DEFA was the state-owned film studio of the German Democratic Republic throughout the country's existence.
Inge Meysel was a German actress. From the early 1960s until her death, Meysel was one of Germany's most popular actresses. She had a successful stage career and played more than 100 roles in film and on television.
KiKA is a German free-to-air television channel based in Erfurt, Germany. It is managed by a joint venture by public-service broadcasters ARD and ZDF. Its intended audience is children and the youth, and it is generally watched by children 3 to 13.
Siegfried Lenz was a German writer of novels, short stories and essays, as well as dramas for radio and the theatre. In 2000 he received the Goethe Prize on the 250th Anniversary of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's birth. He won the 2010 International Nonino Prize in Italy.
Karl May film adaptations are films based on stories and characters by German author Karl May (1842–1912). The characters Old Shatterhand, Winnetou, and Kara Ben Nemsi are very famous in Central Europe.
Paul Maar is one of the most important modern German writers for children and young people. He is a novelist, playwright, translator and illustrator.
Hans Clarin was a German actor. He became a well-known voice actor of characters in children audio plays, particularly the kobold Pumuckl, the German voice of René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo's diminutive Gaulish hero Asterix, and the ghost Hui Buh.
Ursula Karven, previously Ursula Karven-Veres is a German actress, writer, model and yoga instructor.
The Augsburger Puppenkiste is a marionette theater in Augsburg, Germany.
Heinz Schubert was a German actor, drama teacher and photographer, best known for playing the role of Alfred Tetzlaff in the German television sitcom Ein Herz und eine Seele.
The Moomins is a stop motion animated children's television series based on the Tove Jansson's Moomin series of books which was produced by Se-ma-for and Jupiter Film between 1977 and 1982 for Polish, Austrian and German television. The series was later sold to other countries including the UK. The British version was adapted by Anne Wood at FilmFair for ITV Central and broadcast in the UK. Series 1 was first shown on Monday 24 January 1983 at 4:15 pm and series 2 on Monday 7 January 1985 at 4.15pm on Children's ITV, and series 2 was repeated in 1986. The series was last repeated in its entirety in 1988. It was narrated by British actor Richard Murdoch.
Thomas Fritsch was a German film, television and dubbing actor. He was regarded as the "Sonnyboy" in the German cinema of the 1960s, and became one of the best-known actors by his presence in television series. Later, he was the German voice of Russell Crowe, of Scar in The Lion King, and of Diego, a Smilodon, in Ice Age.
Jürgen Roland, born Jürgen Schellack was a German film director. Roland was described as the "father of German TV crime shows". He directed about 80 TV productions and 30 movies.
Karin Baal, real name Karin Blauermel, is a German film actress. She has appeared in more than 90 films since 1956.
Der Grüne Wagen is a German language theatre group, originally based in Germany but since 1983 based in Austria. It is the oldest German-language touring theatre of the post-war period.
Max Kruse was a German writer, mostly known for his children's books Der Löwe ist los and Urmel aus dem Eis.
Dominik Graf is a German film director. He studied film direction at University of Television and Film Munich, from where he graduated in 1975. While he has directed several theatrically released feature films since the 1980s, he more often finds work in television, focussing primarily on the genres police drama, thriller and crime mystery, although he has also made comedies, melodramas, documentaries and essay films. He is an active participant in public discourse about the values of genre film in Germany, through numerous articles, and interviews, some of which have been collected into a book.
Kleiner König Kalle Wirsch is a children's book by the German author Tilde Michels from 1969. In 1970 it was adapted into a German children's television series by the Augsburger Puppenkiste marionette theatre company.
Walter Sittler is an American-German actor, producer, and writer.
