Alfred Döblin was a German expressionist novelist, best known for "Berlin Alexanderplatz". He was born in Stettin, Pomerania, now Szczecin in Poland, the son of a Jewish merchant.

Hanna Schygulla is a German actress and chanson singer. In the 1960s Schygulla studied Romance languages and German studies, while taking acting lessons on the side in Munich. Acting eventually became her focus, and today she is a well-known actress, particularly for her collaborations with Rainer Werner Fassbinder. She acted in French, Italian, and American films. In the 1990s she also became known and well-regarded as a chanson singer.

Heinrich George was a German actor. He acted in films such as "Berlin Alexanderplatz" and others and had one of first roles in the Fritz Lang directed film "Metropolis". Although active in the Communist Party of Germany before the Nazi takeover, he acted in a number of propaganda films before and during WWII, including "Hitlerjunge Quex", "Jud Süß", and "Kolberg". He died in 1946 in a Russian concentration camp, just north of Berlin, …

Peer Raben (born July 3, 1940 in Viechtach, Bavaria - January 21, 2007 in Mitterfels, Bavaria, Germany) was a composer best known for his work with German film-maker Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

Mike Nichols (born November 6 1931) is an American Emmy Award, Academy Award, Grammy Award, and Tony Award-winning stage and film director, writer, and producer. Born Michael Igor Peschkowsky in Berlin, Germany, he and his German-Russian Jewish family moved to the United States to flee the Nazis in 1939. He became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1944. While attending the University of Chicago in the 1950s, …

Yaak Karsunke (Born June 4, 1934 in Berlin) is a German author and actor. The son of an engineer and the procurer of a publishing house, he grew up in the borough of Pankow. In 1949 his family moved to Friedenau. Here Karsunke attended Gymnasium. In 1953 he passed the Abitur and studied jurisprudence for three semesters. From 1955 to 1957 he studied drama at the Max-Reinhardt-Schule, today known as the Ernst Busch High School for Drama.

Marie-Luise Marjan is a German actress. Best known for her role as "Helga Beimer" in German Television Series "Lindenstraße" (created by Hans W. Geißendörfer in 1985), Marjan is called 'Mutter der Nation' ("Mother of the Nation"). She was the heroine in Wolfgang Petersen's drama "Smog" and has also played in films by Werner Schroeter ("Palermo oder Wolfsburg", …

a flibberti gibbet, a will o' the wisp, a clown!

there's not so much to say.

Above all, Rainer Werner Fassbinder was a rebel whose life and art was marked by gross contradiction. Openly homosexual, he married twice; one of his wives acted in his films and the other served as his editor. Accused variously by detractors of being anti-Communist, male chauvinist, anti-Semitic and even homophobic, he completed 44 projects between 1966 and 1982, the majority of which can be characterized as highly intelligent social melodramas. His prodigious output was matched by a...

Initiator/creator of the "Tatort" (1970) crime series.

Brother of Hugo Döblin