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Brecht (TV Film)
''Brecht'' is a 2019 TV docudrama film, dealing with the life and work of the German playwright Bertolt Brecht. A co-production between Bavaria Fiction in Germany, Satel Film in Austria and MIA Film in the Czech Republic, principal photography occurred in and around Prague from 30 May to 28 July 2017. Formed of two 90-minute parts, it was scripted and directed by Heinrich Breloer, with Tom Schilling and Burghart Klaußner in the title role. It premiered at the 69th Berlin International Film Festival, Berlinale 2019. Plot The film focusses more on Brecht's relationships with women (namely Paula Banholzer, Marianne Zoff, Helene Weigel, Elisabeth Hauptmann, Ruth Berlau, Käthe Reichel, Regine Lutz and Isot Kilian) than on his plays and poems. It does not mention the term epic theatre (though rehearsal scenes in Part 2 illustrate his working process with the Berliner Ensemble) and his years of exile are skipped – Bresloer has written: :"Naturally I would also like to have treat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heinrich Breloer
Heinrich Breloer (, born 17 February 1942 in Gelsenkirchen) is a German author and film director. He has mainly worked on docudramas related to modern German history and has received many awards. Breloer's 2005 docudrama ''Speer und Er'' was described as a milestone in the understanding of Nazi Germany by the German people. Selected filmography * ' (co-director: , 1982, TV film) — based on a novel by Arnold Zweig * ''Treffpunkt im Unendlichen'' (co-director: Horst Königstein, 1984, TV film) — based on a novel by Klaus Mann * ' (1987, TV film) * ''The State Chancellery'' (1989, TV film) — (about Uwe Barschel) * ' (1991, TV film) — (about and the ) * ' (1993, TV film) — (about Herbert Wehner) * ' (1997, TV film) — (about the German Autumn) * '' Die Manns – Ein Jahrhundertroman'' (2001, TV miniseries) — (about Thomas Mann) * ''Speer und Er'' (2005, TV miniseries) — (about Albert Speer) * ''Buddenbrooks'' (2008) — based on the novel ''Buddenbrooks'' by Thoma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Dragus
Maria-Victoria Drăguș (born 1994) is a Romanian-German actress. Her film credits include '' If Not Us, Who?'', ' and '. One notable role was in Palme d'Or-winning 2009 film '' The White Ribbon''. She has had reoccurring roles in the television programs ''Dance Academy'' and '' Leipzig Homicide''. She has a younger sister Paraschiva, and is the niece of the French writer Viorel Dragus. Selected filmography * '' The White Ribbon'' (2009) * '' If Not Us, Who?'' (2011) * ' (2012) * ' (2012) * '' 24 Weeks'' (2016) * ''Graduation'' (2016) * '' Tiger Girl'' (2017) * '' Mademoiselle Paradis'' (2017) * ''Mary Queen of Scots'' (2018) * ''Brecht'' (2019) Awards * 2014 Shooting Stars Award at the Berlin International Film Festival The Berlin International Film Festival (), usually called the Berlinale (), is an annual film festival held in Berlin, Germany. Founded in 1951 and originally run in June, the festival has been held every February since 1978 and is one of Europ ... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regine Lutz
Regine ( , ) or Régine () is a feminine given name, the French and German form of Regina. People with the first name include: Regine * Regine Heitzer (born 1944), Austrian figure skater * Regine Hildebrandt (1941–2001), German biologist and politician * Regine Mösenlechner (born 1961), German alpine skier * Regine Olsen (1822–1904), Danish woman who was engaged to the philosopher and theologian Søren Kierkegaard * Regine Tolentino (born 1978), Filipino-American TV host, actress, and dancer * Regine Velasquez (born 1970), Filipino singer, actress, record producer, designer and TV host * Regina Jonas (German: Regine Jonas) (1902–1944), German woman who became the first female rabbi * Regine Bakenecker (born 1993), German pole vaulter Régine * Régine Chassagne (born 1976), Canadian musician and founding member of the band ''Arcade Fire'' * Régine Crespin (1927–2007), French opera soprano * Régine Deforges (1935–2014), French author, editor, director and play ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Käthe Reichel
Käthe or Kathe is a given name. Notable people with the name include: * Käthe Dorsch (1890–1957), German actress * Käthe Gold (1907–1997), Austrian actress * Käthe Grasegger, later Deuschl (1917–2001), German alpine skier *Kathe Green (born 1944), American actress, model and singer *Käthe Haack (1897–1986), German actress *Käthe Hoffmann, German botanist who discovered and catalogued many plant species in New Guinea and South East Asia * Käthe Köhler (born 1913, date of death unknown), German diver who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics *Kathe Koja (born 1960), American writer *Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945), German painter, printmaker, and sculptor * Käthe Krauß (1906–1970), German athlete, 1936 Olympic bronze medallist in 100 m * Käthe Pohland, East German sprint canoeist who competed in the late 1960s * Käthe Sasso (1926–2024), Austrian child resistance activist *Käthe Schirmacher (1865–1930), German writer, journalist, women's rights activist a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruth Berlau
Ruth Berlau (24 August 1906, Charlottenlund – 15 January 1974, East Berlin) was a Denmark, Danish actress, director, photographer and writer, known for her collaboration with Bertolt Brecht and for founding the Bertolt-Brecht-Archiv in Berlin. Born to a merchant family, she learned French at a convent school, but had to drop out due to a pregnancy at the age of thirteen. She studied acting and established her Danish reputation playing Anna in Brecht's ''Drums in the Night''. During her teenage years, she financed a bicycle tour of France, by writing up a somewhat fictionalized account of her travels for a Danish newspaper. In 1930, she toured the Soviet Union by bicycle, and on her return joined the Communist Party of Denmark. Later she took part behind the front lines in the Spanish Civil War. In 1933, she presented herself to the newly arrived Brecht and his wife Helene Weigel, then staying on Funen, Fyn or Thurø and within two years had become his lover. In 1936 or 1939, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elisabeth Hauptmann
Elisabeth Hauptmann (20 June 1897, Peckelsheim, Westphalia, German Empire – 20 April 1973, East Berlin) was a German writer who worked with fellow German playwright and director Bertolt Brecht. She got to know Brecht in 1922, the same year she came to Berlin. She worked as a secretary for the German-American poet and writer Herman George Scheffauer.See Sabine Kebir, ''Ich fragte nicht nach meinem Anteil: Elisabeth Hauptmanns Arbeit mit Bertolt Brecht'' I didn't ask about my share: Elisabeth Hauptmann's work with Bertolt Brecht"(Aufbau-Verlag GmbH: Berlin 1997), p. 22. She began collaborating with Brecht in 1924, and is listed as co-author of ''The Threepenny Opera'' (1928). She purportedlyJohn Fuegi, ''Brecht & Co.: Sex, Politics and the Making of the Modern Drama'' (New York: Grove Press, 1994). wrote the majority of the text as well as providing a German translation of John Gay's '' The Beggar's Opera'', on which the musical play is based, as working material for Brecht an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helene Weigel
Helene Weigel (; 12 May 19006 May 1971) was an Austrian actress and artistic director. She was the second and last wife of Bertolt Brecht until his death in 1956; together they had two children. Personal life Weigel was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, the daughter of Leopoldine (née Pollak) and Siegfried Weigel, an accountant-general in a textile factory. Her family was Jewish. She and husband Brecht had two children, Stefan Brecht and Barbara Brecht-Schall. Weigel was a Communist Party member from 1930. Career Weigel became the artistic director of the Berliner Ensemble on 16 February 1949. She is best remembered for creating several Brecht roles, including: Pelagea Vlassova, '' The Mother'' of 1932; ''Antigone'' in Brecht's version of the Greek tragedy; the title role in his civil war play, '' Señora Carrar's Rifles''; and the iconic ''Mother Courage''. Between 1933 and 1947, as a refugee from Adolf Hitler's Germany, she was seldom able to pursue her acting craft, even ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marianne Zoff
Marianne Josephine Zoff (30 June 1893 – 22 November 1984) was an Austrian actress and opera singer (mezzo-soprano). Zoff was born in Hainfeld, Lower Austria. Starting in 1919 at the Staatstheater Augsburg, she sang at several German opera house until 1925 at the Theater Münster. Zoff was the first wife of Bertolt Brecht, to whom she was married from 1922 until September 1927. Their daughter Hanne Marianne was born on 12 March 1923. The writer Otto Zoff was her older brother. In 1928 Zoff married the actor Theo Lingen and Zoff's daughter Hanne grew up with her and Lingen. Lingen's popularity protected Zoff and her daughter, who were classified as half-Jews by the Nazi regime, from persecution. In 1928, Zoff and Lingen had a daughter, Ursula Lingen, who also was an actress. Zoff died in 1984, aged 91, in Vienna and is buried at the Vienna Zentralfriedhof The Vienna Central Cemetery () is one of the largest cemeteries in the world by number of interred, and is the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paula Banholzer
Paula Banholzer (6 August 1901 – 25 February 1989) was an educator and first love of Bertolt Brecht, who was born in Markt Wald and died in Augsburg. Life The daughter of the physician Carl Banholzer, she was born and grew up in the Middle-Swabian Markt Wald in the present-day district of Unterallgäu. Later, she attended a higher girls' school, the Augsburger Maria-Theresia-Schule (now Maria-Theresia-Gymnasium). Banholzer and Brecht met in Augsburg in the spring of 1917. Brecht also called Paula "Bi" or called her by the English word "Bittersweet". He took this nickname from the drama ''Der Tausch'' by Paul Claudel. Banholzer became pregnant by Brecht at the end of 1918. Brecht therefore sought her father to get his consent to a marriage, but Carl Banholzer declined this and sent his pregnant daughter from the district, to Kimratshofen in what is now the district of Oberallgäu. There, her son Frank was born in July 1919, named after Brecht's then role-model Frank Wedekind; he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
69th Berlin International Film Festival
The 69th annual Berlin International Film Festival took place from 7 to 17 February 2019. French actress Juliette Binoche served as the Jury President. Lone Scherfig's drama film '' The Kindness of Strangers'' opened the festival. The Golden Bear was won by Israeli-French drama ''Synonyms'' directed by Nadav Lapid, which also served as the closing film of the festival. Juries Main competition * Juliette Binoche, French actress - Jury President * Justin Chang, American journalist and film critic * Sandra Hüller, German actress * Sebastián Lelio, Chilean film director and screenwriter * Rajendra Roy, American chief curator of MoMA * Trudie Styler, British actress, producer and film director First Feature Award Jury * Katja Eichinger, German journalist, writer and film producer * Alain Gomis, French filmmaker * Vivian Qu, Chinese filmmaker and producer Documentary Award Jury * Maria Bonsanti, Italian artistic director and director of the Eurodoc program * Gregory Na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prague
Prague ( ; ) is the capital and List of cities and towns in the Czech Republic, largest city of the Czech Republic and the historical capital of Bohemia. Prague, located on the Vltava River, has a population of about 1.4 million, while its Prague metropolitan area, metropolitan area is home to approximately 2.3 million people. Prague is a historical city with Romanesque architecture, Romanesque, Czech Gothic architecture, Gothic, Czech Renaissance architecture, Renaissance and Czech Baroque architecture, Baroque architecture. It was the capital of the Kingdom of Bohemia and residence of several Holy Roman Emperors, most notably Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, Charles IV (r. 1346–1378) and Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor, Rudolf II (r. 1575–1611). It was an important city to the Habsburg monarchy and Austria-Hungary. The city played major roles in the Bohemian Reformation, Bohemian and the Protestant Reformations, the Thirty Years' War and in 20th-century history a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Satel Film
Satel Film is an Austrian TV and film production and distribution company, founded in 1971 by Michael Wolkenstein and based in Vienna. Its documentaries, TV series and shorts include '' Kottan ermittelt'', '' Schlosshotel Orth'', the biopics ' and (as a co-production) ''Brecht'', thriller '' Opernball'', the TV films ''Heilerin I'' and ''Heilerin II'' and the police procedural ''SOKO Donau'', released in Germany as ''SOKO Wien''.{{cite web, url=https://www.imdb.com/company/co0041387/, title=IMDB entry, website=IMDb History Satel Film was founded as a film production company in 1971 by former Sascha-Film Sascha-Film, in full Sascha-Filmindustrie AG and from 1933 Tobis-Sascha-Filmindustrie AG, was the largest Austrian film production company of the silent film and early sound film period. History The business was established in 1910 by Alexander ... management director Michael Wolkenstein. References category:1971 establishments in Austria category:Film production compani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
