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Jonas Nay was born in Lübeck, Germany on September 20th, 1990. He is an actor as well as a composer, known for his roles in projects such as 4 Against Z (2005), Line of Separation (2015), Homevideo (2011), Deutschland 83 (2015), Deutschland 86 (2018) and Deutschland 89 (2020). He has won German Television Awards and Grimme Awards for his role in Home Video (2011).- Actor
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Justus Von Dohnanyi was born in 1960 in Lubeck (Northern Germany) as a son of the conductor Christoph von Dohnanyi; his uncle is the politician Klaus von Dohnanyi. He worked at the city theaters in Frankfurt and Zurich and at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg after studying at the Hochschule fur Musik und darstellende Kunste in Hamburg. His first appearance in the American cinema was in Jakob the Liar (1999). He was seen on the PBS presentation of Bonhoeffer: Agent of Grace (2000) as well as in the James Bond adventure The World Is Not Enough (1999). He has made many appearances on German television, mostly in TV movies. In 2001 he was awarded a Deutsche Filmspiel Award in Gold as Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Experiment (2001).- The blond, steely-eyed bad guy of European westerns and potboilers was born in Lübeck, Germany, the son of a porcelain painter. Horst Frank financed his acting studies by working part-time as a babysitter and night watchman. He actually failed his final exams at the Musikhochschule Hamburg, but nonetheless managed to secure an acting position in his home town. For some time after, his work was primarily confined to small parts on stage and in radio. His first screen role saw him as a cowardly pilot in Der Stern von Afrika (1957). Frank then won a critic's award for his next role as member of a U-Boat crew in the war drama Haie und kleine Fische (1957).
Of athletic, lithe build and owner of a somewhat cold, hypnotic gaze (with a voice to match), Frank soon found himself typecast to disturbingly good effect as psychotic murderers in German and international productions (The Black Panther of Ratana (1963), Das Mädchen vom Moorhof (1958), Der Greifer (1958)). Alternatively, he proved an ideal henchman for spaghetti westerns (Bullets Don't Argue (1964), Johnny Hamlet (1968) and Django, Prepare a Coffin (1968)). Frank didn't seem to mind turning out copies of the same negative in a seemingly endless gallery of ruthless killers and impassive assassins. He did so with relish well into the 1980's and 90's, enjoying guest spots on popular TV crime time shows like Tatort (1970) and Derrick (1974). If Horst Frank was in the cast, you knew pretty much from the start 'whodunnit'.
Behind the menacing heavy, there was a family man and author of poems and chansons. In addition to his screen acting, Frank lent his voice to dubbing work (for the likes of fellow tough guys Jack Palance, Ernest Borgnine and Chuck Connors); and to radio, where he voiced Captain Nemo in "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" and "The Mysterious Island".
Likely because of his lack of work in major American or British productions, Frank never quite achieved the international recognition he undoubtedly deserved. He died quite suddenly in May 1999 of a brain hemorrhage, just short of his 70th birthday. - Melanie Marschke was born on 3 December 1969 in Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. She is an actress, known for Leipzig Homicide (2001), SOKO: Der Prozess (2013) and The Bill (1984). She was previously married to Hartmut Beyer.
- Leonie Parusel was born on 8 October 1983 in Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. She is an actress, known for Hanna (2019), Dr. Nice (2023) and Die Bergretter (2009).
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Gordon Deppe was born on 12 March 1959 in Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. He is an actor and composer, known for Listen to the City (1984), Lost Girl (2010) and Octavio Is Dead! (2018).- Thomas Mann was probably Germany's most influential author of the 20th century, receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929. Born on 6 June 1875 in Lübeck, his family moved to Munich in 1893, where he lived until 1933 and wrote some of his most successful novels like "Buddenbrocks" (1901), "Death in Venice" (1912) or "The Magic Mountain" (1924). After the Nazi takeover, the humanist and anti-fascist, married to Katia Pringsheim, daughter of a secular Jewish family, emigrated to Switzerland, then to Princeton and Pacific Palisades in the United States, where he finished his great tetra-logy "Joseph and His Brothers" in 1942. Two years later, he became a naturalized US citizen, but finally returned to Europe in 1952. The famous analyst and critique of the German and European soul died on 12 August 1955 in Kilberg near Zurich.
- Michael Pergolani was born on 14 January 1946 in Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. He is an actor and writer, known for No grazie, il caffè mi rende nervoso (1982), The Inglorious Bastards (1978) and Oggetti smarriti (1980).
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Sven Unterwaldt Jr. was born on 21 April 1965 in Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, West Germany. He is a director and writer, known for School of Magical Animals 2 (2022), Otto's Eleven (2009) and 7 Dwarves: The Forest Is Not Enough (2006).- Actor
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Slim Khezri is an award winning German-American singer, songwriter, author, producer, director, editor, cooking enthusiast, art collector, businessman and actor in television, film, and theatre, including voiceover and motion-capture work in video games, animation, and computer training programs. Khezri first achieved fame in 1991 as a Michael Jackson Impersonator on the fourth season of the highly successful TV program "Die Rudi Carrell Show - Laß Dich überraschen" in Germany.
Born (July 18, 1972) in Lübeck Hansestadt, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, as the oldest of three children to a Mediterranean family of Tunisian ancestry. Khezri is based in Los Angeles, California, and married to award winning American pole artist, and stage performer Phoenix Kazree. They have one son together. Through his mother, Khezri is the cousin of award winning Swedish novelist and playwright Jonas Hassen Khemiri and his younger brother, actor Hamadi Khemiri.
Previous acting work includes major and minor roles in productions such as "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End", "Avengers: Infinity War", "Solo: A Star Wars Story", Ludwig van Beethoven's opera "Fidelio", "Jurassic World", "House of Gucci", "Us", "Angels & Demons", "SEAL Team" (CBS), "American Sniper", Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Otello", "Star Trek: Picard" (CBS), "Avengers: Endgame", "Quasi", "Once Upon A Time in Hollywood", "True Detective" (Season 2), "Godzilla: King of the Monsters", "1000 Ways to Die", Engelbert Humperdinck's opera "Hänsel und Gretel", "The Mandalorian" (Disney+), "Jason Bourne", "La Bayadère" by Ludwig Minkus with the prestigious American Ballet Theater, "The 15:17 to Paris", Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Aida", "Bumblebee", "Obi-Wan Kenobi" (Disney+), "Washington's Armor", "The Kominsky Method" (Netflix), "Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle", Gaetano Donizetti's opera "Roberto Devereux", "A Star Is Born", "S.W.A.T.", "Austin Powers in Goldmember", "Roman J. Israel, Esq.", "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.", and Kenneth MacMillan's "Mayerling" with the British Royal Ballet, just to name a few. From Leading actor, Character actor, Comedy actor, Supporting actor to Featured extra or just extra, Khezri had done it all on film, television and theater stage.
As a singer and songwriter, Slim Khezri is a successful independent music artist with multiple licensing deals with several record labels and music distributors; including Sony Music Entertainment, Double Power, Universal Music Group, and Warner Music Group. He is also founder-CEO of the entertainment company Doubajen Group Ltd., and its subsidiary Doubajen Records. He goes by the stage-names Slim K, or Kazree, and sometimes credited under his full name, stylized as a single word Slimkhezri.
"Die Würde des Menschen ist unantastbar" (Human dignity is inviolable). As a philanthropist and activist, for many years Slim Khezri has been a strong proponent of freedom of opinion and freedom of speech. He is compassionate, very vocal and has been actively engaged in work with various organizations; such as Amnesty International, Save the Children, Feeding America, Thorn (formerly DNA Foundation, with Ashton Kutcher), Dell's recycling program and Mazon: This Is Hunger. Khezri has raised awareness to many pressing issues ranging from injustice, inequality, intolerance, human trafficking, women & child abuse, racism, hunger and environment. In addition, Slim Khezri is a state-licensed caregiver and wedding officiant in California.
Before making his way to the United States, Slim Khezri first gained critical acclaim in the early 1990s in Europe, as a popular Michael Jackson Impersonator, Khezri was the ultimate tribute show, touring for more than 10 years around the globe, dancing, singing live, and speaking the language of "MJ" as authentic as possible, Khezri was one of the few who mastered every original groove and gravity-defying dance moves which brought attention to Michael's father Joe Jackson, and ultimately to Michael Jackson himself. In late 2000, after a decade and near a thousand performances in over 70 countries, Slim Khezri moonwalked for the last time, during the German Bowl XXII Halftime Show, in Braunschweig, Germany. He then moved to the United States, to go on write, direct, produce, edit and appear in numerous films, television shows, theater productions, music videos, and collaborated over the years with a diverse, wide range of countless music producers, DJ's, recording artists and as well as many independent talents from around the world.
Through the years he teamed up with some of the biggest names in the music industry (filming, collaborating, touring with/ or performing on stage) e.g Michael Jackson, Justin Timberlake (Nsync), Fall Out Boy, Snoop Dogg, Britney Spears, Lucy Pearl, Gene Simmons (KISS), Franz Ferdinand, Panic! At The Disco, Lutricia McNeal, La Bouche, KRS-One & Marley Marl, Leee John (Imagination), Mr. President, Lifehouse, Sidney Youngblood, Sean Kingston, Lil Dicky, Natalie Merchant, Q-Tip, Chris Brown, Akon, Haddaway, Captain Hollywood Project, AJ McLean (Backstreet Boys), Army of Lovers, Betty Booom, Worlds Apart, DJ Khaled, Mark Owen (Take That), Dr. Alban and many more.
Slim Khezri can be perfectly described as a bon vivant, self-proclaimed gourmet, a cheese, wine & coffee connoisseur, kunstliebhaber, loves classic cartoons and films from the golden age of cinema (mostly between the 1910s and the 1980s), a fashion lover and passionate world traveler. Khezri is fascinated by society and the human experience. Media, technology, politics, religion and history are just some of the areas he studied. Educated in Europe (Germany, 8 years), and North Africa (Tunisia, 6 years). Speaks 5 Languages: English, German, French, Arabic, and conversational Turkish.
As an actor, Slim Khezri has worked alongside some of the biggest names in Hollywood; such as Tom Hanks, Al Pacino, Matt Damon, Jared Leto, George Clooney, Mel Gibson, Tom Cruise, Ewan McGregor, Julia Roberts, Ben Affleck, John Turturro, Adam Driver, Bradley Cooper, Jim Carey, Nicole Kidman, Chris Pratt, Jeremy Irons, Tommy Lee Jones, Johnny Depp, Michael Douglas, Alan Arkin, John Lithgow, Nicolas Cage, Mickey Rourke, Lady GaGa, Josh Brolin, Bencio Del Toro, Dolph Lundgren, Danny Trejo, Terrence Stamp, Harvey Keitel, James Franco, Channing Tatum, Bruce Willis, Scarlett Johansson, J.K. Simmons, and was directed by the likes of Ron Howard, Clint Eastwood, Ridley Scott, Danny Boyle, Jodie Foster, Andy Serkis, Roland Emmerich, Colin Trevorrow, Ben Stiller, Gore Verbinski, Jerry Zucker, Ava DuVernay, Ethan Coen & Joel Coen, Angela Basset, Seth MacFarlane, F. Gary Gray and many more.
In addition to his creative work in film and music, Khezri has also successfully worked on many musical and conceptual arts related side projects, including many fashion shows in Europe, and multiple art gallery events in Los Angeles, for which he produced short-documentary features for various European channels, including Vernissage TV in Switzerland.- Fabian Männel was born on 4 April 1990 in Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. He is an actor, known for Those Who Stayed (2023), Eisland (2021) and Echoes of the Past (2021).
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Jonas Rothlaender was born on 5 November 1982 in Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. He is a director and writer, known for Fado (2016), Das Hemd (2010) and Familie Haben (2015).- Actress
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Barbara Fenner was born on 10 March 1957 in Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, West Germany. She is an actress, known for Diese Drombuschs (1983), Crazy Boys (1987) and Helga und die Nordlichter (1984).- Actor
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Erich Ponto was born on 14 December 1884 in Lübeck [now Schleswig-Holstein], Germany. He was an actor and writer, known for The Third Man (1949), Sky Without Stars (1955) and Schneider Wibbel (1939). He was married to Tony Kresse. He died on 4 February 1957 in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.- Composer
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At the age of 7 Ralph demonstrated a natural interest and aptitude in all things musical. In his younger years Ralph's innate musical talents were nurtured by private lessons with many highly accomplished tutors mostly focusing in the disciplines of Jazz, Latin and Rock. Under the guidance and training of his tutors Ralph began playing the electric bass, guitar, drums and percussion.
At the age of 16 Ralph decided to take music to a professional level and started classical lessons on piano and the upright bass which led him to study classical music for four years in one of the most esteemed Music Conservatories in Germany. His Conservatory training included, music history composition, upright bass, piano and classical orchestra. This gave Ralph the foundation to create musical styles which combine almost all music genres.
His global success began In 1991 Ralph joined the world famous rock band The Scorpions as the new Bass Player. During his 12 year career as a member of "The Scorpions" Ralph recorded 8 gold and platinum awarded albums that sold millions of copies all over the world. In addition to his contributions as Bass Player, Ralph wrote the song titled "Mysterious" which was to be the last most successful song for "The Scorpions" since "Winds of Change". That song went to 3rd on the American charts. Throughout his tenure with "The Scorpions" Ralph has toured the world six times.
Then in 1999 while still touring with "The Scorpions" he was offered his first film score in Lancelot: Guardian of Time (1997), starring, 'Mark Singer (I)', Claudia Christian, and John Saxon.
Having become involved in his first Feature Film Ralph realized that scoring for cinema and Film Producing would be his new life's work. This experience then led him to co-produce and co-finance Gangland (2001), Starring 'Costas Mandylor', Sasha Mitchell, Kathleen Kinmont, Ice-T, Coolio, Jennifer Gareis, Kristanna Loken. In addition to producing Gangland (2001), Ralph also acted in and wrote the two main title tracks. Becoming more involved in the movie industry he took on the feature Redemption (2002) (V) as Composer. For Redemption (2002) (V) he created the entire score, 16 songs and the title track. From here on film became his life. Ralph started becoming more passionate about working in the film industry than touring around the world, and ended his work with the "The Scorpions" in 2004 and since leaving the band Ralph has created the Film Scores for more then 38 Feature films.
Also won 3 Awards (including Nyciff 2011 Genre Award Best Original Score Ralph Rieckermann / "The Last Gamble"
In addition Ralph also took on the responsibility of the music supervision for over 26 films.
The natural combination of digital and live instrumentation allows Ralph the creative flexibility and tools to compose for any genre of music from rock to classical.
Ralph's intimate knowledge of music and composition and a wide range of talents and tools allows him to create scores for any film style and genre. Also his professional training and education combined with his many years of Rock and film industry experience makes Ralph Rieckermann one of the most promising new composers to watch.- Actress
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Helga Franck was born in 1933 in Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. She was an actress, known for Horrors of Spider Island (1960), Wiener Luft (1958) and Heiraten verboten (1957). She was married to Lothar E. Stickelbrucks. She died in February 1963 in Munich, West Germany [now Germany].- Writer
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Heinrich Mann, German novelist and the elder brother of Nobel-Prize winner Thomas Mann, is most famous in the English-speaking world for his novel "Professor Unrat" that was turned into the successful 1930 movie "Der Blaue Engel" ("The Blue Angel"). Mann once enjoyed a considerable reputation in German literary circles, but many of his novels and practically all of his essays are unknown to most anglophones as they remain untranslated. He remains of interest as his work details a people enculturated under an authoritarian regime in their struggle to achieve and sustain democracy.
Mann was born in Lübeck on March 27, 1871, the first child of Senator Thomas Johann Heinrich Mann and his wife Julia da Silva-Bruhns. Descended from grain merchants and born into the patrician class, Mann started his writing career as an essayist with a determinedly conservative point of view. Eventually, he evolved into a well-known proponent of democracy and socialism.
Mann's education consisted of attendance at a private preparatory school until 1889. Leaving school, he went to work as an apprentice for a Dresden bookseller, but failed at the job. He moved to Berlin in 1891, where he became a published writer. In 1892, he contracted tuberculosis and was cared for in a Swiss sanatorium. Mann, who published his first novel in 1893, became financially independent upon the death of his father.
The next year, Mann moved from Berlin to Munich along with his mother and the rest of the family, and took the post of editor of "Das zwanzigste Jahrhundert." Mann preferred living in France and Italy to Germany, and he spent most of his time in those two countries until the outbreak of World War I.
His early novels were social satires of the German bourgeoisie that showed the society's resistance to democratic ideals. In 1904, he published the novel he is most famous for, "Professor Unrat" ("Professor Garbage"), which details the moral, social and physical decay of a pompous prep school teacher romantically obsessed with a nightclub singer. Josef von Sternberg's 1930 German- and English-language movies based on the novel, "Der Blaue Engel" and "The Blue Angel," made a star out of Marlene Dietrich, who played the bewitching chanteuse Lola Lola.
Mann's 1912 novel "Der Untertan" ("The Patrioteer") features an amoral, manipulative and opportunistic businessman, Diederich Hessling, who uses patriotism to get ahead and winds up as a simulacrum of the Kaiser. An indictment of the militarism and nationalism of prewar Prussia, it was banned by the German government during World War I. Mann used a gallery of grotesques to elucidate the moral weakness and the lack of personal responsibility of the bourgeoisie under the German Empire of Kaiser Wilhelm II. As a youth who bullies the sole Jew in his school, Hessling believed "[h]e was acting on behalf of the whole Christian community of Netzig. How splendid it was to share responsibility, and to be a part of a collective consciousness."
Mann's essay on the great French naturalist novelist "Zola" (1915), satirized Germany and Prussian militarism and blamed World War I on capitalist exploitation and the plutocracy. "Zola" disrupted Mann's relationship with his brother Thomas, who at that time was more conservative than Heinrich. Thomas Mann supported Germany's participation in World War I, and he wrote his own essay in 1918 that directly attacked Heinrich. Thomas Mann's contemporaneous credo was that an artist should be independent and not dabble in politics. The estrangement between the brothers proved only temporary, and eventually, the four years-younger Thomas came to support many of Heinrich's opinions.
As he progressed as a novelist, Mann became firmly committed to the idea of the didactic power of art. He dedicated himself during and after the post war revolutionary period of 1918-19 to teaching Germany about democratic values through his writing. He became popular during the Weimar Republic when the ban on "Der Untertan" was lifted in 1918, and it was republished to great acclaim. The novel, plus "Die Armen" ("The Poor") in 1917, and "Der Kopf" ("The Chief") in 1925, make up Mann's "Das Kaiserreich" ("The Empire") trilogy.
The Prussian Government appointed Mann to the Academy of Arts in Berlin, and in 1931, he was elected the Poetry Section president. In 1933, Mann published "Der Hass" ("Hate"), a novel with the premise that the hate perpetrated by fascism would trigger the Gotterdammerung of civilization. After the Nazis solidified power, he was removed from his post and declared persona non grata due to his novels criticizing German authoritarianism, militarism, and nationalism.
Mann went into exile, first in Prague, Czechoslovakia, and then in Nice, France. While living on the Côte d'Azur, Mann wrote a novel based on French King Henry IV, a promoter of tolerance. It was this king, known as "Henry the Good," who ended the religious civil war racking 16th century France by issuing the Edict of Nantes, which allowed Protestants to openly practice their religion.
After the Nazi conquest of France, Mann fled to Spain, crossing the Pyrenees Mountains on foot at the age of 69. From Spain, he immigrated to the United States, eventually settling in Santa Monica, California with his second wife, Nelly Kroeger. His friends had arranged a one-year contract for him at Warner Bros., but he was hobbled by a poor command of English. After the contract expired, Mann had financial difficulties for the rest of his life. He had lost his German and French audiences and the royalties his book sales in Europe had generated, and he became financially dependent on friends and family, including Brother Thomas.
In California, Mann hobnobbed with other German exiles, including Bertolt Brecht. He was virtually unknown in America, his reputation eclipsed by that of his brother. Compounding his difficulties in America, his second wife, who was afflicted with mental illness, committed suicide in 1944.
Mann published his autobiography in 1945, and shortly before he died, had accepted an offer from East Germany to become head of their newly reconstituted Academy of Arts in East Berlin. Mann was not able to actually take over the post, as he died in Santa Monica on March 12, 1950. He was cremated and his ashes interred at the Academy in East Berlin.- Actor
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Marc Zwinz was born on 20 May 1974 in Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. He is an actor and writer, known for Sohnemänner (2011), Großstadtrevier (1986) and Die Helden aus der Nachbarschaft (2008).- Jörg Wontorra was born on 29 November 1948 in Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. He is an actor, known for Bang Boom Bang - Ein todsicheres Ding (1999), Doppelpass (1995) and A.S. (1995). He has been married to Heike Hinzkowski since 4 July 2012. He was previously married to Ariane and Claudia.
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Ludwig Haas was born on 16 April 1933 in Eutin, Lübeck, Oldenburg [now Schleswig-Holstein], Germany. He was an actor, known for Lindenstraße (1985), Shining Through (1992) and Erfolg (1991). He was married to Marianne Simon. He died on 4 September 2021 in Neumünster, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.- Henriette Schmidt was born on 27 January 1984 in Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, West Germany. She is an actress, known for Der blinde Fleck (2007), A Case for Two (1981) and Klatscht! (2013).
- Joachim Höppner was born on 9 June 1946 in Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. He was an actor, known for Charlie & Louise - Das doppelte Lottchen (1994), Straight Through the Heart (1983) and Terremoto (1996). He died on 18 November 2006 in Germering, Bavaria, Germany.
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Learining all about music and instruments Von Weber moved around Germany changing his teachers once in a while. In 1813 he became "Kapellmeister" in Prague and in 1816 music director of the "Deutsche Oper" in Dresden. There he supported German operas instead of the Italian ones which were very popular at his time - nevertheless his masterpiece "Der Freischuetz" was played for the first time in Berlin which was known to be more liberal. Was in London for a concert when he crontracted and died because of a disease.- Esther Heesch was born on 6 September 1996 in Lubeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
- Philipp Sienkiewicz was born in Lubeck, West Germany, a city located at the Baltic Sea. He was the second child to Krystyna Sienkiewicz (née Ziety) and Krzysztof Sienkiewicz, both polish political immigrants, both engineers.
Sienkiewicz, his sister (who died in 1999) and his parents moved to Poland in 1997. He finished high school in a polish public school. Later he studied Business Administration at the Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Industrial Marketing and Law at the Wroclaw University. During his education he took part in several art projects, including theatrical performances. He performed among others Romeo in Shakespear's Romeo and Julliet and Peter Pan in James Matthew Barrie's Peter Pan.
In the meantime Sienkiewicz ran a manufacturing business.
His first role as a next performer in a non-profit short film production (Synestezja 2017) led Sienkiewicz to become more interested in becoming a professional actor. He attended several acting courses and was signed by an agency. His next role was as a German agent in the ZDF production "Der Mordanschlag".