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Leander Haußmann
Leander Haußmann (sometimes Haussmann) (; born 26 June 1959, Quedlinburg) is a German theatre and film director. The son of actor Ezard Haußmann and costume designer Doris Haußmann, he attended the Ernst Busch theatre school in Berlin. Haußmann was the theatre director of the city theatre in Bochum (Schauspielhaus Bochum). He also wrote and acted in several plays (1995–2000), and had a role in the Detlev Buck film '' Jailbirds'' (1996). His feature film breakthrough came with ''Sonnenallee'' in 1999. His second feature, ''Herr Lehmann'', followed in 2003. His production of ''Die Fledermaus'' in Munich was controversial, compounding the trouble surrounding his production of ''Peter Pan''. As a result, his scheduled production of ''Romeo and Juliet'' was cancelled. Filmography * ''Sonnenallee'', with Detlev Buck, Robert Stadlober, Alexander Beyer (1999) * '' – Die Durchmacher'' (2001, TV documentary series episode) * ''Berlin Blues'' (2003) * '' NVA'', with Detlev Buck, K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leander Haussmann 03-06-2000
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Alexander Beyer
Alexander Beyer (born 24 June 1973) is a German actor. He was born in Erfurt, East Germany. He has appeared in such films as Volker Schloendorff's '' The Legend of Rita'' (''Die Stille nach dem Schuss'', 1999), Leander Haußmann's ''Sun Alley'' (''Sonnenallee'', 2000), Johannes Kiefer's ''Gregor's Greatest Invention'' (''Gregors groesste Erfindung'', 2001), which was nominated for an Academy Award for Live Action Short Film in 2002 and Wolfgang Becker's ''Good Bye Lenin!'' (2003), among others. Beyer lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland, and Berlin, Germany. Filmography *2022: ''DalÃland'' directed by Mary Harron *2022: ''Operation Mincemeat'' directed by John Madden *2020: ''Persian Lessons'' directed by Vadim Perelman *2018: '' The Little Drummer Girl'' directed by Park Chan-wook *2018: ''Deutschland 86'' directed by Florian Cossen *2018: '' Styx'' directed by Wolfgang Fischer *2016: '' Burg Schreckenstein'' directed by Ralf Huettner *2016: '' Berlin Station'' di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hotel Lux (film)
''Hotel Lux'' is a 2011 German period film directed by Leander Haußmann. The tragicomedy begins in Nazi Germany and moves to the Soviet Union. Featuring the main character Hans Zeisig, an apolitical comedian, the picture involves him with numerous historical facts and figures of this era. Plot In 1933, as Adolf Hitler and the Nazis come to power in Germany, actor and comedian Hans Zeisig (Michael Herbig) and his partner, Siggi Meyer (Jürgen Vogel), have a successful comedy act at a Berlin cabaret doing impersonations of Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler. Meyer is politically active in the Communist Party and through him, Zeisig meets the attractive Dutch communist Frida (Thekla Reuten). Zeisig is apolitical; he's dreaming about a career in Hollywood. He finds the growing political tension an unpleasant nuisance, but Meyer is endangered by the Nazis' power grab. He arrives one day at the theater with a black eye from an attack and says he is going to go underground. Another performe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Zimmermann Is Tangled Up In Love
Robert Zimmermann Is Tangled Up in Love (german: Robert Zimmermann wundert sich über die Liebe) is a 2008 German comedy film directed by Leander Haußmann. Cast * Tom Schilling - Robert Zimmermann * Maruschka Detmers - Monika * Christian Sengewald - Ole * Julia Dietze - Lorna * James Garfunkel - himself * Kirstin Hesse - Anka * Annika Kuhl - Pia Zimmermann * Detlev Buck - Eberhard * Peter Jordan (actor), Peter Jordan - Karsten Darkness * Leander Haußmann - Ronny References External links * 2008 romantic comedy films 2008 films German romantic comedy films 2000s German films 2000s German-language films {{2000s-Germany-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uwe Ochsenknecht
Uwe Adam Ochsenknecht (; born 7 January 1956) is a German actor and singer. Career Films Ochsenknecht has starred in include ''Das Boot'' (1981), ''Schtonk!'' (1992), and the TV miniseries ''Frank Herbert's Dune'' (2000). In the early 1990s, he gained a second foothold in music. He has since released several albums; he is a singer in the band The Screen, while Mick Rogers (Manfred Mann's Earth Band) and Thomas Blug are guitar players. The two ex-musicians of Gary Moore's band Pete Rees (bass) and Graham Walker (drums) are also represented. Ochsenknecht stars in the television film series ''Der Bulle und das Landei'', playing a police commissioner who was transferred to the rural Eifel area, at irregular intervals since 2009. Personal life Ochsenknecht was married to Natascha Ochsenknecht until 2012 and has three children with her: sons Wilson Gonzalez Ochsenknecht (b. 1990) and Jimi Blue Ochsenknecht (b. 1991), who are both actors, and daughter Cheyenne Savannah Ochsenknech ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jessica Schwarz
Jessica Schwarz (born 5 May 1977) is a German film and TV actress. Life and career Schwarz was born in Erbach im Odenwald and grew up in the small town of Michelstadt, Germany. She won a contest of the German teen magazine Bravo (magazine), ''Bravo'' in 1993. Subsequently, she worked as a model (profession), model and VJ (media personality), VJ for the music channel VIVA (TV station), VIVA. In 2000 she started her acting career, but still occasionally hosts events, e.g. the German Film Award 2004. Schwarz separated from actor Daniel Brühl after a five-year relationship in 2006. She currently resides in Berlin. Schwarz is probably best known outside Germany for her part in ''Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (film), Perfume: The Story of a Murderer'' and as Tony Buddenbrook in Buddenbrooks (film), the 2008 film adaptation of Thomas Mann's novel ''Buddenbrooks''. Awards *2002 New Faces Award (Best Actress) for ''No Regrets'' *2003 Grimme-Preis, Adolf Grimme Award (Fiction/Entertai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benno Fürmann
Benjamin "Benno" Fürmann (; born 17 January 1972) is a German film and television actor. He is known for his lead role in the 2008 film ''The North Face'', where he plays Toni Kurz based on the 1936 Eiger climbing disaster in Switzerland. Life and work Fürmann was born in Berlin-Kreuzberg. By the age of 15 he had lost both his parents. At 17, he had a serious accident while train surfing, and had to spend six weeks in the hospital as a result. Fürmann left school after his Mittlere Reife and after that worked as a waiter and a bouncer. In 1991 he went to New York City and studied acting at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute. Fürmann has a daughter and lives in Berlin, in the neighborhood of Prenzlauer Berg. Awards *1999 German Television Award ''Best Actor in a Leading Role'' for ' *2000 Bavarian Film Awards, Best Actor Filmography *1992: ''Die ungewisse Lage des Paradieses'' *1993: ' (TV Movie) (with Beate Abraham, Muriel Baumeister) - Little Joe *1993: ' - Schül ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Why Men Don't Listen And Women Can't Read Maps
''Why Men Don't Listen and Women Can't Read Maps'' (german: Warum Männer nicht zuhören und Frauen schlecht einparken, literally "Why Men Don't Listen and Women Park Badly") is a 2007 German comedy film directed by Leander Haußmann Leander Haußmann (sometimes Haussmann) (; born 26 June 1959, Quedlinburg) is a German theatre and film director. The son of actor Ezard Haußmann and costume designer Doris Haußmann, he attended the Ernst Busch theatre school in Berlin. Hauà .... Plot The successful lawyer and ladies' man Jan (Benno Fürmann) observes through a window of his apartment, how a car scrapes his red convertible. The driver is the equally successful publishing assistant Katrin (Jessica Schwarz). Despite initial mutual accusations, the two soon become a couple. Then the pregnant couple Rüdiger (Jan's brother) and Melanie are introduced. Subsequently, different hypotheses explaining the behavior of men and women are offered. References External links Offici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
August Diehl
August Diehl (; born 4 January 1976) is a German actor, primarily known to international audiences for playing Gestapo major Dieter Hellstrom in Quentin Tarantino's ''Inglourious Basterds'' and Michael "Mike" Krause, Evelyn Salt's husband, in the movie ''Salt''. He is also known for his leading roles in the films '' The Counterfeiters'' (2007), ''The Young Karl Marx'' (2017), and Terrence Malick's '' A Hidden Life'' (2019). Life and career Diehl was born in West Berlin. His father is actor Hans Diehl, his mother is a costume designer and his brother is a composer. His family was frequently moving around. Diehl spent his childhood in Auvergne, France and moved back to Germany when he was nine years old. The family lived in Hamburg, Vienna, and Düsseldorf. Growing up in a family of artists, at the age of 18, he played Franz Mohr in a school theatre production of ''Die Räuber'' by Friedrich Schiller. After passing the ''Abitur'' exams, Diehl studied acting at the renowned Hoc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katharina Thalbach
Katharina Thalbach (; actually ''Katharina Joachim genannt Thalbach''; born 19 January 1954) is a German actress and stage director. She played theatre at the Berliner Ensemble and at the Volksbühne Berlin, and was actress in the film ''The Tin Drum''. She worked as a theatre and opera director. Life and work Born in East Berlin, Katharina Thalbach's father Benno Besson was a director, her mother Sabine Thalbach, was an actress. Also actors are her half-brother and her stepmother Ursula Karusseit. At the age of four, Thalbach was playing children's roles on stage, on television and in films. After the death of her mother in 1966, Helene Weigel took her under her care. In 1967, she made her debut as the whore Betty (later the Polly) in Erich Engel's production of Brecht's '' Dreigroschenoper''. She completed her Abitur at the Max-Planck-Oberschule. She obtained her stage maturity examination () as a master student of Helene Weigel, Berliner Ensemble. Thalbach played at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Götz George
Götz George (; 23 July 1938 – 19 June 2016) was a German actor, the son of actor couple Berta Drews and Heinrich George. His arguably best-known role is that of Duisburg detective Horst Schimanski in the TV crime series ''Tatort''. Early life George was born in Berlin-Wannsee into a well known acting family: his father, Heinrich George, was a famous film and theater actor, and his mother, Berta Drews, a character actress. George is named after his father's favorite, Imperial Knight Götz von Berlichingen. His father was imprisoned by the Soviets and starved in the Soviet concentration camp NKVD special camp Nr. 7. George grew up in Berlin with his elder brother Jan and his mother. He attended school in Berlin-Lichterfelde and later attended the Lyzeum Alpinum in Zuoz, Switzerland. Acting career Stage George made his stage debut in 1950, performing a role in William Saroyan's '' My Heart's in the Highlands''. From 1955 to 1958 he also studied at the Berlin UFA-Nachwuchsstudi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jasmin Schwiers
Jasmin Schwiers (born 11 August 1982 in Eupen, Belgium) is a German actress. Life and career Schwiers grew up in the German-speaking community in eastern Belgium. She began her career in children's theatre, and later made appearances in several German TV series and television movies. She got her breakthrough in 1998 as the daughter of Rita Kruse, played by Gaby Köster, in the RTL comedy series '' Ritas Welt''. The following year she made her cinema debut, and by the time she graduated from high school, she had worked on about 20 productions. In addition to acting, Schwiers organizes creative groups for children at Bleiberger Fabrik, an educational facility in Aachen, Germany, and is an ambassador for the German Children's Hospice Association in Olpe, Germany. In 2012, she recorded the song "Dann bin ich zu Haus" with musician Gregor Meyle. Schwiers lives in Cologne and is married to actor Jan van Weyde. Their first daughter was born in August 2014 and they had a second d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
