Famous People with Name Volker

Volker Herold            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Volker Herold: is a german actor and director.

Volker Lechtenbrink            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Volker Lechtenbrink: is a German television actor and singer. Lechtenbrink grew up in Hamburg and Bremen and started his career at the age of 15 acting in the anti-war movie The Bridge by Bernhard Wicki. After finishing school he was educated at the Schauspielschule (drama school) Hamburg, also acting and later working as a stage director at the Ernst-Deutsch Theater, Hamburg. In 2004 - 2006 he was the intendant of that stage.

Volker Spengler            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Volker Spengler: is a German actor who was one of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's key collaborators. His most noted role with Fassbinder was as the transsexual Erwin/Elvira of the film In a Year of 13 Moons (1978).

Volker David Kirchner            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Volker David Kirchner: is a German composer and violist. Kirchner studied at the Peter Cornelius Conservatory in Mainz from 1956 to 1969 under Günter Kehr and Günter Raphael. Following this he studied with Bernd Alois Zimmermann at the Hochschule für Musik Köln from 1959 to 1963, and then under Tibor Varga at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold from 1964 to 1965, Kirchner played in jazz ensembles in Cologne, and played in several high-level ensembles as a violist, including the hr-Sinfonieorchester in Frankfurt from 1966 to 1988. He moved to Mainz and became a freelance composer in 1989. Invited by Walter Fink, he was the third composer featured in the annual Komponistenporträt of the Rheingau Musik Festival in 1992.

Volker Ignaz Schmidt            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Volker Ignaz Schmidt: is a composer of contemporary music. He has been studying harmony, counterpoint, form and orchestration since 1993. Since 1995 he has studied composition privately with Franklin Cox (University of Maryland, USA), Bernd Asmus (Freiburg, Germany), Jan Kopp (Stuttgart, Germany) and John Palmer (composer) (University of Hertfordshire, England). In 2001 he started composing his own music. Until now Volker Ignaz Schmidt has composed several solo works for piano, cello, violin, flute, clarinet and trombone, a duo for two double-basses, a string trio, vocal pieces for female voices, songs and several works for chamber ensembles. Schmidt worked with performers like <belcanto> Solisten, New York Miniaturist Ensemble, Franklin Cox and Trio Mondala. His works have been performed in Germany, Mexico, Russia & USA.

Sandra Völker            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Sandra Völker: is a freestyle and backstroke swimmer from Germany,There she made her second Olympic appearance, after her debut four years earlier in Barcelona, Spain. Völker competed in four Olympics all together, but merely excelled in the short course championships during the 1990s.

Sabine Völker            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Sabine Völker: is a German speed skater who won a gold medal in the Women's team pursuit at the 2006 Winter Olympics.

Karl Völker            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Karl Völker: was a German architect and painter associated with the New Objectivity movement. He worked as an architect until 1933, when Hitler took power. Declared a degenerate artist by the Nazis, he was forced to support himself from 1933-1943 performing architectural conservation work.