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Bernhard Schwidewski
Bernhard Schwidewski (1885–1966) was a German art director.Hardt p.234 Selected filmography * ''The Tragedy of a Great'' (1920) * ''Struggle for the Soil'' (1925) * ''The Dice Game of Life'' (1925) * ''Lightning'' (1925) * '' Gretchen Schubert'' (1926) * ''My Friend the Chauffeur'' (1926) * ''Tragedy at the Royal Circus'' (1928) * '' The Beggar Student'' (1931) * ''The Woman They Talk About'' (1931) * ''Frisians in Peril ''Frisians in Peril'' (German: ''Friesennot'') is a 1935 German drama film directed by Peter Hagen and starring Friedrich Kayßler, Jessie Vihrog and Valéry Inkijinoff. Made for Nazi propaganda purposes, it concerns a village of ethnic Frisians in ...'' (1935) References Bibliography * Hardt, Ursula. ''From Caligari to California: Erich Pommer's life in the International Film Wars''. Berghahn Books, 1996. External links * 1885 births 1966 deaths German art directors Film people from Berlin {{Germany-business-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berlin
Berlin is Capital of Germany, the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and List of cities in Germany by population, by population. Its more than 3.85 million inhabitants make it the European Union's List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, most populous city, as measured by population within city limits having gained this status after the United Kingdom's, and thus London's, Brexit, departure from the European Union. Simultaneously, the city is one of the states of Germany, and is the List of German states by area, third smallest state in the country in terms of area. Berlin is surrounded by the state of Brandenburg, and Brandenburg's capital Potsdam is nearby. The urban area of Berlin has a population of over 4.5 million and is therefore the most populous urban area in Germany. The Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region, Berlin-Brandenburg capital region has around 6.2 million inhabitants and is Germany's second-largest metropolitan reg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Friend The Chauffeur
''My Friend the Chauffeur'' (German: ''Mein Freund der Chauffeur'') is a 1926 German silent comedy film directed by Erich Waschneck and starring Hans Albers, Ferdinand von Alten and Barbara von Annenkoff.Hardt p.234 It was made by Germany's largest studio UFA. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Botho Hoefer, Carl Ludwig Kirmse and Bernhard Schwidewski. Cast In alphabetical order * Hans Albers as Sir Ralph Moray * Alice Kempen as Bietsche, Frau Kidders Tochter * Oskar Marion as Lord Terry Barrymore * Olly Orska as Maida, Frau Kidders Nichte * Livio Pavanelli as Fürst Coramini * Ferdinand von Alten as Graf Dalmar-Kalm * Barbara von Annenkoff Barbara von Annenkoff (13 February 1900 – 30 November 1979) was a Russian-born German stage and film actress. Selected filmography * '' Op Hoop van Zegen'' (1924) * ''Wood Love'' (1925) * '' Den of Iniquity'' (1925) * ''One Minute to Twelve' ... as Frau Stanley Kidder * Alfred von Schluga as Joseph, d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1966 Deaths
Events January * January 1 – In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa takes over as military ruler of the Central African Republic, ousting President David Dacko. * January 3 – 1966 Upper Voltan coup d'état: President Maurice Yaméogo is deposed by a military coup in the Republic of Upper Volta (modern-day Burkina Faso). * January 10 ** Pakistani–Indian peace negotiations end successfully with the signing of the Tashkent Declaration, a day before the sudden death of Indian prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri. ** Georgia House of Representatives, The House of Representatives of the US state of Georgia refuses to allow African-American representative Julian Bond to take his seat, because of his anti-war stance. ** A Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference convenes in Lagos, Nigeria, primarily to discuss Rhodesia. * January 12 – United States President Lyndon Johnson states that the United States should stay in South Vietnam until Communism, Communist aggression there is e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1885 Births
Events January–March * January 3– 4 – Sino-French War – Battle of Núi Bop: French troops under General Oscar de Négrier defeat a numerically superior Qing Chinese force, in northern Vietnam. * January 4 – The first successful appendectomy is performed by Dr. William W. Grant, on Mary Gartside. * January 17 – Mahdist War in Sudan – Battle of Abu Klea: British troops defeat Mahdist forces. * January 20 – American inventor LaMarcus Adna Thompson patents a roller coaster. * January 24 – Irish rebels damage Westminster Hall and the Tower of London with dynamite. * January 26 – Mahdist War in Sudan: Troops loyal to Mahdi Muhammad Ahmad conquer Khartoum; British commander Charles George Gordon is killed. * February 5 – King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo Free State, as a personal possession. * February 9 – The first Japanese arrive in Hawaii. * February 16 – Charles Dow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frisians In Peril
''Frisians in Peril'' (German: ''Friesennot'') is a 1935 German drama film directed by Peter Hagen and starring Friedrich Kayßler, Jessie Vihrog and Valéry Inkijinoff. Made for Nazi propaganda purposes, it concerns a village of ethnic Frisians in Russia. It was shot at the Grunewald Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Robert A. Dietrich and Bernhard Schwidewski. Location shooting took place around the Lüneburg Heath near Bispingen. It premiered at the Ufa-Palast am Zoo in the German capital. Plot Soviet authorities are making life as difficult as possible for a village of Volga Germans, most of whose ancestors originated in the Frisian Islands, with taxes and other oppression. After Mette, a half-Russian, half-Frisian woman, becomes the girlfriend of Kommissar Tschernoff, the Frisians murder her and throw her body in a swamp.Erwin Leiser, ''Nazi Cinema'', p. 40 Open violence breaks out and all of the Red Army soldiers stationed nearby ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Beggar Student (1931 German Film)
''The Beggar Student'' () is a 1931 German operetta film directed by Victor Janson and starring Hans-Heinz Bollmann, Jarmila Novotná and Fritz Schulz. The film is based on the 1882 operetta '' The Beggar Student''. A British version of the film '' The Beggar Student'' was also released the same year. The film's art direction was by Botho Hoefer and Bernhard Schwidewski. Cast * Hans-Heinz Bollmann as Symon *Jarmila Novotná as Laura * Fritz Schulz as Jan * Truus van Aalten as Bronislava *Hansi Arnstaedt as Gräfin Palmatica Nowalska *Paul Westermeier as Oberst Ollendorf *Hans Jaray as Henrici *Hermann Picha as Enterich *Paul Biensfeldt Paul Biensfeldt (4 March 1869 – 2 April 1933) was a German-JewishSiegbert Salomon Prawer, ''Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933'', Berghahn Books (2007), p. 213 stage and film actor. Selected film ... as Nepomuk References External links * German historical musical films 1930s historic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tragedy At The Royal Circus
''Tragedy at the Royal Circus'' (german: Tragödie im Zirkus Royal) is a 1928 German silent drama film directed by Alfred Lind and starring Bernhard Goetzke, Ellen Kürti, and Werner Pittschau. The film's art direction Art director is the title for a variety of similar job functions in Theatre, theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, film industry, film and television, the Internet, and video games. It is the charge of a sole art director to supe ... was by Willi Herrmann and Bernhard Schwidewski Cast References Bibliography * External links * 1928 films Films of the Weimar Republic German silent feature films German drama films Films directed by Alfred Lind 1928 drama films Circus films Films produced by Seymour Nebenzal German black-and-white films Silent drama films 1920s German films {{Germany-silent-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gretchen Schubert
''Gretchen Schubert'' is a 1926 German silent film directed by Karl Moos.The Sounds of Silent Films p.76 The film's sets were designed by the art directors Robert Neppach and Bernhard Schwidewski Cast In alphabetical order * Ruth Beyer * Ines Decastro * Wilhelm Diegelmann * Hermann Picha * Erich Poremski The given name Eric, Erich, Erikk, Erik, Erick, or Eirik is derived from the Old Norse name ''Eiríkr'' (or ''Eríkr'' in Old East Norse due to monophthongization). The first element, ''ei-'' may be derived from the older Proto-Norse ''* ai ... * Lydia von Rodenberg * Max Willenz References Bibliography * Claus Tieber & Anna Katharina Windisch. ''The Sounds of Silent Films: New Perspectives on History, Theory and Practice''. Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. External links * 1926 films Films of the Weimar Republic German silent feature films German black-and-white films {{Germany-silent-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Empire
The German Empire (), Herbert Tuttle wrote in September 1881 that the term "Reich" does not literally connote an empire as has been commonly assumed by English-speaking people. The term literally denotes an empire – particularly a hereditary empire led by an emperor, although has been used in German to denote the Roman Empire because it had a weak hereditary tradition. In the case of the German Empire, the official name was , which is properly translated as "German Empire" because the official position of head of state in the constitution of the German Empire was officially a " presidency" of a confederation of German states led by the King of Prussia who would assume "the title of German Emperor" as referring to the German people, but was not emperor of Germany as in an emperor of a state. –The German Empire" ''Harper's New Monthly Magazine''. vol. 63, issue 376, pp. 591–603; here p. 593. also referred to as Imperial Germany, the Second Reich, as well as simply Germa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lightning (1925 Film)
''Lightning'' (German:''Wetterleuchten'') is a 1925 German silent drama film directed by Rudolf Walther-Fein.Grange p.195 The film's art direction was by Botho Hoefer and Bernhard Schwidewski Cast In alphabetical order * Victor Colani * William Dieterle * Lia Eibenschütz * Kara Guhl * Oscar Marion * Frida Richard * Alphons Schünemann Alphons (Latinized ''Alphonsus'', ''Adelphonsus'', or ''Adefonsus'') is a male given name recorded from the 8th century (Alfonso I of Asturias, r. 739–757) in the Christian successor states of the Visigothic kingdom in the Iberian peninsula. ... References Bibliography * Grange, William. ''Cultural Chronicle of the Weimar Republic''. Scarecrow Press, 2008. External links * 1925 films 1925 drama films German drama films Films of the Weimar Republic Films directed by Rudolf Walther-Fein German silent feature films German black-and-white films Silent drama films 1920s German films 1920s German-language films {{ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dice Game Of Life
''The Dice Game of Life'' (German:''Des Lebens Würfelspiel'') is a 1925 German silent film directed by Heinz Paul and starring Frida Richard, Hella Moja and Margarete Lanner.Grange p.203 The film's art direction was by Botho Hoefer and Bernhard Schwidewski. Cast * Frida Richard as Frau Witwe Krüger * Hella Moja as Aenne, ihre Tochter * Margarete Lanner as Lotte, Aennes Freundin * Gerhard Ritterband as Laufbursche im Blumenhaus * Paul Hartmann (actor), Paul Hartmann as Hanns Freiherr v. Rhoden * Arnold Korff as Kommandeur des Ulanen-Regiments * Hans Brausewetter as Emil Päschke, sein Bursche * Wilhelm Diegelmann as Wilh. Päschke, Vater * Ilka Grüning as Emils Mutter * Hermann Vallentin as Kommerzienrat Reichenberg * Olga Engl as Reichenbergs Frau * Frizzi Richard as Ise - beider Tochter * Ferdinand von Alten as Bankier George Neumann * Karl Platen as Sein Diener * Albert Paulig as Theaterdirektor * Rudolf Klein-Rhoden as Großindustrieller Stenis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
