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Anna Stainer-Knittel
Anna Stainer-Knittel (28 July 1841, Elbigenalp - 28 February 1915, Wattens) was an Austrian portrait and flower painter. An incident from her life served as the basis for the novel ''Die Geier-Wally'' by Wilhelmine von Hillern; an early example of feminist literature. Biography Her father was a gunsmith who had a quick temper but who encouraged his daughter's talents and ambitions.Anna Stainer-Knittel jstor, retrieved 1 April 2017 The sculptor, , was her uncle and the painter, Joseph Anton Koch, was her great-uncle. She began her studies in 1859 at the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Stainer-Knittel - Selbstbildnis
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Henny Porten
Frieda Ulricke "Henny" Porten (7 January 1890 – 15 October 1960) was a German actress and film producer of the silent era, and Germany's first major film star. She appeared in more than 170 films between 1906 and 1955. Biography Frieda Ulricke Porten was born in Magdeburg, in what was then the German Empire. She was one of the few German actresses of the era to enter film without having stage experience. Many of her earlier films were directed by her husband Curt A. Stark, who died during World War I in Transylvania on the Eastern Front in 1916. . Retrieved 16 October 2013. Her father, Franz Porten, was also an actor and film director, as was her older sister |
Austrian Women Painters
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19th-century Austrian Painters
The 19th (nineteenth) century began on 1 January 1801 ( MDCCCI), and ended on 31 December 1900 ( MCM). The 19th century was the ninth century of the 2nd millennium. The 19th century was characterized by vast social upheaval. Slavery was abolished in much of Europe and the Americas. The First Industrial Revolution, though it began in the late 18th century, expanding beyond its British homeland for the first time during this century, particularly remaking the economies and societies of the Low Countries, the Rhineland, Northern Italy, and the Northeastern United States. A few decades later, the Second Industrial Revolution led to ever more massive urbanization and much higher levels of productivity, profit, and prosperity, a pattern that continued into the 20th century. The Islamic gunpowder empires fell into decline and European imperialism brought much of South Asia, Southeast Asia, and almost all of Africa under colonial rule. It was also marked by the collapse of the la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1915 Deaths
Events Below, the events of World War I have the "WWI" prefix. January *January – British physicist Sir Joseph Larmor publishes his observations on "The Influence of Local Atmospheric Cooling on Astronomical Refraction". *January 1 ** WWI: British Royal Navy battleship HMS ''Formidable'' is sunk off Lyme Regis, Dorset, England, by an Imperial German Navy U-boat, with the loss of 547 crew. ** Battle of Broken Hill: A train ambush near Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia, is carried out by two men (claiming to be in support of the Ottoman Empire) who are killed, together with 4 civilians. * January 5 – Joseph E. Carberry sets an altitude record of , carrying Capt. Benjamin Delahauf Foulois as a passenger, in a fixed-wing aircraft. * January 12 ** The United States House of Representatives rejects a proposal to give women the right to vote. ** ''A Fool There Was'' premières in the United States, starring Theda Bara as a '' femme fatale''; she quickly becom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1841 Births
Events January–March * January 20 – Charles Elliot of the United Kingdom, and Qishan of the Qing dynasty, agree to the Convention of Chuenpi. * January 26 – Britain occupies Hong Kong. Later in the year, the first census of the island records a population of about 7,500. * January 27 – The active volcano Mount Erebus in Antarctica is discovered, and named by James Clark Ross. * January 28 – Ross discovers the "Victoria Barrier", later known as the Ross Ice Shelf. On the same voyage, he discovers the Ross Sea, Victoria Land and Mount Terror. * January 30 – A fire ruins and destroys two-thirds of the villa (modern-day city) of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. * February 4 – First known reference to Groundhog Day in North America, in the diary of a James Morris. * February 10 – The Act of Union (''British North America Act'', 1840) is proclaimed in Canada. * February 11 – The two colonies of the Canadas are merged, into the United Province of Canada. * Febr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Rütting
Barbara Rütting (21 November 1927 – 28 March 2020) was a German film actress, politician, and author. She appeared in 50 films between 1952 and 1979. Rütting won the as Best New Actress of the Year in 1953. She was a star of German cinema in the 1950s and 1960s, appearing in '' Canaris'' with O. E. Hasse and in '' |
František Čáp
František Čáp (7 December 1913 – 12 January 1972), also known as Franz Cap in Germany, was a Czech and later a Yugoslav film director and screenwriter. He directed 32 films between 1939 and 1970. Having created Slovene film classics such as '' Vesna'', '' Ne čakaj na maj'' and ''Our Car'', he is also one of the most popular directors of early Slovene cinema in 1950s and the 1960s. Life Čáp was born in Čachovice (now in central Czech Republic). As an already established professional, he moved to Ljubljana in 1952, following an invitation by Branimir Tuma, director of Triglav Film. In 1957, he moved to Portorož, a coastal town in southwestern Slovenia, where he lived until his death. Work Prior to his arrival in Yugoslavia, Čáp was praised as the young star of Czech cinema. During World War II he directed a dozen light romantic dramas and melodramas, among them the internationally acclaimed '' Nocturnal Butterfly'' which won a prize at the Venice film festival, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Vulture Wally (1956 Film)
''The Vulture Wally'' (german: Die Geierwally) is a 1956 West German drama film directed by Franz Cap and starring Barbara Rütting, Carl Möhner and .Goble p. 775 Based on a popular novel which has had several film adaptations, it is part of the tradition of Heimatfilm. The film's sets were designed by the art director Carl Ludwig Kirmse. Cast * Barbara Rütting as Geierwally * Carl Möhner as Bärenjosef * as Lorenz * Til Kiwe as Vinzenz * Maria Hofen as Luckard * Franz Pfaudler as Höchstbauer * Helga Neuner as Afra * Walter Janssen as Curat * Beppo Schwaiger as Benedikt * Siegfried Rauch as Leander * Gusti Kreissl as Retta * Elinor von Wallerstein as Lammwirtin * Ernst Reinhold as Bartl * Anton Färber as Draxl * Alfons Sailer as Anton * Veronika Fitz as Rosa * Fred Hennings as Pfarrer * Franz Loskarn as Gendarm * Alwin Emmert as Halbweger * Viktor Afritsch as Jagdherr See also * '' The Vulture Wally'' (1921) * '' La Leggenda di Wally'' (1930) * ''La Wall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heidemarie Hatheyer
Heidemarie Hatheyer (8 April 1918 – 11 May 1990) was an Austrian film actress. She appeared in 43 films between 1938 and 1988. Selected filmography *''The Mountain Calls'' (1938) * '' Frau Sixta'' (1938) * '' The Vulture Wally'' (1940) * ''The Years Pass'' (1945) * ''Where the Trains Go'' (1949) * ''Encounter with Werther'' (1949) * '' Chased by the Devil'' (1950) * ''Regimental Music'' (1950) * ''This Man Belongs to Me'' (1950) * '' The Man Who Wanted to Live Twice'' (1950) * '' Dr. Holl'' (1951) * '' Desires'' (1952) * ''Don't Ask My Heart'' (1952) * '' Anna Louise and Anton'' (1953) * '' Sauerbruch – Das war mein Leben'' (1954) * ''You Can No Longer Remain Silent ''You Can No Longer Remain Silent'' (German: ''Du darfst nicht länger schweigen'') is a 1955 West German romantic drama film directed by Robert A. Stemmle and starring Heidemarie Hatheyer, Wilhelm Borchert and Werner Hinz.Bock & Bergfelder p.5 ...'' (1955) * '' Love Without Illusions'' (1955) * '' Die R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Steinhoff
Hans Steinhoff (10 March 1882 – 20 April 1945) was a German film director, best known for the propaganda films he made in the Nazi era. Life and career Steinhoff started his career as a stage actor in the 1900s and later worked as a stage director. He directed his first silent film '' Clothes Make the Man'', the adaption of a novel by Gottfried Keller, in 1921. Steinhoff was a convinced Nazi and directed many propaganda films, he sometimes even wore his Nazi party membership button on the film set. His most notable films were perhaps '' Hitlerjunge Quex'' (1933), an influential propaganda film for the Hitler Youth, and '' Ohm Krüger'' (1940), for which he won the Mussolini Cup at the 1941 Venice Film Festival. On April 20, 1945, during the last war days, Steinhoff tried to escape from Berlin on the last scheduled Lufthansa flight. The plane, a Junkers Ju 52, was shot down by the Soviet Red Army and all but one of the passengers died. Reception Billy Wilder, who wr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
