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Grimme-Preis For Fiction Winners
The Grimme-Preis (Grimme Award), formerly known as the Adolf-Grimme-Preis, is one of the most prestigious German television awards. It is named after the first general director of Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk, Adolf Grimme. The Grimme Institute also awards the Grimme Online Award and the Deutscher Radiopreis (German Radio Award). History The award, founded as the Adolf-Grimme-Preis in 1964, is named after the first general director of Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk, Adolf Grimme.Adolf Grimme short biography Fernsehmuseum Hamburg. Retrieved 28 January 2012 The award was endowed by the German Community College association and is granted to productions "that use the specific possibilities of the medium of television in an extraordinary manner and at the same time can serve as examples regarding content and method". [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marl, North Rhine-Westphalia
Marl () is a town and a municipality in the Recklinghausen (district), district of Recklinghausen, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated near the Wesel-Datteln Canal, approx. 10 km north-west of Recklinghausen. It has about 90,000 people. Geography Location The town adjoins in the north to the woodlands of the Haard and the natural park Hohe Mark. The town forms the smooth transition between the industrial Ruhr, ''Ruhrgebiet'' and the rural ''Münsterland''. The northern town border coincides nearly completely with the course of the river Lippe river, Lippe. Approximately 60% of the total town area are fields, woods, watercourses, parks and other green areas. Town area Marl has the following urban districts: Neighbour towns In the north Marl adjoins to Haltern, Haltern am See, in the east to Oer-Erkenschwick, in the southeast to Recklinghausen, in the south to Herten, in the southwest to Gelsenkirchen and in the west to Dorsten. Nature reserves * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Böhmermann
Jan Böhmermann () (born 23 February 1981) is a German Satire, satirist, journalist, podcast and television host. He also worked as a writer, producer, radio host, and is best known for his activism through publicity stunts. Early life and education Böhmermann was born and raised in Bremen. His mother had immigrated to Germany in the early 1970s, and was part of the German minority in Poland. His father died from leukemia when Böhmermann was 17 years old. Even though he remains silent about his private life, it is known that he has at least one child. He served as a lay judge at the local court of Cologne. Career In 1997, Böhmermann gained his first journalistic experience at ''Die Norddeutsche'', a local edition of Bremen's daily newspapers. In 1999, he began working as a moderator and reporter at Radio Bremen. He applied to three drama schools, was rejected every time, and a fourth time successfully at the Hanover Drama School, where he did not compete. He also dropped out ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Biolek
Alfred Franz Maria Biolek (10 July 1934 – 23 July 2021) was a German entertainer and television producer. Biolek held a PhD in law and was an honorary professor at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. He received many awards for his work on television which included popular long-running series, and pioneering work for talk shows and cooking shows in the 1970s. He also received awards for his efforts for promoting the culture of food and wine. He supported and founded charities for Africa. Youth Biolek was born in Freistadt (Fryštát) in Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic), into a Sudeten German family. His father was a lawyer. After expulsion from Czechoslovakia in 1946, the Biolek family moved to Waiblingen near Stuttgart, where Biolek's father practiced law again. Biolek was raised a Catholic, and served as an altar boy. Later he temporarily joined the German conservative party CDU. He attended the Gymnasium in Waiblingen and graduated in 1954. He then studied law in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Beyer
Frank Paul Beyer (; 26 May 1932 – 1 October 2006) was a German film director. In East Germany he was one of the most important film directors, working for the state film monopoly DEFA (film studio), DEFA and directed films that dealt mostly with the Nazi Germany, Nazi era and contemporary East Germany. His film ''Trace of Stones'' was banned for 20 years in 1966 by the ruling Socialist Unity Party of Germany, SED. His 1975 film ''Jacob the Liar (1975 film), Jacob the Liar'' was the only East German film ever nominated for an Academy Award. After the Berlin Wall#The Fall, 1989, fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 until his death he mostly directed television films. Biography Early life and career Frank Beyer was born as Frank Paul Beyer in Nobitz in Thuringia, Germany, to Paul Beyer, a clerk, and Charlotte Beyer, a sales clerk. He had a brother, Hermann Beyer (born 30 May 1943) who should have become a successful actor. After the Machtergreifung of the Nazi Party in 1933 his f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Bernhard
Nicolaas Thomas Bernhard (; 9 February 1931 – 12 February 1989) was an Austrian novelist, playwright, poet and polemicist who is considered one of the most important German-language authors of the postwar era. He explored themes of death, isolation, obsession and illness in controversial literature that was pessimistic about the human condition and highly critical of post-war Austrian and European culture. He developed a distinctive prose style often featuring multiple perspectives on characters and events, idiosyncratic vocabulary and punctuation, and long monologues by protagonists on the verge of insanity. Born in the Netherlands to his unwed Austrian mother, for much of his childhood he lived with his maternal grandparents in Austria and in boarding homes in Austria and Nazi Germany. He was closest to his grandfather, the novelist Johannes Freumbichler, who introduced him to literature and philosophy. As a youth, he contracted pleurisy and tuberculosis and lived with debil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernd Das Brot
Bernd das Brot () is a puppet character, star mascot, and Pop icon, pop cultural icon of the German children's television channel KiKA, currently featured in the programs ''Bernd das Brot'', ''Bravo Bernd'', and the KiKA late night loop programme. He is primarily characterised by his chronic Depression (mood), depression. Bernd debuted on KiKA in 2000. He became a household name among adult television viewers in 2003 when his broadcasts were played on loop during the hours of 9PM to 6AM, a time during which no regular programming airs. Bernd das Brot has gained a cult status among fans of the series, having earned the Adolf-Grimme-Preis in 2004. Role on KiKA Bernd is a depressed and wikt:curmudgeon, curmudgeonly Pullman loaf, speaking in a deep, gloomy baritone. He is small, rectangular and golden brown with hands directly attached to his body, rings around his eyes and a thin-lipped mouth. According to himself, he belongs to the species ''homo brotus depressivus''. His fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Benrath
Martin Benrath (9 November 1926 – 31 January 2000) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 60 films between 1954 and 2000. Partial filmography * ' (1954), as Michael Godeysen * ''The Angel with the Flaming Sword'' (1954), as Jürgen Marein * '' A Thousand Melodies'' (1956), as Martin Hoff * '' Melody of the Heath'' (1956), as Ulrich Haagen * ''Court Martial'' (1959), as Funk-Offizier Maiers * '' The Ideal Woman'' (1959), as Axel Jungk * '' Morituri'' (1965), as Kruse * ''Eintausend Milliarden'' (1974) * ' (1975), as Lukas Berlinger * '' When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit'' (1978, TV film), as Papa * '' The Buddenbrooks'' (1979, TV miniseries), as Johann Jr. * ''Put on Ice'' (1980), as V-Mann Körner * ''From the Life of the Marionettes'' (1980), as Professor Mogens Jensen * '' Die Weiße Rose'' (1982), as Prof. Kurt Huber * '' Väter und Söhne – Eine deutsche Tragödie'' (1986, TV miniseries), as Bankier Bernheim * ''Success'' (1991), as Dr. Otto Klenk * '' Death C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jurek Becker
Jurek Becker (; – 14 March 1997) was a Polish-born German writer, screenwriter and East German dissident. His most famous novel is ''Jacob the Liar'', which has been made into two films. He lived in Łódź during World War II for about two years and survived the Holocaust. Childhood Jurek Becker was born in a Jewish family, probably, in 1937. His birth date is not entirely clear because his father gave a birth date that was intended to protect the child from deportation. After the war Becker was claimed by a father (Jurek was never sure if he was his real father) who said he no longer remembered Jurek's correct birth date. It is probable that Jurek Becker was some years younger than is generally reckoned. He lived in the Łódź Ghetto as a child. When he was five, he was sent to the Ravensbrück concentration camp and later to Sachsenhausen. His mother was murdered in the Holocaust, but his father survived; father and son were reunited after the war and settled together in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Becker
Ben Becker (born 19 December 1964) is a German film, theatre and voice actor. Biography Becker was born in Bremen, the son of actress Monika Hansen and actor Rolf Becker. He is the brother of actress Meret Becker and the stepson of Otto Sander. His grandmother was the comedian Claire Schlichting. Becker is Jewish through his maternal grandmother Claire Schlichting's father who was a Jewish merchant from Wuppertal. As a child, Becker participated in radio dramas and had several small roles in films. Between 1985 and 1987 he trained as an actor in the Berliner Schaubühne theatre. His first contract was with Ernst Deutsch Theater in Hamburg. Later he joined the Staatstheater Stuttgart (Stuttgart State Theatre), where he was mostly remembered for his role (1991–1992) as Ferdinand in Schiller's ''Kabale und Liebe, Intrigue and Love''. Later, he worked with the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, and played the role of Tybalt in Shakespeare's ''Romeo and Juliet'' in the Deutschen Schaus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriel Barylli
Gabriel Barylli (born 31 May 1957) is an Austrian actor and film director. He has appeared in more than 40 films and television shows since 1981. He won the Silver St. George award for Best Actor for his role in ''A French Woman'' at the 19th Moscow International Film Festival. Selected filmography As actor * ' (1981), as Kurt Gerber * ' (1984, TV film), as Leonidas Tachezy * ' (1984), as Michael Blank * ' (1986, TV film), as Freddy Wolff * '' Wohin und zurück 3 – Welcome in Vienna'' (1986, TV film), as Freddy Wolff * '' Mit meinen heißen Tränen'' (1986, TV film), as Moritz von Schwind * '' Franza'' (1986, TV film), as Martin * '' Storms in May'' (1987, TV film), as Leopold Holzner * '' The Distant Land'' (1987), as Otto * ''Bread and Butter'' (1990), as Martin * ''A French Woman ''A French Woman'' () is a 1995 French drama film directed by Régis Wargnier. Plot Shortly after marrying Louis (Daniel Auteuil), a French military officer, Jeanne (Emmanuelle Béart) must fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mario Adorf
Mario Adorf (; born 8 September 1930) is a German actor, considered to be one of the great veteran character actors of European cinema. Since 1954, he has played both leading and supporting roles in over 200 film and television productions, among them the 1979 Oscar-winning film ''The Tin Drum''. He is also the author of several successful mostly autobiographical books. Biography Adorf was born in Zürich, Switzerland, the illegitimate child of Matteo Menniti, an Italian surgeon and Alice Adorf, a German medical assistant. He grew up in his maternal grandfather's hometown, Mayen, where he was raised by his unmarried mother. He rose to fame in Europe, and particularly Germany, and also made appearances in international films, including ''Ten Little Indians'' and '' Smilla's Sense of Snow''. He also played a small role in the BBC adaptation of John le Carré's '' Smiley's People'' as a German club owner. He also appeared in a number of Italian movies. In the 1960s, he marrie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
