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The Life And Loves Of Tschaikovsky
''The Life and Loves of Tschaikovsky'' or ''It Was a Lovely Night at the Ball'' () is a 1939 German historical drama film directed by Carl Froelich and starring Zarah Leander, Aribert Wäscher and Hans Stüwe.Reimer & Reimer p. 119 It premiered on 13 August 1939 at the Venice Film Festival. It was shot at the Tempelhof Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art director Franz Schroedter Franz Schroedter (9 May 1897 – 14 November 1968) was a German art director.Giesen p.212 Selected filmography * '' The Black Count'' (1920) * ''The Dance of Love and Happiness'' (1921) * '' The New Paradise'' (1921) * '' The Queen of Whitechapel .... Synopsis The film portrays a fictional relationship between the Russian composer Pjotr Iljitsch Tschaikowsky and an aristocratic woman who, unhappily married, falls in love with him and decides to secretly support his work financially. Cast References Bibliography * * External links * 1939 films Films of Nazi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Froelich
Carl August Hugo Froelich (5 September 1875 – 12 February 1953) was a German film pioneer and film director. He was born and died in Berlin. Biography Apparatus builder and cameraman From 1903 Froelich was a colleague of Oskar Messter, one of the advance guard of German cinema, for whom initially he worked on the construction of cinematographic equipment. As cameraman for Messter's weekly newsreels he filmed among many other things the aftermath of a train accident on the Berlin elevated railway on 28 September 1908, one of the worst transport disasters of the time. Film director and producer Between 1912 and 1951 he made 77 films. In 1913 Froelich made his directorial debut with ''Richard Wagner (film), Richard Wagner'' (''see alo List of films about Richard Wagner''.) In 1920 he founded his own production company, Froelich-Film GmbH, among the productions of which were ''Kabale und Liebe'' (1921), ''Die Brüder Karamasoff'' (1922), and ''Mutter und Kind'' (1924). During thes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tempelhof Studios
The Tempelhof Studios are a film studio located in Tempelhof in the German capital of Berlin. They were founded in 1912, during the silent era, by German film pioneer Alfred Duskes, who built a glass-roofed studio on the site with financial backing from the French company Pathé. The producer Paul Davidson's PAGU then took control and constructed a grander structure. The First World War propaganda drama '' The Yellow Passport'', the historical comedy '' Madame DuBarry'' and the expressionist 1920 silent film '' The Golem'' were made there by PAGU. During the 1920s the site came into the hands of the dominant German company UFA which also controlled the Babelsberg and Staaken Studios in the city. It was used for several of the company's major productions during the Weimar Republic including '' The Last Laugh''. It was partly used by Terra Film during the Nazi era. In 1945 the studios were captured by Soviet Army troops during the Battle of Berlin while the shooting of the come ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eduard Bornträger
Eduard Bornträger (22 June 1888 – 9 March 1958) was a German film actor.Jacobsen & Prinzler p.276 Selected filmography * ''The Hunter from Kurpfalz'' (1933) * '' Police Report'' (1934) * '' Lady Windermere's Fan'' (1935) * '' The Private Life of Louis XIV'' (1935) * ''A Woman of No Importance'' (1936) * '' The Castle in Flanders'' (1936) * '' Winter in the Woods'' (1936) * '' The Impossible Woman'' (1936) * ''Woman's Love—Woman's Suffering'' (1937) * '' Togger'' (1937) * '' Talking About Jacqueline'' (1937) *'' The Chief Witness'' (1937) * '' By a Silken Thread'' (1938) * '' The Girl of Last Night'' (1938) * '' The Night of Decision'' (1938) * '' Kitty and the World Conference'' (1939) * '' We Danced Around the World'' (1939) * '' The Life and Loves of Tschaikovsky'' (1939) * '' Falstaff in Vienna'' (1940) * '' Counterfeiters'' (1940) * ''Alarm ALARM (Air Launched Anti-Radiation Missile) is a British anti-radiation missile designed primarily to destroy enemy radars for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Traute Bengen
Traute is a Germanic feminine given name derived from "trud" meaning "strength". The name is now most commonly found in Germany and German-speaking countries. It is often used as a diminutive of the given names ending in -traud, -traut and -trud, such as Waltraud, Edeltraud and Gertrud. Notable people named Traute * Traute, Princess of Lippe (1925–2023), born Traute Becker, German princess *Traute Carlsen (1882–1968), German actress * Traute Foresti (1915–2015), Austrian poet and actress *Traute Lafrenz Traute Lafrenz Page (; 3 May 1919 – 6 March 2023) was a German resistance activist who was a member of the White Rose anti-Nazi group during World War II. Early life Lafrenz was born on 3 May 1919 in Hamburg to Carl and Hermine Lafrenz, a c ... (1919–2023), German-American physician and anthroposophist and member of the White Rose anti-Nazi group during World War II * Traute Schäfer (born 1942), German volleyball player References {{given name German fem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kurt Vespermann
Kurt Vespermann (1 May 1887 – 13 July 1957) was a German stage and film actor. Career Vespermann was born into a theatrical family in Culmsee, West Prussia, Imperial Germany, now Chełmża, Poland. His great-grandparents were actors and directors at different operas and theatres. Vespermann began his career in 1913 at the Royal Schauspielhaus Berlin and first appeared in silent movies in 1915. Kurt Vespermann was married to actress Lia Eibenschütz and was the father of actor Gerd Vespermann. Vespermann died in 1957 and was buried at the ''Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtnis'' cemetery in Berlin. Selected filmography *1915: ''Manya, die Türkin'' *1915: ''Im Feuer der Schiffskanonen'' *1915: ''Police Nr. 1111'' - Baron von Bode *1916: ''Ein tolles Mädchen'' *1916: ''Stolz weht die Flagge schwarz-weiß-rot'' *1917: ''Das durfte nicht kommen'' *1917: ''Let There Be Light'' (part 1, 4) - Gerd *1917: ''Königliche Bettler'' *1917: ''Der Tod des Baumeisters Olsen'' (Short) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolfgang Von Schwindt
Wolfgang von Schwind also spelled Wolfgang von Schwindt (4 July 1879 – 19 April 1949) was an Austrian actor and opera singer. He was born in Elbogen, Austria, and died in Vienna. His career started as an operatic bass at the Royal Opera Berlin and the Court Theatre Karlsruhe. Starting in 1920, von Schwind appeared in more than eighty films until 1947. He was the grandson of Austrian painter Moritz von Schwind image:Moritz von Schwind 2.jpg, 200px, Moritz von Schwind, c. 1860. Moritz von Schwind (21 January 1804 – 8 February 1871) was an Austrian painter, born in Vienna. Schwind's genius was lyrical—he drew inspiration from chivalry, folklore, and t .... Selected filmography References External links * 1879 births 1949 deaths Austrian male film actors Austrian male silent film actors 20th-century Austrian male actors Operatic basses 20th-century Austrian male opera singers German Bohemian people Austrian people of German Bohemian descent People ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Hellmer
Karl Hellmer (11 March 1896 – 18 May 1974) was an Austrian film actor. He appeared in 92 films between 1932 and 1969. He was born in Vienna, Austria and died in Berlin, Germany. Selected filmography * ''I by Day, You by Night'' (1932) * ''The Young Baron Neuhaus'' (1934) * '' Love, Death and the Devil'' (1934) * ''Ungeküsst soll man nicht schlafen gehn'' (1936) * '' City of Anatol'' (1936) * '' Stronger Than Regulations'' (1936) * '' Such Great Foolishness'' (1937) * ''Madame Bovary'' (1937) * '' Togger'' (1937) * '' The Mystery of Betty Bonn'' (1938) * '' Little County Court'' (1938) * '' The Life and Loves of Tschaikovsky'' (1939) * ''Falstaff in Vienna'' (1940) * '' Friedemann Bach'' (1941) * '' The Swedish Nightingale'' (1941) * ''A Salzburg Comedy'' (1943) * '' Laugh Bajazzo'' (1943) * '' Carnival of Love'' (1943) * '' Heaven, We Inherit a Castle'' (1943) * ''Nora'' (1944) * '' Via Mala'' (1945) * ''Wozzeck'' (1947) * '' Quartet of Five'' (1949) * '' The Great Mandar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Haubenreißer
Karl may refer to: People * Karl (given name), including a list of people and characters with the name * Karl der Große, commonly known in English as Charlemagne * Karl of Austria, last Austrian Emperor * Karl (footballer) (born 1993), Karl Cachoeira Della Vedova Júnior, Brazilian footballer * Karl (surname) In myth * Karl (mythology), in Norse mythology, a son of Rig and considered the progenitor of peasants (churl) * ''Karl'', giant in Icelandic myth, associated with Drangey island Vehicles * Opel Karl, a car * ST ''Karl'', Swedish tugboat requisitioned during the Second World War as ST ''Empire Henchman'' Other uses * Karl, Germany, municipality in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany * ''Karl-Gerät'', AKA Mörser Karl, 600mm German mortar used in the Second World War * KARL project, an open source knowledge management system * Korean Amateur Radio League, a national non-profit organization for amateur radio enthusiasts in South Korea * KARL, a radio station in Minnesota * Lis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugo Froelich
Hugo or HUGO may refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''Hugo'' (film), a 2011 film directed by Martin Scorsese * Hugo Award, a science fiction and fantasy award named after Hugo Gernsback * Hugo (franchise), a children's media franchise based on a troll ** ''Hugo'' (game show), a television show that first ran from 1990 to 1995 ** ''Hugo'' (video game), several video games released between 1991 and 2000 * Hugo (album), a 2022 album by Loyle Carner People and fictional characters * Victor Hugo, a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. * Hugo (name), including lists of people with Hugo as a given name or surname, as well as fictional characters * Hugo Cabral (born 1988), Brazilian footballer * Hugo Chávez, president of Venezuela 1999-2013 * Hugo Gernsback, Luxembourgish American publisher (born 1884) * Hugo (musician), Thai American actor and singer-songwriter Chula Chak Charbonnages (born 1981) * Hugo (footballer, born 1964), Brazilian footballer * Hugo ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Dahlke (actor)
Paul Victor Ernst Dahlke (12 April 1904 – 23 November 1984) was a German stage and film actor. Career Dahlke was born in Gross Streitz (today Strzezenice, Poland) near Köslin in Farther Pomerania. He visited school in Köslin, Stargard and passed his Abitur in Dortmund in 1922. Dahlke started to study at the ''Bergakademie'' in Clausthal (now Clausthal University of Technology) and the Technische Hochschule in Charlottenburg (now Technische Universität Berlin) but also attended some lectures in German philology and dramatics. In 1927, Dahlke was a scholar of Max Reinhardt's drama school and appeared at different stages in Berlin and Munich in 1929. He became a member of the Deutsches Theater ensemble in 1934 until its closedown in 1944. In 1937 he was awarded the highest recognition for an actor in Nazi Germany, the title '' Staatsschauspieler'' . Throughout the 1930s he worked with popular actors like Emil Jannings, Zarah Leander, Lil Dagover or Lída Baarová. Some of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fritz Rasp
Fritz Heinrich Rasp (13 May 1891 – 30 November 1976) was a German film actor who appeared in more than 100 films between 1916 and 1976. His obituary in ''Der Spiegel'' described Rasp as "the German film villain in service, for over 60 years." Life and career Fritz Heinrich Rasp was the thirteenth child of a county surveyor. He was educated from 1908–1909 at the Theaterschule Otto Königin in Munich. He made his stage debut in 1909, after he successfully overcame a speech impediment. During his long career, the character actor appeared in some of the most famous theatres in Germany, working with acclaimed directors such as Bertolt Brecht and Max Reinhardt and famous actors such as Albert Bassermann, Joseph Schildkraut and Werner Krauss. Rasp made an early film debut in 1916 and appeared in some early films by his friend, director Ernst Lubitsch. With his "gaunt, ascetic looks", Rasp played numerous scoundrels or shady characters during the Golden Age of German cinema in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leo Slezak
Leo Slezak (; 18 August 1873 – 1 June 1946) was an Austrian dramatic tenor. He was associated in particular with Austrian opera as well as the title role in Verdi's ''Otello''. He is the father of actors Walter Slezak and Margarete Slezak and grandfather of the actress Erika Slezak. Life and work Early years Born in Šumperk (), northern Moravia (then part of the Austria-Hungary), as the son of a miller, Slezak worked briefly as a blacksmith, an engineer's fitter and served in the army before taking singing lessons with the first-class baritone and pedagogue Adolf Robinson. He made his debut in 1896 in Brno (Brünn) and proceeded to sing leading roles in Bohemia and Germany, appearing at Breslau and, in 1898–99, at Berlin. From 1901 onwards he was a permanent member of the Vienna State Opera's roster of artists, achieving star status. While in Vienna he was initiated into Freemasonry. International career Slezak's international career commenced in London at the Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
