Stefan Heym

Heinrich Heine

German poet, journalist, essayist, and literary critic

Hans Habe

Austrian writer

Erich Honecker

German communist politician

Wolf Biermann

German singer-songwriter and former East German dissident

Karl Radek

German politician

Hava Kohav Beller

German filmmaker

Konrad Adenauer

German statesman, Federal Chancellor of Germany, politician

Guido Knopp

German journalist

Isaak Dentler

German voice actor

Klaus Michael Heinz

German journalist

Vicco von Bülow

German comedian, humorist, cartoonist, film director, actor and writer

Reinhold Beckmann

German journalist

Axel Corti

Austrian film director, screenwriter and radio host

Reinhard Münchenhagen

German television presenter

Dietmar Schönherr

Austrian actor

Hansjürgen Rosenbauer

German television presenter

Franz Josef Degenhardt

German songwriter, writer and lawyer

Thomas Brasch

German author, poet and film director

Ruprecht Eser

German journalist

Heiner Geißler

German politician

Giovanni di Lorenzo

German journalist

Amelie Fried

Writer

Judith Rakers

German journalist and television presenter

Manfred Wolter

German writer

Kenneth Branagh

Actor and film director from Northern Ireland

Robert McNamara

American businessman and Secretary of Defense

Maybrit Illner

German journalist

Frank Tuttle

Film director

Lester Cole

American politician

Frank Butler (writer)

American actor

Luise Rainer

German-born Austrian and American film actress

Arturo de Córdova

Actor

William Bendix

American actor

Gottfried Herrmann

German film director and actor

Fredy Barten

German actor

Ursula Burg

German actress

Peter Schulze-Rohr

German film director, screenwriter, film producer and journalist

Klaus Poche

German writer, screenwriter and illustrator

Curd Jürgens

Film, stage and TV actor

Hans Christian Blech

German actor

Thekla Carola Wied

German actress

Peter Simonischek

Austrian actor

Annette Uhlen

German actress

Helmut Berger

Austrian actor and screenwriter

Jeanette Hain

German actress and screen writer

Robert Atzorn

German actor

Hans-Michael Rehberg

German actor and director

Adolf Endler

German writer

Manfred Gerlach

German jurist and politician

Johannes R. Becher

German politician

Franz Fühmann

East German writer

Lothar Bolz

German politician

Helmut Baierl

German playwright

Paul Alverdes

German novelist and poet

Walter Ulbricht

German politician

Albert Norden

German politician

Hilde Benjamin

German politician

Marcel Reich-Ranicki

Polish-born German literary critic

Ingeburg Lange

German politician

Bernhard Fisch

German writer

Adolf, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp

Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp

Klaus Huhn

German journalist

Gerald Götting

East German politician

Günter Rössler

German photographer

Friedrich Wolf

German writer

Vera Lengsfeld

German politician

Reiner Kunze

East German writer

Roger Melis

German photographer

Otto Grotewohl

German politician

Peter Rühmkorf

German writer

Konrad Haenisch

German politician

Dieter Noll

East German Writer

Benno Pludra

German children's author

Wolfgang Steinitz

German ethnologist

Walter Scheel

President of Germany

Oskar Maria Graf

German author

Wolfgang Hilbig

German novelist

Wolfgang Harich

German journalist and philosopher

Herbert Eulenberg

German writer

Hermann Weber

German historian

Wolfgang Thierse

German politician

Ernst Reuter

German mayor of West Berlin

Sigmund Jähn

East German cosmonaut

Heinz Rein

German author

Karl Obermann

German historian of modern age

Rainer Kirsch

German translator

Slatan Dudow

Bulgarian film director

Wilhelm Blaschke

Austrian mathematician

Walter Kaufmann (author)

Writer

Oskar Brüsewitz

German priest

Volker Braun

German writer

Rudi Strahl

German screenwriter and author

Günter Kunert

German writer

Frank Beyer

German film director

Johanna Wolff

German poet and novelist

Walter Abendroth

Composer, editor, writer

John Peet (1915–1988)

1915-1988 British journalist

Stefan Andres

German novelist