74 Notable Alumni of University of Performing Arts Ernst Busch

Marlene Dietrich

Born in: Germany
Years: 1901-1992 (aged 91)
Occupations: film actortelevision actoractorstage actorsinger
Biography: Marie Magdalene "Marlene" Dietrich was a German and American actress and singer whose career spanned from the 1910s to the 1980s.

Matthias Schweighöfer

Born in: Germany
Years: 1981-.. (age 43)
Occupations: screenwriterfilm actoractorfilm producerentrepreneur
Biography: Matthias Schweighöfer is a German actor and filmmaker known for his work in several German and American film productions. He is best known for his role as Lieutenant Franz Herber in the 2008 film Valkyrie. In 2021, Schweighöfer appeared in the Netflix film Army of the Dead, directed by Zack Snyder, as Ludwig Dieter. He reprised his role in the prequel film, Army of Thieves, which he also directed.

Karoline Herfurth

Born in: Germany
Years: 1984-.. (age 40)
Occupations: film actorfilm directorscreenwriter
Biography: Karoline Herfurth is a German actress.

Simone Thomalla

Born in: Germany
Years: 1965-.. (age 59)
Occupations: film actorstage actor
Biography: Simone Thomalla is a German actress.

Lars Eidinger

Years: 1976-.. (age 48)
Occupations: stage actorpresenterfilm actoractor
Biography: Lars Eidinger is a German actor. He has appeared in German and international film and television productions.

Jan Josef Liefers

Born in: Germany
Years: 1964-.. (age 60)
Enrolled in the University of Performing Arts Ernst Busch: Studied in 1983
Occupations: television actormanufacturerdirectorfilm directorstage actor
Biography: Jan Josef Liefers, is a German actor, producer, director and musician.

Nina Hoss

Born in: Germany
Years: 1975-.. (age 49)
Occupations: stage actorvoice actorfilm actorsinger
Biography: Nina Hoss is a German stage and film actress. She is known for her collaborations with director Christian Petzold in films such as Barbara (2012) and Phoenix (2014). In addition, she also performed roles in The White Masai (2005) and The Audition (2019), and Pelican Blood (2020). She has also starred in the American TV series Homeland (2014–2017), The Defeated (2020), and Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan (2022).

August Diehl

Years: 1976-.. (age 48)
Occupations: actorfilm actorstage actor
Biography: August Diehl is a German actor, primarily known to international audiences for playing Gestapo major Dieter Hellstrom in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds and Michael "Mike" Krause, Evelyn Salt's husband, in the movie Salt. He is also known for his leading roles in the films The Counterfeiters (2007), The Young Karl Marx (2017), and Terrence Malick's A Hidden Life (2019).

Alwara Höfels

Born in: Germany
Years: 1982-.. (age 42)
Occupations: film actorstage actor
Biography: Alwara Höfels is a German actress who works both in front of the camera and on the theater stage.

Manfred Krug

Born in: Germany
Years: 1937-2016 (aged 79)
Occupations: writercomposeractorstage actortelevision actor
Biography: Manfred Krug was a German actor, singer and author.

Sven Martinek

Born in: Germany
Years: 1964-.. (age 60)
Occupations: film actorstage actortelevision actor
Biography: Sven Martinek is a German actor, best known for portraying the main character Max Zander on the German TV series Der Clown.

Jasna Fritzi Bauer

Born in: Germany
Years: 1989-.. (age 35)
Enrolled in the University of Performing Arts Ernst Busch: Studied in 2008-2012
Occupations: stage actordub actorfilm actoractor
Biography: Jasna Fritzi Bauer is a Swiss actress. She has appeared in more than fifteen films since 2010.

Corinna Harfouch

Born in: Germany
Years: 1954-.. (age 70)
Occupations: film actorstage actorvoice actor
Biography: Corinna Harfouch is a German actress.

Claudia Michelsen

Born in: Germany
Years: 1969-.. (age 55)
Occupations: film actorstage actor
Biography: Claudia Michelsen is a German actress. She was born in Dresden and is based in Berlin. She has appeared in more than eighty films since 1989.

Sabin Tambrea

Born in: Romania
Years: 1984-.. (age 40)
Enrolled in the University of Performing Arts Ernst Busch: Studied in 2006-2010
Occupations: film actorstage actor
Biography: Sabin Tambrea is a German actor. He is best known for his role as Ludwig II of Bavaria in Ludwig II.

Charly Hübner

Born in: Germany
Years: 1972-.. (age 52)
Occupations: film directorstage actorscreenwriterfilm actoractor
Biography: Carsten Johannes Marcus Hübner is a German actor. He appeared in more than eighty films since 2003, including Magical Mystery or: The Return of Karl Schmidt (in 2017) and The Good Neighbour (Unter Nachbarn, in 2011). Also known on TV for Transporter (between 2012–2014), Polizeiruf 110 (a detective series, between 2005–2019), crime series Post Mortem in 2007/2008.

Sandra Hüller

Born in: Germany
Years: 1978-.. (age 46)
Occupations: actorfilm actorstage actor
Biography: Sandra Hüller is a German actress. She has appeared in German, Austrian, American, British and French films. She gained international recognition in 2023 for her starring roles in Jonathan Glazer's Holocaust drama The Zone of Interest and Justine Triet's legal drama Anatomy of a Fall. Her performances in them earned her two BAFTA Film Award nominations, while the latter earned her a European Film Award, in addition to nominations for a Golden Globe Award, César Award and an Academy Award for Best Actress.

F. W. Murnau

Born in: Germany
Years: 1888-1931 (aged 43)
Occupations: film directorscreenwriterfilm producerdirector
Biography: Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau was a German film director, producer and screenwriter. He is regarded as one of cinema's most influential filmmakers for his work in the silent era.

Devid Striesow

Born in: Germany
Years: 1973-.. (age 51)
Occupations: film actorstage actortelevision actor
Biography: Devid Striesow is a German actor.

Ronald Zehrfeld

Born in: Germany
Years: 1977-.. (age 47)
Occupations: actorfilm actorstage actor
Biography: Ronald Zehrfeld is a German actor. His movie roles include Barbara (2012), Inbetween Worlds (2014), and Phoenix (2014).

Maria Simon

Born in: Germany
Years: 1976-.. (age 48)
Enrolled in the University of Performing Arts Ernst Busch: Studied in 1999
Occupations: film actorstage actor
Biography: Maria Simon is a German actress.

Alexander Fehling

Years: 1981-.. (age 43)
Occupations: film actorstage actorscreenwriter
Biography: Alexander Fehling is a German film and stage actor. He is best known for portraying Master Sgt. Wilhelm in the 2009 Quentin Tarantino World War II film Inglourious Basterds and Jonas Hollander in the Showtime original series Homeland as the boyfriend of Claire Danes's character Carrie Mathison.

Mark Waschke

Born in: Germany
Years: 1972-.. (age 52)
Occupations: television actorstage actorfilm actoractorperforming artist
Biography: Mark Waschke is a German theatre, film and television actor who has been performing since 2005.

Rebecca Immanuel

Born in: Germany
Years: 1970-.. (age 54)
Occupations: television actorfilm actoractortelevision presenter
Biography: Rebecca Immanuel, born Sonja Zimmer is a German actress.

Sylvester Groth

Born in: Germany
Years: 1958-.. (age 66)
Occupations: stage actorfilm actorsingeractor
Biography: Sylvester Groth is a German theater, television, and film actor. He is best known to international audiences from his appearances in Hollywood movies including Inglourious Basterds and The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Furthermore, he has appeared in the Netflix series Sense8, Fargo, and Dark.

Michael Gwisdek

Born in: Germany
Years: 1942-2020 (aged 78)
Occupations: stage actorfilm actorscreenwriterdirectoractor
Biography: Michael Gwisdek was a German actor and film director.

Simon Schwarz

Born in: Austria
Years: 1971-.. (age 53)
Occupations: film actoractor
Biography: Simon Schwarz is an Austrian actor. He has appeared in more than seventy films since 1996.

Uwe Kockisch

Born in: Germany
Years: 1944-.. (age 80)
Occupations: stage actortelevision actorfilm actoractor
Biography: Uwe Kockisch in Cottbus, Germany) is a German stage, screen and television actor.

Jördis Triebel

Years: 1977-.. (age 47)
Occupations: film actorstage actorvoice actor
Biography: Jördis Triebel is a German film and stage actress.

Julia Jentsch

Years: 1978-.. (age 46)
Occupations: film actorstage actor
Biography: Julia Jentsch is a German actress. She has received awards including the Silver Bear, European Film Award, and Lola. She is best known for Sophie Scholl – The Final Days, The Edukators and I Served the King of England.

Milan Peschel

Years: 1968-.. (age 56)
Occupations: film actorstage actor
Biography: Milan Peschel is a German actor. He appeared in more than fifty films since 1999.

Henry Hübchen

Years: 1947-.. (age 77)
Occupations: film actorfilm directorstage actor
Biography: Henry Hübchen is a German actor who played the title character in the award-winning 2004 film Go for Zucker. That performance earned him a Lola, Germany's equivalent of an Oscar, and critical praise at home and abroad. He was raised in East Berlin, in what was then East Germany.

Jenny Gröllmann

Born in: Germany
Years: 1947-2006 (aged 59)
Occupations: film actorstage actor
Biography: Jenny Gröllmann was a German actress, best known for her work on films I Was Nineteen (1968), Peas at 5:30 (2004) and her recurring role on the show Polizeiruf 110. She won an Ernst Zinna Prize of the city of Berlin in 1974.

Herbert Köfer

Born in: Germany
Years: 1921-2021 (aged 100)
Occupations: film actorradio personalityactortelevision presenterstage actor
Biography: Herbert Köfer was a German actor, voice artist, and television presenter. He was the first German TV news presenter for the East German Deutscher Fernsehfunk, and also presented the station's last news before the reunification of Germany. His first theatre engagement was in 1940, and he kept acting until the age of 100. Köfer played an SS-Hauptsturmführer in the 1963 film Nackt unter Wölfen (Naked Among Wolves). He was known for detective series such as Polizeiruf 110 and for comic roles. He founded his own troupe, Köfers Komödiantenbühne, in 2003, and published memoirs.

Horst Krause

Born in: Poland
Years: 1941-.. (age 83)
Occupations: stage actortelevision actorfilm actoractor
Biography: Horst Krause is a German actor.

Gerit Kling

Born in: Germany
Years: 1965-.. (age 59)
Occupations: actor
Biography: Gerit Kling is a German film, television and voice actress.

Fritzi Haberlandt

Born in: Germany
Years: 1975-.. (age 49)
Occupations: actorfilm actorstage actor
Biography: Fritzi Haberlandt is a German actress.

Hans-Joachim Kulenkampff

Born in: Germany
Years: 1921-1998 (aged 77)
Occupations: television presenterfilm actor
Biography: Hans-Joachim Kulenkampff, nickname Kuli was a German actor and TV host, remembered mainly as host of Einer wird gewinnen, a quiz show that ran from 1964 to 1987.

Thomas Thieme

Born in: Germany
Years: 1948-.. (age 76)
Occupations: stage actortelevision actorfilm actoractor
Biography: Thomas Thieme is a German actor. He is considered to be a prolific stage actor and also appeared in more than 100 film and television productions since 1973.

Friedrich Mücke

Born in: Germany
Years: 1981-.. (age 43)
Occupations: film actorstage actor
Biography: Friedrich Mücke is a German actor who has appeared in more than twenty films since 2006, many of which have tackled issues relating to the former DDR (the Communist state that was commonly known as East Germany).

Helga Hahnemann

Born in: Germany
Years: 1937-1991 (aged 54)
Occupations: television presenterradio personalityfilm actorentertainercomedian
Biography: Helga "Big Helga" Hahnemann was an East German multi-faceted stage performer and entertainer. She came to wider prominence through her television and radio appearances after 1962. By the time reunification arrived in 1990 she had become a leading star of the small screen in East Germany. She fell terminally ill and then died shortly afterwards, possibly because of the extent of her addiction to cigarettes: she was 54. Her death left unanswered the question of how successfully her performances might have captivated pan-German television audiences post unification.

Dagmar Manzel

Born in: Germany
Years: 1958-.. (age 66)
Occupations: actorfilm actorstage actor
Biography: Dagmar Manzel is a German actress. She has appeared in more than 80 films and television shows since 1979. She starred in the 1986 film So Many Dreams, which was entered into the 37th Berlin International Film Festival.

Ursula Karusseit

Born in: Poland
Years: 1939-2019 (aged 80)
Occupations: film actorstage actor
Biography: Ursula Karusseit was a German actress.

Janina Hartwig

Born in: Germany
Years: 1961-.. (age 63)
Occupations: film actoractor
Biography: Janina Hartwig is a German actress.

Mala Emde

Born in: Germany
Years: 1996-.. (age 28)
Occupations: actor
Biography: Mala Emde is a German actress.

Ulrike Krumbiegel

Born in: Germany
Years: 1961-.. (age 63)
Occupations: film actorstage actor
Biography: Ulrike Krumbiegel is a German actress. She has performed in more than 100 film and TV productions. In her early career, she performed in East German cinema and theatre. After the re-unification of Germany, her career continued with appearances in crime series such as Tatort, and the ZDF series SOKO München. She has also continued to appear in the theatre, featuring in plays by Berthold Brecht, Henrik Ibsen and William Shakespeare.

Renate Blume

Born in: Germany
Years: 1944-.. (age 80)
Occupations: film actoractor
Biography: Renate Blume is a German actress. She has appeared in more than 70 films and television shows since 1964. She was a member of the jury at the 14th Moscow International Film Festival.

Dieter Mann

Born in: Germany
Years: 1941-2022 (aged 81)
Occupations: university teacherfilm actorstage actor
Biography: Dieter Mann was a German actor, director, university professor, and radio personality. In his career, he acted in several theater productions and in over 140 film and television productions. Between 1984 and 1991, he was director of the Deutsches Theater. In 1986, he became a member of the Berlin Academy of Arts. Internationally, he is best known for having portrayed Wilhelm Keitel in Downfall.

Christine Schorn

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1944-.. (age 80)
Occupations: film actoractor
Biography: Christine Schorn is a German actress. Schorn has appeared in multiple films and TV shows including Apprehension (1982), According to the Plan (2007) and Das Leben ist nichts für Feiglinge (2012).

Günter Schubert

Born in: Germany
Years: 1938-2008 (aged 70)
Enrolled in the University of Performing Arts Ernst Busch: Studied in 1962
Occupations: television actorstage actorglassmakerfilm actorvoice actor
Biography: Günter Schubert was a German actor and voice actor. His son Alexander Schubert is also an actor. He was born in Weißwasser and died in Berlin.

Jenny Schily

Born in: Germany
Years: 1967-.. (age 57)
Occupations: film actorstage actor
Biography: Jenny Rosa Schily is a German actress who primarily works in theater and film. She has also performed in radio plays.

Catherine Flemming

Born in: Germany
Years: 1967-.. (age 57)
Occupations: film actoractorfilm produceractivisttelevision producer
Biography: Catherine Flemming is a German film and TV actress. She has performed in more than eighty films and TV roles since 1995, nearly all in German.

Anton Walbrook

Born in: Austria
Years: 1896-1967 (aged 71)
Occupations: film actoractor
Biography: Adolf Anton Wilhelm Wohlbrück was an Austrian actor who settled in the United Kingdom under the name Anton Walbrook. A popular performer in Austria and pre-war Germany, he left in 1936 out of concerns for his own safety and established a career in British cinema. Walbrook is perhaps best known for his roles in the original British film of Gaslight, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp and The Red Shoes.

Leander Haußmann

Born in: Germany
Years: 1959-.. (age 65)
Occupations: actorfilm directorscreenwriter
Biography: Leander Haußmann is a German theatre and film director.

Ludwig Blochberger

Years: 1982-.. (age 42)
Occupations: stage actortelevision actorfilm actoractor
Biography: Ludwig Blochberger is a German actor. He is best known for his appearance in the coming of age movie Summer Storm dealing with issues around sexual orientation. He also appeared on German TV drama programmes including The Old Fox, Tatort and Brittany Mystery. Furthermore he portrayed the Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, in the TV documentary drama Helmut Schmidt - Lebensfragen.

Franziska Petri

Born in: Germany
Years: 1973-.. (age 51)
Occupations: film actoractor
Biography: Franziska Petri is a German actress.

Renate Müller

Born in: Germany
Years: 1906-1937 (aged 31)
Occupations: actorsingerfilm actor
Biography: Renate Müller was a German singer and actress in both silent films and sound films, as well as on stage.

Marianne Hoppe

Born in: Germany
Years: 1909-2002 (aged 93)
Occupations: film actorstage actor
Biography: Marianne Hoppe was a German theatre and film actress.

Ursula Werner

Born in: Germany
Years: 1943-.. (age 81)
Occupations: film actorstage actor
Biography: Ursula Werner is a German actress.

Gustav von Wangenheim

Born in: Germany
Years: 1895-1975 (aged 80)
Occupations: writeractordirectorfilm directorscreenwriter
Biography: Gustav von Wangenheim was a German actor, screenwriter and director.

Thomas Ostermeier

Born in: Germany
Years: 1968-.. (age 56)
Enrolled in the University of Performing Arts Ernst Busch: Studied in 1992-1996
Occupations: theatrical director
Biography: Thomas Ostermeier is a German theatre director. He currently mainly works for the Schaubühne.

Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss

Years: 1962-.. (age 62)
Occupations: television actorfilm directorscreenwriterfilm actoractor
Biography: Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss is a German actor and director. He has appeared in television and films for over 20 years. He played a leading role in Doris Dörrie's 1994 film, Nobody Loves Me. He also plays a leading role in the comedy series Alles wird gut.

O. E. Hasse

Born in: Poland
Years: 1903-1978 (aged 75)
Occupations: television actorfilm directorstage actorfilm actorvoice actor
Biography: Otto Eduard Hasse was a German film actor and director.

Werner Hinz

Born in: Germany
Years: 1903-1985 (aged 82)
Occupations: film actorstage actorvoice actor
Biography: Werner Hinz was a German film actor. He appeared in 70 films between 1935 and 1984.

Jürgen Hentsch

Born in: Germany
Years: 1936-2011 (aged 75)
Occupations: film actorstage actortelevision actor
Biography: Jürgen Hentsch was a German actor. He was known for several movies and TV shows such as The Deathmaker (1995), In the Shadow of Power (2003) and Der Mann mit der Maske (1994). He was married to Wassilka Hentsch.

Otto Wallburg

Born in: Germany
Years: 1889-1944 (aged 55)
Occupations: film actorstage actor
Biography: Otto Wallburg was a German actor and Kabarett performer. He was a prolific film actor during the late silent and early sound era.

Doris Abeßer

Born in: Germany
Years: 1935-2016 (aged 81)
Occupations: television actorstage actordub actoraudio drama actorfilm actor
Biography: Doris Abeßer was a German actress and radio personality. She was born in Berlin and appeared in television and films from 1952 onwards. She was awarded an Erich Weinert Medal by Free German Youth in 1961. She married Günter Stahnka, a German film director in 1963.

Mathias Wieman

Born in: Germany
Years: 1902-1969 (aged 67)
Occupations: film actorstage actorscreenwriter
Biography: Mathias Wieman was a German stage-performer, silent-and-sound motion picture actor.

Alfred Braun

Born in: Germany
Years: 1888-1978 (aged 90)
Occupations: directoractorstage actorjournalistfilm director
Biography: Alfred Braun was a German screenwriter, actor and film director.

Jens Hoffmann

Born in: Costa Rica
Years: 1974-.. (age 50)
Occupations: exhibition curatorwritercuratorart historian
Biography: Jens Hoffmann Mesén is a writer, editor, educator, and exhibition maker. His work has attempted to expand the definition and context of exhibition making. From 2003 to 2007 Hoffmann was director of exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Arts London. He is the former director of the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art from 2007 to 2016 and deputy director for exhibitions and programs at The Jewish Museum from 2012 to 2017, a role from which he was terminated following an investigation into sexual harassment allegations brought forth by staff members. Hoffmann has held several teaching positions including California College of the Arts, the Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti and Goldsmiths, University of London, as well as others.

Lothar Müthel

Born in: Germany
Years: 1896-1964 (aged 68)
Occupations: stage actorfilm actoractordirector
Biography: Lothar Müthel was a German stage and film actor and director.

Paul Graetz

Born in: Germany
Years: 1890-1937 (aged 47)
Occupations: presenterfilm actor
Biography: Paul Graetz was a German actor and star of the Weimar cabaret.

Gerda Müller

Years: 1894-1951 (aged 57)
Occupations: actorfilm actorstage actor
Biography: Gerda Müller was a German stage actress.

Gergana Dimitrova

Born in: Bulgaria
Years: 1975-.. (age 49)
Occupations: playwrighttranslator
Biography: Gergana Dimitrova is Bulgarian theatre director, playwright and translator.