34 Notable alumni of
Academy of Music and Theatre Hamburg
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The Academy of Music and Theatre Hamburg is 1156th in the world, 412th in Europe, and 47th in Germany by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 34 notable alumni from the Academy of Music and Theatre Hamburg sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Erdoğan Atalay
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- screenwriterstage actortelevision actoractorfilm actor
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Erdoğan Atalay is a German actor. He is known for his role as police detective Semir Gerkhan in Alarm für Cobra 11 - Die Autobahnpolizei.
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Evelyn Hamann
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- television actorvoice actorstage actorfilm actor
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Eveline Braun, commonly known as Evelyn Hamann, was a German actress best known for her work with popular German comedian Loriot as well as for her appearances in television series such as The Black Forest Clinic and Adelheid und ihre Mörder.
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Susanne Lothar
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- film actortelevision actorstage actor
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Susanne Lothar was a German film, television and stage actress. Her work included collaborations with Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke. She was married to fellow actor Ulrich Mühe, with whom she frequently appeared on stage and in films.
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Justus von Dohnányi
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- film screenwritertelevision directorfilm actorfilm directoractor
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Justus von Dohnányi is a German actor, best known for portraying Wilhelm Burgdorf in the 2004 film Downfall.
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Ivan Rebroff
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- composerrecording artistopera singer
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Ivan Rebroff was a German vocalist, allegedly of Russian ancestry, who rose to prominence for his distinct and extensive vocal range of four octaves, ranging "from a low F to a high F, one and a quarter octaves above C". An imposing figure on stage, usually bearded and dressed in Cossack clothing, his presence was enhanced by his height, being over 2 metres tall.
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Hannelore Hoger
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- directorstage actorfilm directoractorspeaker
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Hannelore Hoger was a German actress and theatre director. She played the title role in Bella Block.
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Dagmar Berghoff
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- television presenterradio personalitynews presenterstage actorjournalist
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Dagmar Berghoff is a German radio and television presenter. Originally an actress, she became known as a reader of the evening news for ARD.
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Horst Frank
- Enrolled in the Academy of Music and Theatre Hamburg
- Studied in 1947-1949
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- stage actorwritervoice actoractorfilm actor
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Horst Frank was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 100 films between 1955 and 1999. He was born in Lübeck and died in Heidelberg.
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Christoph Eschenbach
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- pianistconductor
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Christoph Eschenbach is a German pianist and conductor. Over the past decades, he has held positions as music directors at 13 orchestras worldwide. In 2014, he was awarded a Grammy Award for an album with works by Paul Hindemith and received the prestigious Ernst von Siemens Music Prize in 2015 for his contributions to music.
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Marie-Luise Marjan
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- writervoice actoractorfilm actor
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Marie-Luise Marjan is a German actress.
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Aleksandra Kurzak
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- opera singer
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Aleksandra Kurzak is a Polish operatic soprano who has an international career primarily in Europe and the United States. In her earlier career she was a specialist in lyric and coloratura soprano roles in German and Italian repertoire, and transitioned into heavier roles in 19th-century Romantic and verismo operas.
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Lisa Batiashvili
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- violinistmusician
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Elisabeth Batiashvili, professionally known as Lisa Batiashvili, is a prominent Georgian violinist active across Europe and the United States. A former New York Philharmonic artist-in-residence, she is acclaimed for her "natural elegance, silky sound and the meticulous grace of her articulation". Batiashvili makes frequent appearances at high-profile international events; she was the violin soloist at the 2018 Nobel Prize concert.
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Peter Jordan
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- actor
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Peter Jordan is a German actor. He has appeared in more than seventy films since 1995.
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Oliver Bendt
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- songwritersingeractorrecord producer
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Oliver Bendt is a German singer and actor.
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Justus Frantz
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- television presenterpianistconductor
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Justus Frantz is a German pianist, conductor, and television personality.
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Ludwig Haas
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- film actoractortelevision actor
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Ludwig Haas was a German television actor. He is best known for portraying Dr. Ludwig Dressler in the WDR German television series Lindenstraße, since the very first episode in 1985.
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Wolfgang Sawallisch
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- conductorclassical pianist
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Wolfgang Sawallisch was a German conductor and pianist.
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Hans-Joachim Frey
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- opera singermusic director
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Hans-Joachim Frey is a German cultural manager. From 1997 to 2007, he was Artistic Director of Operations and Director of Opera (from 2003) at the Semperoper in Dresden from 2007 to 2010 and general director at the Theater Bremen. In January 2013 he was responsible in the European Capital of Culture in Linz as a board director and artistic director of Liva, where he was also on the Bruckner House, the International Bruckner Festival and the clouds of sound.
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Hermann Baumann
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- music educatorhorn playercomposeruniversity teachermusicologist
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Hermann Rudolph Michel Konrad Baumann was a German horn player who was a pioneer of the natural horn in the revival of both Baroque and Classical period music. He was a principal hornist of leading orchestras, and made an international career as a soloist. He made recordings such as Mozart's Horn Concertos on a natural horn with Nikolaus Harnoncourt and the first recording of Ligeti's 1982 Horn Trio, which he had premiered. Baumann was professor of horn at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen from 1969 for around 30 years.
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Dorothea Röschmann
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- opera singermusician
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Dorothea Röschmann is a German soprano. She is famous for her performances in operas by Mozart as well as Lieder.
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Włodek Pawlik
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- music educatorfilm score composercomposerjazz musicianpianist
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Włodek Pawlik, Włodzimierz Pawlik is a Polish composer and jazz pianist. On 26 January 2014, he became the first Polish jazz musician to receive a Grammy Award, having won in the Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album category with his album Night in Calisia, recorded with Randy Brecker and the Kalisz Philharmonic Orchestra, released in the USA by Summit Records.
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Angela Richter
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- theatrical directordirectorfilm director
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Angela Richter is a German-Croatian theatre director and author.
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Leonora Armellini
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- music educatorpianist
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Leonora Armellini is an Italian pianist.
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Daniel Hoevels
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- film actoractorstage actor
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Daniel Hoevels is a Swedish-born German theater actor.
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Rüdiger Kuhlbrodt
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- actorfilm actor
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Rüdiger Kuhlbrodt is a German film and theatre actor and director.
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Tanja Tetzlaff
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- cellist
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Tanja Tetzlaff is a German cellist. She played first as an orchestra member, but then as a soloist, a founding member of the Tetzlaff Quartet, a string quartet led by her brother Christian Tetzlaff, and as a chamber musician. She has recorded cello concertos and chamber music, including contemporary music, and has appeared internationally.
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Olga Jegunova
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- musicianpianist
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Olga Jegunova is a Latvian classical pianist, born in Šiauliai, Lithuania (then Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic). She is now married, mother of two children and lives in Paris.
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Ann-Helena Schlüter
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- artistorganistmusic teacherwritercomposer
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Ann-Helena Schlüter is a German-born Swedish pianist, organist, composer and poet.
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Ingrid Bachér
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- writerchildren's writerjournalistscreenwriter
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Ingrid Bachér is a German writer, a former member of the Gruppe 47 and former president of the PEN Germany.
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Talia Or
- Years
- 1977-.. (age 49)
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- opera singerperforming artist
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Talia Or is an Israeli-born operatic and concert soprano based in Germany. Her repertoire ranges from concert and lied to contemporary music. She is a lecturer on singing at Musikhochschule München.
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Ursula Boese
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- opera singer
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Ursula Boese was a German operatic contralto. A member of the Hamburg State Opera from 1960 to 1993, she pursued an international career. She appeared as Stravinsky's Iocaste at the San Francisco Opera in the presence of the composer, as Wagner's Fricka in Wieland Wagner's last production of the Ring Cycle at the Bayreuth Festival, and as Verdi's Ulrica alongside Luciano Pavarotti.
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Janina Baechle
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- opera singer
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Janina Baechle is a German operatic mezzo-soprano. She was a member of the Vienna State Opera from 2004 to 2011, and has appeared internationally.
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John Persen
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- composer
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John Andreas Persen was a Norwegian composer. John Persen grew up in a laestadian, Sami family in Ráigeadja in Porsanger Municipality and was a son-in-law of Finn Strømsted. In 1968, John Persen moved to Oslo to study music and initiated the establishment of the Norwegian Academy of Music at the same time. He was the student representative for the creation of the Norwegian Academy of Music (1969-1971), leader for the UNM music festival (1970-1973) and leader for Ny Musikk (1973-1976). He was a key player involved in Kunstneraksjonen 74 (an artist' right pressure group) and important advocate for the New Music. Together with Olav Anton Thomessen, he was a key initiator for the establishment of Norsk Musikkinformasjon in the early 1970s, which he was a board member of several times in the 1970s and 1980s. Furthermore, he was the initiator and first leader of the Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival (1990-1994).
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Franziska Huhn
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- music educator
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Franziska Huhn is a German harpist. Currently, she lives in the United States.
