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Coming Out (1989 Film)
Coming Out is a 1989 East German film directed by Heiner Carow and written by Wolfram Witt which deals with the lead character, a high school teacher, "coming out" and accepting himself as gay. It was the last East German film released to the public prior to the German reunification and one of the last films made by DEFA, the East German state film studio, and the only gay-themed feature film that it made. The film premiered at the Kino International in Berlin on 9 November 1989, the night that the Berlin Wall was opened. It won a number of awards including a Silver Bear and Teddy Award at 40th Berlin International Film Festival, and awards at the National Feature Film Festival of the GDR. The lead actors are Matthias Freihof, Dagmar Manzel, and Dirk Kummer. The film was shot on location in East Berlin and includes scenes shot with amateurs in some of the gay venues of the time.Wagner, Brigitte B. (ed.) (2014) ''DEFA after East Germany'', pp. 229-232. London: Camden House. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heiner Carow
Heinrich "Heiner" Carow (19 September 1929 – 1 February 1997) was a German film director and screenwriter. Early life and education Heinrich Carow was born on 19 September 1929 in Rostock, Mecklenburg, Germany. He became known as "Heiner". Career Carow's 1986 film '' So Many Dreams'' was entered into the 37th Berlin International Film Festival. In 1987, he was a member of the jury at the 38th Berlin International Film Festival. In 1990, his film ''Coming Out'' won the Silver Bear for an outstanding artistic contribution at the 40th Berlin International Film Festival. Death and legacy Carow died on 1 February 1997, aged 67, in Berlin. His grave is located in Babelsberg. The Heiner Carow Prize (for best German young film) was established by the DEFA Foundation in 2013. It is awarded to films shown in the Panorama program of the Berlin International Film Festival. In 2024, Eva Trobisch won the prize for her film '' Ivo''. Selected filmography * '' Sheriff Teddy'' (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cruising For Sex
Cruising for sex or cruising is walking or driving about a locality, called a cruising ground, in search of a sex partner, usually of the anonymous, casual, one-time variety. Published: 11-14-2007 Published: 9-21-2005 Article from NYT about a cruising area in New York City The term is also used when technology is used to find casual sex, such as using an Internet site or a telephone service. Origin and historical usage According to historian and author Tim Blanning, the term cruising originates from the Dutch equivalent . In a specifically sexual context, the term "cruising" originally emerged as an argot "code word" in gay slang, by which those "in the know" would understand the speaker's unstated sexual intent, whereas most heterosexuals, on hearing the same word in the same context, would normally misread the speaker's intended meaning in the word's more common nonsexual sense. This served (and in some contexts, still serves) as a protective sociolinguistic mechanism fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pankow
Pankow () is the second largest and most populous Boroughs and quarters of Berlin, borough of the German capital Berlin. In Berlin's 2001 administrative reform, it was merged with the former boroughs of Prenzlauer Berg and Weissensee (Berlin), Weißensee; the resulting borough retained the name Pankow. Pankow was sometimes claimed by the Western Allies (United States, United Kingdom, and France) to be the capital of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany), while the German Democratic Republic itself considered East Berlin to be its capital. Overview The borough, named after the Panke river, covers the northeast of the city region, including the inner city locality of Prenzlauer Berg. It borders Mitte and Reinickendorf in the west, Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg in the south, and Lichtenberg, Berlin, Lichtenberg in the east. Pankow is Berlin's largest borough by population and the second largest by area (after Treptow-Köpenick). Between 1945 and 1960, Schönhausen Palace and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volkspark Friedrichshain
Volkspark Friedrichshain () is a large urban park on the border of the :Localities of Berlin, Berlin neighborhoods of Friedrichshain and Prenzlauer Berg. The oldest public park in Berlin, at 52 hectares, it is also the fourth-largest, after Berlin Tempelhof Airport, Tempelhofer Park (>300 hectares), Tiergarten (park), Tiergarten (210 hectares), and Jungfernheide (146 hectares). History The park was originally conceived by the landscape gardener Peter Joseph Lenné, and in 1840 the Berlin city council decided to construct it on the occasion of the centennial of Frederick II of Prussia, Frederick the Great's ascension to the List of rulers of Prussia, Prussian throne. The oldest parts of the park were laid out in 1846-1848 based on plans by Johann Heinrich Gustav Meyer, a landscape architect who held the post of city park director, and learned his craft in the botanical garden of Schöneberg. The park was constructed on the space of a former vineyard, and officially opened in 1848 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friedrichshain
Friedrichshain () is a quarter (''Ortsteil'') of the borough of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg in Berlin, Germany. From its creation in 1920 until 2001, it was a freestanding Boroughs of Berlin, city borough. Formerly part of East Berlin, it is adjacent to Mitte, Prenzlauer Berg, Kreuzberg and Lichtenberg, Berlin, Lichtenberg. Friedrichshain is named after the ''Volkspark Friedrichshain'', a vast green park at the northern border with Prenzlauer Berg. In the Nazism, Nazi era, the borough was called ''Horst Wessel, Horst-Wessel-Stadt''. Friedrichshain is one of the trendy districts of Berlin and has experienced gentrification. Geography Friedrichshain is defined by the following roads and places, starting clock-wise in the west: Lichtenberger Straße, Mollstraße, Otto-Braun-Straße, Am Friedrichshain, Virchowstraße, Margarete-Sommer-Straße, Danziger Straße, Landsberger Allee, Hausburgstraße, Thaerstraße, Eldenaer Straße, S-Bahn-Trasse, Kynaststraße, Stralauer Halbinsel, Spree. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Platz
(, ''Alexander Square'') is a large town square, public square and transport hub in the central Mitte (locality), Mitte district of Berlin. The square is named after the Emperor of All Russia, Russian Tsar Alexander I of Russia, Alexander I, which also denotes the larger neighbourhood stretching from in the north-east to and the in the south-west. is reputedly the most visited area of Berlin, beating Friedrichstraße, Friedrichstrasse and City West. It is a popular starting point for tourists, with many attractions including the (TV tower), the Nikolaiviertel, Nikolai Quarter and the ('Red City Hall') situated nearby. is still one of Berlin's major commercial areas, housing various shopping malls, department stores and other large retail locations. History Early history to the 18th century A hospital stood at the location of present-day since the 13th century. Named (St. George), the hospital gave its name to the nearby (George Gate) of the Defensive wall, Berlin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berlin-Mitte
Mitte (; German for "middle" or "center") is a central section () of Berlin, Germany, in the eponymous Boroughs of Berlin, borough () of Mitte. Until 2001, it was itself an autonomous district. Mitte proper comprises the historic center of Old Berlin, with the medieval churches of St. Nicholas Church, Berlin, St. Nicholas and St. Mary's Church, Berlin, St. Mary, the Museum Island, city buildings (Rotes Rathaus and Altes Stadthaus, Berlin, Altes Stadthaus), the Fernsehturm Berlin, Fernsehturm, and the Brandenburg Gate, along the central boulevard of Unter den Linden. For these reasons, Mitte is considered the "heart" of Berlin. History Mitte comprises the historic center of Berlin ( and ). Its history thus corresponds to the history of the entire city until the early 20th century, and with the Greater Berlin Act in 1920 it became the first district of the city. It was among the areas of the city most heavily damaged in World War II. Following a territorial redeployment by t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prenzlauer Berg
Prenzlauer Berg () is a Boroughs and localities of Berlin, locality of Berlin, forming the southerly and most urban district of the borough of Pankow. From its founding in 1920 until 2001, Prenzlauer Berg was a district of Berlin in its own right. However, that year it was incorporated (along with the borough of Berlin-Weißensee, Weißensee) into the greater district of Pankow. From the 1960s onward, Prenzlauer Berg was associated with proponents of East Germany's diverse counterculture including Christian activists, Bohemianism, bohemians, state-independent artists, and the gay community. It was an important site for the peaceful revolution that brought down the Berlin Wall in 1989. In the 1990s the borough was also home to a vibrant squatting scene. It has since experienced rapid gentrification. Geography Prenzlauer Berg is a portion of the Pankow district in northeast Berlin. To the west and southwest it borders Mitte, to the South Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, to the east Lich ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Gumpert
Thomas Gumpert (11 December 1952 – 7 January 2021) was a German actor who was best known for his role of Johannes von Lahnstein in the daily soap ''Verbotene Liebe''. Life Gumpert was born in 1952 in the East German city of Lauchhammer, in Bezirk Cottbus. He studied acting from 1972 to 1976 in Leipzig. Since 1972 Thomas Gumpert played many roles at the Deutschen Nationaltheater in Weimar. He also played in Berlin, Hamburg, Dortmund and Frankfurt. Since the mid 1970s he was also a prolific TV and film actor. From 2003 to 2008 he played the role of the patriarch Johannes von Lahnstein in the soap opera ''Verbotene Liebe''. Gumpert died on 7 January 2021, aged 68 after a short illness and he was buried at the Stahnsdorf South-Western Cemetery.Ex-"Verbotene Liebe"-Star Thomas Gumpert ist tot'. In: t-online.de, 7 January 2021. Film * '' Lotte in Weimar'' (1974) * ''Looping'' (1975) * ''Addio piccola mia'' (1979) * ''Coming Out'' (1989) * ''Rückkehr aus der Wüste'' (1990) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss
Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss (born 17 August 1962, Berlin-Mitte) is a German actor and director. He has appeared in television and films for over 20 years. He played a leading role in Doris Dörrie's 1994 film, '' Nobody Loves Me''. He also plays a leading role in the comedy series ''Alles wird gut''. His most famous role is likely that of Axel Richter in the detective series ''The Old Fox'' from 1997. He has also directed ' (2000), for which he was nominated for an award in the International Filmfest Emden. The film premiered at the 2000 Berlin International Film Festival, was shown at over 60 international film festivals and is available on DVD. Sanoussi-Bliss made a famous speech as the only representative of the media at the 2006 international summit at the German Chancellery. Sanoussi-Bliss has done voice work in audiobooks, such as ''Salve Roma!'' by Akif Pirinçci and ''Was machen wir jetzt?'' by Doris Dörrie. He works as an honorary ambassador at the Children's Hospice in Mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walfriede Schmitt
Walfriede Schmitt (March 26, 1943 in Berlin) is a German actress. She is the daughter of the actress Elfriede Florin. Schmitt is best known in Germany for starring in the television series '' Für alle Fälle Stefanie''. She played 'Philipp's mother' in the 1989 film ''Coming Out''. Late in 1989, she became the final president of the Union of Art The Union of Art () was a trade union representing art, media and heritage workers in East Germany. The union was founded in 1949, when the Free German Trade Union Federation (FDGB) reorganised. The Union of Art and Literature was split up, with w ..., before it merged into its West German equivalent. References External links * 1943 births Actresses from Berlin German film actresses Living people {{Germany-screen-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gudrun Ritter
Gudrun Ritter (born 16 November 1936) is a German actress. She appeared in more than one hundred films since 1959. Selected filmography References External links * * 1936 births Living people German film actresses People from Marienberg Actresses from Saxony {{Germany-film-actor-1930s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
