Engel, Christoph
Esche, Eberhard
Eberhard Esche was one of East Germany’s best known film and theater actors. Born on October 25, 1933 in Leipzig, he studied performing arts from 1952 until 1955. After acting in Meiningen, Erfurt, and Chemnitz, he joined the Deutsches Theater in Berlin in 1961. He was known for his brilliant portrayal of classical roles, as well as for the role of Lancelot in Yevgeni Schwarz’s anti-Stalinist play, “The Dragon” (dir.
Espinosa, Julio García
Julio García Espinosa is a leading facilitator of Cuban cinema. As both film theorist and director, Espinosa has been praised by critics for his integral role in what critics have called the golden decade of Cuban cinema. This work includes his 1969 manifesto “For an Imperfect Cinema,” which helped to define the scope of all Latin American film.
Feldmeier, Rita
Rita Feldmeier was born in Rostock in 1954. From 1970 to 1973, she attended the acting school there and then debuted at the Volkstheater Rostock. From 1976 to 2020, Feldmeier was a permanent member of the Hans Otto Theater in Potsdam; since 2020, she has been a guest actor. Parallel, she has also made guest appearances at theaters in Cottbus, Essen, Berlin, Braunschweig, Brandenburg, Anklam and Dresden.
Fiegert, Elfriede (Elfie)
Elfriede (Elfie) Fiegert was born in 1946 to a white German mother and an African American father who had been in the US military. Her mother placed her in an orphanage. Fiegert later found out that her mother had been a doctor in Freising and had emigrated to the United States soon after her birth. After his tour of duty in Germany, her African-American father was transferred to Korea.
Fischer, Günther
Günther Fischer was born on June 23, 1944, in Teplitz-Schönau, Germany (now Teplice, Czech Republic). After training as a music teacher at the Robert Schumann Konservatorium in Zwickau, East Germany, from 1960 to 1963, Fischer studied clarinet, saxophone, composition and arranging at the Hanns Eisler Hochschule für Musik in Berlin from 1965 to 1969, where he also taught composition and arranging in the 1970s.
Fisher, Holly
Holly Fisher was born in Boston in 1942. She received her BA in Asian Art History at Columbia University in 1964, and a MA in Cinema Studies at NYU in 1982.