Sinan Akkuş
Sinan Akkuş (born 17 December 1971) is a Turkish-German director, writer and actor. Life and work Sinan Akkuş was born in Turkey. As a child he moved to Germany in 1973. After graduating from high school in Kassel, he studied philosophy, German language and literature from 1992 to 1994. In 1994 he also began studying visual communication with a focus on film and television. In addition, Akkuş worked for the film and television production company ''kigali-films'', where he was involved in camera work, editing and conception of corporate videos. In 1995 he attended the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión as an exchange student in Cuba. In 2000 he graduated from the Kunsthochschule Kassel with a focus on film and television. Afterwards, Akkuş made a few short films, which received several awards and honours. His short film ''Lassie'' (2002), for example, received the rating ''especially worthwhile'' from the German Deutsche Film- und Medienbewertung (FBW). His feature f ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Erzincan
Erzincan (; ), historically Yerznka (), is the capital of Erzincan Province in eastern Turkey. Nearby cities include Erzurum, Sivas, Tunceli, Bingöl, Elazığ, Malatya, Gümüşhane, Bayburt, and Giresun. The city is majority Turkish Sunni with a Kurdish Alevi minority. The city had a population of 150,714 in 2022, an increase from 86,779 in 2007. History Acilisene, the ancient region that is now Erzincan, was the site of the Peace of Acilisene by which in AD 387 Armenia was divided into two vassal states, a smaller one dependent on the Byzantine Empire and a larger one dependent on Persia. This is the name (Ἀκιλισηνή in Greek) by which it is called by Strabo in his ''Geography'', 11.4.14. The etymological origin of the word is disputed, but it is agreed that the city was once called Erez. For a while it was called Justinianopolis in honour of Emperor Justinian. In more recent Greek it has been called as Κελτζηνή (''Keltzene'') and Κελεζηνή ('' ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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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 Ochsenk ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Heiner Lauterbach
Heiner Lauterbach (; born 10 April 1953) is a German actor. Life and work Heiner Lauterbach was married to German actress Katja Flint who is the mother of his son Oscar (born 1988). Later he had a relationship with Jenny Elvers. Since 7 September 2001 he has been married to Viktoria Skaf. They have two children: Maya (born 2002) and Vito (born 2007). Heiner Lauterbach is the dubbed German voice for several American actors. Among others, he has dubbed Richard Gere, Jack Nicholson and Christopher Reeve. Early life Lauterbach attended a Waldorf school, from which he graduated with a general certificate (Mittlere Reife).Lucinde Hutzenlaub, Hendrik Lambertus, Petra Plaum, ''Die beste Schule für mein Kind: Freie Schulen: Waldorf, Montessori und Co.'' Awards *1986 Deutscher Filmpreis The German Film Award (), also known as Lola after its prize statuette, is the national film award of Germany. It is presented at an annual ceremony honouring cinematic achievements in the ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Tragicomedy
Tragicomedy is a literary genre that blends aspects of both tragedy, tragic and comedy, comic forms. Most often seen in drama, dramatic literature, the term can describe either a tragic play which contains enough comic elements to lighten the overall mood or a serious play with a happy ending. Tragicomedy, as its name implies, invokes the intended response of both the tragedy and the comedy in the audience, the former being a genre based on human suffering that invokes an accompanying catharsis and the latter being a genre intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter. In theatre Classical precedent There is no concise formal definition of tragicomedy from the classical antiquity, classical age. It appears that the Greek philosopher Aristotle had something like the Renaissance meaning of the term (that is, a serious action with a happy ending) in mind when, in ''Poetics (Aristotle), Poetics'', he discusses tragedy with a dual ending. In this respect, a number of An ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Hamburg Film Festival
FILMFEST HAMBURG is an international film festival in Hamburg, the third-largest of its kind in Germany (after Berlin and Munich). It shows national and international feature and documentary films in eleven sections. The range of the program stretches from art house films to innovative mainstream cinema, presenting the first feature films of young unknown directors together with films by internationally established directors. In 2017 more than 40,000 people attended 250 screenings of 141 films. Albert Wiederspiel has been the director of the festival since 2003. History FILMFEST HAMBURG had various predecessors dating from the 1950s through to the 1980s. It was founded in late 1991 and first held in 1992. Academy Award winners and nominees such as Clint Eastwood, Jodie Foster, Christoph Waltz, Atom Egoyan, Julian Schnabel and Tilda Swinton, Dogma-founder Lars von Trier, award-winning director Kim Ki-duk and German directors such as Wim Wenders, Fatih Akin, Andreas Dresen and To ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Television Film
A television film, alternatively known as a television movie, made-for-TV film/movie, telefilm, telemovie or TV film/movie, is a film with a running time similar to a feature film that is produced and originally distributed by or to a Terrestrial television, terrestrial or Cable television, cable television network, in contrast to theatrical films made for initial showing in movie theaters, Direct-to-video, direct-to-video films made for initial release on home video formats, and films released on or produced for Over-the-top media service, streaming platforms. In certain cases, such films may also be referred to and shown as a miniseries, which typically indicates a film that has been divided into multiple parts or a series that contains a predetermined, limited number of episodes. Origins and history Precursors of "television movies" include ''Talk Faster, Mister'', which aired on WABD (now WNYW) in New York City on December 18, 1944, and was produced by RKO Pictures, and ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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ARD (broadcaster)
ARD is a joint organisation of Germany's regional Public broadcasting, public-service broadcasters. It was founded in 1950 in West Germany to represent the common interests of the new, decentralised, post-war broadcasting services—in particular the introduction of a joint television network. ARD has a budget of €6.9 billion, 22,612 employees and is the largest public broadcaster network in the world. The budget comes primarily from a mandatory licence fee which every household, company and public institution, regardless of television ownership, is required by law to pay. For an ordinary household the fee is €18.36 per month, as of 2023. Households living on Welfare in Germany, welfare are exempt from the fee. The fees are not collected directly by ARD, but by the Beitragsservice von ARD, ZDF und Deutschlandradio, Beitragsservice (formerly known as Gebühreneinzugszentrale GEZ), a common organisation by the ARD member broadcasters, the second public TV broadcaster ZDF, and De ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Civis Media Prize
The CIVIS Media Prize for Integration and Cultural Diversity in Europe, or CIVIS Media Prize for short, was founded in 1987 by the Federal Government Commissioner for Foreigners' Issues together with ARD (broadcaster), ARD, under the responsibility of Westdeutscher Rundfunk and the Freudenberg Foundation. The CIVIS Media Prize is organised and implemented by the non-profit CIVIS Media Foundation. Organiser The CIVIS Media Prize is organised by the Association of Public Broadcasting Corporations in the Federal Republic of Germany (ARD), represented by WDR Fernsehen, WDR, together with the Freudenberg Foundation. ORF (broadcaster), ORF, Swiss Broadcasting Corporation, SRG SSR, Arte, ARTE, 3sat, phoenix, Deutsche Welle, Deutschlandradio and European Broadcasting Union, EBU are media partners. The WDR mediagroup, the German Producers Alliance - Film & Television, VFF - Verwertungsgesellschaft der Film- und Fernsehproduzenten and the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Kida Khodr Ramadan
Kida Khodr Ramadan (born 8 October 1976) is a German actor, director and screenwriter. He has won several awards for his portrayal of Ali "Toni" Hamady in the German drama series '' 4 Blocks''. Early life Kida Khodr Ramadan was born in 1976 in Beirut, Lebanon, the fifth child of a Lebanese father and a Turkish mother. His father, Mohamad Ramadan, was a successful businessman representing Persil Lebanon. As the Lebanese Civil War worsened—particularly in East Beirut, where they lived—relatives were killed and Mohamad was injured by shrapnel, prompting the family to flee. They chose Germany after securing the first available visa and initially lived in an asylum hostel in West Berlin’s Kreuzberg district. Mohamad later worked at Burger King before opening his own steakhouse restaurants.Lilian-Astrid Geese: Zwischen Kiez und Kino'. In: ''Neues Deutschland'', 19. Juli 2008, S. 17 Ramadan went to the Hector-Peterson-Gesamtschule school in Kreuzberg. He said high school did ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Kostja Ullmann
Kostja Ullmann (born 30 May 1984) is a German actor, best known for his leading role in the award-winning coming of age drama '' Sommersturm'' (''Summer Storm'') which gained a lot of praise throughout Europe. Life and career Ullmann was born in Hamburg to a German father and an Indian mother. He entered the stage at the age of eleven and performed at Hamburg's Ernst Deutsch Theater and Winterhuder Fährhaus. In 1998, he made his TV debut in a minor part in the crime series '' Alphateam''. In the following years, Ullmann starred in several minor roles in TV series such as '' Stahlnetz'', '' Großstadtrevier'', and '' Leipzig Homicide'' as well as in TV movies such as the drama ''Albtraum einer Ehe'' (2001) alongside August Zirner. From 1999 to 2000, he was a cast member of the comedy series ''Zwei Männer am Herd'' with Wolfgang Fierek and Florian Fitz. In 2004, Kostja Ullmann made his movie debut in a leading role in Marco Kreuzpaintner's award-winning film '' Sommersturm'' (' ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Eko Fresh
Ekrem Bora (born 3 September 1983), better known by his stage name Eko Fresh, is a German rapper of Turkish descent.ALEMEKO FRESH-EK IS BACKRetrieved 5 September 2010 Eko Fresh auf Twitter: "@xRay_RU halber Kurde halber Türke aber eigentlich ja deutscher" / TwitterRetrieved 20 May 2019 Biography Bora was born in Cologne and grew up in Mönchengladbach, raised by his single mother, a postal worker. He began rapping at age 14 and eventually dropped out of school in tenth grade. Afterwards, he started working in a shoe store to make ends meet. While working his retail gig, Bora met Kool Savas, who agreed to produce his 2001 Royal Bunker debut EP, "Jetzt kommen wir auf die Sachen". The German Stampede Wrestling, a professional wrestling promotion based in Cologne, featured Bora. He had wrestling matches in promotional events including ''Night in Motion X'', ''Southern Conflict II'', ''X-Limits'', ''Battlefield 2008'', and ''Northern Night'' since 2007. Beginning in 2010, Eko Fre ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |