Ilja Richter

Georg was a Communist, who named Ilja after the Russian journalist Ilya Ehrenburg, and Eva was a Jew who survived the Third Reich under a fake Aryan identity.

There, too, the Richters ran a restaurant, but moved back in 1960 to West Berlin, where they opened a guesthouse.

In the 1970s, Richter became famous in West-Germany as television presenter of Disco, a music show filmed before a young live audience in which he also performed in sketches.

He also provided the German voices of Mike Wazowski in Monsters, Inc., Spot/Scott in Teacher's Pet (TV series), the title character of Count Duckula and Dave in The Penguins of Madagascar.

He lives in Berlin with his longtime companion Barbara Ferun, and has one child, Kolja.