26 Notable alumni of
College of Music, Drama and Media Hannover

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The College of Music, Drama and Media Hannover is 1172nd in the world, 412th in Europe, and 48th in Germany by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 26 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.

  1. Katja Riemann

    Katja Riemann
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1963-.. (age 61)
    Enrolled in the College of Music, Drama and Media Hannover
    Studied in 1984-1986
    Occupations
    film actorcomposerwritersingeractor
    Biography

    Katja Hannchen Leni Riemann is a German actress.

  2. Samuel Koch

    Samuel Koch
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1987-.. (age 37)
    Enrolled in the College of Music, Drama and Media Hannover
    Studied in 2010-2014
    Occupations
    actorfilm actorstunt performer
    Biography

    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.

  3. Matthias Brandt

    Matthias Brandt
    Years
    1961-.. (age 63)
    Occupations
    film actorwriteraudio drama actoractorstage actor
    Biography

    Matthias Brandt is a German actor and audiobook narrator. He has appeared in more than seventy films since 1989.

  4. Katharina Schüttler

    Katharina Schüttler
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1979-.. (age 45)
    Occupations
    film actorstage actor
    Biography

    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).

  5. Yundi Li

    Yundi Li
    Born in
    China Flag China
    Years
    1982-.. (age 42)
    Occupations
    pianist
    Biography

    Yundi Li, also known mononymously as Yundi (stylized as YUNDI), is a Chinese pianist. He rose to fame for being the youngest pianist, at the age of eighteen, to win first prize at the International Chopin Piano Competition in 2000.In 2015 he also served as the competition’s youngest-ever juror.

  6. Ara Malikian

    Ara Malikian
    Born in
    Lebanon Flag Lebanon
    Years
    1968-.. (age 56)
    Occupations
    violinist
    Biography

    Ara Malikian is a Lebanese-born violinist of Armenian descent. He was educated in Germany and is now based in Spain.

  7. Ulrike Folkerts

    Ulrike Folkerts
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1961-.. (age 63)
    Occupations
    stage actortelevision actorswimmeractor
    Biography

    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.

  8. Ezzatolah Entezami

    Ezzatolah Entezami
    Born in
    Iran Flag Iran
    Years
    1924-2018 (aged 94)
    Occupations
    film actorstage actor
    Biography

    Ezzatollah Entezami or Ezzatolah Entezami was an Iranian actor. Entezami, Ali Nasirian, Mohammad Ali Keshavarz, Jamshid Mashayekhi and Davoud Rashidi are known as "the five most important actors in the history of Iranian cinema" because of their influence.

  9. Igor Levit

    Igor Levit
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1987-.. (age 37)
    Occupations
    musicianpianist
    Biography

    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.

  10. Bettina Wulff

    Bettina Wulff
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1973-.. (age 51)
    Occupations
    writer
    Biography

    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.

  11. Susanne Wolff

    Susanne Wolff
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1973-.. (age 51)
    Enrolled in the College of Music, Drama and Media Hannover
    Studied in 1994-1998
    Occupations
    film actorstage actordirector
    Biography

    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.

  12. Francis Buchholz

    Francis Buchholz
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1954-.. (age 70)
    Occupations
    composermusicianrecord producerentrepreneur
    Biography

    Francis Buchholz is a German musician best known as the bass guitarist of German rock band Scorpions from 1973 until 1992. Since leaving Scorpions, he has been a member of Michael Schenker's Temple of Rock.

  13. Sabine Meyer

    Sabine Meyer
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1959-.. (age 65)
    Occupations
    university teachermusicianclarinetist
    Biography

    Sabine Meyer is a German classical clarinetist.

  14. Lars Vogt

    Lars Vogt
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1970-2022 (aged 52)
    Occupations
    conductorpianistclassical pianistmusic director
    Biography

    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.

  15. Walter Gieseking

    Walter Gieseking
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1895-1956 (aged 61)
    Occupations
    pianistlepidopteristcomposeracademic musician
    Biography

    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 integral recordings of all their published works which were extant during his life. He also recorded most of Mozart's solo piano works.

  16. Gülsin Onay

    Gülsin Onay
    Born in
    Turkey Flag Turkey
    Years
    1954-.. (age 70)
    Occupations
    classical pianist
    Biography

    Gülsin Onay is a leading Turkish concert pianist of German descent, based in Cambridge, England.

  17. Dong-Min Lim

    Dong-Min Lim
    Born in
    South Korea Flag South Korea
    Years
    1980-.. (age 44)
    Occupations
    pianistcomposer
    Biography

    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.

  18. Francesco Piemontesi

    Francesco Piemontesi
    Born in
    Switzerland Flag Switzerland
    Years
    1983-.. (age 41)
    Occupations
    classical pianist
    Biography

    Francesco Piemontesi is a Swiss pianist.

  19. Giorgi Latsabidze

    Giorgi Latsabidze
    Born in
    Georgia Flag Georgia
    Years
    1978-.. (age 46)
    Occupations
    pianistcomposerfilm score composermusic teacher
    Biography

    Giorgi Latso is a Georgian-American concert pianist, film composer, arranger, adjudicator, improviser and Doctor of Musical Arts. He is listed on the list of famous alumni from USC Thornton School of Music. Latso has won several international piano competitions and awards. He is best known for his interpretations of Chopin and Debussy. His concerts have been broadcast on radio and television in Europe, Asia, and the Americas.

  20. Georges Lentz

    Georges Lentz
    Born in
    Luxembourg Flag Luxembourg
    Years
    1965-.. (age 59)
    Occupations
    composer
    Biography

    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. His music is inspired by the starry night sky in the Australian Outback and by Aboriginal art.

  21. Katharina Treutler

    Katharina Treutler
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1985-.. (age 39)
    Occupations
    pianist
    Biography

    Katharina Treutler is a German pianist.

  22. Jan Kobow

    Jan Kobow
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1966-.. (age 58)
    Occupations
    performing artistopera singer
    Biography

    Jan Kobow is a German classical tenor in concert, Lied, and Baroque opera.

  23. Daniel Gortler

    Daniel Gortler
    Born in
    Israel Flag Israel
    Years
    1965-.. (age 59)
    Occupations
    pianistcomposer
    Biography

    Daniel Gortler is an Israeli pianist and pedagogue.

  24. Peter Vorderer

    Peter Vorderer
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1959-.. (age 65)
    Occupations
    sociologistuniversity teachermedia scholarpsychologist
    Biography

    Peter Vorderer, Prof. Dr. phil. 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).

  25. Harish Shankar

    Harish Shankar
    Born in
    Malaysia Flag Malaysia
    Years
    1984-.. (age 40)
    Occupations
    conductor
    Biography

    Harish Shankar is a Malaysian-German conductor.

  26. Pascal Godart

    Pascal Godart
    Years
    1971-.. (age 53)
    Occupations
    pianist
    Biography

    Pascal Godart is a French classical pianist.