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Das Alte Gesetz
''The Ancient Law'' () is a 1923 German silent drama film directed by E. A. Dupont and starring Henny Porten, Ruth Weyher and Hermann Vallentin. The son of an Orthodox Rabbi faces hostility from his father when he decides to become an actor. Plot The film takes place in the 1860s, and opens on the celebration of Purim in a Galician shtetl. Baruch, the rabbi’s son, takes the role of king Ahasuerus in the Purim spiel. His father, walking in on the festivities, is angered by his son taking part in the play. Reuben Pick, a traveler, counters the rabbi, stating that outside of the ghetto actors are respected and honored. Baruch is intrigued by this statement, and asks if Jews can be actors as well. Reuben pick confirms this, and then the rabbi banishes Baruch to the other room. Now drawn to outside world, Baruch declares his intent to become an actor, and, once his father realizes he isn’t joking, is forbidden to leave the house. He sneaks out during the night, and finds a t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heinrich Laube
Heinrich Laube (18 September 1806 – 1 August 1884), German dramatist, novelist and theatre-director, was born at Szprotawa, Sprottau in Prussian Silesia. Life He studied theology at university of Halle, Halle and university of Breslau, Breslau (1826–1829), and settled in Leipzig in 1832. Here he at once came into prominence with his political essays, collected under the title ''Das neue Jahrhundert'', in two parts — ''Polen'' (1833) and ''Politische Briefe'' (1833) — and with the novel ''Das junge Europa'', in three parts — ''Die Poeten'', ''Die Krieger'', ''Die Bürger'' — (1833–1837). These writings, in which, after the fashion of Heinrich Heine and Karl Ludwig Börne, Ludwig Börne, he severely criticized the political regime in Germany, together with the part he played in the literary movement known as "Young Germany, Das junge Deutschland," led to his being subjected to police surveillance and his works confiscated. On his return, in 1834, from a journey to Ital ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Payot
Sidelocks in English, or ''pe'ot'' in Hebrew, English language, anglicized as payot (, "corners") or payes (), is the Hebrew term for sidelocks or sideburns. Payot are worn by some men and boys in the Orthodox Judaism, Orthodox Jewish community based on an interpretation of the Tanakh's injunction against shaving the "sides" of one's head. Literally, ''pe'a'' means "corner, side, edge". There are different styles of payot among Haredi Judaism, Haredi or Hasidic Judaism, Hasidic, Yemenite Jews, Yemenite, and Chardal Jews. Yemenite Jews call their sidelocks ''simanim'' (), literally, "signs", because their long-curled sidelocks served as a distinguishing feature in Yemenite society (differentiating them from their Gentile neighbors). Rabbinic interpretation Reason According to Maimonides, shaving the sidelocks was a heathen practice. Specifics The Torah says, "you shall not round off the ''pe'a'' of your head ()". The word ''pe'a'' was taken to mean the hair in front of the ears e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julius Brandt
Julius Brandt (5 March 1873 in Olomouc – 26 December 1949 in Vienna) was an Austrians, Austrian stage actor, stage and film actor, film director and screenwriter. Selected filmography * ''The Gentleman Without a Residence (1915 film), The Gentleman Without a Residence'' (1915) * ''Pogrom (film), Pogrom'' (1919) * ''The Prisoner (1920 film), The Prisoner'' (1920) * ''Diamonds (1920 film), Diamonds'' (1920) * ''Weib und Palette'' (1921) * ''About the Son'' (1921) * ''The Vulture Wally (1921 film), The Vulture Wally'' (1921) * ''La Boheme (1923 film), La Boheme'' (1923) * ''The Ancient Law'' (1923) * ''The Gentleman Without a Residence (1925 film), The Gentleman Without a Residence'' (1925) * ''Die Geliebte des Gouverneurs'' (1927) * ''The Weavers (1927 film), The Weavers'' (1927) * ''Behind the Altar'' (1927) * ''Autumn on the Rhine'' (1928) * ''Rustle of Spring (film), Rustle of Spring'' (1929) * ''Two Worlds (1930 German-language film), Two Worlds'' (1930) * ''The Virtuous Sinne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Hechy
Alice Hechy (born Alice Scheel; 21 July 1893 – 26 May 1973) was a German stage and film actress and singer (soprano A soprano () is a type of classical singing voice and has the highest vocal range of all voice types. The soprano's vocal range (using scientific pitch notation) is from approximately middle C (C4) = 261 Hertz, Hz to A5 in Choir, choral ...). Selected filmography Bibliography * Eisner, Lotte H., ''The Haunted Screen: Expressionism in the German Cinema and the Influence of Max Reinhardt''. University of California Press, 2008. External links * * 1893 births 1973 deaths German sopranos German stage actresses German film actresses German silent film actresses People from Anklam 20th-century German actresses {{Germany-film-actor-1890s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olga Limburg
Olga Limburg (5 April 1881 – 7 March 1970) was a German theater and film actress. She began her artistic career in 1901 with a commitment at the Municipal Theatre of Poznan. Since 1902, she played at several of Berlin's leading theaters including the Tribune, the Metropol Theatre, Berlin , the comedy and the Theater am . During the early part of her theater career, Limburg usually played supporting roles. Later she worked in the "comical oldies" plays. Career Limburg's film acting career started in 1907 with a minor role in the silent film ' and followed by ' (1910). She also starred in major productions including ' (1919), '' Kean'' (1921) and Rudolf Meinert-directed '' Marie Antoinette, the Love of a King'' (1922). These films achieved her much acclaim as a supporting actress. She continued her acting career through the next decade and starred in talkies like '' Between Night and Dawn'' (1931), ', '' The Black Forest Girl'' (both 1933), '' The Girl Irene'' (1936) ''Madame Bova ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jakob Tiedtke
Jakob Karl Heinrich Wilhelm Tiedtke (23 June 1875 – 30 June 1960) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 190 films between 1914 and 1955. Selected filmography * '' The Pied Piper of Hamelin'' (1918) * '' The Doll'' (1919) * '' The Galley Slave'' (1919) * ''A Drive into the Blue'' (1919) * '' Kohlhiesel's Daughters'' (1920) * ''Sumurun'' (1920) * ''Romeo and Juliet in the Snow'' (1920) * '' Kohlhiesels Töchter'' (1920) * '' Love at the Wheel'' (1921) * '' Peter Voss, Thief of Millions'' (1921) * '' The Stream'' (1922) * '' Sins of Yesterday'' (1922) * '' Maciste and the Chinese Chest'' (1923) * '' The Expulsion'' (1923) * '' The Ancient Law'' (1923) * '' The Little Napoleon'' (1923) * '' Carousel'' (1923) * '' The Flame'' (1923) * '' The Merchant of Venice'' (1923) * '' Tragedy in the House of Habsburg'' (1924) * '' Nanon'' (1924) * '' Doctor Wislizenus'' (1924) * '' Arabella'' (1924) * '' Playing with Destiny'' (1924) * '' By Order of Pompadour'' (1924) * '' T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margarete Schlegel
Margarethe Sylva Elisabeth Wisniewski (né Schlegel, 31 December 1899 – 15 July 1987), known professionally as Margarete Schlegel, was a German theatre and film actress and soprano operetta singer. Early life The sixth of seven children and the third of four girls, Margarethe Sylva Elisabeth Schlegel was born at 11:45pm on 31 December 1899 in Bromberg, West Prussia, German Empire, (present-day Bydgoszcz, Poland) to a German-speaking Prussian-Polish Catholic family. Her father was Augustin Heinrich Schlegel (1865–1934), who legally changed the family surname from Wisniewski upon relocating them to Berlin in 1904, while her mother was Anna Agatha Schlegel (née Garski, 1864–1940). Career in Germany Naturally beautiful and talented (she could sing, dance and act well from an early age), Schlegel sought a chorus role in theatre in 1917 as a way of earning extra money for her family while still a schoolgirl due to the privations of war. This soon led to a starring role ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Garrison (actor)
Robert Garrison (born Ruben Gerson; 18 July 1872 – died 5 January 1930) was a German-Jewish Siegbert Salomon Prawer, ''Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933'', Berghahn Books (2007), p. 213 film actor. Robert Garrison was born in Strasburg in Westpreußen and died in Berlin. Selected filmography * '' People in Ecstasy'' (1921) * '' The Ancient Law'' (1923) * '' Quarantäne'' (1923) * '' Debit and Credit'' (1924) * ''Michael'' (1924) * '' Dudu, a Human Destiny'' (1924) * '' Father Voss'' (1925) * '' If You Have an Aunt'' (1925) * '' Slums of Berlin'' (1925) * '' Shadows of the Metropolis'' (1925) * '' Joyless Street'' (1925) * '' The Company Worth Millions'' (1925) * '' The Circus Princess'' (1925) * ''The Humble Man and the Chanteuse'' (1925) * '' Peter the Pirate'' (1925) * ''An Artist of Life'' (1925) * '' The Man Who Sold Himself'' (1925) * '' The Woman with That Certain Something'' (1925) * '' Nick, King of the Chauffeurs'' (1925) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grete Berger
Grete Berger (born Margarethe Berg; 11 February 1883 – 23 May 1944) was an Austrian-German stage and film actress whose career came to an end following the rise of the Nazi Party in 1933. Berger was murdered at Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944 shortly after her arrival. Career Grete Berger was born Margarethe Berg into a Jewish family in Austrian Silesia. She began her education under acting teacher Rosa Roth in Vienna. She made her stage debut on 1 September 1903 in Berlin at the Deutsches Theater. In 1904 she began an engagement at the Deutsches Theater under theatre director and pedagogue Max Reinhardt where she performed in youthful character roles. In 1911 she performed with Reinhardt's ensemble in Sophocles's ''Oedipus Rex'' on guest tours of Prague and St. Petersburg. Other notable roles in Berlin included Puck in Shakespeare's ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'', the title role of Hugo von Hofmannsthal's drama '' Elektra'', Désirée in Richard Beer-Hofmann's '' The C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernst Deutsch
Ernst Deutsch, also known as Ernest Dorian (16 September 1890 – 22 March 1969), was a Jewish Austrian actor. In 1916, his performance as the protagonist in the world première of Walter Hasenclever's Expressionist play '' The Son'' in Dresden was praised. Deutsch also played the antihero Famulus in Paul Wegener's '' The Golem: How He Came into the World'' in 1920. He is known by English-speaking audiences for his role as Baron Kurtz in Carol Reed's 1949 ''film noir'', ''The Third Man''. Family Deutsch was the son of Prague-based Jewish merchant Ludwig Kraus and his wife, Louise. He married childhood friend Anuschka Fuchsova (daughter of Prague industrialist Arthur Fuchs) in 1922. Anuschka's cousin, Herbert Fuchs of Robettin, was the brother-in-law of author Franz Werfel. Life and career Deutsch grew up in Prague, and attended high school. He was a skilled tennis player, ranking seventh on the Austro-Hungarian tennis list. After high school, Deutsch served in the army. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Passover
Passover, also called Pesach (; ), is a major Jewish holidays, Jewish holiday and one of the Three Pilgrimage Festivals. It celebrates the Exodus of the Israelites from slavery in Biblical Egypt, Egypt. According to the Book of Exodus, God in Judaism, God commanded Moses to tell the Israelites to slaughter a lamb and mark their doorframes with its blood, in addition to instructions for consuming the lamb that night. For that night, God would send the Destroying angel (Bible), Angel of Death to bring about the Plagues of Egypt, tenth plague, in which he would Plagues of Egypt#plague10, smite all the firstborn in Egypt. But when the angel saw the blood on the Israelites' doorframes, he would ''pass over'' their homes so that the plague should not enter (hence the name). The story is part of the broader Exodus narrative, in which the Israelites, while living in Egypt, are enslaved en masse by the Pharaoh to suppress them; when Pharaoh refuses God's demand to let them go, God sends ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Carlos
''Don Carlos'' is an 1867 five-act grand opera composed by Giuseppe Verdi to a French-language libretto by Joseph Méry and Camille du Locle, based on the 1787 play '' Don Karlos, Infant von Spanien'' (''Don Carlos, Infante of Spain'') by Friedrich Schiller and several incidents from Eugène Cormon's 1846 play ''Philippe II, Roi d'Espagne''. The opera is most often performed in Italian translation, usually under the title ''Don Carlo''. The opera's story is based on conflicts in the life of Carlos, Prince of Asturias (1545–1568). Though he was betrothed to Elisabeth of Valois, part of the peace treaty ending the Italian War of 1551–59 between the Houses of Habsburg and Valois demanded that she be married instead to his father Philip II of Spain. It was commissioned and produced by the Théâtre Impérial de l'Opéra (Paris Opera) and given its premiere at the Salle Le Peletier on 11 March 1867. The first performance in Italian was given at Covent Garden in London in Jun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
