Michael Herbig is a German comedian and actor. His nickname "Bully" became part of his stage name as a comedian.
Der Schuh des Manitu is a 2001 German Western parody film. Directed by Michael Herbig, it is a film adaptation of the Winnetou sketches from his ProSieben television show Bullyparade. With earnings of about 65 million Euro and 11.7 million visitors in cinemas, it is one of the most successful German movies after the Second World War.
Bullyparade is a German late night comedy sketch show which aired from 1997 to 2002 on German channel ProSieben. Michael Herbig, Rick Kavanian and Christian Tramitz were the main cast of the show. Herbig also directed, produced and mainly developed the show, while all three comedians wrote the sketches and characters.
(T)Raumschiff Surprise – Periode 1 is a 2004 German comedy film by Michael "Bully" Herbig. It is a spoof of the 1960s American television series Star Trek and parodies several science fiction films.
Michael Hesemann is a German historian, Vatican journalist and author. As a student he became known in Germany as an author of several books on UFOs and extraterrestrial visitors on Earth. Later in his career he turned to topics related to Catholicism, history and archaeology.
Marco Johann Kreuzpaintner is a BAFTA-winning German film director, screenwriter, showrunner and executive producer. He is widely known for his coming-out coming-of-age feature film Summer Storm, the critical acclaimed Netflix series Bodies, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts winning series The Lazarus Project and his Amazon Prime series Beat which won him Germany’s prestigious Grimme Preis and. His fantasy film Krabat (film) starring Daniel Brühl and David Kross and the screen adaptation of the Ferdinand von Schirach novel The Collini Case starring Elyas M’Barek, Alexandra Maria Lara and film legend Franco Nero were box office hits in their original territory Germany. Kreuzpaintner’s U.S. feature film Trade (film), starring Academy Award winner Kevin Kline, is a story about human trafficking. It was the first film to premiere at the United Nations on Invitation of former U.N. secretary-general Ban Ki-moon. The film played a key to finally passing a law against sex trafficking role in the state of New York.
Alexander Fehling is a German film and stage actor. He is best known for portraying Master Sgt. Wilhelm in the 2009 Quentin Tarantino World War II film Inglourious Basterds and Jonas Hollander in the Showtime original series Homeland as the boyfriend of Claire Danes's character Carrie Mathison.
Vicky the Viking is a 2009 German adventure comedy film directed by Michael Herbig, based on Runer Jonsson's Vicke Viking children's book series and its subsequent animated series adaptation Wickie und die starken Männer. Produced by Christian Becker of Rat Pack Filmproduktion it premiered in Munich on 9 September 2009.
Elyas M'Barek is an Austrian actor based in Germany. He gained recognition for his roles in the comedy television series Türkisch für Anfänger and the 2013 comedy film Fack ju Göhte.
Vicky and the Treasure of the Gods is a 2011 German 3D adventure film directed by Christian Ditter. It is the sequel to the 2009 film Vicky the Viking.
Fack ju Göhte is a 2013 German comedy film directed and written by Bora Dağtekin and starring Elyas M'Barek and Karoline Herfurth, while Max von der Groeben and Jella Haase appear in supporting roles. The film was produced by Rat Pack Filmproduktion in coproduction with Constantin Film.
Jonas Nay is a German actor and musician known for starring as Martin Rauch in Deutschland 83 and its sequels, Deutschland 86 and Deutschland 89.
Fack ju Göhte 2 is a 2015 German comedy film directed by Bora Dağtekin and starring Elyas M'Barek, Karoline Herfurth and Jella Haase, while upcoming actors Max von der Groeben and Volker Bruch appear as supporting roles. The film, produced by Constantin Film, is the sequel to the 2013 film Fack ju Göhte. It premiered on 7 September 2015 in Munich and was released nationwide three days later. It was released in the United States under the title Suck Me Shakespeer 2.
Bullyparade: The Movie is a 2017 German parody movie. Directed by Michael Herbig, it is a film adaptation of his ProSieben television show Bullyparade and features parodies of popular films and television series such as Star Trek, Star Wars, Barbarella, Sissi, Winnetou, Django Unchained, and The Wolf of Wall Street.
Wholetrain is a 2006 German drama film directed by Florian Gaag. It portraits a group of friends spraying Graffitis on trains at night.
Claas-Hendrik Relotius is a German former journalist. He resigned from Der Spiegel in 2018 after admitting to numerous instances of journalistic fraud.
The Collini Case is a 2019 German drama film directed by Marco Kreuzpaintner. It is based on the eponymous novel by Ferdinand von Schirach.
What We Wanted is a 2020 Austrian drama film directed by Ulrike Kofler, in her feature directorial debut, based on the short story Der Lauf der Dinge by Peter Stamm. It was selected as the Austrian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 93rd Academy Awards, but it was not nominated.
Balloon is a German thriller drama film directed by Michael Herbig that was released in German cinemas on 27 September 2018. The film depicts the crossing of the Inner German border by the Strelzyk and Wetzel families from the GDR to West Germany with a self-made hot-air balloon in 1979. The two families, including four children, successfully floated across the sky from Pößneck, Thuringia to Naila, Bavaria, then situated 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) south of the Iron Curtain. They reached a height of 2,500 metres (8,200 ft) in the homemade balloon.
Tausend Zeilen Lüge. Das System Relotius und der deutsche Journalismus is a 2019 book by the Spanish journalist Juan Moreno. It is about the case of the Spiegel journalist Claas Relotius, who was revealed by his colleague Moreno to fabricate content for his news stories.
