Rosemarie Magdalena Albach, known professionally as Romy Schneider, was a German-French actress. She is regarded as one of the greatest screen actresses of all time and became a cult figure due to her role as Empress Elisabeth of Austria in the Sissi trilogy in the mid-1950s. She later reprised the role in a more mature version in Luchino Visconti's Ludwig (1973). She began her career in the German Heimatfilm genre in the early 1950s when she was 15. Schneider moved to France, where she made successful and critically acclaimed films with some of the most notable film directors of that era. Coco Chanel called Romy “the ultimate incarnation of the ideal woman.” Bertrand Tavernier remarked: “Sautet is talking about Mozart with regard to Romy. Me, I want to talk of Verdi, Mahler…”
Yvonne Catterfeld is a German singer, actress and television personality. Born and raised in Erfurt, Thuringia, she later moved to Leipzig to pursue her career in music. In 2000, she participated in the debut season of the singing competition series Stimme 2000, where she came in second place. Catterfeld subsequently signed a recording deal with Hansa Records, which released her debut single "Bum" in 2001. The same year, she was propelled to stardom when she was cast in a main role in the German soap opera Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten. In 2003, Catterfeld made her musical breakthrough when her fifth single, "Für dich", became an international number-one hit and produced the equally successful album Meine Welt.
Max Raabe is a German jazz singer. He is best known as the founder and leader of the Palast Orchester.
Horst Tappert was a German film and television actor best known for the role of Inspector Stephan Derrick in the television drama Derrick.
Caterina Valente was an Italian-French-German multilingual singer, guitarist, and dancer. She spoke six languages and sang in 13. While she was best known as a performer in Europe, Valente spent part of her career in the United States, where she performed alongside Bing Crosby, Dean Martin, Perry Como, and Ella Fitzgerald, among others.
Huang Yu-chun, professionally known by her stage name Ivy Ling Po, is a retired Hong Kong actress and Chinese opera singer. She gained widespread fame during the 1960s for her roles in several popular Huangmei opera films, most notably The Love Eterne (1963), which transformed her to stardom across Asia. Her role in the film is considered a defining performance in the genre, solidifying her status as a cultural icon.
Warner Bros. Family Entertainment was the family division label of Warner Bros. Entertainment. It released numerous theatrical and direct-to-video family-oriented films and television shows.
The Little Polar Bear is a franchise about a polar bear cub named Lars who first starred in a number of books written by Dutch author, Hans de Beer.
Joe May was an Austrian film director and film producer and one of the pioneers of German cinema.
Ilka Grüning was an Austrian-Hungarian actress. Born in Vienna in the old Austrian-Hungarian Empire, she was one of many Jewish actors and actresses that were forced to flee Europe when the Nazis came to power in 1933. A respected and famous actress of her time in the German-language area, she was forced to play bit parts in Hollywood.
Laura's Star is a 2004 German animated feature film produced and directed by Thilo Graf Rothkirch. It is based on the children's book Lauras Stern by Klaus Baumgart. It was released by the German distribution unit of Warner Bros. Pictures under their Family Entertainment label.
Matthias Florian Lechner is a motion picture production designer and art director. He worked as an art director and designer on the animated films Zootopia, Help! I'm a Fish and Escape from Planet Earth, as well as Laura's Star, among other films. He was born in Mannheim, Germany, and lives in Ventura, California.
Johanna von Koczian was a German actress. She grew up in Salzburg where Gustaf Gründgens offered her a role at the 1951 Salzburg Festival, and she played at several German theatres. She had her first film role in the 1957 film Victor and Victoria, and her breakthrough a year later in Wir Wunderkinder which earned her a German Film Award. She was named "the German Audrey Hepburn" then. She appeared in many films, also on television, became popular again as a singer with the 1977 hit "Das bißchen Haushalt", presented television series and authored books for children and youths. She returned to the stage for comedies such as Glorious!, performed with great success in Berlin in 2010.
Lilly the Witch: The Dragon and the Magic Book is a 2009 German children's film directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky. It is a partly animated comic fantasy based on the books by Knister, who co-wrote the screenplay.
Wolke Alma Hegenbarth is a German actress, best known for starring in the sitcom Mein Leben & Ich. She is related to illustrator Hannes Hegen and the painter Josef Hegenbarth.
Kateryna Kasper is a Ukrainian operatic soprano. A member of the Oper Frankfurt, she has appeared in major international opera houses. She has performed in recitals and recordings. Her broad repertory includes works from Cavalieri's Spiel von Seele und Körper to the premiere of Der goldene Drache by Péter Eötvös.
Hellmut Stern was a German violinist who played principal violin with the Berlin Philharmonic. He published his autobiography in 1990, narrating his life in exile in China from 1938, Israel from 1949, and the U.S. from 1956, and his return to Berlin in 1961. Through his membership of the board of the Berlin Philharmonic, he initiated the orchestra's first tour to Israel.
Coconut the Little Dragon 2: Into the Jungle is a 2018 German musical adventure comedy film directed by Anthony Power and written by Mark Slater and Gabriele Walther. An adaptation of the children's book series of the same name by Ingo Siegner, it is a sequel to the 2014 film Coconut the Little Dragon.
Laura's Star and the Dream Monsters is a 2011 German 3D animated film directed by Thilo Graf Rothkirch and Ute von Münchow-Pohl. It's the third sequel to Laura's Star, based on the book by Klaus Baumgart. It was preceded by Laura's Star and the Mysterious Dragon Nian.
