
Tom Pauls
Actor · b. 1959 · Leipzig, Germany
Tom Uwe Pauls is a German actor, musician, and author, best known for his long association with theatres in Dresden and for creating the popular Saxon comedy character Ilse Bähnert.Born in Leipzig, Pauls grew up in the south-east of the city, near the Monument to the Battle of the Nations. From the age of seven he sang in the radio children's choir and took piano and guitar lessons. His acting talent was recognized early, leading him to study at the Theaterhochschule Leipzig from 1979 to 1983. While studying, he earned money by playing in a band and, together with fellow students Jürgen Haase and Peter Kube, founded the Zwinger Trio.After graduating, Pauls joined the Staatsschauspiel Dresden, where he enjoyed particular success as Mozart in Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus, Don Cirillio in Goldoni’s The War, and Ariel in Shakespeare’s The Tempest.In 1991 he began working as a freelance actor and created his first solo program, Saxon Variations. In it he developed the character of Ilse Bähnert, a funny Saxon widow who has since become a cult figure in Saxon comedy. In 1994, together with colleagues, he founded the Dresdner Theaterkahn and the Kleine Burgtheater Stolpen.Since 1991 Pauls has also been a regular performer at the Dresden State Operetta, appearing in productions such as La Cage aux Folles, Die Fledermaus (as the frog), Bluebeard, Die schöne Helena, and as Professor Higgins in My Fair Lady. He frequently performs with orchestras including the Elbland Philharmonie Sachsen and the Dresden Philharmonic.A passionate advocate of the Saxon dialect, Pauls selects the “Saxon Word of the Year” annually on the Day of German Unity through his Ilse Bähnert Foundation. He has written or co-written several books, including Das wahre Leben der Ilse Bähnert, Deutschland, Deine Sachsen, the biography of Saxon poet Lene Voigt, and several crime novels featuring Ilse Bähnert. In 2011 he fulfilled a long-held dream by opening his own theatre in Pirna, the gateway to Saxon Switzerland.Pauls lives with his family in Dresden, not far from the famous Blue Wonder bridge.
Movies11
Movie7.0AdventureFamilyEveryone dreams of a horse - and especially four Kulman family children...
Movie4.5ComedyElated by the Italian attitude to life, family Struutz returns to Bitterfeld and experiences a shock: In the turmoil of the reunification her house must give way to a golf course. Hope Udo teacher, his wife Rita and daughter Jacqueline through the surprising inheritance of a factory near Dresden. But of market economy, the staid Saxons unfortunately have no idea. Help comes in the guise of adventurer and condoms dealer Charlie, who works as a "business consultant" and gives Udo a Rock & Roll crash course in capitalism - with unsurpassed success.
Go Trabi Go 2 - Das war der wilde Osten
Go Trabi Go 2: Those Were the Days of the Wild East
1992 · 27 votes
Movie9.0AnimationFor his mockery a witch transforms the pert boy Jacob into an ugly dwarf, but teaches him at the same time how to cook. Jacob quickly becomes a master of his trade and is named the prince's first cook. Only the mysterious herb "sneeze-with-passion" is unknown to him. Based on a fairy tale by Wilhelm Hauff.
MovieHistoryDramaJohann Gottfried Schadow is only in his early twenties when he is put in charge of the royal sculptor's workshop in Prussia's capital Berlin. He is supported in this position above all by the fair ladies.
Movie4.0ComedyEven the military academy can't stop kind-hearted officer Gottfried Engelhardt from seeing the world through rose-colored glasses. Everything in the young GDR is blooming: Engelhardt's career, the socialist state, the black market, and maybe even a chance at love.
Zum Teufel mit Harbolla
1989 · 3 votes
Movie5.0AnimationA little beetle plans to take revenge on an eagle family for killing his friends. Although the eagle family teams up with the powerful Zeus, the little beetle finds a cunning way to fight them.
Movie9.0DramaMelanios letzte Liebe
1988 · 1 votes
Movie6.3ComedyFamilyThe opera singer Ludwig Löwenhaupt wants a proper festive roast for Christmas, so he buys a goose in advance to feed the whole family. What he doesn't realize, however, is that the children, Elli, Gerda and Peterle, will grow fond of the animal, which is christened Gustje, and will no longer want to eat it. After the "liberation", the "five kilos of meat", which were initially locked up in the cellar, become a pet that the children take to bed with them and communicate with. But shortly before Christmas, father Löwenhaupt still wants to slaughter them. However, as his family protests and his conscience gets in the way, he can't slaughter the goose after all. So Gustje only has to leave a few feathers as proof that she has been plucked, and the opera singer is given another goose that has already been cut up.
Die Weihnachtsgans Auguste
1988 · 5 votes
Movie7.0Fantasy
Movie10.0Science FictionDramaA train with all the passengers disappears in the subway. Sometimes the sound of a passing train can be heard in the tunnels, but no one sees it. A young mathematician develops a theory: because of the opening of a new line, the train has fallen into another dimension.
Moebius
1993 · 1 votes
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Zeitzünder
1984
Series8
TV6.2CrimePolizeiruf 110 is a long-running German language detective television series. The first episode was broadcast 27 June 1971 in the German Democratic Republic, and after the dissolution of Fernsehen der DDR the series was picked up by ARD. It was originally created as a counterpart to the West German series Tatort, and quickly became a public favorite.
Polizeiruf 110
1971 · 26 votes
TV7.4RealityFamilyWer weiß denn sowas?
2015 · 13 votes
TV5.2Talk ShowRiverboat
1992 · 4 votes
- TV8.5Talk ShowDocumentary
A 30-minute weekly cultural magazine program. The head of aspekte, Wolgang Herles, describes the program as follows: "For 40 years, "aspekte" has repeatedly set out to enrich television with cultural contrasts. "aspekte" understands culture not as the sum of facts and events, but as the taste, the sound, the rhythms of the times. It has proven itself as a journal of true luxury and fashions as well as an instrument of public education and information."
aspekte
1965 · 2 votes
- TV5.3Comedy
Mitternachtsspitzen
1988 · 3 votes
- TVReality
Goldene Henne
1995
- TVReality
TV7.6AnimationKids