Max Raabe is a German jazz singer. He is best known as the founder and leader of the Palast Orchester.
Michael Holm is a German singer, musician, songwriter and record producer. He is primarily known as a singer of Schlager music. Although his first appearance in the hit parade was in 1962, he had his first big hit in 1969. "Mendocino", the German adaptation of a song by the Sir Douglas Quintet, was the biggest selling single that year in (Germany). The record was released in September 1969, reached number three for five weeks, selling over a million copies. Ariola presented him with a gold record in October 1970.
Erik Ode was a German director and actor who was most famous for playing Kommissar Herbert Keller in the German television drama Der Kommissar. He married actress Hilde Volk in 1942. Many years later they co-starred together in the TV series Sun, Wine and Hard Nuts.
Matthias Schweighöfer is a German actor and filmmaker.
Ireen Sheer is a German-English singer. She had a top five hit on the German singles chart with "Goodbye Mama" in 1973. She went on to finish fourth at the Eurovision Song Contest 1974 representing Luxembourg, sixth at the Eurovision Song Contest 1978 representing Germany, and thirteenth at the Eurovision Song Contest 1985 representing Luxembourg again.
Sven Hüber is an East German former political officer. As such his duties consisted of communist political indoctrination and propaganda. His unit was found by German courts to be responsible for several crimes, including the murder of Chris Gueffroy. Today he is chairman of the main personnel council of the German Federal Police and holds the rank Erster Polizeihauptkommissar. His subsequent employment as a policeman in reunified Germany has been the subject of fierce criticism and controversy.
Jan Josef Liefers, is a German actor, producer, director and musician.
Claudia Jung is a German Schlager singer and politician.
Elfi Graf is an Austrian Schlagersinger.
Bruno Mondi was a German cameraman and director of photography.
Jacob Joseph "Jacky" Dreksler is a German television producer, writer, songwriter and publisher. Dreksler has created many popular and successful German television shows including Schreinemakers Live and RTL Samstag Nacht. He co-owns his TV production and publishing company Pacific Productions with his wife Dr. Babs Ahland-Dreksler.
Georg Melchior Hoffmann was a Baroque composer who was influential as the leader at the Collegium Musicum in Leipzig. Some of his compositions have been mistaken for those of Johann Sebastian Bach.
Mario Löprich, better known by his stage name Martin Mann is a German Schlager singer and songwriter. Mann had big success with the song "Meilenweit" in 1971.
Lazarus or Die Feier der Auferstehung, D 689, is an unfinished 1820 oratorio by Franz Schubert on a libretto by August Hermann Niemeyer. Intended to be in three acts, only act 1 with twenty-one numbers, and eight numbers from act 2 are extant.
Melika Foroutan is a German-Iranian actress.
Annett Fleischer is a German presenter and actress.
Marleen Lohse is a German actress.
Gisela Martine Getty is a German photographer, film director, designer, and author. She and her late sister, Jutta Winkelmann, are known in Germany as high-profile representatives of what German historiography calls the '68-movement.
Gerd Günther Grabowski, better known by his stage name G. G. Anderson, is a German Schlager singer, composer, and music producer.
Peter Gotthardt is a German composer, musician and publisher. Film melodies composed by him are known to a wide audience, including major successes such as the pieces Wenn ein Mensch lebt and Geh zu ihr performed by the Puhdys from the 1973 DEFA feature film The Legend of Paul and Paula, directed by Heiner Carow.
