What do Christoph Schlingensief and Jeffrey Lau have in common?
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Jeffrey Lau Jeffrey Lau Chun-Wai () is a Hong Kong film director, screenwriter, actor and producer. He was born on August 2, 1952. Lau is famous for writing and directing "mo lei tau" (Cantonese nonsense) comedies. His comedies include "A Chinese Odyssey" (with Stephen Chow) and "Chinese Odyssey 2002", the latter which was voted Best 2002 Film by the Hong Kong Film Critics Society.
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Christoph Schlingensief Christoph Maria Schlingensief (24 October 1960, Oberhausen – 21 August 2010, Berlin) was a German theatre director, performance artist and filmmaker. Starting as an independent underground filmmaker, Schlingensief later staged productions for theatres and festivals, often accompanied by public controversies. In the final years before his death, he staged Parsifal at the Bayreuth Festival and worked at several opera houses, establishing himself as a "Regietheater" artist. He posthumously won the Golden Lion for Germany in 2011 at the Venice Biennale for the best national pavilion, which was turned into an installative replica of the stage design for his autobiographical play "A Church of Fear VS. the Alien Within", alluding to his cancer illness.
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Erik Dæhlin Erik Schwensen Dæhlin (born 14 July 1976 in Oslo) is a Norwegian composer and performance artist.
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Christian Schopf Christian Schopf (born 1988) is an Austrian luger who has competed since 2008. A natural track luger, he won two silver medals at the 2009 FIL World Luge Natural Track Championships in Moos, Italy, earning them in the men's doubles and mixed team events.
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Oskar Roehler Oskar Roehler (born January 21, 1959) is a German film director, screenwriter and journalist. He was born in Starnberg as the son of writer Gisela Elsner and the writer Klaus Roehler. Since the mid-1980s he has been working as a screenwriter, for, among others, Niklaus Schilling, Christoph Schlingensief and Mark Schlichter. Since the early 1990s he has also been working as a film director. For his film No Place to Go he won the Deutscher Filmpreis. His 2010 film "" was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival.
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Lau Chin-shek Lau Chin-shek (born 12 September 1944 in Guangzhou, Guangdong with family root in Shunde, Guangdong) is the President of the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions and a vice Chairman of the Hong Kong Christian Industrial Committee. He was born in Guangzhou and had a secondary school education. He was a member of the Legislative Council from 1991 to 2008.
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Andy Lee Lang Andreas Lang, better known by the stagename Andy Lee Lang (born Vienna 26 July 1965) is an Austrian rock'n'roll musician. He has performed with Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry, George Harrison and Fats Domino.
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Kristopher Schau Kristopher Hugh Martin Schau (born 12 August 1970) is a Norwegian musician, TV host, comedian, author, and songwriter. He was born in Oslo.
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David Schmoeller David Schmoeller (born December 8, 1947) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. He is notable for directing several full-length theatrical horror films including "Tourist Trap" (1979), "The Seduction" (1982), "Puppet Master" (1989), "Catacombs" (1988), "Netherworld" (1992) and "Crawlspace" (1986) starring Klaus Kinski. In May, 2012, Schmoeller was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Fantaspoa Film Festival in Porto Alegre, Brazil where his new feature film, "2 Little Monsters" (2012) was screened along with his other notable films.
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Andrew Schloss Andrew Schloss is an American musician and computer engineer.
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Scud (filmmaker) Scud (born 1967, Guangzhou), is the working name of mainland China-born and raised Hong Kong Chinese film producer, screenwriter and now film director, Danny Cheng Wan-Cheung (云翔). He says that he chose the name 'Scud' to match his Chinese name, which translates in English as 'Scudding Clouds'. He was born in Guangzhou (Canton) in mainland China on March 20, 1967, during the country's Cultural Revolution. His films explore themes usually deemed too controversial for Hong Kong cinema, including same-sex relationships and drug-taking, and include many nude scenes of Chinese young men, whose pubic hair and genitalia are fully exposed on camera. His film-making style eschews cynicism or gritty realism, and embraces an acceptance of the life choices made by his characters, rather than a search for 'solutions'.
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Linus Lau Linus Lau is a film composer, keyboardist and filmmaker based in Los Angeles, California. In 2000, he penned the music to a one-act opera titled "The Release", with writer Daniel G. Lee. The opera was picked up for distribution by The Franchesa Group. A composer of art song, he has collaborated with a variety of notable poets, including Robert Creeley, Carol Ann Duffy, Billy Collins, Peter Cole, and Kenneth Koch. In 2009, he was the touring keyboardist for the alternative rock band Killola.
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Jeffrey Schrier Jeffrey Schrier (born December 7, 1943) is an American visual artist. His art uses discarded or recycled objects to create modern interpretations of ancient or traditional texts, sometimes with references to Jewish themes. Schrier's "Wings of Witness" assemblage sculpture memorializes the victims of the Nazi holocaust with an installation of millions of soda-can tabs, collected by school-children, fashioned into an enormous pair of butterfly wings. The artist often uses educational workshops and volunteers in building his large-scale assemblage works.
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Kristian Kiehling Kristian Kiehling (born 17 September 1976) is a German television, film and stage actor. In Germany he is known for "Autobahnraser" (2004), "Tsunami" (2005) and "Verbotene Liebe" (2013), in Britain for "All the Small Things" (2009) and "Will" (2011). In January 2014, Kiehling became a regular in the British soap opera, "EastEnders", playing Aleks Shirovs, he left the show in 2015 due to a contractual dispute at the time it was due to be renewed.
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Cho-Liang Lin Cho-Liang Lin (Lin Cho-liang, , born January 29, 1960), born in Hsinchu, Taiwan, is a Taiwanese American violinist who is renowned for his appearances as a soloist with major orchestras. "Musical America" named him its "Instrumentalist of the Year" in 2000. He founded the Taipei International Music Festival in 1997, the largest classical music festival in the history of Taiwan, performing to an indoor audience of over 53000.
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Lautten Compagney Lautten Compagney is an instrumental ensemble based in Berlin, Germany. Founded in 1984 by Hans-Werner Apel and Wolfgang Katschner, now the principal conductor, it specialises in Early music and Baroque music, notably the operas of Handel.
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Chia Chou Chia Chou (born 1960) is a Taiwanese pianist, and a naturalised Canadian citizen. He settled in Germany in the 1980s.
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Christoph Clark Christoph Clark (born 9 February 1958) is a French pornographic actor and director.
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Esther Hahn Esther Kyung-Joo Keleana Hahn (born December 17, 1985) is a professional surfer and action sports personality. Before attending Yale University (class of 2008), Hahn built up an extensive surfing resume with wins and titles in the NSSA (National Scholastic Surfing Association), the USSF (United States Surfing Federation), the ESA (Eastern Surfing Association), and the ASP (Association of Surfing Professionals). In addition to surf competitions, Hahn appeared in many print ad campaigns for her sponsors and other major brands such as JanSport and Lexus. She has also made appearances at the ESPY Awards as well as other red carpet events.
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Jeffrey S. Lehman Jeffrey Sean Lehman (born August 1, 1956) is an American scholar, lawyer and academic administrator who is the vice chancellor and CEO of startup joint venture New York University Shanghai. Known as an advocate for the role of universities in globalization, he previously served as chancellor and founding dean of the Peking University School of Transnational Law in Shenzhen, China, president of Cornell University, dean of the University of Michigan Law School, and chairman of Internet2.
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John Chen (pianist) John Chen (born 10 June 1986, Kuala Lumpur) is a Malaysian-born New Zealand concert pianist.
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Christoph Schneider Christoph "Doom" Schneider (born 11 May 1966) is a German musician. He is the drummer of the German "Neue Deutsche Härte" band Rammstein.