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- Fritz Diez was born on 27 February 1901 in Meiningen, Germany. He was an actor, known for Já, spravedlnost (1968), Ernst Thälmann - Führer seiner Klasse (1955) and Die gefrorenen Blitze (1967). He was married to Martha Beschort-Diez. He died on 19 October 1979 in Weimar, German Democratic Republic.
- Director
- Writer
- Cinematographer
Bruno J. Böttge was born on 11 February 1925 in Teutschenthal, Germany. He was a director and writer, known for Die Zauberschere (1957), The Bremen Town Musicians (1955) and Der Wunschring (1958). He died on 5 November 1981 in Dresden, German Democratic Republic.- Hannjo Hasse was born on 31 August 1921 in Bonn, Germany. He was an actor, known for Archiv des Todes (1980), Rote Bergsteiger (1968) and Walter Defends Sarajevo (1972). He died on 5 February 1983 in Falkensee, German Democratic Republic.
- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Carl Balhaus was born on 4 November 1905 in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany. He was an actor and director, known for Haus im Feuer (1960), Ein Mädchen von 16 ½ (1958) and Der Teufelskreis (1956). He was married to Eva Schmidt-Kayser and Almuth Dorowa. He died on 28 July 1968 in Eisenach, German Democratic Republic [now Thuringia, Germany].- Fredrich von Paulus was born in Germany in 1890 and joined the military academy in Berlin when he was around 18. He rose through the ranks from private to officer within 20 years. When World War II broke out in 1939, he was a member of the German general staff, a position he held during the 1940 invasion of France. In September 1940 he was appointed Quartermaster General of the General Staff. In 1942 he was promoted to Colonel-General and given command of the German 6th Army for the summer drive in the south of Russia, which started in June. Von Paulus was an experienced and capable staff officer, but only an average field commander who was intimidated by his superiors, and who fatally underestimated the Russian strength at Stalingrad, where his men were drawn into savage and costly street fighting by defending Russian troops. On November 19, 1942, the Soviets began a counteroffensive aimed at recapturing Stalingrad and trapping the 6th Army--about 270,000 strong--within the city. Von Paulus followed orders to stay put rather than to break out of the encirclement. For over two months he and his men were forced further and further back into the city by the rapidly increasing numbers of Soviet troops, while their supply lines were slowly being cut off, resulting in severe shortages of everything from food to clothes to ammunition. During the siege Adolf Hitler promoted von Paulus to General and announced that he was awarding him the Iron Cross for his stubborn defense. He also ordered von Paulus to fight to the last man and not to surrender one German soldier or piece of equipment to the Russians. On January 30, 1943, with the imminent defeat of the 6th Army at hand, Hitler promoted von Paulus to Field Marshal, stating that no German commander of that rank had ever surrendered. However, the very next day von Paulus surrendered the remnants of the once powerful 6th Army, now reduced to demoralized, starving, freezing, ill and half-clothed soldiers, to the Russians. He spent the remainder of the war under house arrest near Moscow while his men were marched off to harsh Soviet POW camps, from which only a very few survived. After the war ended von Paulus remained for a few years as a prisoner in the USSR until his release in 1947. Prior to his release he was brought to Germany to testify in the Nuremberg war crimes tribunal, and gave testimony against many of the Nazi officials on trial there. After his release from Russian custody von Paulus, by now sympathetic to communism, retired to East Germany, where he died in 1957.
- Composer
- Music Department
- Actor
Hanns Eisler was a German-Austrian-American composer and lyricist. He was known for his "Das Lied von der Moldau" ("La Chanson du Moldau", "The Song of the Moldau") used in the TV film Schweyk im zweiten Weltkrieg (1961) and also sang by Zarah Leander on TV. He did so many more songs in Hollywood, France, Austria and Germany.- Fred Ludwig was born on 3 March 1921 in Langsdorf, Germany. He was an actor, known for The Rabbit Is Me (1965), Der Zinker (1959) and Tempel des Satans (1962). He died on 14 October 1984 in the German Democratic Republic.
- Composer
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Paul Dessau was born on 19 December 1894 in Hamburg, Germany. He was a composer, known for Adventures of Casanova (1948), The Wife of Monte Cristo (1946) and The Novel of Werther (1938). He was married to Ruth Berghaus, Antje Ruge, Elisabeth Hauptmann and Gudrun Kabisch. He died on 28 June 1979 in Königs Wusterhausen, German Democratic Republic.- Siegfried Göhler was born on 13 May 1916 in Bad Elster, Saxony, Germany. He was an actor, known for The Small White Mouse (1964), The Gleiwitz Case (1961) and Goldene Zeiten - Feine Leute (1977). He died on 7 April 1976 in Dresden, German Democratic Republic.
- Actor
- Cinematographer
Karl Platen was born on 6 March 1877 in Halle, Germany. He was an actor and cinematographer, known for M (1931), Woman in the Moon (1929) and Deception (1920). He died on 4 July 1952 in Weimar, German Democratic Republic.- Actor
- Music Department
- Composer
Ernst Busch was born on 22 January 1900 in Kiel, Germany. He was an actor and composer, known for The Threepenny Opera (1931), Hell on Earth (1931) and The Lake Calls (1933). He was married to Eva Busch. He died on 8 June 1980 in Bernburg, German Democratic Republic.- Seghers grew up in a wealthy Jewish home. From 1919 she studied art history, philosophy, history and sinology in Cologne and Heidelberg. In 1924 she completed her studies with the doctoral thesis "Jews and Judaism in the Works of Rembrandt". In the same year she wrote her first story entitled "The Dead of the Island of Djal", which was only published after her death (1985). In 1925 she married the Hungarian social scientist Lásló Radványi, with whom she had two children. In 1927 she first published a story called "Grubetsch". The work appeared in the Frankfurter Zeitung and was marked with Segher's name.
Since then she has published all of her works under this pseudonym; Behind the name lies a contemporary of the painter Rembrandt. In 1928 the story "Uprising of the Fishermen of St. Barbara" was published, for which she was awarded the Kleist Prize. The German theater manager and director Erwin Piscator adapted the play into a film in the Soviet Union in 1934. In the same year, Anna Seghers became a member of the KPD, the German Communist Party. The following year, 1929, she joined the "Association of Proletarian-Revolutionary Writers" (BPRS). Her novel "The Companions" was published in 1932, in which she warned about the dangers of the emerging fascist rule. After the National Socialists came to power in 1933, Seghers was briefly arrested. She then emigrated to France.
There she supported anti-fascist organizations and magazines. Her first exile novel was written in 1933, entitled "The Head Wage," in which she traces the causes of National Socialism. Two years later the novel "The Road Through February" was published. In the years 1938 and 1939 she maintained correspondence with the philosopher Georg Lukács. In the year that German troops invaded France, Anna Seghers withdrew from Paris to unoccupied Marseille. In 1941 she left for Mexico. There she founded the Heinrich Heine Club, which was a German literary and cultural institution that pursued anti-fascist goals under her leadership. The novel "The Seventh Cross" was published in 1942. The work established her international reputation as a writer who defended herself against fascism.
The original was filmed in 1944 by the American director Fred Zinnemann with Spencer Tracy. The novel was first published in English and then published in German by a Mexican exile publisher. "The Seventh Cross" sensitively tells the story of the escape of seven prisoners from a concentration camp in Rhine-Hesse and everyday life in the Third Reich. Seghers used cinematic design tools that realized the narrative structure in a complex way. In 1944 the novel "Transit" was published. It appeared first in Spanish and then in English, and in German it came out in 1948. Seghers had already started the work in France. It describes the author's personal experiences and fears in exile, which she connects with the theme of loss and preservation of identity. The successful book is one of the most important works about the fears in exile.
In 1947 Anna Seghers returned to Europe and initially settled in West Berlin. She joined the SED, the Socialist Unity Party of Germany. In the same year she was honored with the Georg Büchner Prize, Germany's most prestigious literary award, for her novel "The Seventh Cross". Anna Seghers was committed to reconstruction in Germany. In 1948 she became vice president of the "Culture Association for the Democratic Renewal of Germany". The following year her social novel "The Dead Stay Young" was published. The work was made into a film in 1968. In 1950, Anna Seghers moved to East Berlin. She became a co-founder of the peace movement in the GDR and joined the presidium of the World Peace Council. In the same year she was one of the co-founders of the German Academy of Arts.
In 1951 she was awarded the GDR's first national prize. A trip to China followed. Anna Seghers was a co-founder of the GDR Writers' Association and headed it from 1952 to 1978. Hermann Kant later became her successor. In 1957 the novella "The Just Judge" was completed. For political reasons, the work was not published until 1990. The University of Jena awarded her an honorary doctorate in 1959. Anna Seghers dealt with the time of Mexican exile again in the story "The Real Blue," which was published in 1967. One of her important late works is the title "The Crossing", a love story that came onto the market in 1971. In 1981 she was made an honorary citizen of Mainz. - Johannes Wieke was born on 31 May 1913 in Leipzig, Germany. He was an actor, known for Gejagt bis zum Morgen (1957), Rote Bergsteiger (1968) and Trace of Stones (1966). He died on 20 July 1982 in Ostseebad Prerow, German Democratic Republic.
- Actor
- Additional Crew
Willi Narloch was born on 18 July 1910 in Berlin, Germany. He was an actor, known for Der letzte der Mohikaner (1956), Die Häuser des Herrn Sartorius (1955) and The Rabbit Is Me (1965). He died on 18 April 1973 in East Berlin, German Democratic Republic.- Lore Frisch was born on 4 May 1925 in Schwindegg, Bavaria, Germany. She was an actress, known for Meine Frau macht Musik (1958), Das Tor zum Paradies (1949) and Zar und Zimmermann (1956). She died on 6 July 1962 in Potsdam, German Democratic Republic.
- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Fred Mahr was born on 20 May 1907 in Zürich, Switzerland. He was an actor and director, known for Fahndung mit Musik (1967), Die Leute auf Dangaard (1957) and Beton (1959). He died on 12 March 1980 in Kleinmachnow, German Democratic Republic.- Dieter Franke was born on 13 October 1934 in Harthau, Germany. He was an actor, known for Dach überm Kopf (1980), Jeder stirbt für sich allein (1970) and Wer reißt denn gleich vorm Teufel aus (1977). He died on 23 October 1982 in East Berlin, German Democratic Republic.
- 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.
- Production Designer
- Art Director
- Executive
Alfred Tolle was born on 2 October 1903 in Görlitz, Germany. He was a production designer and art director, known for Musterknaben (1959), Besondere Kennzeichen: keine (1956) and Seine Hoheit - Genosse Prinz (1969). He died on 10 September 1989 in Potsdam, German Democratic Republic.- Liselott Baumgarten was born on 12 December 1906 in Dresden, Germany. She was an actress, known for Gejagt bis zum Morgen (1957), Hedda Gabler (1980) and Die Suche nach dem wunderbunten Vögelchen (1964). She died on 23 January 1981 in Görlitz, German Democratic Republic.
- Actor
- Production Manager
Harry Studt was born on 20 February 1899 in Breslau, Silesia, Germany [now Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland]. He was an actor and production manager, known for Zar und Zimmermann (1956), Kein Hüsung (1954) and The Assassination (1964). He died on 23 January 1976 in Potsdam, German Democratic Republic.- Hans Hardt-Hardtloff was born on 8 August 1906 in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He was an actor, known for Schüsse unterm Galgen (1968), Frau Venus und ihr Teufel (1967) and Das unsichtbare Visier (1973). He died on 24 May 1974 in Potsdam, German Democratic Republic.
- Karen Fredersdorf was born on 4 October 1892 in Magdeburg, Germany. She was an actress, known for Nordlicht (1938), Kein Hüsung (1954) and Star mit fremden Federn (1955). She died on 28 April 1985 in Magdeburg, German Democratic Republic.
- Arthur Reppert was born on 23 February 1893 in Berlin, Germany. He was an actor, known for Mein Herz sehnt sich nach Liebe (1931), Die lustigen Weiber (1936) and Capriccio (1938). He died in 1970 in Magdeburg, German Democratic Republic.
- Horst Jonischkan was born on 19 May 1938 in Liepaja, Latvia. He was an actor, known for Beschreibung eines Sommers (1963), The Divided Heaven (1964) and Das zweite Gleis (1962). He died on 31 October 1979 in Rostock, German Democratic Republic.
- Trude Brentina was born on 23 August 1899 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary. She was an actress, known for Unterwegs nach Atlantis (1977), Das unsichtbare Visier (1973) and Besondere Kennzeichen: keine (1956). She died on 31 July 1986 in Potsdam, German Democratic Republic.
- Born as Josef Michel Dischel to a religious Jewish family, he changed his name to pursue an acting career. A member of Austria's illegal Communist Party, he spent six months in prison during 1935 and then joined Leon Askin 'ABC Cabaret' in Vienna. After Austria was annexed to Nazi Germany, he was sent to Dachau on May 1938, from where he was transferred to Buchenwald on August. Released on April 1939, he was allowed to emigrate to Italy. Sturm then illegally crossed the border into France, where he was interned in the Camp de Milles as an enemy alien when WWII started. After the Fall of France, he resided in Marseilles, and was deported by the German occupation authorities to Auschwitz in August 1942. At January 1945, Sturm was evacuated to Buchenwald again. He survived the death march to the camp and joined Buchenwald's underground resistance. After liberation, Sturm acted in Vienna's New Theater in the Scala, which held a pro-Soviet line and was supported by the Soviet occupation authorities. Following the Soviet retreat from Austria at 1956 and the Scala's closure, Sturm moved to East Berlin. He had a long career in East German cinema and television until his death at 1984.
- Heinz Liefers was born on 3 February 1909 in Germany. He was an actor, known for Flucht ins Schweigen (1966), Hauptmann Florian von der Mühle (1968) and Das andere Gesicht (1961). He died in 1985 in Erfurt, German Democratic Republic.
- Johannes Maus was born on 27 December 1916 in Berlin, Germany. He was an actor, known for The Small White Mouse (1964), Geheimakten Solvay (1953) and Die Suche nach dem wunderbunten Vögelchen (1964). He died on 5 February 1985 in East Berlin, German Democratic Republic.
- Rudolf Seiß was born on 23 June 1910 in Dresden, Germany. He was an actor, known for Daniel Druskat (1976), Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui (1974) and The Gleiwitz Case (1961). He died on 16 April 1982 in the German Democratic Republic.
- Bert Brunn was born on 30 August 1923 in Waldenburg, Silesia, Germany [now Walbrzych, Dolnoslaskie, Poland]. He was an actor, known for Heimkehr in ein fremdes Land (1976), Feuer unter Deck (1979) and The Liberation of Prague (1977). He was married to Roma Rumland. He died on 13 August 1984 in the German Democratic Republic.
- Eberhard Keyn was an actor, known for Silvesterpunsch (1960), Nelken in Aspik (1976) and Das Stacheltier - Lügen haben kurze Beine (1962). He died in 1977 in the German Democratic Republic.
- Horst Kube was born on 19 September 1920 in Berlin, Germany. He was an actor, known for Tecumseh (1972), Frau Venus und ihr Teufel (1967) and Hochzeitsnacht im Regen (1967). He died on 18 October 1976 in East Berlin, German Democratic Republic.
- Wolfgang Penz was born on 21 March 1950 in Chemnitz, Germany. He was an actor, known for Addio, piccola mia (1979), Ein Schneemann für Afrika (1977) and Die unverbesserliche Barbara (1977). He died on 21 August 1979 in Königs Wusterhausen, German Democratic Republic.
- Friedrich Teitge was born on 8 May 1899 in Potsdam, Germany. He was an actor, known for Die schwarze Galeere (1962), Gejagt bis zum Morgen (1957) and Der fliegende Holländer (1964). He died on 6 October 1976 in Potsdam, German Democratic Republic.
- Gertrud Brendler was born on 23 October 1898 in Dresden, Germany. She was an actress, known for Besondere Kennzeichen: keine (1956), Trace of Stones (1966) and Reserviert für den Tod (1963). She died on 26 August 1983 in Dresden, German Democratic Republic [now Saxony, Federal Republic of Germany].
- Berthold Schulze was born on 23 July 1929 in Peitz, Brandenburg, Germany. He was an actor, known for Das unsichtbare Visier (1973), Fridolin (1987) and Der Teufelskreis (1982). He died on 4 June 1988 in the German Democratic Republic.
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Collin Walcott was born on 24 February 1945 in New York City, New York, USA. He is known for Last Summer (1969), Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me (1971) and Raga (1971). He died on 8 November 1984 in Magdeburg, German Democratic Republic.- Peter Pollatschek was born on 29 March 1944 in Basel, Switzerland. He was an actor, known for Die Glatzkopfbande (1963), Im Himmel ist doch Jahrmarkt (1969) and Käuzchenkuhle (1969). He died on 12 September 1968 in Erfurt, German Democratic Republic.
- Otto Saltzmann was born on 14 May 1884 in Essen, Germany. He was an actor, known for Tempel des Satans (1962), Kein Hüsung (1954) and Karbid und Sauerampfer (1963). He died on 5 December 1965 in Holzhausen, German Democratic Republic.
- Charlotte Küter was born on 17 January 1900 in Berlin, Germany. She was an actress, known for Columbus 64 (1966), The Axe of Wandsbek (1950) and Anna Susanna (1953). She was married to Paul Lewitt. She died on 2 June 1983 in Weimar, German Democratic Republic.
- Karl Brenk was born on 9 November 1904 in Hamburg, Germany. He was an actor, known for Ernst Thälmann - Führer seiner Klasse (1955), Trace of Stones (1966) and Leuchtfeuer (1954). He died on 9 April 1989 in East Berlin, German Democratic Republic.
- Werner Bräunig was born on 12 May 1934 in Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany. He was a writer, known for Aus unserer Zeit (1970) and Geschichten jener Nacht (1967). He died on 14 August 1976 in Halle, German Democratic Republic.
- Erich Brehm was born on 12 September 1910 in Berlin, Germany. Erich was a writer and director, known for Das Stacheltier - Die Autorenstunde (1963), Das Stacheltier - Klapper macht Karriere (1963) and Das Stacheltier - Alles maßlos... ist übertrieben (1960). Erich died on 15 November 1966 in East Berlin, German Democratic Republic.
- William Gade was born on 21 January 1893. He was an actor, known for Die Königsloge (1929), 52 Wochen sind ein Jahr (1955) and Das kleine und das große Glück (1953). He died on 10 January 1970 in Dresden, German Democratic Republic.
- Max Adalbert Schleyer was born on 1 January 1907 in Magdeburg, Germany. He was an actor, known for Die heilige Johanna (1962), Ach, du meine Güte! (1966) and Fernsehpitaval (1958). He died on 26 March 1977 in Magdeburg, German Democratic Republic.
- Werner Wieland was born on 18 October 1910 in Leipzig, Germany. He was an actor, known for Dny zrady (1973), Das unsichtbare Visier (1973) and The Rabbit Is Me (1965). He died on 9 June 1984 in Potsdam, German Democratic Republic.
- Peter Harzheim was born on 29 March 1902 in Essen, Germany. He was an actor, known for Bevor der Blitz einschlägt (1959), Der Fremde (1961) and Dr. Schlüter (1965). He was married to Mary-Edith Schreiber. He died on 3 July 1967 in Karl-Marx-Stadt, German Democratic Republic.
- Writer
- Additional Crew
- Script and Continuity Department
Joachim Plötner was born on 13 May 1934 in Hermsdorf, Germany. He was a writer, known for Leichensache Zernik (1972), Die Fahne von Kriwoj Rog (1967) and Das verhexte Fischerdorf (1962). He died on 7 September 1975 in Potsdam, German Democratic Republic.- 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.