23 Notable alumni of
Folkwang University of the Arts
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The Folkwang University of the Arts is 1324th in the world, 457th in Europe, and 54th in Germany by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 23 notable alumni from the Folkwang University of the Arts sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Jürgen Prochnow
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- film actormusicianstage actortelevision actorvoice actor
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Jürgen Prochnow is a German actor. His international breakthrough was his portrayal of the good-hearted and sympathetic U-boat Commander "Der Alte" ("Old Man") in the 1981 war film Das Boot.
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Pina Bausch
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- film directorchoreographerscreenwriteruniversity teacherballet dancer
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Philippine "Pina" Bausch was a German dancer and choreographer who was a significant contributor to a neo-expressionist dance tradition now known as Tanztheater. Bausch's approach was noted for a stylized blend of dance movement, prominent sound design, and involved stage sets, as well as for engaging the dancers under her to help in the development of a piece, and her work had an influence on modern dance from the 1970s forward. She created the company Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, which performs internationally.
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Armin Rohde
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- voice actorfilm actor
- Biography
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Armin Rohde is a German actor and voice actor.
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Karoline Eichhorn
- Enrolled in the Folkwang University of the Arts
- Studied in 1986-1989
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- stage actorfilm actoractor
- Biography
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Karoline Eichhorn is a German stage, film, television, and voice actress.
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Hagen Rether
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- pianistcabaret performer
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Hagen Rether is a Romanian-born German political cabaret artist and musician. The most remarkable features in his performance are usually the presence and use of a grand piano. He was a frequent contributor to the German Kabarett TV show Scheibenwischer.
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Johannes Brandrup
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- stage actorfilm actortelevision actor
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Johannes Brandrup is a German actor.
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Klara Höfels
- Enrolled in the Folkwang University of the Arts
- 1969-1972 studied spoken drama
- Occupations
- documentary filmmakeractortheatrical director
- Biography
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Klara Höfels was a German actress, director and theatre producer. She was first a stage actress, who played leading roles on stage at Schauspiel Frankfurt, Residenztheater in Munich and Staatstheater Stuttgart. She became known for roles in television series such as SOKO and Hinter Gittern – Der Frauenknast, beginning in the 1990s. She produced film documentaries, responsible for direction and camera, and ran Autorentheater Berlin for new theatre projects.
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Thomas Ruff
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- artistvisual artistphotographerphotojournalistuniversity teacher
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Thomas Ruff is a German photographer who lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany. He has been described as "a master of edited and reimagined images".
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Andreas Deja
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- animatorcharacter animatorcharacter designer
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Andreas Deja is a Polish-born German-American character animator most noted for his work at Walt Disney Animation Studios. Deja's work includes serving as supervising animator on characters in several Disney animated films, including the Disney villains Gaston in Beauty and the Beast, Jafar in Aladdin, and Scar in The Lion King, the titular character in Hercules, and Lilo Pelekai in Lilo & Stitch.
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Nina Scheer
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- authorpolitician
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Nina Scheer is a German lawyer and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been a member of the Bundestag since 2013. Her political interests include energy policy and climate change. In 2019, Scheer was an unsuccessful candidate in the 2019 Social Democratic Party of Germany leadership election, in a team with Karl Lauterbach. Her father was Hermann Scheer, also a SPD Bundestag member.
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Anton Stankowski
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- photographergraphic artistpaintergraphic designerdesigner
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Anton Stankowski was a German graphic designer, photographer and painter. He developed an original Theory of Design and pioneered Constructive Graphic Art. Typical Stankowski designs attempt to illustrate processes or behaviours rather than objects. Such experiments resulted in the use of fractal-like structures long before their popularisation by Benoît Mandelbrot in 1975.
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Hilmar Hoffmann
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- politicianBeamteruniversity teacherteacherfilm director
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Hilmar Hoffmann was a German stage and film director, cultural politician and academic lecturer. He founded the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen. He was for decades an influential city councillor in Frankfurt, where he initiated the Museumsufer of 15 museums, including the Jewish Museum Frankfurt. He was the president of the Goethe-Institut and taught at universities such as Bochum and Tel Aviv. He wrote the book Kultur für alle (Culture for All), which was a motto of his life and work.
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Agnes Giebel
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- opera singerconcert singer
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Agnes Giebel was a German classical soprano. She was born in Heerlen, in the Netherlands, where she lived the first years of her life. She studied at the Folkwangschule in Essen and made her first public appearance as a singer in 1947. Her career lasted until the 1990s during which she established a wide-ranging discography.
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Thomas Gabriel
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- composerharpsichordistorganist
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Thomas Gabriel is a German church musician, composer and arranger.
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Graham Waterhouse
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- musiciancomposercellistorganist
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Graham Waterhouse is an English composer and cellist who specializes in chamber music. He has composed a cello concerto, Three Pieces for Solo Cello and Variations for Cello Solo for his own instrument, and string quartets and compositions that juxtapose a quartet with a solo instrument, including Piccolo Quintet, Bassoon Quintet and the piano quintet Rhapsodie Macabre. He has set poetry for speaking voice and cello, such as Der Handschuh, and has written song cycles. His compositions reflect the individual capacity and character of players and instruments, from the piccolo to the contrabassoon.
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Tommy Finke
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- composersongwriter
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Tommy Finke, sometimes using the pseudonym T.D. Finck von Finckenstein, is a German singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He is known for his work in indie, alternative, and pop music, as well as for composing electronic music, theater scores, and film soundtracks. From 2015 to 2020, Finke served as the musical director at Schauspiel Dortmund.
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Susanne Linke
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- choreographerdancer
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Susanne Linke is an internationally renowned German dancer and choreographer who is one of the major innovators of German Tanztheater, along with Pina Bausch and Reinhild Hoffmann.
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Max Burchartz
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- photographergraphic artisttypographeruniversity teachercompiler
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Max Hubert Innocenz Maria Burchartz was a German painter, typographer, photographer, commercial art designer, and graphic arts teacher.
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Reinhild Hoffmann
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- choreographerdancer
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Reinhild Hoffmann is a German choreographer and dancer who is an important innovator in Tanztheater, along with Pina Bausch and Susanne Linke.
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Helmut Koch
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- musicianchoir directorconductor
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Helmut Koch was a German conductor, choir leader, composer, and academic teacher. He was recording manager for the Berliner Rundfunk from 1945, where he founded the Solistenvereinigung Berlin, the Kammerorchester Berlin and the Großer Chor des Berliner Rundfunks. He conducted a recording of Monteverdi's L'Orfeo in 1949, and later also contemporary classical music by composers including Hanns Eisler, Fritz Geißler, Ernst Hermann Meyer and Ruth Zechlin. He was professor at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" from its beginning. After working as a regular guest conductor at the Staatsoper Berlin, he became Generalmusikdirektor. He was the first conductor of the Berliner Singakademie in East Berlin, and held the position until his death.
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Dirk Weiler
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- 20th Century
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- actorchoreographersingerstage actormusical theatre actor
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Dirk Weiler is a German actor and singer.
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Mie Miki
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- university teacherkeyboardist
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Mie Miki is a classical accordion musician. She took up the accordion at age 4 and has been dubbed "Queen of the Classical Accordion". She is a professor of accordion as well as Vice President at Folkwang University of the Arts and is honorary professor at the Xinjian Arts College. She has published at least 16 albums since 1984 and her work appears on more than 26 albums. She won the Japan Music Pen Club Award 2014 and the Opus Klassik prize in 2018.
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Greta Wrage von Pustau
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- dancer
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Greta Wrage von Pustau was a Chinese-born German dancer and dance teacher.
