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About Curd Jürgens

Curd Gustav Andreas Gottlieb Franz Jürgens was born on 13 December 1915 in Solln near Munich. He was a German theatre and film actor, with French roots on his mother’s side. He grew up in Berlin. Curd Jürgens worked as a journalist after leaving school and attended an acting school at the same time. In 1935 he presented himself at the UFA and was promptly engaged. During the Nazi era he appeared in 19 cinema films. Curd Jürgens was apolitical in his youth. Nevertheless, he always expressed his opinion critically and without fear of the state power. In 1944, this attitude almost became his undoing because he got into a fight with a couple of SS men in a pub in Vienna without knowing their identity. They were the brother of Gestapo chief Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Robert Kaltenbrunner, SS-Obersturmbannführer Otto Skorzeny and an associate of Baldur von Schirach. Curd Jürgens was arrested and locked up in a labour camp, from where, however, he managed to escape after a short time and went into hiding.

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About Horst Naumann

Horst Naumann was born in Dresden on 17 November 1925. After training as an actor, he worked as a theatre actor at various German theatres from 1945 onwards. From 1953 to 1957 he was cast in various films by DEFA in East Berlin. In 1958 Horst Naumann came to the Federal Republic and worked mainly for television.

He became known to a wide audience through the television series “Die Schwarzwaldklinik” as Dr Römer and “Das Traumschiff” as Dr Schröder. But he was also present in TV series of the 60s, such as “Wolken über Kaprunc“, “Bei uns daheim” , “Zimmer 13” and “Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre“. His appearances in cinema films were mainly limited to light fare and children’s films. Another field for Horst Naumann was and is radio plays. He made a name for himself especially in radio play series. For example, in “TKKG“, “Die drei Fragezeichen“, “Barbiev“, “Masters of The Universe“, “Hanni und Nanni” and the 2019 radio play series “Gruselkabinett“.

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About Christiane Rücker

Christiane Rücker was born with the name Christa Rücker in Schertendorf in Lower Silesia on 12 June 1944. After the expulsion in 1946, the family lived in Zorneding near Munich. She worked as an accountant from 1960 and trained as an actress from 1962 to 1965. To finance her training, she worked as a model. Several magazines put her on their covers.

She came to the attention of the film industry and was offered roles. From 1969 she also acted in theatre in Berlin and Vienna. Her films were mostly shallow or trivial entertainment films. She often played the role of a “light girl” in them. In the 1980s she devoted herself mainly to charity work. She was able to fend off the suspicion of donation fraud, which was raised by the magazine Quick, in court. In the 1980s she appeared in various television series. For example in “Tatort“, “Der Kommissar“, “Kottan ermittelt” and “Hotel Sacher“. Christiane Rücker has been married to a journalist since 1992.

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About Heinz Reincke

Heinz Franz Ludwig Reincke was born in Kiel on 28 May 1925. Already as a child he developed the desire to become an actor. He completed an apprenticeship at the chamber of commerce in Kiel and took acting lessons on the side. The Kiel City Theatre first employed him as a prompter and extra. Until 1955 he played at various theatres in Germany and neighbouring countries. In 1955 Gustaf Gründgens brought him to the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg. For ten years he played major character roles there. From 1968 to 1985 he belonged to the ensemble of the Vienna Burgtheater.

Heinz Reincke also appeared in various cinema films. His special love, however, was television. He made a name for himself above all as a series actor. He became known to a wide television audience with his role as a pastor in the television series “Der Landarzt” from 1987 to 2010. He also appeared in television series such as “Hotel Sacher“, “Ein verrücktes Paar“, “Der Alte“, “Derrick“, “Schwarzwaldklinik“, “Zwei Münchner in Hamburg“, “Großstadtrevier” and many others. Because of his distinctive voice, he was also a sought-after narrator for radio plays, dubbing and audio books. His most important speaking role was in the film “The Neverending Story” as the voice of the dragon Falkor. Heinz Reincke, who liked to play the role of the edgy North German, however, had lived in Vienna with his wife Elfi Petsch since 1968. He died of lung cancer in Purkersdorf near Vienna on 13 July 2011. Heinz Reincke, who had been an Austrian citizen since 1970, is buried at the Vienna Central Cemetery.

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About Fritz Wepper

Fritz Wepper was born in Munich on 17 August 1941 as the son of a lawyer. His father, who was stationed in Poland during the war, was considered missing in action from 1945. Fritz Wepper already acted as a child at the Munich City Theatre. He had a great success as Peter Pan in the 1952 season. After graduating from high school in Munich, Wepper went into film. Here, too, he first appeared in various children’s and fairy tale films, such as “Tischlein deck dich“, “Der dunkle Stern” or “Rübezahl“. In 1959 he played a leading role in the anti-war film classic “Die Brücke” (English title: “The Bridge“) and suddenly became internationally famous. For his role in the war film “Kennwort Reiher” Horst Wepper received the Filmband in Gold as “best young actor“. Fritz Wepper acted in a number of cinema films until the beginning of the 1980s, but then worked exclusively for television. Here he also celebrated his great successes.

The role of the detective assistant Harry Klein, which he first embodied in the series “Der Kommissar” and then in the series “Derrick“, led to an exceptionally high profile, both in Germany and abroad. Current series such as “Um Himmels Willen” or “Mord in bester Gesellschaft” also regularly bring Fritz Wepper to German television screens to this day. He also took part in a number of other television series and made a large number of television films. These include such well-known films as “Vera Brühne“, “Ein Gauner Gottes“, “Das Weihnachts-Ekel” and “Lindburgs Fall“. Also very well known is his somewhat younger brother, Elmar Wepper, who is also an actor. Fritz Wepper had been married to Angela von Morgen since 1979. From this marriage came their daughter Sophie, who also became an actress and plays alongside her father in the TV series “Mord in bester Gesellschaft“. Angela von Morgen died in 2019. Fritz Wepper was a co-founder of the German Film Academy in 2003. He is still a sought-after dubbing actor. He dubs well-known stars such as John Savage or Jean-Louis Trintignant. Today Fritz Wepper lives with his partner, the director Susanne Kellermann, and their daughter in Gmund am Tegernsee.

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About Dieter Borsche

Dieter Albert Eugen Rollomann Borsche was born on 25 October 1909 in Hanover into a family of artists. His father was a musician and music teacher, his mother a singer. Dieter Borsche attended grammar school and left without graduating. He worked at the Städtische Oper in Hanover as a ballet dancer and attended an acting school. Afterwards he played at different German stages – mostly the role of a youthful lover. In 1944 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and had to go to war. He fought on the Western Front, was wounded and became a US prisoner of war, from which he was released at the end of the war in 1945. In 1946 Bernhard Minetti brought him to the theatre in Kiel. Dieter Borsche acted in theatre until 1978. But Borsche started his film career already in the 1930s. The films that were made with him during the Nazi era were all of little importance. Only with the film “Nachtwache” in 1949 directed by Harald Braun he was able to make a name for himself. Dieter Borsche became an absolute darling of the public in the 1950s. He formed the dream couples loved by the audience with the top female stars of the time such as Maria Schell (“Es kommt ein Tag“, “Dr. Holl“), Ruth Leuwerik (“Vater braucht eine Frau“, “Königliche Hoheit“, “Königin Luise“), Inge Egger (“Sündige Grenze“, “Fanfaren der Liebe“) and Marianne Koch (“Wenn wir alle Engel wären“).

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About Monika Zinnenberg

Monika Zickenberg was born on 20 March 1943 in Petershagen an der Weser. She studied acting in Munich. In the 1960s she appeared in a few cinema films. Otherwise she worked exclusively for television, both as an actress but above all as a director. She directed such popular and well-known television series as “Unser Charly“, “Hallo Robby“, “Neues vom Süderhof” and “Nicht von schlechten Eltern“.

She also appeared as an actress in several episodes of well-known television series, such as “Der Kommissar”, “Dem Täter auf der Spur” or “Das Kriminalmuseum“. She also made an appearance in the famous crime thriller three-parter “Der Tod läuft hinterher“, alongside Joachim Fuchsberger.

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