Sibel Kekilli, formerly known by the stage name Dilara, is a German actress. She gained public attention after starring in the 2004 film Head-On. She won two Lolas, the most prestigious German film awards, for her performances in Head-On and When We Leave (2010). Beginning in 2011, she became more widely known for her role as Shae in the HBO series Game of Thrones.
Götz George was a German actor, the son of actor couple Berta Drews and Heinrich George. His arguably best-known role is that of Duisburg detective Horst Schimanski in the TV crime series Tatort.
Tatort is a German language police procedural television series that has been running continuously since 1970 with some 30 feature-length episodes per year, which makes it the longest-running German TV drama. Developed by the German public-service broadcasting organisation ARD for their channel Das Erste, it is unique in its approach, in that it is jointly produced by all of the organisation's regional members as well as its partnering Austrian and Swiss national public-service broadcasters, whereby every regional station contributes a number of episodes to a common pool.
Herbert Lichtenfeld was one of the most successful television screenplay writers in Germany. He wrote over 300 film scripts. Many of his scripts were successful in Germany.
Maria Furtwängler-Burda is a German physician and television actress.
Mehmet Kurtuluş is a Turkish-German actor. He is best known for his work with German director Fatih Akin.
Polizeiruf 110 is a long-running German-language detective television series. The name links to the emergency telephone number of the Volkspolizei. The first episode was broadcast 27 June 1971 in the German Democratic Republic (GDR), and after the dissolution of Deutscher Fernsehfunk the series was picked up by ARD. It was originally created as a counterpart to the West German series Tatort, and quickly became a public favorite.
Horst Schimanski is a homicide detective with a leading role in the German crime television series Tatort, as well as the spin-off Schimanski. Portrayed by Götz George, the character made his debut in the 1981 episode "Duisburg-Ruhrort" and appeared in 29 episodes until 1991. Two episodes, "Zahn um Zahn" (1985) and "Zabou" (1987), were released in cinemas before they were aired on television. Also notable is the episode "Unter Brüdern" from 1990, which was produced as a crossover with the East German Polizeiruf 110 crime series, in which Schimanski collaborated with two colleagues from the East German Volkspolizei. In 1997, the character got his own show, the loose spin-off Schimanski. In this series, Schimanski is a retired police officer living in Belgium with his longtime girlfriend Marie Claire.
Nora Marie Tschirner is a German film actress, musician and former television and radio presenter.
Christian Ulmen born 22 September 1975 in Neuwied) is a German entertainer, actor, voice actor and audiobook narrator.
Andrea Sawatzki is a German actress. From 2002 to 2010 she starred in the Hessischer Rundfunk version of the popular television crime series Tatort as police inspector Charlotte Sänger.
Hansjörg Felmy was a German actor.
Paula Kalenberg is a German actress. She is probably best known to international audiences for her roles in films Krabat, Vision – From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen and Jew Suss: Rise and Fall.
KRIMI.DE is a German crime drama series, aired by the German television channel KiKA between 2005 and 2013. The format of the show involves presenting criminal cases from the perspective of children which then get solved by the child protagonists in coordination with the police. The series was aired in the German states of Erfurt, Hamburg, Jena, Leipzig, Stuttgart and Frankfurt am Main. Following broadcast, the first 4 episodes were released on DVD. Then, in March 2015, 2 box sets were released containing all 32 episodes between them.
Isolda Dychauk is a German actress of Russian descent.
Claudia Garde is a German film director and screenwriter. She has worked for the German TV-series Stubbe – Von Fall zu Fall, Doktor Martin, Flemming or the series Tatort.
Stefan Konarske is a German film, television and stage actor.
Dietrich Adam was a German actor.
Sebastian Marka is a German film director and editor.
Erol Yesilkaya is a Turkish-German screenwriter.
