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After playing a lead role in Oscar and Golden Globe nominated movie "Schtonk!" by Helmut Dietl 1992, Veronica Ferres became one of the most well-known German actresses. She has worked in over one hundred and fifty feature films; more than thirty of which were American / English productions. Two Emmy-Award-winning productions stand out among the numerous films, TV series and TV movies that Veronica has done.
Her breakthrough into film was imminent following her lead role in the successful comedy "The Superwoman (Das Superweib)", followed by the Academy Award nominated "Schtonk!", "Rossini" and "Saviours in the night". Recent films include "Short Term Memory Loss", and the remarkable comedy "Under German Beds (Unter Deutschen Betten)". In 2018 Veronica was featured in the film "Siberia", alongside Keanu Reeves, as well as "Berlin, I Love You" with Helen Mirren.
Among the highlights of her lengthy career in the international film-making world, include work with Catherine Zeta-Jones in "Catherine the Great", John Malkovich in "Ladies Room", "Klimt", "The Giacomo Variation" and "Les Misérables", Jeff Goldblum in "Adam Resurrected", Nicholas Cage in "Pay the Ghost", Robert De Niro, Danny DeVito and Harvey Keitel in "The Comedian", Michael Shannon & Gabriel Garcia Bernal in Werner Herzog's "Salt and Fire", and Sir Ben Kingsley in "Death of an Author".
Some of her recent works include Nicholas Jarecki's "Crisis", alongside Gary Oldman and Luke Evans, the mystery thriller "The darker the lake" directed by Lok Kwan Woo and the romantic comedy "Love, Weddings and Other Disasters" starring Diane Keaton and Jeremy Irons. Furthermore she appeared in "Best Sellers" with Michael Caine and in "Every breath you take" with Casey Affleck, Michelle Monaghan and Sam Claflin. In 2020 she starred in the thriller "Zero Contact" alongside Anthony Hopkins. Her short film Malou was on the Academy Award short-list for 2020. In 2021, she shot "Paradise Highway" with Juliette Binoche and Morgan Freeman, which premiered at the Locarno Film Festival.
In 2022 she starred in the action thriller "The Bricklayer" alongside Aaron Eckhart and Nina Dobrev. Furthermore, Veronica played a leading role in the popular German television series "Tatort" in the episode "Königinnen" directed by Rudi Gaul.
In the same year, Veronica Ferres played in the new film adaptation of Robert E. Howard's original Marvel comic "Red Sonja", directed by M.J. Bassett the mother of Red Sonja as well as the Goddess Ashera alongside Mathila Lutz, Wallis Day and Robert Sheehan. Recently she finished the english language streaming series "El Turco" in Budapest.
In 2023, Veronica Ferres shot the American feature film "Unholy Trinity" in Montana, directed by Richard Gray, where she played the female lead alongside Pierce Brosnan and Samuel L. Jackson. She also starred in the ZDFneo horror series "Hameln" directed by Rainier Matsutani, which is based on the legend of the "Pied Piper of Hamelin", as well as the fictional feature film "Andere Eltern", directed by Lutz Heineking, jr.
She is an alumna of University of Munich where she studied German literature, psychology and drama. Furthermore she teaches at the German University of Television and Film school in Munich.
A few of her personal awards include: The Adolph Grimme Prize, The German Television Prize, two Golden Camera Awards, The Bavarian Film Award, The Bavarian Television Prize, two Bambi Awards as well as an Emmy for "The Manns" (Best Mini Series).- Actress
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Fahriye Evcen is a German citizen. Her maternal family is of Circassian descent. After, Ottoman Empire collapsed, her paternal family is of Turkish descent who immigrated from Kavala (in Greece, today). She is best known for her roles as Necla Tekin on the Yaprak Dökümü based on the novel by Resat Nuri Güntekin and as Feride in the TV series Çalikusu, based on the novel by Resat Nuri Güntekin. Fahriye studied sociology for one year in Germany. At age 19, she moved to Turkey where she studied history at Bogaziçi University in Istanbul, graduating in 2014. Fahriye speaks Turkish, English, German and Spanish fluently. On December 23, 2016 she got engaged to Burak Özcivit.- Born in Solingen, Germany, in 1906, Adolf Eichmann was the son of a moderately successful Austrian businessman and industrialist. In 1914 his family moved to Linz, Austria. During World War I Eichmann's father was a soldier, and returned to the family business in Linz at the war's conclusion in 1918. His family moved to Germany in 1920. When he came of age in 1925 he briefly returned to Austria to study mechanical engineering, but eventually dropped out of college because he was a poor student. He followed in his father's footsteps and became a businessman, working as a traveling salesman, which brought him back to Germany in 1930. His first contact with the Nazi party was when he joined the Wandervogel movement, an anti-Semitic, Aryan-brotherhood type of organization popular with the less-educated segments of German society. In 1932 Eichmann again returned to Austria, where he formally joined the Austrian Nazi Party. On the advice of an old family friend, Ernst Kaltenbrunner--himself soon to become an important Nazi official--Eichmann also joined the Austrian branch of the SS, enlisting on April 1, 1932, and being accepted as a full member that November, assigned the SS number 45326. For the next year Eichmann was a member of the part-time Allgemeine-SS (General SS) with the rank of private, based in Salzburg. In 1933, when the Nazis came to power in Germany, Eichmann returned there and submitted an application to join the full-time SS. This was accepted and, in November of 1933, he was promoted to Scharführer (Sergeant) and assigned to the administrative staff of the Dachau concentration camp. By 1934 he had decided to make the SS his career and requested transfer into the SS-Security Police which had, by that time, become a powerful and much feared organization. His transfer was granted in November of 1934, and he was promoted to the rank of Oberscharführer (Staff Sergeant) and assigned to the headquarters of the Sicherheitdienst (SD) in Berlin. Eichmann became a model administrator in the SD and quickly became noticed by his superiors. In 1937 he was commissioned an SS-Second Lieutenant (Untersturmführer) and, one year later, sent back to Austria to help organize SS security forces in Vienna after the 1938 annexation of Austria into Germany. His efforts resulted in his being promoted to SS-First Lieutenant (Obersturmführer). At the end of 1938 Eichmann was selected by the SS leadership to form the Central Office for Jewish Emigration, which was set up to forcibly deport and expel Jews from Austria. By this time he had become a student of Judaism, finding the religion fascinating as he had, for several years, been harboring deep-seated anti-Semitic tendencies and a virulent hatred of the Jewish faith. At the start of the Second World War Eichmann was an SS-Captain (Hauptsturmführer) and had made a name for himself because of his operation of the Office for Jewish Emigration. He had even been sponsored by the SS Race and Settlement Office to take a trip to Palestine and study aspects of the Jewish homeland. Ironically, through this work, Eichmann made several contacts in the Zionist movement which he worked with to speed up Jewish emigration from the Reich. In 1939 his office was expanded to cover the entire German Reich, and in 1940 Eichmann was transferred from the SD to the Gestapo and promoted to SS-Major (SS-Sturmbannführer). By 1941 he had been promoted again, this time to the rank of Obersturmbannführer (Lieutenant Colonel), and was the commander of the Jewish Division of the Gestapo Religions Department in the Reich Central Security Office of the SS (the code for Eichmann's position was "RSHA/IV-B4"). In 1942 Eichmann was personally invited by Reinhard Heydrich to attend the Wannsee Conference, where Germany's anti-Jewish measures were developed into an official policy of extermination, which the Germans euphemistically called "The Final Solution to the Jewish Question". Eichmann was tasked as "Transportation Administrator", meaning he was in charge of all the trains that would carry Jews to the death camps in Poland. For the next two years he performed his duties with incredible zeal and efficiency, often times bragging that he had personally sent over five million Jews to their deaths by way of his trains. His work had been noticed and, in 1944, he was sent to Hungary after Germany had occupied that country to forestall a possible Soviet invasion. He at once went to work deporting Hungarian Jews, resulting in some 200,000 to 400,000 of them meeting their deaths in the Nazi gas chambers.
By 1945, however, Eichmann's world--as was that of the Nazi regime he so loyally and faithfully served--was collapsing, and SS Reich Leader Heinrich Himmler had ordered that Jewish extermination be halted and all evidence of the "Final Solution" be destroyed. Eichmann blatantly defied Himmler's orders and continued his work in Hungary. He was also working to avoid being called up in the last-ditch German military effort, since a year before he had been commissioned a Reserve Lieutenant in the Waffen-SS and had been ordered to active combat duty. Eichmann fled Hungary as the Russians invaded and returned to Austria, where he met up with his old friend Kaltenbrunner. Kaltenbrunner, however, refused to associate with him, since Eichmann's duties as an extermination administrator had certainly branded him a marked man by the Allies, and Kaltenbrunner himself was in enough trouble because of his own activities. As World War II ended Eichmann went into hiding, being briefly captured by American troops but managing to escape by using a false name and claiming to be a demobilized German soldier. He was able to secure passage to South America and left Germany at the start of 1947. He settled in Buenos Aires, Argentina, under the name of Ricardo Clement and, for the next 15 years, worked in various odd jobs, from factory foreman to junior water engineer to professional rabbit farmer. He had also brought his family to Argentina and started a completely new life. Eichmann's days of safety in Argentina were numbered, however, because in 1960 the Israeli Mossad--the national intelligence service--had learned that he was in Argentina, and a plan was put in place to locate his exact whereabouts in order to capture him and spirit him back to Israel. When the Israelis finally located him, he was seized, smuggled out of the country to Israel and put on trial in April of 1961 (the Israelis didn't go through normal diplomatic channels because they believed that the Argentine government, which had long been accused of providing a safe haven for wanted Nazi war criminals, would refuse to turn him over). He was found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity and sentenced to death. Adolf Eichmann was hanged on June 1, 1962, at the age of 56 and his ashes scattered at sea, so that no nation would serve as his final resting place. - Additional Crew
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Pina Bausch was born on 27 July 1940 in Solingen, Germany. She was a director and actress, known for Talk to Her (2002), Cafe Müller (1985) and Die Klage der Kaiserin (1990). She died on 30 June 2009 in Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.- Actress
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Lauren Müller was born on 28 March 1988 in Solingen, Germany. She is an actress and casting director, known for The Claus Family 2 (2021), Thuis (1995) and Dennis van Rita (2006).- Actor
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Michael Lesch was born on 18 October 1956 in Solingen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He is an actor, known for Freunde fürs Leben (1992), Tatort (1970) and Der Fahnder (1984). He is married to Christina Keiler.- Panagiota Petridou was born on 13 July 1979 in Solingen, Germany. She is an actress, known for Die SAT.1 Comedy Märchenstunde (2021), Notruf Hafenkante (2007) and Zwischen Prunk und Panik: Die Gutshausretter (2022).
- Sontje Peplow was born on 1 April 1981 in Solingen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. She is an actress, known for Lindenstraße (1985), Die Wache (1994) and Lindenstraße: Terror (2009). She has been married to Marcel Garding since 29 August 2009. They have two children.
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Anni Salander was born on 27 July 1990 in Solingen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. She is an actress, known for Tatort (1970), Klassentreffen 1.0 (2018) and Club der roten Bänder (2015).- Actor
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Josef Dahmen was born on 21 August 1903 in Solingen, Germany. He was an actor and director, known for Liebe, Tod und Teufel (1934), The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933) and Tim Frazer (1963). He was married to Gisela von Collande. He died on 18 January 1985 in Hamburg, West Germany.- Director
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Peter Braatz was born in 1959 in Solingen, Germany. He is a director and editor, known for Blue Velvet Revisited (2016), Blue Velvet (1986) and Steklarski blues (2001).- Matthias Hornschuh was born on 8 October 1968 in Solingen, Germany. He is a composer, known for Just in Time (1999), Sanitatem (2023) and Jedem das Seine (2009).
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Walter Gontermann was born in 1942 in Solingen, Germany. He is an actor, known for Tatort (1970), Stromberg (2004) and Straight Shooter (1999).- Director
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Ulay, born Frank Uwe Laysiepen,1943 is a German artist, now based in Amsterdam, Holland, and Ljubljana, Slovenia. Ulay received international recognition for his work as a photographer, mainly in Polaroid, from the late 1960s, and later as a performance artist, including his collaborative performances with Marina Abramovic from 1976 to 1988. His work has continuously dealt with politics, identity and gender. In 2016 Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt, Germany, held the first major retrospective show of his work 'Ulay Life-Sized'. In recent years Ulay's work has also been on show at the Nederlands Fotomuseum in Rotterdam and GNYP Gallery in Berlin. Ulay's work, as well as his collaborative work with Marina Abramovic, is featured in many collections of major art institutions around the world such as Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Centre Pompidou in Paris, Tate Modern in London and Museum of Modern Art in New York.- Script and Continuity Department
Christoph Wolff was born on 24 May 1940 in Solingen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He is known for Yo-Yo Ma Inspired by Bach (1997) and Gidon Kremer: Die eigene Stimme finden Eine Annäherung (2018).- Director
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Imogen Kimmel was born on 28 March 1957 in Solingen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. She is a director and writer, known for Trans - I Got Life (2021), Secret Society (2000) and Auf hoher See (1994).- Director
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Katharina Klewinghaus is a writer and director, born in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany and based in Berlin. She completed her BA in Film Studies in London and received a MA in Television and Video Production at the Media School at Bournemouth University in England. Her critically acclaimed feature-length documentary Science of Horror (2008) was theatrically released in Germany and shown at festivals such as the 25. Kasseler Dokfest and Pink Screens Film Festival.- Fatih Zingal was born on 27 May 1979 in Solingen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
- Stephan Ullrich was born on 31 August 1960 in Solingen, Germany. He is an actor, known for Samt und Seide (2000), In aller Freundschaft (1998) and Forsthaus Falkenau (1989).
- Andreas Kaufmann was born on 13 July 1957 in Solingen, Germany. He is a writer and actor, known for Morden im Norden (2012), Castle Einstein (1998) and Never Too Late for Justice (2016).
- Karolin Dubberstein was born on 22 November 1989 in Solingen, Germany. She is an actress, known for Lindenstraße (1985).
- Ulrike Demmer was born on 3 April 1973 in Solingen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
- His father worked as a wheelwright. After graduating from high school in 1938, Scheel trained as a banker. During the Second World War he was drafted into military service from 1939 to 1945. After the end of the war, Scheel worked in several companies and then worked as a self-employed auditor. Scheel, who had already joined the FDP in 1946, sat as a Liberal member of the North Rhine-Westphalia state parliament from 1950 to 1953. From 1953 to 1974 he was a member of the German Bundestag, of which he served as vice-president from 1967 to 1969. At the same time, Scheel was also represented in the European Parliament from 1958 to 1961. Scheel took up his first government office in 1961 as Minister for Economic Cooperation under Konrad Adenauer's government. The subsequent Federal Chancellor Ludwig Erhard confirmed him in this office, which he held until the change of government in 1966.
In 1968, the FDP party conference made Scheel chairman of the party. As such, he gave the Liberals a new profile, which led to an opening towards the SPD and prepared the future government coalition. Under the government of Willy Brandt, Scheel was appointed Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor from 1969 to 1974. The Brandt-Scheel government brought about a rapprochement in foreign policy with the Soviet Union, the GDR and the neighboring Eastern Bloc states. In this context, Foreign Minister Scheel's term of office saw such important diplomatic milestones in the history of the Federal Republic as the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty with the Soviet Union and the East and Berlin Treaties. Scheel was the first German foreign minister to visit Israel in 1971. A year later he established diplomatic relations with the PRC. In May 1974, Scheel was elected fourth Federal President of the Federal Republic, succeeding Gustav Heinemann.
Scheel handed over his party and government positions to Hans Dietrich Genscher and served as head of state until 1979. Since Scheel decided not to run again, Karl Carstens succeeded him as the new Federal President. For his "services to the responsible cooperation of the Federal Republic of Germany in the European Communities and his tireless striving for their consolidation and further expansion among the peoples of Europe" Scheel was awarded the Charlemagne Prize in Aachen in 1977. From 1980, Scheel served as chairman of the supervisory board of the federally owned but privately run German development company DEG. In 1982 he also joined the supervisory board of Thyssen AG. In 1986, Scheel published the book "Who Still Hurts by Germany's Division?" From 1992 to 1994, Scheel was also involved in the Berlin-Brandenburg Media Council. He also served as chairman of the board of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg until 1993.
Since then, the statesman had largely withdrawn from public life, although he did not refrain from occasionally making critical comments about the policies of his own and other parties. Privately, he has been married to Barbara Wiese for the third time since 1988 and lives in Munich and later in Berlin. In 2009 the couple moved from Berlin to Bad Krozingen in Baden. In the town hall there he maintained an office rented by the Federal President's Office. On May 26, 2011, the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development awarded the "Walter Scheel Prize" for commitment to development cooperation for the first time.
Walter Scheel died on August 24, 2016 at the age of 97 in Bad Krötzingen. - René Schwittay was born in 1978 in Solingen, Germany. He is an actor, known for Tatort (1970), The Witnesses (2021) and Sie waren mal Stars! (2020).
- Cuco Wallraff was born in 1963 in Solingen, Germany. He is an actor, known for Colonia (2015), Bruder Esel (1996) and Alarm für Cobra 11 - Die Autobahnpolizei (1996).
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Thorsten Nesch was born on 21 December 1968 in Solingen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He is a writer and producer, known for #PartyTime (2018), Derailed (2018) and Ludgers Fall (2006).- Director
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Kurt Rosenthal was born in 1938 in Solingen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He is a director and producer, known for Die große Super-8 Schau (1971), Von der Revolte zur Revolution oder Warum die Revolution erst morgen stattfindet (1969) and Nur eine Zigarettenlänge (1969).- Cinematographer
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Frank Blasberg was born on 6 December 1959 in Solingen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He was a cinematographer and director, known for Wings of Desire (1987), Dana Lech (1992) and Venedig, traumhaft billig (1988). He died on 29 May 2023 in Berlin, Germany.- Jochen Putzenbacher was born on 9 March 1939 in Solingen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He was married to Ilse. He died on 22 August 2019 in Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
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Carmen Baudi was born on 7 July 1965 in Ohligs, Solingen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. She is a producer and actress, known for Dead Guys Don't Talk, Auszeit (2002) and A Full Circle (2007).- Jürgen Thorwald was born on 28 October 1915 in Solingen, Germany. He was a writer, known for Das Jahrhundert der Chirurgen (1972), Das Jahrhundert der Detektive (1992) and Auf den Spuren der Anarchisten (1972). He died on 4 April 2006 in Lugano, Switzerland.
- Sebastian Thrun was born on 14 May 1967 in Solingen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
- Norbert Lossau was born on 24 August 1959 in Solingen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
- Jens Weidmann was born on 20 April 1968 in Solingen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
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Kurt Henkels was born on 17 December 1910 in Solingen, Germany. He was an actor and composer, known for Meine Frau macht Musik (1958), Herzlich willkommen (1963) and So viel Schwung (1963). He died on 12 July 1986 in Hamburg, Germany.- Jochen Hülder was born on 18 October 1957 in Solingen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He was an actor and producer, known for Die toten Hosen: Live in Buenos Aires (2001) and Nichts als die Wahrheit - 30 Jahre Die Toten Hosen (2012). He was married to Ute. He died on 15 January 2015 in Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
- Friedrich Pukelsheim was born on 8 September 1948 in Solingen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
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Tobias Topic was born on 23 March 1992 in Solingen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He is an actor and composer, known for He's All That (2021), Bebe Rexha & Topic: Chain My Heart (2021) and Topic & Ally Brooke: Perfect (2018).- Beate Küpper was born in 1968 in Solingen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
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Alex Brommer was born on 16 April 1983 in Solingen, Germany. Alex is known for True North (2006), One Way (2006) and The Flying Scotsman (2006).- Christoph Kramer was born on 19 February 1991 in Solingen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
- Christian Gremmels was born in 1941 in Solingen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He is a writer, known for Hanged on a Twisted Cross (1996) and Bonhoeffer (2003).
- D. Holland Moritz was born on 28 December 1954 in Solingen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He is an actor, known for Der Staub der Stadt (1998).
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Fabian Podeszwa was born in 1990 in Solingen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Fabian is an editor and director, known for Milky Chance Feat. Témé Tan: Rush (2019), Luz (2018) and Die Beschaffenheit der Dinge (2014).- Director
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Roman Holtwick is a self taught director and photographer born in Solingen, Germany. As he has always been interested in cameras and making his first video clips as a teenager he started to learn the photo manipulation software Photoshop. He purchased his first professional DSLR camera (a Canon 650D) in late 2012 and started learning photography by eye and from online tutorials how to use it professionally.
In 2015 he started doing photography for a living with the goal to slowly get into music videos and art films. By the end of 2016 he was filming and editing first music videos for local bands and rappers, in 2017 he started working on several scripts for short films and networking to young actors who were willing to create with him. In July 2017 he filmed his first short "Quiddity" which was released in October 2017.- Benedikt Sigmund was born on 25 July 1983 in Solingen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
- Norbert W. Paul was born in 1964 in Solingen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
- Walter Henkels was born on 9 February 1906 in Solingen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He died on 8 June 1987 in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
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Hetty Plümacher was born on 3 December 1919 in Solingen, Germany. She was an actress, known for Die Hochzeit des Figaro (1956), Die Schelminnen (1961) and Bluthochzeit (1964). She died on 3 June 2005 in Steinenbronn, Germany.- Hans Jochim Flocke was born on 1 August 1953 in Solingen, Germany.