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The Department of Health and Social Security (commonly known as the DHSS) was a ministry of the British government in existence for twenty years from 1968 until 1988, and was headed by the Secretary of State for Social Services.

History[link]

Until 1968 the social security responsibilities had been split between the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance, and the health responsibilities by the Ministry of Health.

In 1988 the department was split again into a separate Department of Health and the Department of Social Security.

In 2001 the Department for Work and Pensions was formed from the Department of Social Security, absorbing the employment functions which had previously been the responsibility of the Department for Education and Employment since the dissolution of the Department of Employment in 1995.

Impact[link]

UB40 (a reggae group from Birmingham, whose first album was released in 1980^[1]) was named after the form issued by the DHSS to those claiming unemployment benefit, the full name of which was Unemployment Benefit form 40.^[2]

The initials "DHSS" are recited several times in Wham!'s 1983 hit single Wham Rap!, a tongue-in-cheek celebration of wilful unemployment. The first album by Half Man Half Biscuit (released in 1985) was called Back in the DHSS, a play on the Beatles song "Back in the U.S.S.R.".

Despite having been abolished for over twenty years, the initials 'DHSS' are still used by the general public to describe the Department for Work and Pensions or some of the benefits it provides (such as Income Support).

References[link]

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Bastian Pastewka
Born	Bastian Pastewka (1972-04-04) April 4, 1972 (age 40) Bochum
Occupation	Comedian, actor, dubbing
Partner	Heidrun Buchmaier
Website
http://bastianpastewka.de/

Bastian Pastewka (* April 4, 1972 in Bochum, Germany) is a German actor and comedian.

He first became known to a wider audience in Germany around 1996 as a regular cast member of the comedy show Die Wochenshow (engl.: The Weekly Show), essentially a mock news program. His trademarks included quirky, off-beat characters such as fruity sex talk show host Brisko Schneider and Ottmar Zittlau, an unemployed, sweatsuit-wearing dimwit.

Pastewka went on to star in various German comedy films, most notably Der WiXXer (2004) and Neues vom WiXXer (2007), a spoof on 1960s Edgar Wallace crime dramas. He has also worked as a voice-over actor for numerous animated films, such as Madagascar. Since September 2005 Pastewka has been playing himself in the sitcom Pastewka, shown by the German television broadcasting station Sat.1.

He already received various highly prestigious awards like Goldene Kamera, Deutscher Fernsehpreis (engl.: German Television Award) or Rose d'Or.

Private life[link]

Pastewka lives with his girlfriend Heidrun Buchmaier, manager of Martin Schneider, in Berlin-Charlottenburg. When he is working, he lives in Cologne.^[1][2]

External links[link]

• Bastian Pastewka at the Internet Movie Database
• Official website (german)

References[link]

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Janin Reinhardt
Born	14 November 1981 Erfurt, Germany
Occupation	actress
Years active	8
Website
http://www.janin-reinhardt.com

Janin Reinhardt interviewing the Fantastischen Vier Thomas D, Smudo and And.Ypsilon

Janin Reinhardt (born 14 November 1981) is a German television presenter and actress.

Biography[link]

Reinhardt participated in a casting by the German music channel VIVA. She was chosen from 3000 participants and became the host of Interaktiv. Since then she hosted several television shows as Inside, Film ab, Star Search — das magazin, Top of the Pops, Bravo Super Show, Bundesvision Song Contest (with Stefan Raab) and several TV total specials.

Acting career[link]

Reinhardt acted in Was nicht passt, wird passend gemacht, short film Mittsommer (2005) at international filmschool cologne, comedy show PAARE on Sat.1 and twice in ProSieben Märchenstunde as Rapunzel, with Axel Stein as Hänsel und Gretel and played the lead role in the supernatural horror film Die Bienen - Tödliche Bedrohung.

Reinhardts is famous for her performance as Lotta and Alex in the ProSieben-Telenovela Lotta in Love.

Personal life[link]

She is in a relationship with German actor Kostja Ullmann.^[1]

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Janin Reinhardt

• Official Webpage
• Agency of Janin Reinhardt
• Janin Reinhardt at the Internet Movie Database
• Janin Reinhardt at crew-united.com
• Portrait of Janin Reinhardt (in German)
• Interview with Janin Reinhardt: „Claudia Schiffer kann halt nicht jeder werden“ (17 November 2001, sbznet.de) (in German)

Diana Amft (born 7 November 1975 in Gütersloh, North Rhine-Westphalia) is an award winning German film and television actress.

Biography[link]

Diana Amft was born in Gütersloh. Her father was a janitor. She grew up in Herzebrock-Clarholz and one of her after school jobs was in a videothek. She completed her vocational training as a judicial clerk at the Amtsgericht Rheda-Wiedenbrück. She took singing lessons in Bielefeld and unsuccessfully applied to study at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen.

She was accepted at the Schauspielschule Zerboni in Munich when she was twenty years‘ old, and, following appearances in theatre, she was cast for her first roles on television in 1999.

Amft became better known following her role as Inken in the Film Mädchen, Mädchen, which was unexpectedly successful,^[1] and its sequel Mädchen, Mädchen 2 – Loft oder Liebe. In 2002, the film Knallharte Jungs, in which she was the leading actress, won the Deutscher Comedypreis as best cinema film.^[2] She regards her leading role in the series Doctor’s Diary as a breakthrough.^[3]

On the soundtrack of Mädchen Mädchen 2 - Loft oder Liebe, she sang Funky Freakshow with Tears, the girl group launched by Popstars in Switzerland.

Films[link]

• 2000: Auszeit - Blanka
• 2001: Mädchen, Mädchen - Inken
• 2002: Stuart Little 2 - Margalo's voice in the German version
• 2002: Ganz und gar - Alex
• 2002: Knallharte Jungs - Maja Paradis
• 2004: Mädchen, Mädchen 2 – Loft oder Liebe - Inken
• 2005: Princes(s) - Stella (short film)
• 2005: Die drei Musketiere - Constance Bonacieux (TV film, ZDF, ORF)
• 2007: Der geheimnisvolle Schwiegersohn - Greta Litschka (TV film, Sat.1)
• 2009: Monsters vs. Aliens - Susan Gigantika’s voice in the German version
• 2009: Kein Geist für alle Fälle - Jana (TV film, Sat.1)
• 2009: Der Bulle und das Landei - Kati Biever (TV film, ARD)
• 2010: Liebe und andere Delikatessen - Franka Lauth (TV film, ARD)
• 2010: Teufelskicker - Moritz's mother

TV[link]

• 1999: Eine Liebe auf Mallorca
• 1999: Eine Liebe auf Mallorca 2
• 1999: Unschuldige Biester
• 1999: Zwei Männer am Herd (TV series)
• 2000–2007: SOKO 5113 on ZDF - multiple episodes
• 2000: Eine Liebe auf Mallorca 3
• 2002: Das Traumschiff – Chile
• 2004: Vernunft & Gefühl
• 2005: Zivile Jungs – Helden in Unterhosen (first broadcast in 2008 as Zwei Zivis zum Knutschen)
• 2006–2008: Maja Comedy on Sat.1 Comedy - Maja
• 2007 Der geheimnisvolle Schwiegersohn - Greta Litschka
• 2007: Die ProSieben Märchenstunde – Die Prinzessin auf der Erbse (ProSieben - Vroni
• 2007: Innere Werte
• 2007–2011: Doctor’s Diary - series on RTL/ORF - Dr. Gretchen Haase
• 2008: Utta Danella – Das Geheimnis unserer Liebe

Awards[link]

• 2009 Bayerischer Fernsehpreis as best actress in the category series for her role in the series Doctor’s Diary

References[link]

This article incorporates information from the German Wikipedia.

External links[link]

• Diana Amft at the Internet Movie Database

Karoline Herfurth
Born	(1984-05-22) 22 May 1984 (age 28) Berlin, Germany
Occupation	Actress

Karoline Herfurth (born 22 May 1984) is a German actress.

Life and career[link]

Karoline Herfurth was born in East Berlin, the daughter of a psychologist mother and a geriatric nurse practitioner father. Her parents divorced when she was two years old. She grew up in Berlin with a brother and five half-brothers and -sisters.^[1] She went to a Waldorf school in Berlin and graduated from Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts.^[2]

Herfurth had her first role in a TV series at age ten, and her first part in a movie in 2000, when she was fifteen. She has held several parts as a teenager in German movies such as Mädchen, Mädchen (2001) and Big Girls Don't Cry (2002) and leading parts both in TV productions and independent German films. For her part as Lilli Richter in Caroline Links film Im Winter ein Jahr, she received the Bavarian Film Award for best young actress in 2009.^[3]

Herfurth gave her international debut in 2006 in Perfume: The Story of a Murderer. In this adaptation of Patrick Suskind's best-selling novel Das Parfum, directed by Tom Tykwer and starring Dustin Hoffman, Ben Whishaw, Alan Rickman, Rachel Hurd-Wood, and Jessica Schwarz, she played the "Plum Girl", the first victim of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille. In 2008, she co-starred with Kate Winslet and Ralph Fiennes in the Academy Award Best Picture-nominee The Reader.^[4]

Filmography[link]

• Küss mich, Frosch - Mary (2000)
• Crazy – Anna (2000)
• Mädchen, Mädchen (Girls on Top) USA – Lena (2001)
• Big Girls Don't Cry – Steffi (2002)
• Mein Name ist Bach – Prinzessin Amalie (2003)
• Anemonenherz (short) – Actress (2004)
• Mädchen, Mädchen 2 - Loft oder Liebe (Girls on Top 2) USA – Lena (2004)
• Eine Andere Liga (In Another League / Offside) – Hayat (2005)
• Perfume: The Story of a Murderer – The Plum Girl (2006)
• Peer Gynt (TV) – Solvejg (2007)
• Pornorama – Luzi (2007)
• Im Winter ein Jahr – Lilli Richter (2008)
• The Reader – Marthe (2008)
• Berlin 36 – Gretel Bergmann (2009)
• Vincent will Meer - Marie
• We Are the Night - Lena (2010)^[5]

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Karoline Herfurth

• Karoline Herfurth at the Internet Movie Database
• Karoline Herfurth at Hollywood.com

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