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Inka Schneider is a journalist and host of the popular talk show "DAS" on NDR television. On the red sofa in Hamburg, she has been interviewing prominent guests from entertainment, politics and science for 20 years. The journalist was born in Rüsselsheim. After a year as an au pair girl in Paris, she studied social and business communications at the Berlin University of the Arts. This was followed by a traineeship at WDR in Cologne. Inka Schneider made a name for herself as a presenter and reporter for the ARD Morgenmagazin and as a correspondent in the ARD Washington studio in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. For years she moderated the media magazine ZAPP and in the SWR program "Ich trage einen großen Namen" (I carry a big name) she has been part of the guessing team for 10 years. Inka Schneider was a scholarship holder of the RIAS Berlin Foundation and the German Marshall Fund for Young European Leaders. She lives in Hamburg and Berlin and is married to Sven Kuntze. 

Ulrich Tukur, born in Viernheim in 1957, studied German, English and history before attending the State Drama School in Stuttgart. While still a student, he played in Michel Verhoeven's film ‘The White Rose’, later the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg under the direction of Peter Zadek became his artistic home. Tukur, who is also the musical head of the legendary dance band ‘Die Rhythmus Boys’, favours dark, torn characters; he shone as Andreas Baader as well as Hamlet, Jedermann, Bonhoeffer, Rommel or as Stasi officer Anton Grubitz in the Oscar-winning film ‘The Lives of Others’. Since 2010, he has played Chief Inspector Murot in Wiesbaden's Tatort. Ulrich Tukur, who has received numerous awards for his work, lives with his wife Katharina in Berlin.