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BERLIN

Most Famous People Born in Berlin, Germany

Notable people
15,664
Peak decade
1930s
Median birth year
1921
Most distinctive
Author 3.6×

A city where the 20th century happened twice. Berlin's notables are heavily clustered between the 1880s and the 1930s, then again from the 1960s onward — a shape that maps almost exactly onto Weimar collapse, division, and reunification. Authors, academics, chemists, physicists, and mathematicians dominate the older half; the younger half tilts toward actors, painters, and the film and historian trades of a rebuilt European capital.

Through the Centuries

One face per century — the most globally famous figure born in Berlin during each.

Notable Births by Decade

Click a decade to filter the list below. Peak: 1930s with 1,548 notable births.

What Berlin Is Known For

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Actor is Berlin's biggest profession — 12% of all notables (1,953).

Berlin over-indexes on author3.6× the global rate.

Berlin under-produces football — only 0.2× the global rate.

  1. Actor1,953
  2. Politician1,573
  3. Painter629
  4. Writer585
  5. Author491
  6. Academic474
  7. Football395
  8. Lawyer313
  1. Author4913.6×
  2. Chemist1673.1×
  3. Academic4743.0×
  4. Physicist1852.8×
  5. Actor1,9532.4×
  6. Mathematician1622.1×
  7. Historian3051.8×
  8. Sculptor1801.8×
  1. Football3950.2×
  2. Singer1910.6×

Profession Mix Over Time

Each band shows a profession family's share of Berlin's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.

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  • Sports
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Showing 952 of 15,664 notable people

5400 COMPOSER

Hendrik Bruch

1962 - 2016

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5414 ACTOR

Alexander Hörbe

Born 1968

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5417 JOURNALIST

Herbert Ostwald

Born 1960

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5451 ACTOR

Bettina Weiß

Born 1966

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5456 ACTOR

Bernhard Völger

Born 1961

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5486 FOOTBALL

Günter Drews

Born 1967

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5492 ACTOR

Oliver Breite

Born 1963

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5503 ACTOR

Robert Viktor Minich

Born 1967

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5522 GUITAR

Kai Brückner

Born 1969

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5540 ACTOR

Lena Lessing

Born 1960

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5566 PUBLISHER

Alexander Fest

Born 1960

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5596 ACTOR

Kristiane Kupfer

Born 1960

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5606 ACTOR

Susanne Hoss

Born 1968

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5616 ARTIST

OL (Cartoonist)

Born 1965

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5619 AUTHOR

Ute Krause

Born 1960

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5622 ARCHITECT

Andreas Quednau

Born 1967

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5627 ACADEMIC

Frank Bradke

Born 1969

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5638 MUSIC

Carsten Gerlitz

Born 1966

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5655 FOOTBALL

Frank Mischke

Born 1961

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5683 WRITER

Frances O'Roark Dowell

Born 1964

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5689 PHOTOGRAPHER

Nina Pohl

Born 1968

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5696 COMPOSER

Roger Greenawalt

Born 1962

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5747 OPERA

Carolin Masur

Born 1966

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5752 ARTIST

Frank Lüdecke

Born 1961

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5758 SCHOLAR

Michael Tilly

Born 1963

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5772 PHOTOGRAPHER

Andreas Fux

Born 1964

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5787 ACTOR

Maximilian Wigger

Born 1960

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5801 WRITER

Falko Hennig

Born 1969

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5810 ORGANIST

Martin Sander (Organist)

Born 1963

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5812 ACTOR

Jan Kollwitz

Born 1960

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5824 PRESENTER

Gundula Gause

Born 1965

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5826 HANDBALL

Jörg Löhr

Born 1961

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5841 ACTOR

Inka Victoria Groetschel

1967 - 2009

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5871 ACTOR

Marc Boettcher

Born 1965

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5915 JOURNALIST

Jürgen Tietz

Born 1964

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5918 POLITICIAN

Jürgen Filius

Born 1960

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5927 CHOREOGRAPHER

Dirk Heidemann

Born 1961

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5936 AUTHOR

Matthias Eckoldt

Born 1964

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5955 ARTIST

Christoph Jungmann

Born 1962

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5971 CHOREOGRAPHER

Jo Fabian

Born 1960

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5981 JOURNALIST

Henning Sieverts

Born 1966

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5982 ACADEMIC

Susanne Lange

Born 1964

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5991 HISTORIAN

Marie-Janine Calic

Born 1962

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5992 ACTOR

Julia Blankenburg

Born 1969

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5994 ACTOR

Bastienne Voss

Born 1968

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6031 ACTOR

Tom Jahn

Born 1965

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6045 CINEMA

Kolja Brandt

Born 1969

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6090 SAILOR

Susanne Bauckholt

Born 1965

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6104 POLITICAL SCIENTIST

Bert Hoffmann

Born 1966

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6106 REGISSEUR

Sebastian Baumgarten

Born 1969

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6115 ACTOR

Ahmad Mesgarha

Born 1963

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6140 ACTOR

Sebastian Goder

Born 1964

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6142 ACTOR

Dirc Simpson

Born 1966

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6150 ACTOR

Sebastian Reusse

Born 1965

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6153 JOURNALIST

Dorothea Siems

Born 1963

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6154 COOK

Ole Plogstedt

Born 1968

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6157 ACTOR

Heike Falkenberg

Born 1961

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6160 ACTOR

Franziska Ritter

Born 1964

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6162 MATHEMATICIAN

Ulrich Bunke

Born 1963

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6225 HISTORIAN

Wolf Gruner

Born 1960

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6230 ROWER

Thomas Jung

Born 1969

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6243 FOOTBALL

Thorsten Bolzek

Born 1968

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6246 POLITICIAN

Sibyll-Anka Klotz

Born 1961

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6249 ACTOR

Till Topf

Born 1962

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6255 HANDBALL

Michaela Erler

Born 1965

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6267 AUTHOR

Michael Sens

Born 1963

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6268 ACTOR

Axel Buchholz (Schauspieler)

Born 1965

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6283 ACTOR

Oliver Feld

Born 1967

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6292 LITERARY

Peter Walther

Born 1965

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6299 GUITAR

Remo (Musiker)

Born 1960

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6320 WRITER

Dietmar Arnold

Born 1964

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6323 MUSIC

Ulrich Kaiser (Musiktheoretiker)

Born 1963

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6344 ACTOR

Regine Hentschel

Born 1967

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6348 BIOLOGIST

Peer Bork

Born 1963

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6364 ACTOR

Mathias Kusche

Born 1967

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6367 ACTOR

Judith Brandt

Born 1965

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6381 CERAMIST

Mita Schamal

Born 1966

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6382 ACADEMIC

Michele Barricelli

Born 1966

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6402 MUSIC

Peter Bruns (Cellist)

Born 1963

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6410 ACTOR

Donato Plögert

Born 1967

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6422 PRESENTER

Stefan Pinnow

Born 1968

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6435 FILM

Marius Felix Lange

Born 1968

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6475 AUTHOR

Bettina de Cosnac

Born 1960

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6489 PAINTER

Christine Falk

Born 1962

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6504 COMPOSER

Frank Schwemmer

Born 1961

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6520 PHILOSOPHER

Michael Esfeld

Born 1966

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6532 ACTOR

Annette von Klier

Born 1963

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6540 HISTORIAN

Till Kinzel

Born 1968

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6547 THEOLOGIAN

Jens Schröter (Theologe)

Born 1961

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6581 ACTOR

Diana Borgwardt

Born 1966

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6589 HISTORIAN

Stephan Malinowski

Born 1966

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6633 COMPOSER

Stephan König (Musiker)

Born 1963

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6640 PAINTER

Felix Müller (Maler)

Born 1969

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6649 MUSIC

Bernd Kistenmacher

Born 1960

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6653 AUTHOR

Bodo Mrozek

Born 1968

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6665 SWIMMER

Christian Poswiat

Born 1968

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6681 ART HISTORIAN

Thomas Drachenberg

Born 1962

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6692 ACTOR

Christian Wewerka

Born 1961

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6732 FILM

Sven Haeusler

Born 1968

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6738 ACTOR

Ute Rohrbeck

Born 1962

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6757 PHILOLOGIST

Mathias Bertram

Born 1960

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6761 ARTIST

Matti Braun

Born 1968

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6774 WRITER

Thomas Klingenstein

Born 1961

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6801 HISTORIAN

Andreas D. Ebert

Born 1963

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6809 ACTOR

Yvette Dankou

Born 1969

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6825 AUTHOR

Hendrik Liersch

Born 1962

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6830 ACTOR

Nathalie Hallervorden

Born 1966

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6837 JOURNALIST

Michael Ahlsdorf

Born 1961

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6852 ACADEMIC

Heike Solga

Born 1964

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6857 HISTORIAN

Armin Wagner

Born 1968

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6866 AUTHOR

Boike Rehbein

Born 1965

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6881 PHILOLOGIST

Jens Holzhausen

Born 1963

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6895 WRITER

Charlotte Lyne

Born 1965

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6924 AUTHOR

Till Müller-Klug

Born 1967

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6926 CHOREOGRAPHER

Gregor Seyffert

Born 1967

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6953 SINGER

Nina C. Alice

Born 1966

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6955 ORGANIST

Jörg-Andreas Bötticher

Born 1964

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6970 ACTOR

David Haubenstock

1966 - 1981

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6997 HISTORIAN

Martin Kirsch

Born 1965

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6999 HISTORIAN

Dirk Alvermann (Historiker)

Born 1965

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7005 PIANIST

Nicolai Thärichen

Born 1969

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7050 ACTOR

Carola Ewert

1967 - 2014

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7055 FOOTBALL

Dirk Schlegel

Born 1961

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7064 AUTHOR

Andreas Gläser

Born 1965

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7071 SCREENWRITER

Michael Sollorz

Born 1962

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7092 MATHEMATICIAN

Daniel Grieser

Born 1964

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7096 FOOTBALL

Karsten Nied

Born 1969

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7102 ACTOR

Michael Masula

Born 1968

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7107 HISTORIAN

Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann

Born 1967

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7108 FILM

Raoul Heimrich

Born 1964

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7115 SCREENWRITER

Thomas Kirchner (Drehbuchautor)

Born 1961

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7117 HISTORIAN

Bernhard Linke

Born 1961

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7119 HISTORIAN

Andreas Luther

Born 1969

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7167 SCREENWRITER

Jonas Winner

Born 1966

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7172 LAWYER

Kyrill-Alexander Schwarz

Born 1968

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7179 THEATRE

Lukas Langhoff

Born 1964

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7213 SONGWRITER

Chris Zippel

Born 1967

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7244 WRITER

Gregor Tessnow

Born 1969

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7262 MATHEMATICIAN

Alexander Schmidt (Mathematiker)

Born 1965

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7269 GUITAR

Martin Weiss (Musiker)

Born 1961

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7278 WRITER

Tom Liehr

Born 1962

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7279 LAWYER

Stefan Schmitt (politician)

1963 - 2010

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7287 ACADEMIC

Stefan L. Brandt

Born 1964

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7296 PRESENTER

Kristina zur Mühlen

Born 1969

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7301 COMPOSER

Ludger Vollmer

Born 1961

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7340 ACTOR

Dirk Mierau

Born 1964

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7346 ACADEMIC

Jan Ziekow

Born 1960

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7359 CINEMA

Hanno Lentz

Born 1965

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7376 WRITER

Henryk Gericke

Born 1964

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7385 FILM

Julia Oehring

Born 1968

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7386 COMPOSER

Martin Daske

Born 1962

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7392 MATHEMATICIAN

Ansgar Jüngel

Born 1966

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7402 JOCKEY

Gabriel Le Mar

Born 1966

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7435 CHESS

Antje Göhler

Born 1967

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7459 PATHOLOGIST

Markus Rothschild

Born 1962

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7478 WRITER

Florian Buschendorff

Born 1967

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7496 ACTOR

Maximilian Held

Born 1967

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7511 ACTOR

Thomas Rohloff

Born 1961

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7513 COMPOSER

Marc Lingk

Born 1964

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7515 POLITICIAN

Bettina Wiesmann

Born 1966

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7517 WRITER

Jens König (Journalist)

Born 1964

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7541 ACTOR

Anja Laïs

Born 1968

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7545 WRITER

Christine Fehér

Born 1965

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7560 SCHOLAR

Klaus Davidowicz

Born 1963

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7565 HANDBALL

Andreas Neitzel

Born 1964

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7577 AUTHOR

Anja Maier

Born 1965

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7580 AUTHOR

Mathias Gatza

Born 1963

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7590 PHARMACOLOGIST

Stefan Offermanns

Born 1964

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7594 ENGINEER

Frank Heinricht

Born 1962

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7603 SPORT

Jochen Hahn

Born 1962

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7605 DRAMA

Robert Schoen

Born 1966

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7624 ACTOR

Rayk Gaida

Born 1964

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7635 ACADEMIC

Christopher Schlick

1967 - 2016

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7645 PIANIST

Matthias Manasi

Born 1969

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7659 SINGER

Anja Rybiczka

Born 1968

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7684 WRITER

Ilja Bohnet

Born 1967

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7693 AUTHOR

Sylvia Geist

Born 1963

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7695 ACTOR

Peggy Sander

Born 1969

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7723 THEOLOGIAN

André Heinze

1961 - 2013

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7759 RADIO

Steffen Lukas

Born 1969

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7762 JOURNALIST

Lutz Frühbrodt

Born 1962

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7826 AUTHOR

Johannes Jansen (Schriftsteller)

Born 1966

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7832 JOURNALIST

Jan Weyrauch

Born 1968

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7877 POLITICIAN

Robbin Juhnke

Born 1967

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7883 AUTHOR

André Märtens

Born 1966

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7898 ACTOR

Natascha Hirthe

Born 1968

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7903 ACTOR

Harald Kempe

Born 1964

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7905 ARTIST

Susanne Knaack

Born 1962

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7919 PROFESSOR

Sabine Grüsser-Sinopoli

1964 - 2008

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7921 DRAMA

Peter Spuhler (Intendant)

Born 1965

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7925 ACTOR

Stefan Lochau

Born 1960

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7932 MATHEMATICIAN

Evelyn Buckwar

Born 1964

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7984 POLITICAL SCIENTIST

Mario Candeias

Born 1969

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7985 DESIGNER

Jerszy Seymour

Born 1968

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8018 MILITAR

James Chiswell

Born 1964

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8022 AUTHOR

Tube (Schriftsteller)

Born 1968

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8050 SKATER

Babette Preußler

Born 1968

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8075 ATHLETIC

Katrin Wühn

Born 1965

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8086 ARTIST

Sabine von Oettingen

Born 1962

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8093 PRESENTER

Leo Busch

Born 1968

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8126 LAWYER

Jan Bernd Nordemann

Born 1965

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8154 FOOTBALL

Uwe Brunn

Born 1967

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8156 ILLUSTRATOR

Ralf Butschkow

Born 1962

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8178 ACTOR

Michaela Steiger

Born 1964

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8179 CINEMA

Konstantin Kröning

Born 1964

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8184 WRITER

Thomas Sabottka

Born 1968

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8197 MUSIC

René Schostak

Born 1967

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8218 JUDGE

Günther M. Sander

Born 1961

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8219 HISTORIAN

Astrid Möller

Born 1961

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8220 ARCHITECT

André Alexander

1965 - 2012

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8232 ACTOR

Jakobine Engel

Born 1965

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8239 ATHLETIC

Edgar Nakladal

Born 1961

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8244 ACADEMIC

Marion Godau

Born 1962

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8252 SINGER

Harald Sack Ziegler

Born 1961

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8265 SPORT

Jörn Reuß

Born 1968

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8290 OTOLARYNGOLOGIST

Berit Schneider-Stickler

Born 1968

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8311 WRITER

Nina Petrick

Born 1965

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8318 AUTHOR

Uwe Albrecht (Autor)

Born 1966

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8320 MATHEMATICIAN

Matthias Ehrhardt

Born 1968

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8340 ARTIST

David Leukert

Born 1964

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8341 MATHEMATICIAN

Folkmar Bornemann

Born 1967

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8345 AUTHOR

Tina Grube

Born 1962

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8347 ACADEMIC

Gunda Förster

Born 1967

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8366 ARCHAEOLOGIST

Helga Bumke

Born 1966

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8377 COMPOSER

Meike Goosmann

Born 1966

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8394 ACTIVIST

Ralf Hirsch

Born 1960

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8397 ATHLETIC

Jussi Udelhoven

Born 1966

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8402 JOURNALIST

Stephan Kaufmann

Born 1965

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8441 ACTOR

Adelheid Kleineidam

Born 1966

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8456 DIPLOMAT

Clemens von Goetze

Born 1962

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8472 ARTIST

Anna Lehmann-Brauns

Born 1967

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8475 CHEMIST

Christoph Janiak

Born 1961

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8483 TRANSLATOR

Patricia Klobusiczky

Born 1968

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8495 SWIMMER

Andreas Behrend

Born 1963

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8502 PHYSICIAN

Uwe Marx

Born 1964

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8538 POLITICIAN

Christian Gaebler

Born 1964

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8555 HOCKEY

Jan Schertz

Born 1969

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8568 DRAMA

Annette Reber

1964 - 2008

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8574 PHOTOGRAPHER

Albrecht Kunkel

1968 - 2009

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8577 WRITER

Simone Schmollack

Born 1964

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8586 AUTHOR

Jan Gympel

Born 1966

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8597 ACADEMIC

Sabine Seelbach

Born 1960

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8621 POLITICIAN

Oliver Scholz

Born 1960

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8644 PHOTOGRAPHER

Danny Beath

1960 - 2013

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8649 PHYSICIST

Marius Grundmann

Born 1964

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8650 BUSINESS

Axel Schweitzer

Born 1969

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8657 SCREENWRITER

Heike Brückner von Grumbkow

Born 1963

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8660 WRITER

Dirk Dobbrow

Born 1966

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8669 PHYSICIAN

Arne Lawrenz

Born 1964

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8681 LAWYER

Axel Nordemann

Born 1963

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8727 AUTHOR

Annette Berr

Born 1962

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8745 AUTHOR

Robert Rauh

Born 1967

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8764 POLITICIAN

Ralf Holzschuher

Born 1963

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8781 PHILOSOPHER

Christine Weckwerth

Born 1963

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8782 PSYCHOLOGIST

Tilmann Betsch

Born 1963

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8786 HACKER

Hans Heinrich Hübner

Born 1968

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8788 PUBLISHER

Gunnar Sohn

Born 1961

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8817 PRESENTER

Andreas Ulrich

Born 1960

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8831 ACTOR

Martin Rentzsch

Born 1963

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8833 THEATER

Tilman Gersch

Born 1964

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8834 SAILOR

Nicola Birkner

Born 1969

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8845 POLITICIAN

Annette Karl

Born 1960

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8850 ECONOMIST

Stephan Kudert

Born 1962

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8855 ACADEMIC

Felix Walcher

Born 1967

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8858 JOURNALIST

Henning Krumrey

Born 1962

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8859 LIEDERMACHER

Torsten Riemann

Born 1964

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8877 AUTHOR

Piet Eekman

Born 1964

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8893 PROFESSOR

Ruth Mayer

Born 1965

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8897 ACTOR

Thomas Kufahl

Born 1962

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8911 HISTORIAN

Nicolas Berg

Born 1967

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8959 GENETICIST

Wolfgang René Hess

Born 1961

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9001 WRITER

Bernd Mannhardt

Born 1961

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9022 LITERARY

Thorsten Thaler

Born 1963

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9031 PHILOLOGIST

Stefan Kipf

Born 1964

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9045 PHOTOGRAPHER

David Krippendorff

Born 1967

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9052 CARDIOLOGIST

Stefan D. Anker

Born 1965

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9055 ACTOR

Sonja Hilberger

Born 1968

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9058 FILM

Ivo-Alexander Beck

Born 1964

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9097 PROFESSOR

Joan Kristin Bleicher

Born 1960

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9143 ACTOR

Bob Schneider

Born 1962

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9146 JOURNALIST

Peter Grimm

Born 1965

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9150 ACTOR

Ev-Katrin Weiß

Born 1962

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9152 ACTOR

Sybille Heyen

Born 1966

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9166 SPORT

Yvonne Haug

Born 1966

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9191 AUTHOR

Rob Reef

Born 1968

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9196 ACADEMIC

Sebastian Kubis

Born 1966

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9209 FILM

Dirk Beinhold

Born 1968

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9220 THEATRE

Sascha Hawemann

Born 1967

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9236 BIOCHEMIST

Christof Niehrs

Born 1962

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9259 POLITICIAN

Andreas Storr

Born 1968

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9277 ACTOR

Stefan Mehren

Born 1962

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9293 JOCKEY

Tolga Flim Flam Balkan

Born 1963

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9308 POLITICIAN

Andreas Koeppen

Born 1961

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9312 FILM

Juliane Thevissen

Born 1965

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9316 AUTHOR

Silke Schütze

Born 1961

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9321 INTERNIST

Stefan Schreiber (Mediziner)

Born 1962

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9324 MUSIC

Tom Schwoll

Born 1966

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9342 SCREENWRITER

Britta Stöckle

Born 1969

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9352 CINEMA

Simon Schmejkal

Born 1967

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9366 ECONOMIST

Volker Lingnau

Born 1963

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