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Devrim Lingnau was born in 1998 in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. She is an actress, known for The Empress (2022), Hysteria and Auerhaus (2019).

Christiane Schmidtmer was born in Mannheim, Germany. She took acting lessons in Munich and worked in the stage in Germany from 1961-1963, then turned to photographic modeling for German nude magazines and later, Playboy. She also modeled for advertising companies, namely Max Factor cosmetics, before she started her movie career.

She was the beautiful mistress of José Ferrer in Ship of Fools (1965), but most people will remember her as the evil wardress in the exploitation women-in-prison film, The Big Doll House (1971), as well as one of the three airline stewardesses in Boeing, Boeing (1965).

Born in Germany, to a Palestinian father and German mother, Lexi Alexander, a former World Kickboxing Champion and USMC close-quarter-combat instructor, worked her way up from stunt woman to Oscar-nominated director with her first short film Johnny Flynton, a drama about a boxer. Eager to learn a common language with actors, Lexi studied at the Piero Dusa Acting Conservatory before helming feature films including the SXSW Jury & Audience Award winning drama Green Street Hooligans, Marvel's Punisher: War Zone and Lifted. She directed episodes for TV shows such as ARROW, SUPERGIRL, SWAT and AMERICAN GOTHIC and has recently sold a movie to Blumhouse Productions & Netflix International. Lexi continues to be an avid martial artist and is currently a passionate student of the Russian style Systema.

A sultry, doe-eyed brunette with high cheekbones, she was one of the top haute couture models of the 1960s and early 70s. Her face graced the covers of Vogue, Petra, Jardin des Modes and Cosmopolitan. She modeled for famous fashion brands like Nina Ricci and Jean Patou and also advertised exclusive accessories.

German-born Astrid Heeren began her career as a draftsperson for the BBC. She subsequently attended the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe but did not complete her studies. Moving to Paris, she began her modeling career with Vogue and was in due course spotted by the film maker Roger Vadim who cast her in his wartime drama Le vice et la vertu (1963). Astrid made just three more films. Her best known role was as Steve McQueen 's girlfriend Gwen in The Thomas Crown Affair (1968). After 1972, she continued to be involved with the fashion industry, as well as interior design, and has latterly resided in Manhattan, New York.

Richy Müller was born on 26 September 1955 in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany. He is an actor, known for Điệp Viên xXx (2002), Tatort (1970) and Poll (2010).

Brigitte Skay was born on 18 July 1940 in Mannheim, Germany. She was an actress, known for Zeta One (1969), Isabella, duchessa dei diavoli (1969) and Ecologia del delitto (1971). She died on 19 November 2012 in Weinheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

Nicole Natascha Berg Juarez (born May 2nd 1980 in Mannheim, Germany), born of Spanish and German descent, grew up in Viernheim. At the age of 14 she started to work as a model. In 2000 she was discovered by a talent scout of the Miss Germany Corporation, won the Miss Hessen and Miss Germany pageant and represented Germany at the Miss World 2000 pageant. Between 2003 and 2006 she presented a show for NBC Europe and the news for Rhein-Main TV, which won the Regio Star Award 2006. Between 2007 and 2009 she was a news-anchor and journalist for the Pro7 and the N24 news channel, presented her own daily entertainment and red carpet magazine at Premiere (Sky) and the travel magazine Discover Germany for DW-TV. In 2009 she moved to LA following her new-found passion: acting. The Italian-speaking, 6-lingual actress guest-starred in the mafia series Immigrants (2009) as Francesca Bertucci Palermo and has acted in several independent productions. Testing Life (2011) won 8 international awards along with her short film Shadows (2011) at the Los Angeles International Latino Film Festival in 2011. In Steven Soderbergh's Người Đẹp Báo Thù (2011) a film about a black ops soldier (Gina Carano) on a revenge mission she played the role of Rodrigo's (Antonio Banderas) new wife.

Janina Fautz was born on 31 May 1995 in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. She is an actress, known for Dải Ruy Băng Trắng (2009), Wir Monster (2015) and Preis der Freiheit (2019).

Leonard Kunz was born in 1992 in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. He is an actor, known for Phương Thuốc Kỳ Bí (2016), Một Đời Ẩn Giấu (2019) and Jenny (2017).

Steffi Graf is a German professional tennis player.

She was ranked world No. 1 and won 22 Grand Slam singles titles. In 1988, she became the only tennis player to achieve the Golden Slam by winning all four Grand Slam singles titles and the Olympic gold medal in the same calendar year. She is the only tennis player to have won each Grand Slam tournament at least four times.

Graf was ranked world No. 1 by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for a record 377 total weeks - the longest period for which any player, male or female, has held the number-one ranking. She won 107 singles titles.

Graf's athletic ability and aggressive game played from the baseline have been credited with developing the modern style of play that has come to dominate today's game. Notable features of Graf's game were her versatility across all playing surfaces, footwork and powerful forehand drive. She won six French Open singles titles, seven Wimbledon singles titles, four Australian Open titles, and five U.S. Open singles titles. Graf's Grand Slam was achieved on grass, clay, and hard court while the previous five Grand Slams were decided on only grass and clay. Graf reached thirteen consecutive major singles finals, from the 1987 French Open through to the 1990 French Open, winning nine of them. She won 5 consecutive major singles tournaments (1988 Australian Open to 1989 Australian Open). She reached a total of 31 major singles finals.

Classically-trained actor, former chemist, whose formative years on the stage were spent in Bern (Switzerland) and, from 1909, the Deutsches Theater Berlin under Max Reinhardt's direction. Specialised in Shakespearean roles ('Richard III', 'Hamlet') and was a famous interpreter of the plays of Henrik Ibsen. He delivered his screen debut in a silent version of 'Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde' (Der Andere (1913)). Bassermann remained active in motion pictures throughout the 1920's, also frequently appearing on stage in Austria and Switzerland. His wife, Elsa Bassermann, nee Schiff, was Jewish, and the discrimination shown towards her in his native country so outraged him that he emigrated with her to the United States in 1939.

At the age of 72, he carved out another career in Hollywood as a celebrated character actor. It took him some time to come to terms with the English language, but he was soon cast in a small part in Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (1940), as Dr.Robert Koch. He also played a sympathetic chemistry professor in Knute Rockne All American (1940). That same year, he appeared as Van Meer in Alfred Hitchcock's Foreign Correspondent (1940) and was promptly nominated for an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actor. His distinguished-looking countenance and serious demeanour lent itself to being assigned a variety of consular or professorial roles: he was excellent as Consul Magnus Barring in A Woman's Face (1941) with Joan Crawford; Professor Jean Perote in Madame Curie (1943); and a dying German music teacher in Rhapsody in Blue (1945).

At the age of 83, he made a triumphant return to the German/Austrian stage in Ibsen plays. Albert Bassermann died of a heart attack en route from New York to Zurich on May 15 1952.

Giulia Enders was born in 1990 in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

After graduating from high school, Speer studied architecture in Karlsruhe, Munich and later in Berlin. Speer then became assistant to Heinrich Tessenow in Berlin. There he also had his first contacts with National Socialist groups. In 1931 he joined the NSDAP. Speer successfully translated National Socialist ideas into an architectural aesthetic, which enabled him to quickly make a career within the party. Supported by his personal and close friendship with Adolf Hitler, Speer became the most popular and successful architect in the Reich from 1933 onward. Speer's early work included the parade ground in Nuremberg, where the NSDAP held its party conference from 1934 onward.

Furthermore, numerous monumental buildings were built on behalf of the Reich in the style of National Socialist ideology. Speer also proved to be a great organizer in organizing major events and mass rallies. For example, he was the responsible leader of the "Light Dome" at the party conference in 1934. In Speer, Hitler found a friend who was able to build and inspire him like no other. Therefore, in October 1934 he appointed him "The Führer's Architect" and in 1937 "General Building Inspector for the Reich Capital Berlin" (Germania). Between 1938 and 1939 Speer built the new Reich Chancellery in Berlin. This was already integrated into the planned "North-South Project", which consisted of the Reich Chancellery, the Great Hall and the "Führerpalais". In this context, Speer was directly responsible for the "de-rentalization" of Berlin's Jewish population and their transport to concentration camps.

After the start of the Second World War, Speer was appointed "Reich Minister for Armaments and Ammunition" and "Inspector General for Fortifications, Roads, Water and Energy". In 1943 Speer was appointed Reich Minister for Armaments and War Production. In this role he was responsible for the exploitation and destruction of thousands of forced laborers and concentration camp prisoners, with whose help he sought to achieve the war and armament goals. However, shortly before Hitler's suicide in March 1945, Speer refused to allow the Führer to carry out the order to destroy the entire German infrastructure ("Operation: Scorched Earth"). After the end of the Second World War, Speer managed to largely erase the traces of his guilt.

Speer was able to convince the public that he knew nothing about the extermination of the Jews. Speer was arrested in 1946, but then sentenced by the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg to only 20 years in prison, which he served in the war crimes prison in Berlin-Spandau. After his release from prison in 1966, Speer continued to construct the legend of his guiltlessness on a literary and film level. He was unintentionally supported by the historian Joachim Fest, who made a biographical documentary film with Speer in 1969. On the publisher's side, Speer received involuntary support in the construction of his embellished life story from Wolf Jobst Siedler, who published his books: "Memories" were published in 1969 and "The Slave State - My Confrontation with the SS" in 1981.

Albert Speer died on September 1, 1981 in London. It was only after his death that a younger generation of historians managed to reveal Speer's true involvement with the Holocaust.

On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, a multi-part biographical film adaptation of Albert Speer's life was broadcast on ARD in May 2005. The director Heinrich Breloer was able to document that, contrary to his protestations, Hitler's architect did know about "Auschwitz".

Roger Fritz was born on 22 September 1936 in Mannheim, Germany. He was an actor and director, known for Cross of Iron (1977), Mädchen mit Gewalt (1970) and Mädchen, Mädchen (1967). He was married to Helga Anders. He died on 26 November 2021 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.

Nina Kunzendorf was born on 10 November 1971 in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. She is an actress, known for Phoenix (2014), Tatort (1970) and In aller Stille (2010).

Buxom and attractive brunette Renee Harmon was born Renate Elisabeth Harmon on May 18, 1927. Renee married an American G.I. in Germany, where she had a background in ballet. Since her husband was a colonel in a surface-to-air missile program, she moved with him to West Texas and started a theatrical group amongst the officers' wives. Harmon eventually became involved in a handful of offbeat low-budget independent exploitation features as a writer, actress, and producer. Renee was especially funny and memorable as the sexually frustrated wicked stepmother in Al Adamson's gloriously ghastly futuristic sci-fi musical abomination "Cinderella 2000." Her other noteworthy movie roles are evil scientist Lil Stanhope in the incredibly muddled fright flick "Frozen Scream," the deadly, yet alluring Linda Allen in the enjoyably cruddy martial arts action oddity "Lady Streetfighter," and pesky journalist Celia Amherst in the hilariously horrendous urban vigilante opus "The Executioner, Part II." Moreover, Harmon was an acting teacher with her own workshop in California and taught screenwriting at the College of Sequoias community college in Visalia, California. Renee wrote the books "Film Producing: Low Budget Films That Sell," "Teaching a Young Actor: How to Train Children of All Ages for Success in Movies, TV, and Commercials," "Film Directing: Killer Style and Cutting Edge Technique," "How to Audition for Movies & TV," and "The Beginning Filmmaker's Guide to a Successful First Film." Renee Harmon died at age 79 on November 26, 2006 in Visalia, California.

Jane Chirwa was born on 10 June 1990 in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. She is an actress, known for Những Thiên Thần Của Charlie (2019), In aller Freundschaft - Die jungen Ärzte (2015) and 8 Siêu Giác Quan (2015).

Carl Raddatz was born on 13 March 1912 in Mannheim, Baden, Germany. He was an actor, known for Opfergang (1944), Jeder stirbt für sich allein (1976) and Rosen im Herbst (1955). He was married to Helga Cartsburg, Hildegard Matschke and Hannelore Schroth. He died on 19 May 2004 in Berlin, Germany.

Sabine Ehrenfeld was born and raised in Mannheim, Germany, on November 27, 1963. Her father was an investment banker with the Deutsche Bank, and her mother, a nurse, became a homemaker, and raised Sabine and her two younger sisters.

Sabine started modeling in Germany at 18, and moved to Milan, Italy, in 1983. In 1985 she lived in New York for a year, where she worked for Elite Models and started to do commercials. She has been living in Los Angeles since 1985.

Sabine has done a lot of training for acting, including voice, speech and dialect, hosting, and comedy improv training. From 1992 until 2003 she decided to do commercial work exclusively in order to be mostly a mom. She is presently gearing up to pursue TV work as an actress as well as a show host.

Sabine has appeared in hundreds of TV commercials over the last twenty years, and has also done some work in television and movies. Over the last three years she has appeared as the spokeswoman for Overstock.com.

Sabine is divorced from the father of her two children.

She speaks fluent German and English, and conversational French and Italian.

She currently has a website under construction - information to follow.

Tabea Heynig was born on 18 July 1970 in Mannheim, Germany. She is an actress, known for Verbotene Liebe (1995), Operation Bluebird (1999) and Unter uns (1994).

Lennart Ruff was born on 10 March 1986 in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. He is a director and producer, known for The Titan (2018), Nocebo (2014) and Keine besonderen Vorkommnisse (2009).

Max Hansen was born in Mannheim, Germany, but was raised by his step parents in Munich. His mother was a Danish Actress, Eva Haller, his father's name was von Waldheim. In his school days, he already sang at the Opera House, so he earned the nickname "The Little Caruso" ("Der kleine Caruso"). Later he studied Music and Voice and got a job at the Simplizissimus Cabaret in Munich. From 1914 he played Operettas in Vienna and became a good friend of Franz Lehár. After that he worked in Berlin at the Metropole Theater and became there a superstar of operettas, revues, cabaret and radio. He began acting in five silent films, from 1926 to 28. His first talkie was Wien, du Stadt der Lieder (1930) ("Vienna, City of Song") (1930). In 1932 he played opposite Gitta Alpar in Die - oder keine (1932) ("She, or Nobody").

He left Germany in 1933 for Vienna and to play in Switzerland, Amsterdam, Oslo and Helsinki. On a late summer day in 1936, while she was in Copenhagen, Swedish singer Zarah Leaner received a telephone call from Max Hansen. He asked her if she spoke German and she replied that she did. Next he wanted to know if she would take the female lead in "Axel an der Himmels Tür" ("Axel at the Gate of Heaven"), an Operetta with music by Ralph Benatzky. Hansen, in collaboration with Paul Morgan and Hans Weigel, was producing the Operetta in Theater an der Wien. Zarah was so excited to get her first German speaking role that she accepted the part without even asking how much money they were offering her. In 1949 Max Hansen visited Hamburg, in 1951 he played in Berlin and Scandinavia. He died in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1961.

Juliane Lorenz was born on 2 August 1957 in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. She is an editor and actress, known for Malina (1991), Life, Love & Celluloid (2005) and Kamikaze 1989 (1982). She has been married to Thomas Volker Wehling since 2017.

Catherine Bode was born on 11 August 1974 in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. She is an actress and casting director, known for Tatort (1970), Lys (2010) and Reise nach Tulum (2011).

Jan Schütte was born on 26 June 1957 in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. He is a director and writer, known for Drachenfutter (1987), Winckelmanns Reisen (1990) and Love Comes Lately (2007). He is married to Christina Szápáry. They have four children.