Edgar Reitz is a German filmmaker and Professor of Film at the Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung in Karlsruhe. He is best-known for his internationally acclaimed Heimat film series (1984-2013).
Veronica Maria Cäcilia Ferres is a German actress. Her 2007 portrayal of Sara Bender in Die Frau vom Checkpoint Charlie, based on the true story of Jutta Fleck, earned her the award for Best Actress at the Deutscher Fernsehpreis.
Henryk Marcin Broder, self-designation Henryk Modest Broder, is a Polish-born German journalist, author, and television personality. He was born into a Jewish family in Katowice, Poland.
Tom Schilling is a German film and television actor.
Özgür Özata is a Turkish-German actor.
Hans-Jürgen Schult, known professionally as HA Schult, is a German installation, happening and conceptual artist known primarily for his object and performance art and more specifically his work with garbage. He is one of the first artists to deal with the world's ecological imbalance in his work and has therefore been called an "eco-art pioneer". His best known works include the touring work, Trash People, which exhibited on all continents, and the Save The Beach hotel, a building made of garbage.
Hilmar Hoffmann was a German stage and film director, cultural politician and academic lecturer. He founded the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen. He was for decades an influential city councillor in Frankfurt, where he initiated the Museumsufer of 15 museums, including the Jewish Museum Frankfurt. He was the president of the Goethe-Institut and taught at universities such as Bochum and Tel Aviv. He wrote the book Kultur für alle, which was a motto of his life and work.
Saralisa Volm is a German actress, famous, among other things for her starring role in Finale, a film by Klaus Lemke. Volm grew up in Freising, where she also went to high school. Part of her schooling was at the Gabriel-von-Seidl-Gymnasium Bad Tölz.
The Hof International Filmfestival is a German film festival that takes place in Hof, Bavaria, every year in October. Apart from numerous foreign productions, the main focus traditionally is on German films. During six festival days, about 130 films are shown in 8 theaters of 2 cinema centers, adding up to a total of 200 individual film presentations. With the exception of the retrospective, all films are German or world premieres.
Dominik Graf is a German film director. He studied film direction at University of Television and Film Munich, from where he graduated in 1975. While he has directed several theatrically released feature films since the 1980s, he more often finds work in television, focussing primarily on the genres police drama, thriller and crime mystery, although he has also made comedies, melodramas, documentaries and essay films. He is an active participant in public discourse about the values of genre film in Germany, through numerous articles, and interviews, some of which have been collected into a book.
Schauspielhaus Wien is a theatre in Vienna, Austria, located at 19 Porzellangasse in the 9th District of Vienna (Alsergrund).
Die Tapferen Haende im Chaos der Zeit is a 2013 short film (Docufiction) written and directed by Mika'ela Fisher.
Carmen-Maja Antoni is a German actress.
Männin is a 2015 French-German philosophical drama film written and directed by Mika'ela Fisher.
Ludger Stühlmeyer is a German cantor, organist, composer, docent and musicologist.
Established in 2008, the Lichter Filmfest Frankfurt International is a film festival taking place in Frankfurt, Germany and the Rhine-Main region every year in spring. Aside from regional film productions in competition for Best Short and Feature Film, the festival also presents international films, VR film productions and video art.
L'architecte textile is a 2017 French documentary feature film directed by Mika'ela Fisher about sartorial art.
Hans Mayr was a German trades unionist and politician (SPD). Respected for his negotiating flair, he served between 1983 and 1986 as president of West Germany's IG Metall (union).
Ronen Steinke is a German political journalist and author whose essays and books on issues of law and society have been discussed in The Times, The Guardian, Haaretz, De Volkskrant, Le Figaro, The Asahi Shimbun and The New York Review of Books. In 2013, Steinke published the biography of the German-Jewish prosecutor Fritz Bauer, who secretly worked with the Mossad and brought Nazi war criminals to justice in the 1960s. The book, which received a preface by the President of the German Supreme Court, inspired the award-winning 2015 film The People vs. Fritz Bauer.
Matthias Lilienthal is a German dramaturge and theatre director.
