TILMAN STRAUSS

(*1982, Ulm) is an actor. He studied acting at the Ulm Academy for the Performing Arts (AdK) as well as at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin. From 2009 to 2016 he was a member of the ensemble of the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz and worked there with Thomas Ostermeier, Michael Thalheimer, Katie Mitchell and others. Guest engagements at bat-Studiotheater and Maxim Gorki Theater, and elsewhere. Freelance since 2017/18, guest appearances at the Deutsches SchauSpielHaus in Hamburg, working, e.g., with Katrin Henkel and Karin Beier. He has also played in various TV and film productions, including WIR WAREN KÖNIGE (2012) and LUX - KRIEGER DES LICHTS as well as in several TV crime thrillers, including TATORT (2015/2020), DER ALTE (2019), and POLIZEIRUF (2020). In 2009 he received the Ensemble Prize at the Acting School Meeting in Zurich and was nominated for the German Cinema Advancement Prize in the category Best Actor for his role in WIR WAREN KÖNIGE (2014).

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ANNE SCHÖNHARTING

(*1973, Meißen) studied photo design from 1995–1998 at the Lette Verein Berlin. 1997 Kodak Young Talent Prize. Member of OSTKREUZ since 1999 and in its management since 2019. Awarded in 2005/2007 with the media prize of the Kindernothilfe Foundation, 2006/2007 the Hansel Mieth Prize, and 2006 and 2016 the VG Photo Art Scholarship. 2007 lectureship in photography at the Art Academy in Berlin-Weissensee. She has exhibited in group exhibitions, including MUSLIMISCHE FRAUEN IN DEUTSCHLAND, Goethe Institute Washington D.C., and 2011 WO WIRTSCHAFT SPIELT, Stilwerk, Hamburg. She is a member of the ART DIRECTORS CLUB FÜR DEUTSCHLAND and teaches, since 2020, as guest professor at the Bauhaus University in Weimar. On 1 October 2020 her book DAS ERBE was published by Hartmann Books, which deals with the reappraisal and examination of the family inheritance from the colonial past of her great-grandfather.