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- Urs Rechn was born in the former GDR, on January 18. 1978, in Halle/Saale, (Saxony - Anhalt, Germany,) to Günther Rechn (a renowned painter and graphic artist from Eastern Germany, GDR) and Beate Rechn, and was the second of their three children.
From 1987 onwards, Urs Rechn attended the Special Grammar School for Music "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" in Halle, where he excelled in Violoncello, French Horn and Singing. After the Fall of the Berlin Wall, the family relocated to Cottbus, Brandenburg, where Urs Rechn attended the 1. Academic High School for Music and Fine Arts "Heinrich Heine" and the Konservatorium Cottbus, where he protrude from the classes as the Junior Conductor of the youth symphony orchestra and brass band.
Despite having received no formal previous teaching in acting, Urs Rechn segued into an acting career, encouraged by the honoured and renowned East German Director and Impresario Christoph Schroth. He appeared on the stage plays "Hamlet" (1995), "The Beaver Coat" (1996) and "Steig' in das Traumboot der Liebe" (1996)and as a chorister in the Opera "The Magic Flute" (1995) on the State Theater Cottbus.
In 1997, owing to conscription , Urs Rechn went to the German paratroops and later to the German special forces. In the meantime, he played in several TV episodes thanks to an agreement with his Colonel. Upon completion of the active service in 2002, Urs Rechn attended the University of Music and Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" and graduated in 2004. He became then - and still is - a visiting scholar at this very institution.
Urs Rechn has been performing most of his acting time on stage: 2003-2005 Staatsschauspiel Dresden, 2005-2007 Landestheater Tübingen, 2008-2013 Theater Chemnitz, e.g.: "The Seagull" - Treblev / "A Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" - Brick / "The Merchant of Venice" - Antonio / "Julius Caesar" - Marcus Antonius / "Caligula" - Caligula / "A Streetcar Named Desire" - Stanley Kowalski / "The Threepenny Opera" - Jonathan Peachum. - Music Department
- Composer
- Writer
Born February 23 1685 in Halle, Germany, he was christened "Georg Friederich Händel" but always signed his name "Georg Friedrich Händel". His father intended for him to go into law, but Händel studied music clandestinely and was eventually allowed to study under an organist. He achieved some success early on, and toured Italy in 1706. He briefly worked in Hannover before departing for London in 1711. While in England Händel composed a number of anthems, operas, and church music, and in 1723 he became a British citizen. He premiered "Messiah" in Ireland as a charity aid, and this quickly became his most famous work. He died early in the morning on 14 April 1759, and was buried in Westminster Abbey under a monument that reads: "George Frederic Handel". 3,000 people attended his funeral.- Reinhard Heydrich began his career as an officer in the post-World War I German navy. He was dishonorably discharged after becoming involved in an illicit love affair. The young woman became pregnant, but instead of marrying her, Heydrich met and soon got engaged to Lina von Osten. In 1930 Heydrich, now unemployed, was persuaded by his wife to join Adolf Hitler's National Socialist (Nazi) party, which he did the next year; he also became a member of the SS at that same time. As one of its first officers, Heydrich was tasked by Heinrich Himmler to expand the small organization into an internal security force to monitor the Nazi party. The result was the creation of the SD (Sicherheistdienst [Security Service]), which was combined, in 1934, with the Gestapo (Gestaatspolizei, or state secret police) to form the much feared SS Security Police, which Heydrich--now an SS Brigadier General--commanded. He played a major role in the destruction of the SA, known as the "storm troopers", which was an internal security service set up by Hitler but which he now suspected of plotting against him; the organization was destroyed and many of its officers, including its leader, Ernst Röhm, were murdered in June of 1934. For his services Heydrich was made a Lieutenant-General in the SS.
At the start of World War II Heydrich became commander of the consolidated Reich security forces, which he formed into the Reich Security Central Office of the SS. Also, by this time, Heydrich had become a major figure in the rounding up and planned extermination of Europe's Jews. On his orders, the SS-Einsatzgruppen--Special Groups--were created for the purpose of hunting down, rounding up and exterminating Jews in Poland and Russia. Three years later, in 1942, he chaired the infamous Wannsee Conference, where the decision was made to exterminate all the Jews of Europe. Promoted to SS-General (Obergruppenfuhrer), Heydrich was made the Reich Governor of Czechoslovakia at the start of 1942. Aware of how powerful, cunning and dangerous Heydrich was, British intelligence agents put together an operation designed to kill him, and trained and dispatched three Czech exiles to Prague. The assassination was carried out in May of 1942. Heydrich died a short while later, on June 4th, the same day of the historic Battle of Midway in the Pacific.
If ever a truly monstrous and evil man existed, it was Reinhard Heydrich, one of the masterminds of the Holocaust. In a horrific act of revenge, called "Operation Reinhard," Hitler had the entire village of Lidice, Czechoslovakia--near where Heydrich was killed--exterminated. All male inhabitants above the age of 15 were shot; all other residents were sent to concentration camps, and the village itself was physically wiped off the face of the earth. Heydrich was buried with full honors. His grave on the Invalidenfriedhof in Berlin is now anonymous in order to prevent any form of remembrance. - Henning Peker was born on 1 September 1966 in Halle an der Saale, German Democratic Republic. He is an actor, known for In the Fade (2017), Dark (2017) and Das Feuerschiff (2008).
- Hilmar Thate was born on 17 April 1931 in Dölau, Saalkreis, Province of Saxony, Prussia [now Halle/Saale, Saxony-Anhalt], Germany. He was an actor, known for Veronika Voss (1982), Wege in die Nacht (1999) and Professor Mamlock (1961). He was married to Angelica Domröse and Lore. He died on 14 September 2016 in Berlin, Germany.
- Actor
- Director
- Soundtrack
Christoph Letkowski was born on 16 June 1982 in Halle/Saale, East Germany [now Halle (Saale), Saxony-Anhalt, Germany]. He is an actor and director, known for Parkour (2009), Nachtschicht (2003) and Blochin: Die Lebenden und die Toten (2015).- Uta Kargel was born on 28 May 1981 in Halle (Saale), East Germany [now Saxony-Anhalt, Germany]. She is an actress, known for Rote Rosen (2006), A Dream of a Man with a Light Bulb (2018) and Sunny Hill (2008).
- Monika Stenzel was born in 1949 in Halle an der Saale, Germany. She is an actress, known for Kein Pardon (1993), Tatort (1970) and Burning Life (1994).
- Marie Seiser was born on 10 May 1986 in Halle/Saale, East Germany [now Halle (Saale), Saxony-Anhalt, Germany]. She is an actress, known for Eyjafjallajökull Tam-Tam (2011), The Ground Beneath My Feet (2019) and SOKO München (1978).
- Paul Weigel was born on 18 February 1867 in Halle an der Saale, Province of Saxony, Prussia [now Saxony-Anhalt, Germany]. He was an actor, known for The Great Dictator (1940), Me und Gott (1918) and Mademoiselle Midnight (1924). He died on 25 May 1951 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Elisabeth Böhm was born in 1994 in Halle an der Saale, Germany. She is an actress, known for Tierärztin Dr. Mertens (2006), Inga Lindström (2004) and Liebe verlernt man nicht (2009).
- Music Department
Eva-Maria Pieckert was born on 7 September 1955 in Halle an der Saale, German Democratic Republic. She is known for Mensch, Oma! (1984), Marta, Marta (1979) and Zwischen Frühstück und Gänsebraten (1959).- Director
- Writer
- Producer
Helga Reidemeister was born on 4 February 1940 in Halle an der Saale, Germany. She was a director and writer, known for Is This Fate? (1979), Gotteszell - Ein Frauengefängnis (2001) and Mein Herz sieht die Welt schwarz - Eine Liebe in Kabul (2009). She died on 29 November 2021 in Berlin, Germany.- Matthias Günther was born in 1947 in Halle an der Saale, Germany. He is an actor, known for Eva und Adam (1973), Hälfte des Lebens (1985) and Konzert für Alice (1985).
- Blanche Kommerell was born on 10 March 1950 in Halle an der Saale, German Democratic Republic. She is an actress, known for Jacob the Liar (1974), Little Red Riding-Hood (1962) and Eine Pyramide für mich (1975). She was previously married to Alexander Weigel and Achim Scholz.
- Johannes Kienast was born on 9 February 1986 in Halle an der Saale, Germany. He is an actor, known for Nymphomaniac: Vol. I (2013), Tradition (2019) and Axel der Held (2018).
- Director
- Writer
- Animation Department
Christl Wiemer was born on 10 December 1929 in Halle an der Saale, Germany. Christl was a director and writer, known for Die sieben Raben (1970), Das Tintenteufelchen (1957) and Jana und der kleine Stern (1972). Christl died on 10 December 2021 in Freital, Saxony, Germany.- Actor
- Additional Crew
Christian Schmidt was born on 13 May 1970 in Halle an der Saale, German Democratic Republic. He is an actor, known for The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008), Downfall (2004) and The Country Doctor (1987).- Angelika Hellmann was born on 10 April 1954 in Halle an der Saale, Deutsche Demokratische Republik [now Germany].
- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Sound Department
Benjamin F. Wieg was born on 11 May 1982 in Halle/Saale, Germany. Benjamin F. is a cinematographer, known for Der Sandmann (2012), Augmented and Love Me Instead (2021).- Hans-Dieter Schlegel was born on 31 December 1925 in Halle/Saale, Germany. He was an actor, known for Karbid und Sauerampfer (1963), Das unsichtbare Visier (1973) and Der Hexer (1962). He died on 17 December 1987 in Bautzen, German Democratic Republic.
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Editorial Department
- Actor
Markus Kreuzwirth was born on 3 September 1983 in Halle an der Saale, German Democratic Republic. He is an actor, known for The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023), Uncharted (2022) and Munich: The Edge of War (2021).- Bodo Wolf was born on 18 August 1944 in Halle an der Saale, Germany. He was an actor, known for The Country Doctor (1987), In the Name of the Law (1994) and Coast Guard (1997). He died on 24 November 2023 in Neusalza-Spremberg, Görlitz, Saxony, Germany.
- Actor
- Additional Crew
- Writer
Holger Hagen was born on 27 August 1915 in Halle (Saale), Germany. He was an actor and writer, known for Man on a String (1960), Das Glas Wasser (1960) and The Captain from Köpenick (1956). He was married to Bruni Löbel. He died on 16 November 1996 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.- Actor
- Sound Department
Lutz Harder was born in 1956 in Halle an der Saale, German Democratic Republic. He is an actor, known for Tatort (1970), Sounds of Emerging Beings: Part I (2023) and Sounds of Emerging Beings: Part II (2023).- Karl Ludwig Diehl was born on 14 August 1896 in Halle an der Saale, Germany. He was an actor, known for Masken (1930), Der Mann, der nicht nein sagen kann (1938) and The Story of Vickie (1954). He was married to Mary von Ruffin. He died on 8 March 1958 in Gut Berghof, Penzberg, Bavaria, Germany.
- Director
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Writer
Michael Knof was born in 1949 in Halle an der Saale, German Democratic Republic. He is a director and assistant director, known for Lord Hansi (1991), Police Call 110 (1971) and Tatort (1970). He is married to Barbara Schnitzler.- Sylvia Wolff was born in 1967 in Halle an der Saale, German Democratic Republic. She is an actress, known for Rapunzel or the Magic of Tears (1988), Der Staatsanwalt hat das Wort (1965) and Heute bei Krügers (1960).
- Music Department
- Composer
Max Reese was born on 15 August 1878 in Halle en Saale, Germany. He was a composer, known for Five Weeks in a Balloon (1962), Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961) and Pirates of Tortuga (1961). He was married to Josepha Seidel. He died on 22 December 1962 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Producer
- Additional Crew
Mario Fischer was born on 2 June 1971 in Halle, Saale, Germany. He is a producer, known for Devotion (2003) and Der letzte Remix (2015).- Karl-Heinz Schulze was born on 15 October 1937 in Halle an der Saale, Germany. He is an actor, known for Rasputin (1966), Baby Bitchka (2020) and We Are Fine (2015).
- Producer
- Actress
- Camera and Electrical Department
Susan Olupitan was born on 27 January 1969 in Halle an der Saale, German Democratic Republic. She is a producer and actress, known for Pro-Black Sheep (2009), The Dead Guy (2005) and Truths and Fairy Tales (2013).- Gerhard Adolph was born on 20 September 1937 in Halle, Saale, Germany.
- Ursula Noack was born on 7 April 1918 in Halle an der Saale, Germany. She was an actress, known for Bongo Boy (1965), An Affair of States (1966) and Wie behandle ich meinen Chef? - Psychologisches Praktikum (1975). She died on 13 February 1988 in Munich, Bavaria, West Germany.
- Reinhold Nietschmann was born on 15 February 1907 in Halle an der Saale, Germany. He was an actor, known for Cliff Dexter (1966), Der versteinerte Wald (1957) and Die Affaire Dreyfus (1968). He died on 25 July 1971 in Hamburg, West Germany.
- Margot Honecker was born on 17 April 1927 in Halle/Saale, Germany. She was married to Erich Honecker. She died on 6 May 2016 in Santiago de Chile, Chile.
- Producer
- Art Department
- Production Designer
Claudia Schölzel was born on 29 April 1976 in Halle an der Saale, German Democratic Republic. She is a producer and production designer, known for Joko und Klaas gegen ProSieben (2019), Joko gegen Klaas - Das Duell um die Welt (2012) and Antibodies (2005).- Writer
- Art Department
- Additional Crew
Alexander Kent was born on 17 September 1929 in Halle an der Saale, Germany. He was a writer, known for Mutter heiratet (1979), Ein Hahn im Korb (1978) and Krach im Hochhaus (1976). He died on 27 May 2007 in Berlin, Germany.- Fritz Huschke von Hanstein was born on 3 January 1911 in Halle an der Saale, Germany. He was married to Ursula von Kaufmann . He died on 5 March 1996 in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
- Composer
- Visual Effects
- Director
Moritz Reichelt was born on 8 October 1955 in Halle an der Saale, German Democratic Republic. He is a composer and director, known for Die letzte Rache (1982), Infermental 3 (1984) and Grottenolm (1985).- Cinematographer
- Director
- Sound Department
Kristof Kannegiesser was born on 18 August 1977 in Halle/Saale, Germany. He is a cinematographer and director, known for L.H.O. (2007), Lycée Moderne de l'Amitié (2012) and Computer Based Functional Literacy (2012).- Ellen Weber was born on 10 September 1906 in Halle an der Saale, Germany. She was an actress, known for Bankett für Achilles (1975), Professor Mamlock (1961) and The Bicycle (1982). She died on 2 December 1992 in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.
- Paul Paulsen was born on 21 January 1882 in Halle an der Saale, Germany. He was an actor, known for Thomas Müntzer (1956), Das verurteilte Dorf (1952) and Ernst Thälmann - Führer seiner Klasse (1955). He died on 29 June 1963 in Dresden, German Democratic Republic.
- Olaf Martens was born on 30 September 1963 in Halle an der Saale, German Democratic Republic.
- Costume Designer
Reinhard Heinrich was born on 24 August 1935 in Halle an der Saale, Germany. He was a costume designer, known for Elisabeth (2005), Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (1984) and Tannhäuser (1989). He died on 6 July 2006.- Ludwig Achtel was born on 17 September 1929 in Halle an der Saale, Germany. Ludwig was a writer, known for Karriere N (1974), Ultimatum (1959) and Die Bombe (1961). Ludwig died on 27 May 2007 in Berlin, Germany.
- Ines Kuba was born on 11 June 1971 in Halle an der Saale, Germany.
- Rene Schubert was born in 1966 in Halle an der Saale, German Democratic Republic. He is an actor, known for Das Versprechen (1994), Befreite Zone (2003) and Der Kinoerzähler (1993).
- Music Department
- Composer
- Soundtrack
Wolfgang Richter was born on 27 November 1928 in Halle an der Saale, Germany. He was a composer, known for Good Bye Lenin! (2003), Unser Sandmännchen (1959) and Reiseziel Erfurt (1962). He died on 22 May 2004 in Berlin, Germany.- Miriam Lewin was born on 23 August 1964 in Halle an der Saale, German Democratic Republic. She is an actress, known for Isabel on the Stairs (1984) and Kaskade rückwärts (1984).