27 Notable alumni of
College of Music, Drama and Media Hannover
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The College of Music, Drama and Media Hannover is 1245th in the world, 442nd in Europe, and 50th in Germany by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 27 notable alumni from the College of Music, Drama and Media Hannover sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Katja Riemann
- Enrolled in the College of Music, Drama and Media Hannover
- Studied in 1984-1986
- Occupations
- singerwritercomposerfilm actorvoice actor
- Biography
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Katja Hannchen Leni Riemann is a German actress.
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Samuel Koch
- Enrolled in the College of Music, Drama and Media Hannover
- Studied in 2010-2014
- Occupations
- film actoractorstunt performer
- Biography
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Samuel Koch is a German actor and former stunt performer. In 2010, during the filming of Wetten, dass..?, he was involved in an incident that resulted in his quadriplegia.
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Matthias Brandt
- Years
- 1961-.. (age 65)
- Occupations
- actoraudio drama actorwriterfilm actorvoice actor
- Biography
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Matthias Brandt is a German actor, audiobook narrator, and writer. He has appeared in more than seventy films since 1989.
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Katharina Schüttler
- Occupations
- stage actorfilm actor
- Biography
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Katharina Schüttler is a German television and film actress. Her film debut was in the movie Die Lok in 1992. She is best known internationally for leading roles as Clara Rosenbaum in The Promise (2011) and as Greta Müller in the television drama Generation War (2013).
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Ara Malikian
- Occupations
- violinist
- Biography
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Ara Malikian is a Lebanese-born violinist of Armenian descent. He was educated in Germany and was later based in Spain. He has a wide repertoire and includes music from many cultures. He has played in over 40 countries and has won numerous prizes in international competitions. Malikian has recorded nearly 30 albums over a period of 25 years.
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Yundi
- Occupations
- pianist
- Biography
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Yundi Li, also known simply as Yundi (stylized as YUNDI), is a Chinese classical concert pianist. Yundi is considered one of the greatest contemporary interpreters of Chopin and is also especially known for his interpretations of Liszt and Prokofiev.
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Igor Levit
- Occupations
- pianistmusic educatormusician
- Biography
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Igor Levit is a Russian-German pianist who focuses on the works of Bach, Beethoven, and Liszt. He is also a professor at the Musikhochschule Hannover. He lives in Berlin.
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Ulrike Folkerts
- Occupations
- television actorstage actoractorswimmer
- Biography
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Ulrike Folkerts is a German actress. She is most famous for playing police officer Lena Odenthal in the German crime television series Tatort. The episodes are located in the town of Ludwigshafen.
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Ezzatolah Entezami
- Occupations
- film actortheatrical directorstage actor
- Biography
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Ezzatollah Entezami, or Ezzatolah Entezami was an Iranian actor.
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Bettina Wulff
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Bettina Wulff is the wife of the former German President Christian Wulff and was therefore sometimes referred to by the media as the "First Lady" during her husband's presidency.
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Susanne Wolff
- Enrolled in the College of Music, Drama and Media Hannover
- Studied in 1994-1998
- Occupations
- film actordirectorstage actor
- Biography
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Susanne Wolff is a German actress. Her credits include the television series Morgen hör ich auf and the films Styx and The Stranger in Me.
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Francis Buchholz
- Occupations
- composerbass guitaristentrepreneurrecord producer
- Biography
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Francis Buchholz was a German musician best known as the bass guitarist of the German rock band Scorpions from 1973 until 1992, a group that was successful internationally; his bass riffs for hits such as "Rock You Like a Hurricane" and "Wind of Change" were regarded as iconic. After leaving Scorpions, he was a member of Michael Schenker's Temple of Rock, among others.
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Joana Mallwitz
- Occupations
- conductorpianist
- Biography
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Joana Mallwitz is a German conductor and pianist. She is the principal conductor of the Konzerthausorchester Berlin.
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Sabine Meyer
- Occupations
- university teacherclarinetistmusician
- Biography
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Sabine Meyer is a German classical clarinetist. She ended her career with a final chamber music performance on 15 December 2025 in Bern.
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Lars Vogt
- Occupations
- pianistconductormusic directorclassical pianist
- Biography
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Lars Vogt was a German classical pianist, conductor and academic teacher. Noted by The New York Times for his interpretations of Brahms, Vogt performed as a soloist with major orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic. He was the music director of the Orchestre de chambre de Paris at the time of his death and also served as the music director of the Royal Northern Sinfonia. He ran a festival of chamber music, Spannungen, from 1998, and succeeded his teacher Karl-Heinz Kämmerling as professor of piano at the Musikhochschule Hannover.
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Walter Gieseking
- Occupations
- composerlepidopteristpianistacademic musician
- Biography
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Walter Wilhelm Gieseking was a French-born German pianist and composer. Gieseking was renowned for his subtle touch, pedaling, and dynamic control—particularly in the music of Debussy and Ravel; he made complete recordings of all their published works which were extant during his life. He also recorded most of Mozart's solo piano works.
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Gülsin Onay
- Occupations
- classical pianist
- Biography
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Gülsin Onay is a Turkish classical pianist.
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Francesco Piemontesi
- Occupations
- classical pianist
- Biography
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Francesco Piemontesi is a Swiss pianist.
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Dong-Min Lim
- Occupations
- composerpianist
- Biography
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Dong-Min Lim is a South Korean classical pianist. He and his brother Dong-Hyek Lim won third prize at the XV International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw. Dong Min Lim studied at the Moscow Conservatory, at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover and at Mannes College The New School for Music.
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Giorgi Latsabidze
- Occupations
- musicianpianistfilm score composercomposermusic educator
- Biography
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Giorgi Latso is a Georgian-American concert pianist, film composer, arranger, adjudicator, improviser and Doctor of Musical Arts. Latso has won several international piano competitions and awards. He is best known for his interpretations of Chopin and Debussy. He is a founder & CEO of Amadeus International Foundation. His concerts have been broadcast on radio and television in Europe, Asia, and the Americas.
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Georges Lentz
- Occupations
- composer
- Biography
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Georges Lentz is a contemporary composer and sound artist born in Luxembourg in 1965 and that country's internationally best known composer. Since 1990, he has been living in Sydney, Australia. Despite his relatively small output and his reclusiveness, he is also considered one of Australia's leading composers on the world stage. His music is inspired by the starry night sky in the Australian Outback and by Aboriginal art.
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Katharina Treutler
- Occupations
- pianist
- Biography
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Katharina Treutler is a German pianist.
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Jan Kobow
- Occupations
- opera singerperforming artist
- Biography
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Jan Kobow is a German classical tenor in concert, Lied, and Baroque opera.
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Daniel Gortler
- Occupations
- composerpianist
- Biography
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Daniel Gortler is an Israeli pianist.
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Peter Vorderer
- Occupations
- sociologistpsychologistmedia scholaruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Peter Vorderer is a German professor of media and Communication studies at the University of Mannheim focusing on the area of media psychology, entertainment research, and the social change related to the use of new media. He made major contributions to the field of mass communication, primarily in the area of media effects research. From May 2014 until May 2015, he was president of the International Communication Association (ICA).
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Harish Shankar
- Occupations
- conductor
- Biography
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Harish Shankar is a Malaysian-German conductor.
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Pascal Godart
- Occupations
- pianistconductor
- Biography
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Pascal Godart is a French classical pianist.
