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Tom Kaulitz is a German guitarist, songwriter and producer. He is best known for his work from 2001 to the present as the guitarist of the band Tokio Hotel. He has an identical twin, Bill Kaulitz, who is the lead singer of Tokio Hotel, and his best friends are Georg Listing and Gustav Schäfer. He was born in Leipzig, German Democratic Republic. Tom and his brother, Bill, used to live in Hamburg but moved to Los Angeles in October 2010 in response to an incident involving stalkers and a robbery. They are currently living in Los Angeles making music for their new album. Tom dated german model Ria Sommerfeld(b.1982) from 2011 to 2016. They were married for a little over a year until Tom filed for divorce citing irreconcilable differences in September 2016.

Hentschel worked in London as a professional backup dancer for artists such as Mariah Carey, Britney Spears, Paulina Rubio, Jamelia and others. Later he was hired as a choreographer and worked on many music videos and tours in Canada and Asia.In 2003, Falk decided to stay in Los Angeles for good and pursue his dream of becoming an actor. He made his acting debut in the Emmy Award-winning show Arrested Development in 2005. Small parts in Journeyman and numerous low-budget films followed. In 2008, Hentschel decided to create his own projects and wrote the short film Who is Bobby Domino, where he met his production partner Jesse Grace. The two of them went on to write and produce more short films, of which many entered some of the most prestigious film festivals in the world and won numerous accolades. In 2009, Falk landed his first big-budget feature film role as Bernhard the assassin, co-starring next to Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz in Knight and Day. The following year, Falk played the role of drug addict Richard Conway on TNT's The Closer, starring Kyra Sedgwick. In 2011, Hentschel played opposite singer Justin Bieber in the CSI: Crime Scene Investigation episode "Targets of Obsession". He also starred in the NCIS: Los Angeles episode "Archangel". In August, 2015, it was announced that Hentschel will portray the Carter Hall version of Hawkman in the 2016 show DC's Legends of Tomorrow, and also Arrow and The Flash.

Tilman Singer was born in 1988 in Leipzig, German Democratic Republic [now Saxony, Germany]. He is a writer and director, known for Luz (2018), Cuckoo (2024) and El Fin Del Mundo (2016).

He grew up in Leipzig with his first-born, identical twin brother Tom. His parents, the painter Simone Charlotte Kaulitz and the truck driver Jörg W., separated when he was six years old. The mother then moved with her two sons to Loitsche near Magdeburg to live with her new partner, the musician Gordon Trümper. As children they were seen in the Radio Bremen production "Verkehrt nach dir". Both found their passion for music as children, which they worked on together from then on. Tom learned to play guitar at the age of ten, while Bill Kaulitz concentrated on singing. They were supported musically by their stepfather, who was himself an active musician in Magdeburg. While performing at a club in Magdeburg in 2001, Bill and Tom Kaulitz met Gustav Schäfer and Georg Listing. Shortly afterwards they founded the band "Devilish" and performed their first regional performances.

In 2003, Bill Kaulitz took part in the "Kinder-Star-Search" talent competition, after which the band was discovered by music producer Peter Hoffmann. In the same year they received their first record contract through Sony BMG under their new band name "Tokio Hotel". Shortly before the release of the first single, Sony BMG canceled the contract, after which the band moved to Universal Music Group for their second contract in 2005. In June 2005, Tokio Hotel celebrated its first TV appearance with Bill Kaulitz as lead singer, Tom Kaulitz as guitarist, Gustav Schäfer on drums and Georg Listing on bass, with their debut single "Über den Monsun". The piece reached number 1 in the German charts in August and Tokio Hotel became one of the most popular German pop bands within a few months. In September 2005, the band released their first album entitled "Schrei", which once again dominated the top spot in the charts in Germany and Austria. In France, "Schrei" reached number 19 in the album charts in the first week, making Tokio Hotel the first German band to enter the French top 20 directly with a debut album.

Meanwhile, in 2005, the musicians, who were still of school age, were awarded the "Bambi" in the "Pop national" category and the "Comet" in the "Best Newcomer" category. In 2006, Tokio Hotel was awarded the "Echo" as "Best Newcomer", the "BRAVO Otto" as "Best Rock Band" and the "Golden Tuning Fork" as "Best German Pop Band", among others. Bill Kaulitz dropped out of school in 2006 in the 10th grade of high school. In the spring of 2008, he and his brother completed their secondary school diploma at an internet school. The twins were awarded the "Distance Learning Youth Prize" in April 2009 for their "exemplary academic achievements". The second album "Zimmer 483" was released on February 23, 2007. Shortly afterwards they were awarded the "MTV Europe Music Award" in the "Inter Act" category. In the same year, 2007, a major European tour followed from March to November. In 2008 they received the "MTV Video Music Award" in the "Best New Artist" category. At the beginning of October 2009, the band's third studio album "Humanoid" was released internationally at the same time for the first time.

In the German version of the animated film "Arthur and the Minimoys" by director Luc Besson, Bill Kaulitz was the dubbing voice of the title hero in 2006 and in the second part (2009). To mark the 30th anniversary of the German edition of "Vogue", Karl Lagerfeld recorded a multi-part photo series with Bill Kaulitz in September 2009. At the 2010 Milan Fashion Week, Kaulitz walked the catwalk as a model for the label "Dsquared2". In the same year, the band received the "NRJ Music Award" in the "Band Of The Year 2009" category and the MTV Europe Music Award in the "Best World Stage Live Performance" category. In 2010, the personal documentary "Through the Night with Wolfgang Joop and Bill Kaulitz" was created in Pars for the TV channel arte. That same year, the twin brothers moved to Los Angeles, where they worked on their fourth studio album. In 2012, Kaulitz and his brother Tom were a jury member for the tenth season of "Deutschland sucht den Superstar".

On October 3, 2014, the band's fourth studio album, "Kings of Suburbia" (Island Records), was released; the first album recorded only in English.

German-born Peter Gilmore came to the UK at the age of six, to be raised by relatives. He quit school at age 14, and pursuing his dream of becoming an actor, attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts for a short time, before being expelled. A stint in the army led to the discovery that he had a talent for singing, and after his discharge from the army he joined a singing group, The George Mitchell Singers. He also appeared in a number of stage plays, but they didn't lead to the success he was looking for.

He soon gave up singing and concentrated on his acting career, and began achieving a degree of success in Europe and the U.S. in TV commercials. As a result of these, he started to receive roles in comedies, notably the "Carry On" series. In the early 1970s he finally achieved a great degree of success as star of the long-running British serial, The Onedin Line (1971).

Viktoria Ngotsé was born on 10 April 1989 in Leipzig, East Germany [now Saxony, Germany]. She is an actress, known for Mute (2018), Gunpowder Milkshake (2021) and Uncharted (2022).

Maria Simon was born on 6 February 1976 in Leipzig, German Democratic Republic [nox Saxony, Germany]. She is an actress and producer, known for Good Bye Lenin! (2003), Portrait of a Married Couple (2002) and Kleine Schwester (2004). She was previously married to Bernd Michael Lade.

Peter Schneider, born in 1975 in Leipzig, started after high school in 1995 to study music and from 1998-2002 acting at the University of Music and Theatre "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" in Leipzig, where he graduated with a master. Since then he has worked as an actor on theaters in Germany. Since an intensive collaboration with Edgar Reitz 2001-2002 ("Heimat 3) Peter Schneider works well with many film and television productions. He played as the lead role in Hans Weingartner's acclaimed psychological drama "Hut in the Woods". For this Peter Schneider was nominated 2012 for the German Film Award (LOLA) in the category "best dramatic performance male lead" and 2013 for the prize of the German Film Critics Association Awards. Also in 2013 the director Mareille Klein received the "Max Ophüls Prize 2013" for her film "Gruppenfilm" in which Peter Schneider played the leading role.

Oona-Devi Liebich born in 1984 in Leipzig, Oona-Devi Liebich moved to Berlin with her mother when she was only six months old. In 2000 a scout discovered her in school and she got the leading part in the film adaptation of Crazy. Since then she featured in several film and TV productions, amongst others by producers like Hans-Christian Schmid, Tom Tölle, Uwe Janson, Carlo Rola, Rainer Matsutani, and many more.

Rudolf Schündler was born on 17 April 1906 in Leipzig, Germany. He was an actor and director, known for The Exorcist (1973), The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933) and Gruß und Kuß vom Tegernsee (1957). He was married to Christine Laszar. He died on 12 December 1988 in Munich, Bavaria, West Germany.

This elegant actor of the golden age of German cinema appeared in several masterpieces, before the cameras of such inspired geniuses as Lang, Lubitsch and Murnau. Vocation had come rather late in his life, though. Abel was indeed already 33 when he made his first film. Beforehand, he had been a forester, a gardener and a shopkeeper. But one day, while watching a film with Asta Nielsen, he was struck by revelation. He decided at once to become an actor and with the help of Nielsen in person he started a fruitful screen career. He also wrote and directed a few films. He died too soon aged only 57, but having honored the German screen with his noble, dignified figure in more than a hundred pictures.

Christine Wodetzky was born on 5 January 1938 in Leipzig, Germany. She was an actress, known for Die wunderbaren Jahre (1980), Verraten und verkauft (1969) and Troilus und Cressida (1969). She died on 6 December 2004 in Berlin, Germany.

Micaela Schäfer was born on 1 November 1983 in Leipzig, German Democratic Republic [nox Saxony, Germany]. She is an actress, known for Look Who's Back (2015), Casting of Death (2015) and Holy Shit! (2022).

Richard Wagner was a German composer best known for his operas, primarily the monumental four-opera cycle "Der Ring des Nibelungen". He was born Wilhelm Richard Wagner on May 22, 1813, in Leipzig, Germany. He was the ninth child in the family of Carl Wagner, a police clerk. Richard was only six months old when his father died, and he was brought up by his mother Johanna and stepfather Ludwig Geyer, an actor and playwright. Young Wagner studied piano from the age of 7 and soon developed ability to play by ear and improvise. At age 15 he wrote piano transcriptions of Ludwig van Beethoven's "9th Symphony" and orchestral overtures. He studied at the University of Leipzig, and also took composition and conducting lessons with the cantor of St. Thomas in Leipzig.

Wagner's early operas did not meet with success, leaving him in serious financial difficulties. From 1836-1839 he was a music director in Riga Opera, where his wife, Minna Planer, was a singer, and her extramarital escapades were the talk of the town. The Wagners amassed such significant debts that they had to escape from creditors and fled Riga. They spent 1840 and 1841 in London and Paris, where Richard worked as an arranger for other composers.

Giacomo Meyerbeer promoted Wagner's third opera, "Rienzi", to performance by the Dresden Court Theatre, where the opera was staged to considerable acclaim. In 1842 the Wagners moved to Dresden and lived there for six years. Eventually Richard was appointed the Royal Saxon Court Conductor. At that time he completed and staged "Der fliegende Hollander" (aka "The Flying Dutchman") and "Tannhauser".

Wagner was exposed to many conflicting political influences, ranging from Marxism and liberalism on the left to German nationalism on the right to the anarchism of Mikhail Bakunin. After the revolution of 1848-49, Wagner fled from Germany to Paris, then to Zurich, and found himself penniless, unemployed and depressed (he had also suffered from a severe skin infection for many years). At that time Wagner was unable to compose or perform music, and he expressed himself in writing essays: "The Art-Work of the Future", describing "Gesamtkunstwerk," or "total artwork" uniting opera, ballet, visual arts and stagecraft.

Wagner's four "Ring" operas gradually evolved, and he completed the libretto by 1852. Another year of suffering went by, until he began composing "Das Rheingold" (aka "The Rhine Gold") in November 1853, following it with "Die Walkure" (aka "The Valkyrie") in 1854. In 1856 he began work on "Siegfried", but put the unfinished opera aside and focused on his new idea: "Tristan und Isolde" (aka "Tristan and Isolde"), which was composed between 1857 and 1859. In 1861 Germany ended the political ban on Wagner, and in 1862 he ended his troubled marriage to Minna.

"Tristan and Isolde" was initially accepted for production in Vienna. The opera had over 70 rehearsals between 1861 and 1864, but remained unperformed and gained a reputation for being unplayable. The young Bavarian King Ludwig II, an admirer of Wagner's operas since his childhood, had settled the composer's debts and financed his opera productions. Finally "Tristan and Isolde" was produced in Munich, and premiered under the baton of Hans von Bulow in June 1865. It was the first Wagner premiere in 15 years.

Cosima von Bulow, the wife of the conductor, Hans von Bulow, and the eldest daughter of pianist/composer Franz Liszt, had an indiscreet affair with Wagner, and their illegitimate daughter, Isolde, was born in 1865. The affair scandalized Munich, and Wagner fell into disfavor among members of the court who were jealous of his friendship with the king. Ludwig was pressured to ask Wagner to leave Munich. However, from 1866 to 1872 the king placed Wagner and his family at Tribshen villa on Lake Luzern, Switzerland. There Richard married Cosime in August 1870. Inspired composer created one of his most beloved works, the "Siegfried Idyll" for 15 players, written as a gift to Cosima, and premiered on Christmas day, 1870.

In 1872 Wagner moved to Bayreuth with a plan that his "Ring" cycle to be performed in a new, specially designed opera house. King Ludwig supported the composer with another large grant in 1874, and the Wagners bought Villa Wahnfried and made permanent home in Bayreuth. In August 1876 the new opera "Festspielhaus" opened with the premiere of "The Ring" and has been the site of the Bayreuth Festival ever since.

Richard Wagner died of a heart attack on February 13, 1883, while wintering in Venice. He was laid to rest in the garden of his Villa Wahnfried in Bayreuth. The Wagner Museum in Lucerne, Switzerland, is now a museum of period musical instruments and art collection of the Wagner family. One room is dedicated to the history of the Wagner Festivals in Lucerne. The Wagner Museum allows visitors to take photos of the documents about the Wagner family's help to the Jewish musicians and intellectuals who fled the Nazi regime in the 1930s.

Documents reveal that the Wagner family were assisting Jewish musicians and intellectuals who fled the Nazi regime in finding employment in Switzerland and other lands, such as the USA and Palestine. Documents, photographs and letters illustrate the bold activity of Arturo Toscanini with Vladimir Horowitz and the Wagner family members in getting funds from the government of Benito Mussolini and using those funds to accommodate Jewish musicians and intellectuals under the umbrella of the annual Wagner Festival in Lucerne. The Wagner Festival Symphony Orchestra employed many Jewish musicians who later joined the Israel Philarmonic Orchestra (then known as the "Palestine Orchestra").

Subaru Kimura was born on 29 June 1990 in Leipzig, German Democratic Republic [nox Saxony, Germany]. He is an actor and producer, known for Transformation Lessons: Let's Star Change Together! (2017), One Piece (1999) and Gekijôban Dôbutsu Sentai Jûôjâ Tai Ninninjâ Mirai kara no Messêji Furomu Sûpâ Sentai (2017).

Roman Osin was born in 1961 in Leipzig, German Democratic Republic. Roman is a cinematographer, known for The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016), Pride & Prejudice (2005) and The Warrior (2001).

Martin Bruchmann was born in Leipzig, East Germany [now Saxony, Germany]. Martin is an actor, known for The Turkish Detective (2023), Never Look Away (2018) and KaDeWe (2021).

Hendrik Duryn was born on 8 October 1967 in Leipzig, German Democratic Republic. He is an actor, known for Der Lehrer (2009), Alarm für Cobra 11 - Einsatz für Team 2 (2003) and Verbotene Liebe (1995).

Gisela Uhlen was born on 16 May 1919 in Leipzig, Germany. She was an actress and writer, known for The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979), Rembrandt (1942) and The Indian Scarf (1963). She was married to Herbert Ballmann, Wolfgang Kieling, Hans Bertram, Beat Hodel and Kurt Wessels. She died on 16 January 2007 in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

From 1992 to 1995, Franziska Petri studied at the renowned Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Art in Berlin. Her cinema debut was a part in Das Mambospiel (1998) by Michael Gwisdek in 1997, which opened the 48th Berlin International Film Festival. With her first leading role in in the award-winning Vergiss Amerika (2000) she attracted both critics' and audiences' attention. After leading roles in the most diverse cinema productions like the historic drama Leo und Claire (2001) by Joseph Vilsmaier, the quirky comedy Max and Moritz Reloaded (2005) by Thomas Frydetzki , the gloomy thriller The Heart Is a Dark Forest (2007) by Nicolette Krebitz, the political drama Long Shadows (2008) by Connie Walter or the psychological drama Der Tag, an dem ich meinen toten Mann traf (2008) by Matthias Luthardt, she appeared in the psycho-thriller Für Miriam (2009) by Lars-Gunnar Lotz. For her outstanding performance in Für Miriam she was awarded Best Actress at the 59th Berlin International Film Festival 2009 (Perspektive Deutsches Kino), Best Actress at La Cabina. Festival Internacional de Mediometrajes de Valencia, Spain 2010 and Best Actress at the 11th Aubagne International Film Festival, France 2010. In 2011 she played the starring role in Kirill Serebrennikov's dark tale of love Betrayal (2012), which premiered in the official competition of the Venice Film Festival 2012. For her impressive performance she was awarded Best Actress at the 2012 Abu Dhabi Film Festival.

Torsten Ranft was born in 1961 in Leipzig, German Democratic Republic. He is an actor, known for Hamlet_X (2003), Liebesau - die andere Heimat (2001) and Castle Einstein (1998).

Sophie Pfennigstorf was born on 11 August 1989 in Leipzig, East Germany. She is an actress and production manager, known for Tatort (1970), Homeland (2011) and Sopravvissuti (2022).

Maximilian Klas was born in 1990 in Leipzig, Germany. He is an actor, known for Das fliegende Klassenzimmer (2003), The World Wars (2014) and Leipzig Homicide (2001).

Thomas Stuber was born in Leipzig in 1981. After graduating from high school, he completed a number of different internships and assistantships in the film industry. Starting in 2002, he worked on several film and TV productions as a script/continuity supervisor and director's assistant. From 2004 to 2011, he studied stage direction at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg. While completing his studies,he received a number of awards for his short film 'Es geht uns gut' ('We're fine', 2006) and for 'Teenage Angst' (2008).'Teenage Angst' was also invited to screen at Berlin International Film Festival in 2008. His graduating film 'Of Dogs and Horses' (2011) won the Student Oscar® in Silver as well as the German Short Film Award.Together with Clemens Meyer, Thomas Stuber was nominated for the German Screenplay Award for their work on 'A Heavy Heart' in 2014, and they received that award for 'In den Gängen' ('In the Aisles') in 2015.

Tara Fischer was born on 24 July 1998 in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany. She is an actress, known for Dark (2017), The Collini Case (2019) and Bruder vor Luder (2015).