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Westler
''Westler'' is a 1985 film originally produced for West German television and later released in cinema. It was directed by Wieland Speck and broadcast on ZDF. Synopsis Felix is visited in West Berlin by an American friend from Los Angeles. The two make a day trip to East Berlin where they meet Thomas. Thomas and Felix fall in love but are divided by the Wall, much like all of Germany at the time. Felix tries to keep their relationship strong by making regular visits to Thomas in the East, but this raises the suspicions of the East German authorities. Eventually, Thomas seeks to flee to West Germany by flying to Prague, where a Czech friend has arranged a contact with an escape helper. Background ''Westler'' is noteworthy for its realistic portrayal of a gay relationship under difficult circumstances, as well as for having been filmed partly in East Berlin without permission from East German authorities. Cast * Sigurd Rachman as Felix * Rainer Strecker as Thomas * Andy Luca ...
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Wieland Speck
Wieland Speck (* 1951 in Freiburg im Breisgau) is a German film director, who since 1992 has coordinated "Panorama" at the International Filmfestival Berlin (Berlinale). Panorama showcases new films by established directors, as well as debut works by up-and-coming talents. Biography Since 1972, he started living in Berlin. He studied German, Theater and Ethnology at the Free University of Berlin. Since the mid-1970s, Speck has been engaged in various areas of film and video as well as author and publisher. In the late 1970s, he was managing director of the ''Tali-Kino'', an independent arthouse cinema in Berlin-Kreuzberg (later called "Moviemento"). From 1979 to 1981 he completed a film study at the San Francisco Art Institute. Between 1982 and 1992 Speck worked with the German film director Manfred Salzgeber producing LGBT-themed films and shorts. He is the co-creator of the Teddy Award, (with Manfred Salzgeber) which since 1987 was awarded to LGBT films at the Berlinale. Open ...
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Rainer Strecker
Rainer Strecker (born 25 October 1965) is a German actor. Life Strecker trained as an actor at the Otto-Falckenberg-Schule in Munich. Awards Selected filmography Audio Rainer Strecker spricht die Hörbuchreihe der Tintenwelt, sowie die Reckless Spiegelwelt Reihe, von Cornelia Funke. Des Weiteren liest er das Hörbuch Drachenreiter, ebenfalls von Cornelia Funke und andere Kinderbücher von unterschiedlichen Autoren. Theatre References External links * * Agency Velvet 1965 births Living people German male film actors German male television actors {{Germany-screen-actor-stub ...
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Thomas Kretschmann
Thomas Kretschmann (; 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 voice of Professor Z in '' Cars 2'' (2011), and as the journalist Jürgen Hinzpeter in ''A Taxi Driver'' (2017). He also portrayed Baron Wolfgang von Strucker in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films '' Captain America: The Winter Soldier'' (2014) and '' Avengers: Age of Ultron'' (2015). Kretschmann has twice been nominated for the Deutscher Fernsehpreis for Best Actor. He is also a European Film Award and Nika Award nominee. Career At the age of 25, he began acting, starring in numerous European films and television series, including Westler in 1985. Then in 1991, Kretschmann was awarded the Max Ophüls ...
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Christoph Eichhorn
Christoph Eichhorn (born 8 September 1957, in Kassel, West Germany) is a German television actor and director. Life He is the son of German actor Werner Eichhorn. From 1972 to 1977 Eichhorn worked as actor at Schauspielhaus Bochum. As film actor he played in various films. In February 2021, Eichhorn came out as gay.''«Wir sind schon da».''
in: ''SZ-Magazin'', 4 February 2021.


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* 1973: '' The Tenderness of Wolves'' * 1979: ' (TV miniseries) * 1979: ''Neonschatten'' (TV film) * 1980: ''Kaiserhofstraße 12'' (TV film) * 1980: ' (TV film) * 1981: ''
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Harry Baer
Harry Baer (born Harry Zöttl on 27 September 1947) is a German actor, producer and author, best known for his work with director Rainer Werner Fassbinder. He has also been credited as Harry Bär. Life Harry Baer began his career in Munich when he joined the Action Theatre, a theatrical experimental group that later regrouped as the Antitheather under the leadership of Rainer Werner Fassbinder.Lorenz '' Chaos as Usual'', p.48 He made his debut in Fassbinder's play ''Katzelmacher'' and had his first movie role in Fassbinder's film adaptation. He had starring roles in '' Gods of the Plague'' (''Götter der Pest'') (1970) and ' ''(Wildwechsel)'' (1973), both directed by Fassbinder.Lorenz '' Chaos as Usual'', p.47 During this early period of his career he also had the leading role in director Hans-Jürgen Syberberg's film '' Ludwig: Requiem for a Virgin King'' ''(Ludwig - Requiem für einen jungfräulichen König)'' (1972), in which he played the title role, King Ludwig II of Bavaria ...
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Hans-Jürgen Punte
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Die Tageszeitung
''Die Tageszeitung'' (, “The Daily Newspaper”), is counted as being one of modern Germany's most important newspapers and amongst the top seven. taz is stylized as ''die tageszeitung'' and commonly referred to as ''taz'', is a cooperative-owned German daily newspaper administrated by its employees and a co-operative of shareholders who invest in a free independent press, rather than to depend on advertising and, these days, pay-walls. Founded in 1978 in Berlin as part of an independent, progressive and politically left-leaning movement, it has focused on current politics, social issues such as inequality, ecological crises both local and international, and other topics not covered by the more traditional and conservative newspapers. It mostly supports the alternative green political sphere and the German Green Party, but ''Die Tageszeitung'' has also been critical of the SPD/Greens coalition government (1998–2005). It is being described as alternative-left and critical ...
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Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
The ''Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung'' (; ''FAZ''; "''Frankfurt General Newspaper''") is a centre-right conservative-liberal and liberal-conservativeHans Magnus Enzensberger: Alter Wein in neuen Schläuchen' (in German). ''Deutschland Radio'', 16 October 2007 German newspaper founded in 1949. It is published daily in Frankfurt. Its Sunday edition is the ''Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung'' (; ''FAS''). The paper runs its own correspondent network. Its editorial policy is not determined by a single editor, but cooperatively by four editors. It is the German newspaper with the widest circulation abroad, with its editors claiming the newspaper is delivered to 148 countries. History The first edition of the ''F.A.Z.'' appeared on 1 November 1949; its founding editors were Hans Baumgarten, Erich Dombrowski, Karl Korn, Paul Sethe and Erich Welter. Welter acted as editor until 1980. Some editors had worked for the moderate '' Frankfurter Zeitung'', which had been banned in ...
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Die Zeit
''Die Zeit'' (, "The Time") is a German national weekly newspaper published in Hamburg in Germany. The newspaper is generally considered to be among the German newspapers of record and is known for its long and extensive articles. History The first edition of ''Die Zeit'' was first published in Hamburg on 21 February 1946. The founding publishers were Gerd Bucerius, Lovis H. Lorenz, Richard Tüngel and Ewald Schmidt di Simoni. Another important founder was Marion Gräfin Dönhoff, who joined as an editor in 1946. She became publisher of ''Die Zeit'' from 1972 until her death in 2002, together from 1983 onwards with former German chancellor Helmut Schmidt, later joined by Josef Joffe and former German federal secretary of culture Michael Naumann. The paper's publishing house, Zeitverlag Gerd Bucerius in Hamburg, is owned by the Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group and Dieter von Holtzbrinck Media. The paper is published weekly on Thursdays. As of 2018, ''Die Zeit'' has ...
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Andrew Kelner
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Martin Zastrow
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