Bernhard and Otto Bechstein, in the residential town of the Duchy of Saxe-Altenburg, had been granted permission to manufacture German and French playing cards in the name of the Duchy and the Ducal Saxon Altenburg Playing Card Company (Herzogliche Sächsische Altenburger Concessionierte Spielkartenfabrik) was founded.
Thomas Kretschmann (pronounced [ˈtoːmas ˈkʁɛtʃman]; born 8 September 1962) is a German actor who has appeared in many European and American films.His notable roles include Lieutenant Hans von Witzland in Stalingrad (1993), Hauptmann Wilm Hosenfeld in The Pianist (2002), Hermann Fegelein in Downfall (2004), Captain Englehorn in King Kong (2005), Major Otto Remer in Valkyrie (2008), the ...
This is a list of notable German actors from 1895, the year of the first public showing of a motion picture by the Lumière brothers, to the present. Actors are listed in the period in which their film careers began and the careers of most spanned more than just one period.
Horst Werner Buchholz (4 December 1933 – 3 March 2003) was a German actor who appeared in more than 60 feature films from 1951 to 2002. During his youth, he was sometimes called "the German James Dean". [1]
Boris Frederic Cecil Tay-Natey Ofuatey-Kodjoe [1] (/ ˈ k oʊ dʒ uː /; born March 8, 1973) is an Austrian-born German actor and former model, based in the United States. His breakthrough role was as sports-courier agent Damon Carter on the Showtime drama series Soul Food (2000-2004).
Schümann was born in Hamburg, where he grew up with two older brothers in the rural quarter Kirchwerder in the Bergedorf borough. [5] [6] As a child, Schümann took an interest in dancing and playing the piano, which earned him the role of young Mozart in the German premiere of the Little Mozart musical at the Neuer Flora theater in Hamburg when he was 9 years old. [5]
Udo Kierspe (born 14 October 1944), known professionally as Udo Kier, is a German actor. Known primarily as a character actor , he has appeared in more than 220 films in both leading and supporting roles throughout Europe and the Americas.