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Julius Feldmeier was born in 1987 in Rostock, German Democratic Republic. He is an actor and director, known for Nothing Bad Can Happen (2013), Axolotl Overkill (2017) and Babylon Berlin (2017). He is married to Katja Feldmeier.

Hinnerk Schönemann was born on 30 November 1974 in Rostock, German Democratic Republic. He is an actor and director, known for The Lives of Others (2006), War Horse (2011) and Never Look Away (2018). He was previously married to Anne Sarah Hartung.

Victor Schefé was born on 4 August 1968 in Rostock, German Democratic Republic. He is an actor and director, known for Spectre (2015), Bridge of Spies (2015) and Bewegte Männer (2003).

Marianne Hoppe was born on 26 April 1909 in Rostock, Germany. She was an actress, known for Ten Little Indians (1965), Wrong Move (1975) and The False Step (1939). She was married to Gustaf Gründgens. She died on 23 October 2002 in Siegsdorf, Bavaria, Germany.

Saskia Valencia was born on 21 July 1964 in Rostock, German Democratic Republic. She is an actress, known for Storm of Love (2005), Rote Rosen (2006) and Die Alpenklinik - Notfall für Dr. Guth (2011).

German actor and director, the son of physician Hartmut Doermer and the actress and drama coach Ruth von Zerboni. Although Doermer studied sociology and economics after matriculating from school, he ended up opting for the acting profession courtesy of his mother's mentoring and connections. He made his screen debut in 1954, at the same time playing small roles on stage in Hamburg and Munich. Audiences first took notice of him in Teenage Wolfpack (1956), a seminal crime drama dealing with post-war juvenile delinquency. Doermer was cast as the gang leader's sensible younger brother, juxtaposed to the erratic rebel (as played by Horst Buchholz). Doermer also appeared as an NCO in the classic war drama Der Stern von Afrika (1957), a biopic based on the meteoric, though brief career of Luftwaffe ace Hans Joachim Marseille. He received the Deutscher Filmband in Gold for his performance as a disillusioned member of the socialist SED party who escapes with his girlfriend to the West in Escape to Berlin (1961).

In the 60s, Doermer became a co-founder and prominent member of the New German Cinema. He subsequently starred in several high profile pictures, often in intellectual, cynical or angst-ridden roles. His more commercial projects included the hugely popular murder whodunnit Das Halstuch (1962) and a small role in Robert Redford's Downhill Racer (1969). In 1963, Doermer formed his own production company, Filmfirma Cine Dokument Film, which served as an outlet for a series of social and cultural documentaries -- often set in Africa or India -- which Doermer wrote, directed, produced and occasionally narrated. In the 80's, Doermer resumed screen acting, though appearing almost exclusively on television, often portraying both fictional and historical authority figures. In 1989, he (in association with the actor Hans Clarin) set up a private, culturally focused regional radio network (Ensemble am Chiemsee) in upper Bavaria. Doermer was predeceased by his wife, the writer Lore Bender Schmidt-Polex with whom he fathered three children.

Axel Schneppat was born in 1971 in Rostock, German Democratic Republic. He is a cinematographer, known for Schultze Gets the Blues (2003), Garage People (2020) and Eyes Wide Open (2009).

Wolfgang Büttner was born on 1 June 1912 in Rostock, Germany. He was an actor, known for The Longest Day (1962), Fitzcarraldo (1982) and Die Affaire Dreyfus (1968). He was married to Eleonore Noelle. He died on 18 November 1990 in Stockdorf, Gauting, Bavaria, Germany.

Sigrid Alegría was born on 18 June 1974 in Rostock, Germany. She is an actress, known for Sex with Love (2003), Dónde está Elisa? (2009) and Los Treinta (2005). She was previously married to Juan Andrés Ossandón.

Ulrich Voß was born on 8 June 1938 in Rostock, Germany. He was an actor, known for Archiv des Todes (1980), Front ohne Gnade (1984) and Nicht im Traum (2018). He died in January 2024 in Brandenburg, Germany.

Peter Borgelt was born on 20 September 1927 in Rostock, Germany. He was an actor, known for Tatort (1970), Police Call 110 (1971) and Die lieben Luder (1983). He died on 18 March 1994 in Berlin, Germany.

She was born in Rostock into a cultivated, well-to-do family, the daughter of stage director Walter Eggert and actress/ author Agnes-Marie Grisebach (1913-2011). With her schooling completed in 1951, the family took her to Heidelberg where Almut proceeded to study for her diploma as a cosmetician. It is unclear whether she worked for very long in that profession, since, by 1956, she had moved to Berlin to take acting classes at a drama school. Graduating in 1959, she married the actor Wolfgang Spier and became known as Almut Eggert-Spier. They had two daughters (one adopted), both of whom later also followed the acting path. The union with Spier ended in divorce in 1965.

Almut began her performing career in 1958 on stage at the Vaganten Bühne, located in the most fashionable part of Berlin Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, near the zoological gardens and the Kurfürstendamm. For the next fifteen years, she was cast in leading roles at various theatres in Berlin, Frankfurt, Hamburg and Stuttgart. From 1972 to 1973, she plied her trade as an ensemble member of the famous Berlin cabaret Die Stachelschweine.

Following her screen debut in 1958, Almut appeared in a number of films made for television, primarily as a supporting actress but with occasional leads in comedies and romances like Wiedersehen auf Raten (1963), Die Liebenden von Florenz (1966) and Klein Erna auf dem Jungfernstieg (1969). Guest spots in TV shows have included Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) and Tatort (1970). She also had a recurring role as a highway police chief inspector in Alarm für Cobra 11 - Die Autobahnpolizei (1996), an expensively produced action series filled with car chases, fight scenes and spectacular explosions.

Almut Eggert's most voluminous body of work was in the area of voice dubbing. Truly prolific, she was the German synchronizing voice for stars like Candice Bergen, Lee Remick, Madeline Kahn,Raquel Welch, Gena Rowlands, Ursula Andress and Stella Stevens, among numerous others. She became well known in Germany for her work on horror movies, including the Dracula and Nightmare on Elm Street franchises. She was also the German voice of Lorraine Gary (as Ellen Brody) in Jaws (1975) and that of Adrienne Barbeau (as Stevie Wayne) in John Carpenter's The Fog (1980). Additionally, she took on adapting scripts of Murder, She Wrote (1984) for German consumption.

Almut's active performing career waned in the late 1990s, though she continued her dubbing work well into the next decade.

Jule Böwe was born in 1969 in Rostock, German Democratic Republic. She is an actress, known for Gefangene (2006), Heart of Stone (2016) and The Ordinaries (2022).

Though well established within the East German movie making community, Heiner Carow had to manoeuvre when his candid, realistic work upset officials, but the popularity of some of his films and the recognition he got at festivals (like the Silver Bear in West Berlin in 1990) put him in a comfortable position, he was Vice President of the Academy of Arts in the DDR from 1982 through 1993. He was born in Rostock in 1929 and he had as his mentors veteran DEFA directors Slatan Dudow and Gerhard Klein when he was in the studio class for young filmmakers from 1950 to 1952. His The Legend of Paul and Paula was said to have played longer than any other movie in German theatres, and his Coming Out dared to treat the subject of male homosexuality for the first time in an East German film. Carow died in 1997.

Max Gleschinski was born in 1993 in Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. He is a director and writer, known for A Clear Felling (2018), Alaska (2023) and Lass Mörder Sein (2022).

Nadine Breaty was born on 17 September 1998 in Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Anna Moll was born in 1988 in Rostock, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany. Anna is a producer and director, known for Calling Home (2020), Events of Cosmic Proportions (2018) and Follow Me: Arabische Videostars (2018).

Jörg Pose was born on 18 May 1959 in Rostock, German Democratic Republic. He is an actor, known for Bear Ye One Another's Burden (1988), Never Look Away (2018) and Blochin: Die Lebenden und die Toten (2015).

Kathrin Spielvogel was born on 16 February 1972 in Rostock, German Democratic Republic. She is an actress, known for Muxmäuschenstill (2004), Samt und Seide (2000) and M.E.T.R.O. - Ein Team auf Leben und Tod (2006).

Anne Helm was born on 6 July 1986 in Rostock, German Democratic Republic. She is an actress, known for Preußisch Gangstar (2007), Alphateam - Die Lebensretter im OP (1997) and Ira (2011).

Francisco Medina was born on 30 January 1977 in Rostock, German Democratic Republic. He is an actor and assistant director, known for Berlin, Berlin (2002), Alles was zählt (2006) and Camaleón (2016).

Hans Mierendorff was born on 30 June 1882 in Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. He was an actor and producer, known for Der goldene Pol (1918), Der Gast aus der vierten Dimension (1918) and Die Einsame Insel (1920). He was married to Antonie Katsch, Hertha Katsch and Gertrud Schmidt. He died on 26 December 1955 in Eutin, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Lukas Steltner was born and raised in Rostock, Germany, where he was discovered in the age of 18 for his first role ever - a leading role in a cinema movie. After finishing school he moved to Berlin, where he started to professionalize his acting in order to continue his career. Since then he worked in various cinema movies (e.g. "Die Kriegerin", "Dessau Dancers", "Stadt Land Fluss") and broadcast television (e.g. "Letzte Spur Berlin", "SOKO Leipzig"). Lukas also works as a professional dancer in theater and entertainment productions. As an artist he strives constantly for development and growth. Being professional in two different art forms for him isn't contradictious, it just needs an extra effort of work. Lukas is still based in Berlin and is working wherever there the work leads him.

Claude Kirchner was born on 11 February 1916 in Rostock, Germany. He was an actor, known for Super Adventure Theater (1959), Ladies Be Seated (1949) and Super Circus (1949). He died on 8 March 1993 in Hawthorne, New York, USA.

Anne Moll was born on 30 December 1966 in Rostock, German Democratic Republic. She is an actress, known for Rote Rosen (2006), Der Besucher (1992) and Tatort (1970). She is married to Ulrich Gebauer. They have two children.