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Ingrid van Bergen was born on 15 June 1931 in Danzig-Langfuhr, Free City of Danzig [now Wrzeszcz, Gdansk, Pomorskie, Poland]. She is an actress, known for Escape from East Berlin (1962), Roses for the Prosecutor (1959) and Was wissen Sie von Titipu? (1972).

Alexander Salkind is the legendary film producer. His father, Michael Salkind, was also a well-known, successful film producer. Also known as Alex Salkind, he was the father of Ilya Salkind. They were partners for decades, teaming up on the hits The Three Musketeers (1973) and The Four Musketeers (1974), and taking credit for producing the first "comic book movie" with the blockbuster Superman (1978), which they followed with Superman II (1980) and Superman III (1983).

Together, the Salkinds are possibly one of the most successful father/son producing teams in motion picture history.

Eccentric, self-deprecating comedian Eddi Arent first attracted attention in a series of quirky Edgar Wallace adaptations in the 1960's. For several years, he was Germany's idea of stereotypically blithering English lords (The Strange Countess (1961), as the aptly named Lord Selwyn Moron), laconic butlers (Secret of the Red Orchid (1962)) or obtuse, clumsy second-string Scotland Yard photographers (Dead Eyes of London (1961), The Door with Seven Locks (1962). Otherwise, Arent was patently reliable as droll, vaguely effete sidekicks and comic relief in westerns and adventure films based on the ever-popular writings of Karl May. He is fondly remembered as the mild-mannered, bumbling butterfly collector Castlepool in the 'Winnetou' trilogy, beginning with The Treasure of the Silver Lake (1962). To confound those who had him perpetually typecast, Arent also donned the black garb of villainy as a murderous monk for one of his last Edgar Wallace potboilers, The Sinister Monk (1965). He must have enjoyed this change of character, since he repeated the exercise: first (not too convincingly), playing a human trafficker masquerading as a priest in Der Bucklige von Soho (1966); then, as a knife-throwing killer in the English-German co-production Psycho-Circus (1966), which had the great Christopher Lee (for once) relegated to the role of the 'red herring'.

Unlike most of his peers, Arent had little formal theatrical training. Instead, he began in cabaret, where he developed the character sketches and personae which would later make his name. Nor did he have any interest in forging a career on the legitimate stage. Films first saw him as a dramatic actor in minor supporting roles, his natural talent as a comedian not recognised until the end of the 1950's. After his hey-day in the 60's, his subsequent output was fairly unremarkable. For the most part, he fluttered around on the margins of youth-oriented low-brow pop-films. Some of his other pictures may have appealed to devotees of 'Heimatfilm' schmaltz. However, in the 80's, Arent acquired a new following with the television sketch show Harald und Eddi (1987). In conjunction with perennial audience favorite Harald Juhnke, he delighted audiences with his comedic versatility. Leaving the limelight in the 1990's, Arent then endured a series of financial and personal setbacks. Suffering from depression and increasingly afflicted by dementia, he died in May 2013 at the age of 88.

Zeisberg was born Ingmar Muhes in Danzig (present-day Gdansk). At the outbreak of World War II, Ingmar, with her ailing, widowed mother in tow, made her way to Denmark where both languished for two years in an internment camp. At war's end, Ingmar returned to Berlin to study journalism. By 1950, her career plans now changed, she enrolled at the prestigious Max Reinhardt Academy of the Deutsches Theater to study drama. Her stage debut in a production of Goethe's Faust followed soon after. Upon graduation, Ingmar found work as a theater and film critic in Cologne and also authored several screenplays.

In 1954, Ingmar was hand-picked by the director Georg Wilhelm Pabst to appear in the marital drama Afraid to Love (1954). She then had a successful run, appearing in many entertainments of varied genres: Heimatfilms, musical comedies, costume dramas and post-war Trümmerfilms, in most of which she worked under high profile directors like Helmut K?utner, Géza von Cziffra, Victor Tourjansky and Arthur Maria Rabenalt. By the early 60s, Ingmar starred in a couple of commercially popular Edgar Wallace-based potboilers (The Strangler of Blackmoor Castle (1963), The Inn on Dartmoor (1964)) and crime thrillers (Meet Peter Voss (1959), Nebelm?rder (1964)). After a three-year long hiatus, she then also conquered the TV market, her most memorable role being the mariticidal Diana Stewart in the miniseries Wie ein Blitz (1970), adapted from a work by British crime novelist Francis Durbridge. Ingmar rounded off her career with seven appearances in the hit TV police series Tatort (1970).

The actress was married five times. Her exes included the producer Klaus Stapenhorst and the director Wolfgang Staudte. She was predeceased by her fifth husband, the architect and town planner Albert Speer Jr., son of the infamous former German Reich Minister of Armaments and War Production.

Wolfgang V?lz was born on 16 August 1930 in Free City of Danzig [now Gdansk, Pomorskie, Poland]. He was an actor and writer, known for Asterix and Obelix vs. Caesar (1999), Babeck (1968) and Raumpatrouille - Die phantastischen Abenteuer des Raumschiffes Orion (1966). He was married to Roswitha V?lz. He died on 2 May 2018 in Berlin, Germany.

K?te Jaenicke was born on 22 March 1928 in Free City of Danzig [now Gdansk, Pomorskie, Poland]. She was an actress and writer, known for The Tin Drum (1979), Zwischen den Zügen (1961) and Der B?r (1955). She died on 1 November 2002 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.

Lilo Pempeit was born on 6 October 1922 in Free City of Danzig [now Gdansk, Pomorskie, Poland]. She was an actress, known for The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979), Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) and Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974). She was married to Wolff Eder and Helmut Fassbinder. She died on 7 May 1993 in Munich, Germany.

Balduin Baas was born on June 9, 1922 in Free City of Danzig as Balduin Baaske. He was an actor and writer, known for playing the lead role in Federico Fellini's Orchestra Rehearsal (1978), for The Magic Mountain (1982) starring Rod Steiger, as well as for Doktor Faustus (1982) with Jon Finch and Hanns Zischler, Tatort (1970), They're Too Much (1965) and Our Charly (1995). He was married to Ruth Stephan and he was the longtime spouse of Hamburg photographer Charlotte March. He died on May 22, 2006 in Hamburg, Germany.

He grew up as the son of a merchant family. At the age of 15 he reported for military service in the Second World War. In 1944 he became a member of the Waffen-SS and was stationed in the 10th SS Panzer Division Frundsberg. After the end of the war he was taken prisoner by the Americans until 1946. Grass then began an apprenticeship as a stonemason. In 1948 he began studying graphics and sculpture at the art academy in Düsseldorf. After completing his studies, he became a visual arts student with the sculptor Karl Hartung in Berlin in 1953. The first exhibitions of his sculptures and graphics followed. In 1954 he married Anna Schwarz. Grass first became active as a writer in 1957. Now he mainly wrote short prose, poems and plays that were poetic and absurd in character. In 1958, Grass received the "Group 47" sponsorship award for his manuscript "The Tin Drum."

Further novels such as "Cat and Mouse" and "Dog Years" were published. His excessive and provocative expression was always evident here, which earned him the reputation of a political moralist. The book "Letters across the border" was published in 1968. Here Grass commented on the topic of the Prague Spring. Further works such as "The Plebeians rehearse the uprising", "Before" and "locally anesthetized" were created. In the course of the student movement, his participation in public protests against the emergency laws increased. In 1972 the story "From the Diary of a Snail" was published. In it, Grass described the 1969 federal election campaign. The epic novel "The Butt" was published in 1977. In 1978 he divorced his wife Anna. In 1979 he married Ute Grunert for the second time. The film adaptation of "The Tin Drum" was also released in 1979 and was directed by Volker Schl?ndorff. Mario Adorf, Katharina Thalbach, Otto Sander and Charles Aznavour, among others, played in the film adaptation. In 1980, "The Tin Drum" was awarded an Oscar for "Best Foreign Language Film," making it the first German film to receive this award.

From 1982 to 1993 Grass was a member of the SPD. Through his political activities, his literary work became increasingly popular with the public. In 1983, Grass and other writers, artists and scientists signed the "Heilbronn Manifesto", which called for people to refuse military service because of the stationing of the Pershing-2 rockets. Three years later, in 1986, the book "Die Rattin" was published, which was also made into a film a few years later. In 1987, Grass re-entered political life and took part in the SPD campaign for the state elections in Schleswig-Holstein. The Academy of Arts refused to hold a solidarity event for Salman Rushdie in 1989. Grass resigned from the association for this reason. Grass took the time of German reunification as an opportunity to speak out against "sudden unity based on mere annex Article 23 of the Basic Law". Grass campaigned for a cultural nation growing together. His novel "Prophecies of Doom," published in 1992, also described reconciliation between East and West. A year later, Grass resigned from the SPD because of the change in asylum law supported by social democratic votes. In other novels, such as "A Wide Field" (1995), he repeatedly brought up the problem of German history between the building of the wall and reunification.

In 1997, Grass, together with the SPD, Alliance 90/GREENS and the PDS, called on Helmut Kohl's government to resign. This year, with Egon Bahr, he also founded the "Willy Brandt Circle" for people "who have retained their independence of thought" (quote from Bahr). When the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the Turk Yasar Kemal, Grass criticized Kurdish policy. He once again turned against the change in asylum law in the Federal Republic. In 1998, Grass began campaigning for the SPD in the new federal states. In the work "My Century", which he completed in 1999, Grass tells a separate story for each year of this century. On December 10, 1999, Grass was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for his life's work. For his services to German-Polish understanding, Grass was awarded the "Gloria Artis" medal in September 2001.

Grass received the Danish Hans Christian Andersen Prize in April 2005. In the same month he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Free University of Berlin. In the run-up to the early federal elections in September 2005, Grass drew attention to himself through his public support of the SPD ruling party, for which he was also able to win over other fellow writers. In the same year, 2005, he founded the authors' circle "Lübeck Literaturtreffen". In 2006, Grass was awarded the "Brücke Prize". In August of the same year he vacated his membership for the first time ft in the Waffen-SS. In previous information he was an anti-aircraft assistant for the Wehrmacht between 1944 and 1945. Günther Grass' clarification was accompanied by great media interest. With the documentary "The Uncomfortable" snapshots of the controversial Nobel Prize winner were released in German cinemas in April 2007.

Günter Grass died on April 13, 2015 in Lübeck.

Wolfgang Jansen was born on 3 April 1938 in Free City of Danzig [now Gdansk, Pomorskie, Poland]. He was an actor, known for Unser Herr Diener (1967), Der Floh im Ohr (1966) and Bratkartoffeln inbegriffen (1967). He died on 9 January 1988 in Hamburg, West Germany.

Zdzislaw Kuzniar was born on 26 July 1931 in Free City of Danzig [now Gdansk, Pomorskie, Poland]. He is an actor, known for Na dobre i na zle (1999), King Size (1988) and Gruby (1973).

Eva Ebner was born on 14 January 1922 in Free City of Danzig [now Gdansk, Pomorskie, Poland]. She was an actress and assistant director, known for Around the World in 80 Days (2004), Lexx (1996) and Meeting Venus (1991). She died on 31 January 2006 in Berlin, Germany.

Erich Sehnke was born on 6 October 1926 in Free City of Danzig [now Gdansk, Pomorskie, Poland]. He is an actor, known for Schneewittchen und die sieben Gaukler (1962), Nachsitzen für Erwachsene (1958) and Die Flucht (1962). He was previously married to Ingrid van Bergen.

Eugeniusz Kujawski was born on 16 December 1936 in Free City of Danzig [now Gdansk, Pomorskie, Poland]. He is an actor, known for Zamach stanu (1980), Sto koni do stu brzegów (1979) and Motodrama (1971).

Renate Küster was born on 12 September 1936 in Free City of Danzig [now Gdansk, Pomorskie, Poland]. She is an actress, known for Jenny (1958), The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (1960) and Treffpunkt Aimée (1956). She was previously married to Dieter Hildebrandt.

Eva Schauland was born in 1935 in Free City of Danzig [now Gdansk, Pomorskie, Poland]. She is an actress, known for Horrors of Spider Island (1960) and Zu viele K?che (1961).

Jürgen Janza was born on 4 December 1934 in Free City of Danzig [now Gdansk, Pomorskie, Poland]. He is an actor, known for Doppelter Einsatz (1994), Cliff Dexter (1966) and Die Schelme im Paradies (1965).

Ursula Schult was born on 2 March 1922 in Free City of Danzig [now Gdansk, Pomorskie, Poland]. She is an actress, known for La musica (1970), Eine Frau ohne Bedeutung (1964) and Fast ein Poet (1968).

Heinz Schirk was born on 22 December 1931 in Free City of Danzig [now Gdansk, Pomorskie, Poland]. He was a director and writer, known for Liebling Kreuzberg (1986), Der Sohn des Bullen (1984) and Tatort (1970). He died on 10 December 2020 in Bickenbach, Hesse, Germany.

Holger Czukay, born March 24, 1938, in the Free City of Danzig ( today Gdansk, Poland) as Holger Schüring. He is a musician, composer and actor. He studied for Karlheinz Stockhausen in Cologne, Germany, 1963-1966. Holger Czukay is notable for creating early important examples of ambient music, an early pioneer of sampling and for exploring world music, before the term was coined. He was a key figure in the seminal German band Can, formed in 1968. Holger Czukay has, up till now, created ten solo albums and collaborated with a considerable number of reputable musicians; David Sylvian, Jah Wobble, Brian Eno, The Edge, Ben Mandelson, Jaki Liebezeit and the Eurythmics.

Wolfgang Kirchner was born in 1935 in Danzig, Free City of Danzig [now Gdansk, Poland]. He is a writer and director, known for Hamburg Transit (1970), Sechs Millionen (1978) and Priester (1987).

Heinz Rennhack was born on 5 March 1937 in Danzig, Free City of Danzig [now Gdansk, Poland]. He is an actor, known for Karriere N (1974), Kille, kille H?ndchen (1979) and Viel Rummel um den Skooter (1991). He has been married to Annemarie since 1967. They have one child.

Erich Will was born in 1931 in Free City of Danzig [now Gdansk, Pomorskie, Poland]. He is an actor, known for The Cat (1988), Forbidden (1984) and Domino (1982).

Dieter Wien was born on 13 October 1934 in Free City of Danzig [now Gdansk, Pomorskie, Poland]. He is an actor and director, known for Liebesau - die andere Heimat (2001), Karl May (1992) and The Rabbit Is Me (1965). He is married to Madeleine Lierck.

Angela Pschigode was born in 1937 in Danzig, Free City of Danzig [now Gdansk, Pomorskie, Poland]. She was an actress, known for Der Kandidat (1965), Die Heirat (1970) and Der liebe Augustin (1960). She died in July 1998 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.