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Robert Gallinowski was born on 3 October 1969 in Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He was an actor, known for Tatort (1970), Noch ein Seufzer und es wird Nacht (2015) and Einmal Bulle, immer Bulle (2004). He was married to Dagmar Manzel. He died on 28 March 2023 in Berlin, Germany.

Pia Stutzenstein was born on 14 March 1989 in Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. She is an actress and writer, known for The Collini Case (2019), Rate Your Date (2019) and The Olive Tree (2016).

Til Kiwe did in real life what several actors played in The Great Escape. Kiwe was a German paratrooper officer, captured in North Africa in 1943, who made several escape attempts from an American POW camp in Colorado. Once, having dyed his uniform with brown vegetable juice, he made it as far as St Louis by train before being recaptured. After the war he became a German actor in movies and TV. He was also an anthropologist who made several expeditions to Polynesia and SouthAmerica.

David Garrett was born David Bongarz in Aachen, Germany on the 4th of September 1980. His father is a lawyer and his mother a classical ballerina. He has an older brother Alexander, who was at that time taking violin lessons. In an attempt to imitate his big brother David snatched up his violin when he was four years old and taught himself how to play the instrument on his own. Soon his parents discovered their younger son's talent and made sure he got proper tutors. He made his first appearance with the Hamburg Philharmonics at the age of ten.

At the age of thirteen he was the youngest artist to sign an exclusive contract with the Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft. In 1999, at the prime of his young career he decided to put everything on hold and move to New York in order to study musicology and composition at the prestigious Julliard School. To pay for his studies he worked as a bartender, a janitor and a library clerk before he was discovered by a modeling agency. At Julliard he was taught by the likes of Itzhak Perlmann and Eric Ewazen. In 2003 he won the Composition Competition of Julliard School with a fugue composed in the style of Johann Sebastian Bach.

After completing his studies he started a new career as a crossover violinist attempting to breach the often wide gap between the new generations of young people and classic music. In 2006 the record company Decca released his first crossover album "Free" (also known under the title "Virtuoso" by the record company DEAG), which contained classics such as the "Flight of the Bumblebee" by Rimsky-Korsakov and Paganini's "Caprice n° 24", as well as a remake of Metallica's "Nothing else matters".

He was awarded with an ECHO Classic 2008 in the category "Borderless Classic" The second album "Encore" followed at the heel in October 2008, The success of the second album even outdid that of the first. In the USA the album remained number one in the classical and classical crossover charts for months.

With the album "Classic Romance", released in November 2009, David returned to his classic roots. The album gained overwhelming popularity, winning Garrett the ECHO Classic 2010 in the category "Bestseller of the Year". His next album "Rock Symphonies", released in July 2010 topped everything seen up to that point. Addressing his young audience the album contained remakes of rock and metal anthems from bands like Nirvana, Guns n' Roses, Metallica and U2 combined with titles by Vivaldi and Beethoven. This brought him two ECHO awards in 20011. The DVD "David Garrett: Rock Symphonies - Open Air Live" was awarded in the category "Best Domestic DVD Production" and as "Best Artist" in the category "Rock/Pop Domestic".

After his successful Rock Symphonies Tour in 2011, David once more returned to the realm of classical music. He recorded of the album "Legacy"(by the Decca Record Company), which was first released in Germany on November 2011. The album consists of the Beethoven Violin-Concerto and various works by Fritz Kreisler. As soon as it was released "Legacy" reached rank 6 on the overall-charts in Germany, thus making it the highest-ranking instrumental classical album in German chart history. In January 2012 it reached gold-status.

Katrin Heß was born on 26 June 1985 in Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. She is an actress and publicist, known for Verbotene Liebe (1995), Alarm für Cobra 11 - Die Autobahnpolizei (1996) and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (2015).

Jörg Vincent Malotki, an actor born in Aachen, Germany, lived in the United States for around 6 years where he trained at Herbert Berghof Studio in New York. He has performed in a variety of TV productions, independent films, and feature films in his home country Germany and abroad. He made his lead role debut in The Snow Field (1996), a project where his acting teacher, Edith Meeks, also had a part. Jörg loves his work, and always tries to find the comedy in it. He wrote a 34 episode comedy web series The Bee (2020), that he also played multiple parts in, directed (mostly himself), edited and produced. for more then 10 years he is touring with Café Kølbert Comedy Waiters as his alter ego, Herr von Malotki. A maitre'D who believes himself to be a Prussian general from the 1920ies. Dubbing for German TV and voice work round of his work. He is working on a movie version of The Bee.

Georg Maas was born in 1960 in Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He is a director and writer, known for Two Lives (2012), NeuFundLand (2003) and The Glory of Life (2024).

Sarah Bauerett was born in 1984 in Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. She is an actress, known for Tár (2022), Tribes of Europa (2021) and The Teachers' Lounge (2023).

Tom Keune raised up in Germany. From 1996 - 2000 he studied acting. Between 1999 and 2011 he played many leading roles at several Theaters. 2011 he moved to Berlin. Until today he played in many TV movies and motion pictures. Some of them won several awards like the Bavarian Film Award in Munich (Vorwärts immer!) or the Student Academy Award in Los Angeles (Where the woods end). Tom Keune lives in Berlin-Neukölln and is father to a girl and two boys.

Sarah Maria Besgen was born on 15 August 1979 in Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. She is an actress, known for Verbotene Liebe (1995), Rote Rosen (2006) and Das Traumschiff (1981).

Moritz Poth, born 20. June 1984 in Aachen (Germany), is living in Berlin (Germany). He is a trained information technology assistant as well as an audiovisual media designer. From Jan. 2011 until Jan. 2013 permanent employee as production and post-production all-rounder at CHBP Gesellschaft für Bild und Ton mbH. From Feb. 2013 until Sep. 2013 freelance editor, assistant editor and DIT/data wrangler. From Oct. 2013 until Mar. 2018 student at Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, with focus on editing. Since Apr. 2018 freelance film editor.

Marius Robin Schroeter was born on 12 August 1981 in Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He is an actor, known for Bet Dead Casino, Lincoln Road and The Last Full Measure (2019).

Jeanna de Waal is best known for American Idiot, Wicked, Kinky Boots, Finding Neverland and Waitress.

Jeanna attended the The Arts Educational School, Tring and subsequently studied acting at The Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts, graduating in 2009.

Other credits include the notorious off-Broadway Carrie revival, playing Chris Hargensen. A cast album recording was released with Sh-K-Boom Ghostlight records and is available on ITunes.

Jan Schomburg was born on 23 March 1976 in Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He is a writer and director, known for I'm Your Man (2021), Above Us Only Sky (2011) and Never EveN (2004).

Cordula Kablitz-Post is a director, author and producer who is specialised on documentaries and feature films for theatrical release and high quality TV-documentaries for public broadcaster ARTE.

1995 she founded avanti media. With Christoph Schlingensief she created the subversive Talkshow-Satires "Talk 2000" (1997) and "U 3000" (2000) which she directed and produced.

In 2001 she founded avanti media fiction for the production of feature films. In 2006 she received the Grimme-award for best directing and best producing for the ARTE-TV-series "Into the night with". Her documentary "Christoph Schlingensief - Die Piloten" had its premiere 2008 during the International Hof Filmfestival and was released 2009 in theaters in Germany and Austria. The ARTE-TV-series "Love without borders" was directed and produced by her and was nominated for the German Grimme-award. (2010)

The period-movie "Lou Andreas-Salomé" (2016) was her debut as a director for feature films. In 2016 the film started at the International Shanghai Filmfestival. Kablitz-Post received the audience award for "Lou Andreas-Salomé" at the International Filmfestival in Emden, in 2017 at the Semaine du Cinéma Allemand de Dinard and the main award of the 5th Socially Relevant Filmfestival in New York.

Her documentary "Die Toten Hosen - You only live once" about the German band "Die Toten Hosen" had its premiere on Berlin International Filmfestival. The film was nominated for best music documentary at the 59th international film Festival in Kraków 2019 and at Deutsches Dokumentarfilmfestival in Stuttgart 2019.

"Hyper, Hyper - H.P. Baxxter and Scooter" is the new documentary project of Cordula Kablitz-Post.

Thilo Prothmann was born on 16 September 1975 in Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He is an actor, known for The Chuckoo and the Donkey (2014), Welcome to Germany (2016) and Julia muss sterben (2020).

Armin Laschet was born on 18 February 1961 in Aachen-Burtscheid, West Germany. He is an actor, known for Tatort (1970), Hallo Deutschland (1997) and heute-show (2009). He has been married to Susanne Malangré since 18 May 1985. They have three children.

Ludwig Schmid-Wildy was born in 1896 as son of a sculptor from Schwabing, Germany. As a child, he was the model for the "Munchner Kindl", a famous statue in Munich. He became a confectioner-apprentice. Some of his customers were Liesl Karlstadt and Karl Valentin, German actors. In the 1920s he started acting. To the fans of German film and theatre, especially Bavarian "Volkstheater" he will be remembered as the personification of the ancient, clever Bavarian. In real life he was an clever inventor, too. Some of his inventions were a battery, a turbine engine and a machine for potato-dumplings.

Hugo Schuster was born on 22 November 1886 in Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He was an actor, known for The Prisoner (1967), Secret Venture (1955) and Lost Daughter (1949). He was married to Sybil Rares. He died on 10 July 1976 in London, England, UK.

Anja Karmanski was born in 1970 in Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. She is an actress, known for We Were the Lucky Ones (2024), The Girl in the Spider's Web (2018) and Mute (2018).

Edith Frank was born on 16 January 1900 in Aachen, Germany. She was married to Otto Frank. She died on 6 January 1945 in Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, Nazi German Occupied Poland [now Oswiecim, Malopolskie, Poland].

Silke Christina Engler studied directing at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne, Germany. More than 20 years she has worked as a script supervisor and assistant director for television and cinema movies, such as "Ingeborg Bachmann - Journey into the Desert", "Hannah Arendt" and "Forget about Nick" (Margarethe von Trotta) and "Two Lives" (Georg Maas). Her latest published short film "Mind Your Body" - a sci-fi drama - has been screened at more than 50 international film festivals and won 26 awards. Her debut film "Sunny" is currently in post production and will be released in 2025. (C) 2024

Elena Bongartz was born on 22 January 1988 in Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Seung-Hyun Chong was born on 4 January 1975 in Aachen, Germany. He is a producer and director, known for Steh Auf (2014), Euna (2017) and Family (2015).

Rebecca Mir was born on 23 December 1991 in Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. She is an actress, known for In aller Freundschaft (1998), Mein bester Streich. Prominent & Reingelegt (2019) and Sorry für alles (2019). She has been married to Massimo Sinato since 27 June 2015. They have one child.