- Max Scheler
Max Scheler was a German philosopher known for his work in phenomenology, ethics, and philosophical anthropology. Scheler developed further the philosophical method of the founder of phenomenology, Edmund Husserl, and was called by José Ortega y Gasset "the first man of the philosophical paradise." In 1954 Karol Wojtyla, later Pope John Paul II, …
- Maria Furtwängler
Maria Furtwängler-Burda is a German physician and television actress. She is the daughter of an architect and actress Kathrin Ackermann and at once grandniece and step-granddaughter of the conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler. Born in Munich, after school Maria Furtwängler trained and then worked as a medical doctor. In 1991 she married art historian Dr. Hubert Burda (born 1940), CEO of Hubert Burda Media, …
- Jeri Ryan
Jeri Ryan 's breakout role was the sexy lead character Seven-of-Nine in the popular television series "Star Trek: Voyager." Her additional television credits include lead roles in the series "Boston Public" and "Dark Skies" and recurring roles in "Two and a Half Men," on the Network, "The O.C." and "Melrose Place." Among Ryan's feature film credits are "Down with Love," "The Kid," "Dracula 2000" and the independent films "Men Cry Bullets" and "The Last Man."
- Harold Faltermeyer
Harold Faltermeyer (a.k.a. Harold Faltmeier & Harold Faltermeier) (born October 5, 1952 in Munich) is a German musician, keyboardist, composer and record producer. He is recognized as one of the composers/producers who best captured the zeitgeist of 1980s synth-pop in film scores. Best known for the "Axel F" electronic theme for "Beverly Hills Cop" and the "Top Gun" Anthem from the soundtrack for "Top Gun" - both often imitated, …
- Wolfgang Sawallisch
Wolfgang Sawallisch (born August 26, 1923) is a German conductor and pianist.
- Tracey E. Bregman
Tracey E. Bregman (born May 29, 1963) is an Emmy Award-winning American soap opera actress. She was born in Munich, Germany to well-known Jewish American producer Zack Bregman and actress Suzanne Lloyd. She lived in Great Britain until the age of 10 when her family relocated to California. She has been acting since she was 11 years old. At one time, she was credited as Tracey E. Bregman-Recht.
- Willy Bogner Jr.
Willy Bogner, Jr. (born 1942) is a renowned fashion designer and inheritor of the Bogner clothing brand, originally set up as "Willy-Bogner-Skivertrieb" by his father, Willy Bogner Snr. Bogner Snr was an eleven-time German and five-time Bavarian nordic skiing champion, allowing him to establish "Bogner" as a ski and sportswear clothing brand launched in 1932, having already outfitted the German national ski team since 1936. Bogner, Jr.
- Gil Ofarim
Gil Doron Reichstadt Ofarim (born August 13, 1982 in Munich, Bavaria) is a German singer, songwriter and occasional actor, currently also known as the lead singer of the band "Zoo Army". Gil's showbiz career took-off in May 1997 when he was spotted in a Munich underground station by a talent scout for Bravo magazine and was asked to do a pictorial story spread. The article generated thousands of letters from fans and he landed a recording contract with BMG.
- Moritz Bleibtreu
Moritz Bleibtreu is a German actor. He is the son of actress Monica Bleibtreu and actor Hans Brenner. Bleibtreu grew up in Hamburg. His first appearance on TV was in the late seventies on a children's television series called "Neues aus Uhlenbusch", written by his mother Monica and Rainer Boldt. Next roles in Boldts "Ich hatte einen Traum" and beside his mother Monica in miniseries "Mit meinen heißen Tränen". After he left school when he was 16, …
- Konstantin Wecker
Konstantin Alexander Wecker is one of the best-known German singer-songwriters ("Liedermacher"); he also works as a composer, author, and actor. One of his first works as a songwriter was at Munich's cabaret "Münchner Lach- und Schießgesellschaft" in 1973. His breakthrough as a singer came in 1977 with the LP "Genug ist nicht genug" ("Enough Can't Be Enough"), which includes the popular talking blues "Willy," about a man who was slain by drunken Nazis.
- Stefan Arndt
STEFAN ARNDT was born in Munich in 1961. Along with Tom Tykwer, Dani Levy and Wolfgang Becker he is co-founder and partner of the creative collaboration X Filme Creative Pool, whose films he always produces. He is also co-founder and board member of X Verleih distribution.
- Nina Ruge
Nina Ruge is a German journalist, TV presenter and author. She is the daughter of an engineering professor and visited the Ina-Seidel-Schule in Braunschweig. Her sister Annette is a medical doctor at London-Gatwick airport. After finishing high school at the age of 17 she studied biology and German language and literature at the Technical University of Braunschweig to become a teacher. She passed her final exams with distinction.
- Klaus Mann
Klaus Mann (November 18, 1906 - May 21, 1949) was a German writer.
- Wolfgang Reitherman
Wolfgang Reitherman (June 26, 1909 - May 22, 1985), also known and sometimes credited as Woolie Reitherman, was a famed Disney animator and one of Disney's Nine Old Men. Born in Munich, Germany, Reitherman's family moved to America when he was a child. After attending Pasadena Junior College and briefly working as a draftsman for Douglas Aircraft, Reitherman returned to school at the Chouinard Art Institute, graduating in 1933.
- Fritz Wepper
Fritz Wepper (born August 17, 1941 in Munich, Germany) is a German television actor.
- Tom Netherton
Tom Netherton (born January 11, 1947) is a singer best known from The Lawrence Welk Show. The lanky six-foot five-inch Netherton was born in Munich, Germany, as the son of a U.S. Army officer stationed there. As the eldest of four children, he and his family moved around frequently. In 1961, however, the Nethertons settled permanently in Bloomington, Minnesota. Netherton enlisted in the Army during the Vietnam War era, and was sent to Panama.
- Martin Burkert
Martin Burkert is a German politician and member of the SPD.
- Monika Baumgartner
Monika Baumgartner (b. May 9, 1951 in Munich, Germany) is a German television actress and theatre director. In her roles, she usually plays persons typical for the Bavaria region in Germany. Baumgartner studied at the Otto-Falckenberg-Schule, a theatre academy in Munich, after which she took theatre roles in Mannheim and Hamburg and minor roles in TV shows. Her breakthrough came in 1982 when she starred in "Die Rumpelhanni", a TV series, …
- Helmut Ringelmann
Helmut Ringelmann (born September 4, 1926) is a German film and television producer. Born in Munich, Germany, Ringelmann produced a number of television series including the long running "Der Kommissar" from 1968 to 1974. However, he is best remembered as the Producer of the hugely successful series, Derrick.
- Jacques Breuer
Jacques Breuer (b. October 20, 1956 in Munich, Germany) is a German television actor.
- Frank Reicher
Frank Reicher (2 December 1875 - 19 January 1965), was a German actor born in Munich, Germany. He is probably best known for playing Captain Englehorn in the movies King Kong and Son of Kong in 1933. He was son of actor Emanuel Reicher, and brother of actress Hedwiga Reicher.
- Christian Ude
Christian Ude is the current mayor of Munich. He is a member of the German Social Democratic Party. Additionally, he is a member of the board of directors of the football (AE: soccer) club TSV 1860 München. After his career as a journalist and lawyer, he was elected as second mayor of Munich on May 2 1990. On September 12 1993, he was elected as lord mayor and successor of Georg Kronawitter.
- Erich Hallhuber
Erich Hallhuber was a Bavarian actor. He was born in Munich and worked in Theatre, Opera, television and film. His works include: * "Rossini oder die mörderische Frage, wer mit wem schlief" * "Der Stellvertreter" * "Café Meineid" * "Löwengrube" * "Kriminaltango"
- Gedeon Burkhard
Gedeon Burkhard (born July 3, 1969 in Munich, Germany) is a German film and television actor. Although he has appeared in numerous films and TV series in both Europe and the US, he is probably best recognised for his role as Alexander Brandtner in the Austrian/German television series "Kommissar Rex" (1998-2001), which has been aired on television in numerous countries around the world. He was considered the most handsome man in Germany in 1998.
- Irene Clarin
Irene Clarin (b. June 28, 1955 in Munich, Germany) is a German television actress.
- Hanne Hiob
Hanne Hiob, born" Hanne Marianne Brecht" (born March 12 1923 in Munich) is a German actress. Hanne Hiob is the daughter of writer Bertolt Brecht and actress Marianne Zoff. She grew up with her mother and the German actor Theo Lingen. She studied dance at the Vienna opera house in Austria. She worked as a dancer and an actress in Salzburg, Austria.
- Rudolph Moshammer
Rudolph Moshammer was a German fashion designer. Although according to his own previously stated birth date he would have been 55 at the time of his violent death, he was often estimated a few years older, and police reports said Moshammer was 64 years old.
- Mennan Yapo
Mennan Yapo is an award winning Turkish-German director, screenwriter, producer and actor. Born in Munich to Turkish parents, Yapo he has been in the film business since 1988, at first working in various assistant jobs and as a publicist. From 1995, Yapo has worked as a screenwriter and producer, as well as a supporting actor (in Peter Greenaway's The Pillow Book, 1996, and Wolfgang Becker's Good Bye Lenin!, 2003). 1998/99 marks Yappo's first outing as a director.
- Manfred Schnelldorfer
Manfred Schnelldorfer is a German figure skater, and a World and Olympic champion. Schnelldorfer won his first competition at age eight. His parents, both quite famous in Germany as figure skater coaches, coached him. He skated for the Munich ERC club and therefore he represented the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany). At his one and only German Junior Championships he came in second behind Hans-Jürgen Bäumler, twice World champion in pairs.
- Marion Kracht
Marion Kracht (b. December 5, 1962 in Munich, Germany) is a German television actress. Currently she resides in Berlin.
- Kurt Eichhorn
Kurt Peter Eichhorn was a German conductor. Eichhorn was born in Munich and studied music in Würzburg. From 1945, he directed the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, the Bavarian People's Opera, and the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra, and taught conducting at the Munich Academy of Music. He was appointed honorary conductor of the Bruckner Orchestra in Linz, and in 1991 the Bruckner Association of Upper Austria awarded him the Gold Plaque. Eichorn died in Murnau in 1994.
- Wilhelm Killmayer
Wilhelm Killmayer (born 1927 in Munich, Germany) is a twentieth century composer of classical music. He received his basic musical training in Munich. His first activities as a professional musician were conducting and directing choirs. His first choral works were presented under his own direction, followed later by chamber music for voice and instruments. He was chosen in 1952 as a master student by Carl Orff, and, later in his career, …
- Laura Osswald
Laura Isabella Lolita Osswald (born March 8 1982 in Munich, Bavaria) is a German stage, and television actress.
- Olivia Pascal
Olivia Pascal (b. Olivia Gerlitzki May 26, 1957 in Munich, Germany) is a German actress.
- Aline Sokar
Aline Sokar (born January 6, 1992 in Munich) is a German actress best known for playing Helga Goebbels in the 2004 film "Downfall". Her sister Lion Sokar is also a child actress.
- Matthias Eder
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- Thomas Augsberger
I have produced a bunch of films during the past decade, most recently WAITING, starring Ryan Reynolds, Justin Long, Luis Guzman, Anna Faris, and Dane Cook STRANGE BEDFELLOWS, starring Paul Hogan and Pete Postlethwaite INCIDENT AT LOCH NESS, starring Werner Herzog and Zak Penn Please let me know your thoughts in case you have seen any of them in theatres or on DVD, I am curious what you liked and didn't like.
- Marc Streitenfeld
- Christopher Roth
Was romantically linked to actress Mavie Hörbiger for some years. Studied at the School of Television and Film in Munich from 1983 to 1989.
- Beppo Brem
Beppo Brem was a German comedian, stage and film actor. His father was a stone mason. Beppo Brem studied to become a cabinet maker and his first job to work for the Munich Kammerspiele as a stage carpenter. There he got a job on stage as an extra. After that he took acting lessons. From 1925 to 1927 he worked at the theatre in Bad Reichenhall, Bavaria, and went on to Ulm, Regensburg, Berlin and Munich. His first films were Verkaufte Braut, Die (1932) ("The Bartered Bride") (1932) and...