Christel Bodenstein was born in Munich, Germany, on October 13, 1938. From 1952 to 1955, she trained at the Leipzig School of Ballet and at the Berlin Ballet School. Her first engagement was at the Landestheater in Halle. From 1956 to 1959, she then studied acting at the Deutsche Hochschule für Filmkunst (now Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf) in Potsdam-Babelsberg. 

Bernd Boehm studied photography and design in Hamburg, Germany. He works as a photographer and director of music videos, image and documentary films. From the 1980s to 2000, he also worked in the USA.

Marita Böhme was born in Dresden on May 7, 1939. She studied acting at the Ernst Busch Academy for Performing Arts in Berlin from 1958 until 1961. While still a student, she played as a guest at the Volksbühne in Berlin. From 1966 until 1970, Böhme was a member of the Maxim Gorki Theater, where she played the lead in Nora by Henrik Ibsen. 

Ernst Wilhelm Borchert, sometimes billed as Wilhelm Borchert, was born in Berlin on March 13, 1907. Although he began an apprenticeship as a librarian when he was young, he ended up following his passion for acting. He attended the Berlin Reichersche Hochschule für dramatische Kunst (Reicher Academy for Dramatic Art) from 1926-27.

Doris Borkmann was born in Berlin on March 13, 1935. After school, she started an apprenticeship at the DEFA Studio and decided to become an assistant director. In 1956, at only 21 years of age, Borkmann had her first assignment as a second assistant director to Das Traumschiff (dir. Herbert Ballmann).

Director Jürgen Böttcher is also a painter who goes by the pseudonym Strawalde.  He was born on July 8, 1931 in Frankenberg, Saxony and studied at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts from 1949 to 1953. Because of ideological differences, he was blacklisted and thrown out of the Association for Visual Arts in the fall of 1961.

Kurt Böwe was born in Reetz, Germany, on April 28, 1928. He studied German language, literature and theater at Humboldt University in Berlin from 1950 to 1954, where he then worked as a theater scholar for more than six years. Parallel to this, he participated in the student theater and discovered his passion for acting.

Horst E. Brandt, the German television and movie director, was born in Berlin on January 17, 1923. He grew up in a working class family and apprenticed as a precision mechanic. Brandt began working as an assistant cinematographer at the East German film studios in 1947 at the same time he started an apprenticeship in the film laboratories.

Martin Brandt was born to a Jewish family on May 7, 1903 in Landsberg an der Warthe, Germany (now Gorzów Wielkopolski, Poland). He began his career in the theater, performing in Bamberg, Stuttgart, and Koblenz in the 1920s, before moving to Berlin in 1933.

Branwen Okpako was born in Lagos, Nigeria, in 1969. She received a BSC in political sciences from Bristol University, England, in 1991, followed by MFA equivalent in film directing from the German Film & Television Academy, Berlin, in 1999.