Jan Josef Liefers
Birthday: Born in 1964-08-08 in Dresden, Germany
Deathday: Alive
TV Credits
Tod von Freunden
Character: Bernd Küster
Two families have created an idyllic life for themselves on one of the Oxen Islands. But when tragedy strikes, long-buried secrets come to light, friendships are undermined, and the paradise they built begins to fall apart....
Obduktion – Echte Fälle mit Tsokos und Liefers
Character: Self
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Der letzte Zeuge
Character: Ralph Schenk
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Tatort
Character: Karl-Friedrich Boerne
Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland....
Doppelter Einsatz
Character: Hansjörg Nikolaidis
Doppelter Einsatz is a German television series about the cases of two female detectives of the Hamburg police....
Rosa Roth
Character: Theo Wandres
Rosa Roth is a German television series....
Nachtschicht
Character: Nowak
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Die Harald Schmidt Show
Character: Self
The Harald Schmidt Show is a German late night talk show hosted on Sky Deutschland by comedian Harald Schmidt. The show first aired from 5 December 1995 to 23 December 2003 on Sat.1. Schmidt then moved his show to Das Erste as Harald Schmidt and Schmidt & Pocher, but he returned to Sat.1 on 13 September 2011. After cancellation on Sat.1, the show continued on Sky Deutschland in September 2012....
Inas Nacht
Character: Self
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Die Neue - Eine Frau mit Kaliber
Character: Albert Sander
Die Neue – Eine Frau mit Kaliber is a German television series....
Wetten, dass..?
Character: Self
A long-running German-language entertainment television show based on the format of the British show You Bet! and the American show Wanna Bet?....
Der Turm
Character: Richard Hoffmann
A seemingly sheltered family living behind the Berlin Wall in East Germany begins to crumble, in a climate of fear, mistrust, and shocking secrets.9...
Soundtrack Deutschland
Character: Self
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Ringlstetter
Character: self
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Denn sie wissen nicht, was passiert - Die Jauch-Gottschalk-Schöneberger-Show
Character: Self
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Her Story
Character: Self
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Denn sie wissen nicht, was passiert - Die Jauch-Gottschalk-Schöneberger-Show
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Die Partner
Character: Philip Casdorff
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Todesrätsel mit Tsokos und Liefers
Character: Self
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Arthurs Gesetz
Character: Arthur Ahnepol
Unemployed Arthur Ahnepol wants his obnoxious wife to die to claim the life insurance and start a new life with his mistress, which sets off a series of disastrous events....
Bambi-Verleihung
Character: Self
The Bambi, often called the Bambi Award and stylised as BAMBI, is a German award presented annually by Hubert Burda Media to recognize excellence in international media and television to personalities in the media, arts, culture, sports, and other fields "with vision and creativity who affected and inspired the German public that year", both domestic and foreign. First held in 1948, it is the oldest media award in Germany. The trophy is named after Felix Salten's book Bambi, A Life in the Woods ...
Wer weiß denn sowas?
Character: Self
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Zimmer frei!
Character: Self
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alfredissimo! Kochen mit Bio
Character: Self
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Markus Lanz
Character: Self
TV presenter Markus Lanz invites prominent guests and experts from all areas of public life to his colourful talk show. As a rule, there are four guests, introduced individually to contribute their personal experiences to the topics....
TV total
Character: Self
TV total is a German late-night television comedy talk show. The set of TV total includes a floating interview stage that can be moved from one studio corner to the other. The show featured buttons with sounds and clips before Craig Ferguson's The Late Late Show....
RTL Samstag Nacht
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RTL Samstag Nacht was a comedy show, which ran from 6 November 1993 to 23 May 1998 on the German TV network RTL. RTL Samstag Nacht was the first major comedy show in German television, created after the example of the long-running American show Saturday Night Live and broadcast late on Saturday night. It helped comedy in German television to a breakthrough and was a model for several later comedy shows. Karl Ranseier was a recurring character featured in fake news reports telling about his death...
Rechtsanwalt Vernau
Character: Joachim Vernau
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DAS!
Character: Self
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Maybrit Illner
Character: Self
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NDR Talk Show
Character: Self
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Beckmann
Character: Self
Reinhold Beckmann hosts a weekly talk show....
Hart aber fair
Character: Self
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Ein Herz für Kinder
Character: Self
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Riverboat
Character: Self
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Klein gegen Groß - Das unglaubliche Duell
Character: Self
Klein gegen Groß – Das unglaubliche Duell is a family game show that has been broadcast on the first channel since 2011, on ORF 1 since March 2017 and on SRF 1 since November 2020. The format is produced by i&u TV. Kai Pflaume acts as host and moderator....
Taff
Character: self
Taff is a tabloid news magazine airing on the German television network, ProSieben....
Gags - Comedy Deluxe
Character:
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Wer weiß denn sowas?
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Movie Credits
Knockin' on Heaven's Door
Character: Rudi Wurlitzer
Two young men, Martin and Rudi, both suffering from terminal cancer, get to know each other in a hospital room. They drown their desperation in tequila and decide to take one last trip to the sea. Drunk and still in pajamas they steal the first fancy car they find, a 60's Mercedes convertible. The car happens to belong to a bunch of gangsters, which immediately start to chase it, since it contains more than the pistol Martin finds in the glove box....
Bis zum Ellenbogen
Character: Achim Delvental
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Die Sturmflut
Character: Markus Abt
Susanne, a meteorologist Hamburg, has detected signs of an incipient sea storm that could devastate the city. Although given the alarm, local authorities do not listen to their warnings. To ensure the magnitude of the tsunami, Susanne decided to move to an oil platform located offshore, which verifies that their dire predictions are to become reality, as the storm will soon reach the coast, threatening the lives of thousands of people....
Frühstück mit einer Unbekannten
Character: Laurenz Wagner
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666: In Bed with the Devil
Character: Faust
Frank Faust is a born loser. At some point it even becomes too much for his great love, Jennifer, who leaves him and flees to Munich. Frank's desperation is the best reason for Mephisto to show up and offer a suitable pact: reconciliation with Jennifer in exchange for Frank's soul. Shaken by his predicament, Frank finds it easy to agree to the hellish proposal. In order to win back his renegade lover, Mephisto transforms himself into a wide variety of prominent contemporaries who appear at Frank...
The Baader Meinhof Complex
Character: Peter Homann
'Der Baader Meinhof Komplex' depicts the political turmoil in the period from 1967 to the bloody "Deutschen Herbst" in 1977. The movie approaches the events based on Stefan Aust's standard work on the Rote Armee Fraktion (RAF). The story centers on the leadership of the self named anti-fascist resistance to state violence: Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof and Gudrun Ensslin....
Der Untergang der Pamir
Character: Hans Ewald
The story of the German sail-training ship Pamir that sunk in a hurricane....
Das Wunder von Lengede
Character: Bruno Reger
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Night Time
Character: Thomas Krömer
Thomas Krömer follows the traces of a brutal murder in werewolf-manner out of personal interest. After investigating for some time, the traces all point to one person: himself. Now, he has to find out whether he surprisingly turns into a blood-seeking werewolf at full moon without knowing it or if there is an other solution to the murders. Police are getting pretty suspicious after Thomas' own grandmother has been brutally slaughtered in her little fairy-tale-fashioned house in the woods, and it...
Simon & the Oaks
Character: Ruben Lentov
Epic story about two families and their friendship and common destiny in Sweden's Gothenburg in the 1940s and 1950s. Told from the perspective of young Simon Larsson, who learns that he's an adopted child who has a Jewish father from Germany. After WWII Simon travels to explore his roots - a journey that leads to the basic mysteries of the human life. After the bestselling novel by Marianne Fredriksson....
Live Is Life
Character: Rochus 'Rocco' Siwak
A greater-Vienna seniors' home is run like a prison by the stuck-up female executive and staff. Hippie-type rebel Rochus 'Rocco' Siwak incurs a community service to be spent there as orderly. Sympathizing with seniors who still aspire to some dignity and self-realization, he helps them get around the rules, such as smuggling in contraband, and ends up inspiring them to form a rock band and enter a free podium competition. But it doesn't square with his own last shot as band guitarist.—KGF Visser...
Die Nachrichten
Character: Jan Landers
Jan Landers made it: Grown up in East Berlin, he quickly made his career after the turnaround: from the weatherman of a local station to the newsreader in Hamburg....
Baron Münchhausen
Character: Baron Münchhausen
In a small inn, the impoverished Baron von Münchhausen tries to keep his head above water with the help of his stories....
Die Mörderin
Character: Ulrikes Freund
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Love Your Enemies
Character: Älterer Kornelius Holmer (voice)
GDR, January 1990. After his ouster and the fall of the wall, dictator Erich Honecker and his wife Margot find themselves virtually homeless. Only Protestant pastor Uwe Holmer and his family, who, like many others, have suffered under his tyrannical regime, offer them refuge....
Men Do what Men Can
Character: Guido Schamski
Confirmed bachelor Paul falls for Iris, who’s unfortunately as good as married. Although his friends have women problems of their own, and all end up moving into Paul’s apartment, they concoct a daring plan to help Paul save Iris from marrying the wrong man....
Der Mann auf dem Baum
Character: Hans Mittelstädt
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Nacht über Berlin
Character: Albert Goldmann
Berlin, 1932. The Weimar Republic is torn apart in the struggle between right- and left-wing extremists and Berlin is a powder keg. Nightclub singer Henny Dalgow get to know the Social Democratic congressman and Jewish doctor Albert Goldman, and the two become a slightly odd couple. Albert is a sworn pacifist after his experiences in the First World War. Contrary to his beliefs he agrees to act as courier for his brother Edwin, who belongs to a radical communist cell....
Live is Life 2
Character: Rochus 'Rocco' Siwak
Follows "Live is Life" aka "Die Spätzünder"....
Ernst Thälmann
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Rossini
Character: Bodo Kriegnitz
Zigeuner is on the hunt for the woman of his dreams, a woman who should also play the main role in the film. Meanwhile, ruthless producer Oskar Reiter wants to buy the film rights at all costs - and he is struggling for the love of the beautiful Valerie....
Charlie & Louise - Das doppelte Lottchen
Character: Male Teacher #2
Charlie & Louise – Das doppelte Lottchen is a German children's film directed by Joseph Vilsmaier in 1994, starring Corinna Harfouch. It is a film adaptation of the novel Das doppelte Lottchen by Erich Kästner....
Kai Rabe gegen die Vatikankiller
Character: Marc Hohlmann
Director Rufus Lindner is shooting his first film: " Die Vatikankiller". With audience favorite Kai Rabe in the leading role, success is guaranteed. But suddenly chaos descends on the film team: A starlet is murdered, the bitchy leading man goes increasingly crazy, a drunken policeman causes a lot of trouble, and the sex-obsessed producer Egon Lütter doesn't make things any easier....
Es liegt mir auf der Zunge
Character: Clemens Wilmenrod
On February 20, 1953, the Nordwestdeutsche Rundfunk broadcast the first cooking show of German post-war television. Clemens Carl Hahn became the TV chef Clemens Wilmenrod. When the "request in ten minutes to table" on the screens flickered, went for the presenter of the show a dream come true: He had designed the cooking show not only the first TV format that was aimed at women, but also a new self invented....
The Ascent of Chimborazo
Character: Alexander von Humboldt
The life of Alexander von Humboldt up to his attempt to climb the Chimborazo in 1802....
Max Minsky and Me
Character: Benny Edelmeister
Nerdy Jewish Nelly Sue Edelmeister, daughter of a New York mother and Berlin musician in Berlin gets straight A's, except for gym. When she hears her dream prince, actual royal Edouard, a fellow astronomy buff who studies in Luxemburg, patronizes the basketball tournament hosted there by a European school she wants to join her school's girls team....
Kidnapping Mom & Dad
Character: Roger Leonhard
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Head Full of Honey
Character: Serge
Before eleven years old Tilda's parents can put her beloved grandfather in an old people's home due to his progressing Alzheimer disease, she takes him on one last adventure that subliminally threatens to tear her family apart....
Men Have to Go through This
Character: Guido Schamski
Paul is done with love - until he meets Lena. Now he has to convince her family on Mallorca of himself being the right one for their daughter. Lena's mother though would prefer Patrick by her side, a hedge funds manager and Lena's ex-boyfriend. Paul is challenged by Patrick to a duel among men and is glad that his three best friends are there to support him......
The Decision
Character: Michael Späth
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Busenfreunde
Character: Guido
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Die Frauenversteher - Männer unter sich
Character: Martin Remus
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Die Chaos-Queen
Character: Lucky
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Mara and the Firebringer
Character: Prof. Weissinger
Mara Lorbeer, a fifteen year old girl, finds out that she has to save the world because the Norse god Loki is threatening to break free of his chains....
Gott ist auch nur ein Mensch
Character: Karl-Friedrich Boerne
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Disaster
Character: Mace
In the German gangster comedy, Jan Josef Liefers and Justus von Dohnányi play two petty criminals who are supposed to do a job on Mallorca, but who can't stand each other....
Schwanensee
Character: Karl Friedrich Boerne
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Spieglein, Spieglein
Character: Karl-Friedrich Boerne
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Four Against the Bank
Character: Peter
After losing their respective nest eggs thanks to a bumbling bank employee, three men use him to plot a bold and batty heist to get their money back....
Old White Man
Character: Heinz Hellmich
In order to finally get that long-awaited promotion, Heinz Hellmich, an old white man, has to show his "wokest" side at work. When he invites his superiors to a private dinner at his home, his family's politically correct façade quickly begins to crumble and the evening takes a hair-raising turn....
Der Aufstand
Character: Dr. Klaus Kosnitzer
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Der Fall Ö.
Character: Obergefreiter / Kameramann
During the Greek summer in the war year of 1944, a German military unit sets up camp on the plateau of Thebes. Armed with a 16 mm camera, the captain of the unit, a former professor for classical Greek philology, comes up with the idea to film the myth of Oedipus....
The Bloom of Yesterday
Character: Balthasar Thomas
An almost romantic comedy on the edge: Holocaust researcher Toto is having a major life crisis. Just when things at home and work could not get worse, he unwantedly gets a new assistent assigned to himself. Zazie is french, jewish, slightly germanophobe and supposed to help Toto to prepare a major congress. As the star of the congress suddenly wants to pull out, the problems are piling up and the two have to fix it....
Teenosaurus Rex
Character: Hannes Wenger
She was sweet, she was cute. But just before her 14th birthday, Daddy’s little princess mutates into a petulant pubescent nightmare. Journalist Hannes Wenger decides to take a time-out from work to guide his daughter Carla through this difficult phase in her life and, above all, to keep her away from alcohol, boys and other temptations. This is easier said than done, however, and when his wife Sara goes back to work, Hannes proves himself entirely inept at raising a teenager. Whether it’s Carla’...
Mörderische Stille
Character: Holzer
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So viel Zeit
Character: Rainer
Five old friends have to prove themselves one last time. 30 years after the hopeful young band Bochums Steine have separated after a disastrous live performance, fatally ill Rainer tries to re-activate his old cronies...
Gefangen: Der Fall K.
Character: Wastl Kronach
For a long time, wealth adviser Elke and car mechanic Wastl were happy together. Until Elke gets involved more and more in dubious financial transactions that bring her success down the line. When her husband wants to stop these windy business, she separates from him. And goes even further - the accusation that her husband has beaten her, brings Wastl for a long time in a psychiatric hospital....