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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
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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. - Actor
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- 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).- 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).
- 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).
- 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.
- 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.- 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.
- 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).
- Fred Frohberg was born on 27 October 1925 in Halle (Saale), Gertmany. He died on 1 June 2000 in Leipzig, Germany.
- 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.
- Elisabeth Frank was born in 1984 in Halle, Saale, Germany. She is an actress, known for Noctuidae (2021), Tatort (1970) and Die Tage dazwischen (2012).
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- 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), Young Adult Support Service (2012) and Lycée Moderne de l'Amitié (2012).- 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).
- Gerhard Adolph was born on 20 September 1937 in Halle, Saale, 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).
- 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.
- 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.
- 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).
- 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).
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- 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).- Writer
- Editor
- Director
Nancy Brandt was born in 1979 in Halle an der Saale, German Democratic Republic. Nancy is a writer and editor, known for Elected (2015), What to Drink? (2003) and Die gute Lage (2006).- 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).- Ernst Albert Schaach was born on 12 October 1900 in Halle an der Saale, Germany. He was an actor, known for G.P.U. (1942), The Hound of the Baskervilles (1937) and Rheinische Brautfahrt (1939). He died on 23 July 1975 in Berlin, West Germany.