21 Notable alumni of
Folkwang University of the Arts
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The Folkwang University of the Arts is 1341st in the world, 458th in Europe, and 55th in Germany by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 21 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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- television actorstage actormusicianfilm actorvoice actor
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Jürgen Prochnow is a German-American 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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- university teacherscreenwriterchoreographerfilm directorballet master
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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. Her work, regarded as a continuation of the European and American expressionist movements, incorporated many expressly dramatic elements and often explored themes connected to trauma, particularly trauma arising out of relationships. She created the company Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, which performs internationally.
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Armin Rohde
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- film actorvoice actor
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Armin Rohde is a German actor and voice actor.
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Johannes Brandrup
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- film actorstage 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
- actordocumentary filmmakertheatrical director
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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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- university teacherphotojournalistphotographer
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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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- character 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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- politicianauthor
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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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- designergraphic designerpaintergraphic artistphotographer
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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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- film directorteacheruniversity teacherBeamterpolitician
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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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- concert singeropera 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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Graham Waterhouse
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- organistcellistcomposermusician
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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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Thomas Gabriel
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- harpsichordistcomposerorganist
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Thomas Gabriel is a German church musician, composer and arranger.
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Amalie Joachim
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- singeropera singer
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Amalie Marie Joachim was an Austrian-German contralto, working in opera and concert and as voice teacher. She was the wife of the violinist Joseph Joachim, and a friend of Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms, with whom she made international tours.
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Tommy Finke
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- songwritercomposer
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Thomas David Finke, also known as T.D. Finck von Finckenstein, is a singer-songwriter as well as composer of electronic computer music, theatre music and for modern dance.
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Susanne Linke
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- dancerchoreographer
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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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- paintercompileruniversity teachertypographergraphic artist
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Max Hubert Innocenz Maria Burchartz was a German photographer.
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Helmut Koch
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- choir directormusicianconductor
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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 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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- stage actorsingerchoreographeractormusical theatre actor
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Dirk Weiler is a German actor and singer.
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Mie Miki
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- keyboardistuniversity teacher
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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.
