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Evelyn Hamann
Eveline Braun, (née Hamann; 6 August 1942 – 28 October 2007) commonly known as Evelyn Hamann, was a German actress best known for her work with popular German comedian Loriot as well as for her appearances in television series such as ''The Black Forest Clinic'' and ''Adelheid und ihre Mörder''. Private life She was born into a family of musicians in Hamburg, Germany. Her father Bernhard Hamann was a violinist, the concertmaster of the Norddeutscher Rundfunk, NDR symphony orchestra, and founder of the ''Hamann Quartet''; her mother was a singer and music teacher, and her brother Gerhard was a professor of cello at the Trossingen School of Music. Evelyn Hamann liked to keep her private life out of the public eye, so little is known about her life off-camera. Between 1964 and 1976 she was married to Hans Walter Braun, whom she met while acting in Hamburg. After her divorce she lived with her partner, actor Stefan Behrens. She died from lymphoma during the night of 28 to 29 O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamburg, Germany
Hamburg (, ; ), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg,. is the List of cities in Germany by population, second-largest city in Germany after Berlin and List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, 7th-largest in the European Union with a population of over 1.9 million. The Hamburg Metropolitan Region has a population of over 5.1 million and is the List of EU metropolitan areas by GDP, eighth-largest metropolitan region by GDP in the European Union. At the southern tip of the Jutland Peninsula, Hamburg stands on the branching River Elbe at the head of a estuary to the North Sea, on the mouth of the Alster and Bille (Elbe), Bille. Hamburg is one of Germany's three city-states alongside Berlin and Bremen (state), Bremen, and is surrounded by Schleswig-Holstein to the north and Lower Saxony to the south. The Port of Hamburg is Germany's largest and Europe's List of busiest ports in Europe, third-largest, after Port of Rotterdam, Rotterda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goethe's Faust
''Faust'' ( , ) is a tragedy, tragic Play (theatre), play in two parts by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, usually known in English as ''Faust, Part One'' and ''Faust, Part Two''. Nearly all of Part One and the majority of Part Two are written in rhymed verse. Although rarely staged in its entirety, it is the play with the largest audience numbers on German-language stages. ''Faust'' is considered by many to be Goethe's ''Masterpiece, magnum opus'' and the greatest work of German literature. The earliest forms of the work, known as the ', were developed between 1772 and 1775; however, the details of that development are not entirely clear. ''Urfaust'' has twenty-two scenes, one in prose, two largely prose and the remaining 1,441 lines in rhymed verse. The manuscript is lost, but a copy was discovered in 1886. The first appearance of the work in print was ''Faust, a Fragment'', published in 1790. Goethe completed a preliminary version of what is now known as ''Part One'' in 1806. Its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Audiobook
An audiobook (or a talking book) is a recording of a book or other work being read out loud. A reading of the complete text is described as "unabridged", while readings of shorter versions are abridgements. Spoken audio has been available in schools and public libraries and to a lesser extent in music shops since the 1930s. Many spoken word albums were made prior to the age of cassettes, compact discs, and downloadable audio, often of poetry and plays rather than books. It was not until the 1980s that the medium began to attract book retailers, and then book retailers started displaying audiobooks on bookshelves rather than in separate displays. Etymology The term "talking book" came into being in the 1930s with government programs designed for blind readers, while the term "audiobook" came into use during the 1970s when audiocassettes began to replace phonograph records. In 1994, the Audio Publishers Association established the term "audiobook" as the industry standard. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ARD (broadcaster)
ARD is a joint organisation of Germany's regional Public broadcasting, public-service broadcasters. It was founded in 1950 in West Germany to represent the common interests of the new, decentralised, post-war broadcasting services—in particular the introduction of a joint television network. ARD has a budget of €6.9 billion, 22,612 employees and is the largest public broadcaster network in the world. The budget comes primarily from a mandatory licence fee which every household, company and public institution, regardless of television ownership, is required by law to pay. For an ordinary household the fee is €18.36 per month, as of 2023. Households living on Welfare in Germany, welfare are exempt from the fee. The fees are not collected directly by ARD, but by the Beitragsservice von ARD, ZDF und Deutschlandradio, Beitragsservice (formerly known as Gebühreneinzugszentrale GEZ), a common organisation by the ARD member broadcasters, the second public TV broadcaster ZDF, and De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Der Landarzt
is a German television series that aired for 22 seasons from 1987 to 2013. During early seasons, the show revolves around country doctor Dr. Karsten Matthiesen who runs a practice in his Northern German hometown of Deekelsen with the help of his mother Olga. In season 5, after Karsten has died in an accident, Dr. Uli Teschner succeeds him, until being replaced by Dr. Jan Bergmann in season 18. Cast * Christian Quadflieg as Dr. Karsten Mattiesen, der Landarzt (1987–1992) *Walter Plathe as Dr. Ulrich Teschner, der Landarzt (1992–2009) *Wayne Carpendale as Dr. Jan Bergmann, der Landarzt (2009–2013) *Gila von Weitershausen as Annemarie Mattiesen (1987–1995) * Antje Weisgerber as Olga Mattiesen (1987–1999) *Heinz Reincke as Eckholm (1987–2010) *Gerhard Olschewski as Hinnerksen (1987–2013) * Gert Haucke as Bruno Hanusch (1987–2004) * Hubertus Bengsch as Dr. Peter Detlefsen (season 2 to 4) See also *List of German television series The following is a list of telev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Krüger
Michael Friedrich Wilhelm Krüger (born 14 December 1951) is a German comedian, singer and actor. Filmography * ''Piratensender Powerplay'' (1981) * '' Die Supernasen'' (1983) * ''Zwei Nasen tanken Super'' (1984) * '' Seitenstechen'' (1985) * ''Die Einsteiger'' (1985) * ''Geld oder Leber!'' (1986) * ''Die Senkrechtstarter'' (1989) *'' Ein Schnupfen hätte auch gereicht'' (2017) References External links * German male comedians German male television actors German male film actors 1951 births Living people Actors from Ulm Comedians from Baden-Württemberg Male actors from Baden-Württemberg {{Germany-comedian-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Gottschalk
Thomas Johannes Gottschalk (born 18 May 1950 in Bamberg) is a German radio and television host and entertainer. He is best known for hosting ''Wetten, dass..?'', for many years Europe's biggest television show, which he steered to huge success in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and South Tyrol between 1987 and 2023. Until 2015, he was also the brand ambassador in television advertisements for Haribo confectionery. Early life Gottschalk was born in Bamberg, Bavaria, the son of a lawyer. After attending the ''Gymnasium (Germany)#Humanistisches Gymnasium .28humanities-oriented.29, Humanistisches Gymnasium'' (humanities-oriented high school) in Kulmbach, he studied history and German studies, German philology, eventually taking his exams as a teacher for primary and secondary schools; however, it was during this time that he discovered his true vocation: entertainment. Career From 1971 on, Gottschalk worked as a freelancer for the youth program of the Bayerischer Rundfunk (Bavarian Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pappa Ante Portas
''Pappa Ante Portas'' is a 1991 German comedy film directed by Loriot, who also played the leading role and wrote the script, and Renate Westphal-Lorenz. This was Loriot's second and final feature film, after 1988's Ödipussi. Synopsis Heinrich Lohse is a manager at pipe manufacturing company "Deutsche Röhren AG" who increasingly tends to lose control. After ordering a 40-year supply of typewriting paper and erasers because of volume discount, his boss forces him to retire. Confronted with this new situation, Lohse's family reacts in shock. It turns out Heinrich's wife Renate and his teenage son Dieter were quite comfortable with the absent husband and father and do not want to see their situation disrupted. Heinrich, however, refuses to allow his career to end and immediately begins to rearrange the Lohse household based on his questionable managerial skills. This leads to an increasingly bizarre series of conflicts with his wife, son, and friends. At the supermarket, Heinri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ödipussi
''Ödipussi'' is a 1988 West Germany, West German comedy film, written and directed by and also starring Vicco von Bülow, Loriot. It was the first of two feature films he directed, the other one being ''Pappa Ante Portas.'' The title is a pun on the Oedipus complex described by Sigmund Freud and the nickname "''Pussi''", the way the main protagonist is called by his mother throughout the film. Rumors that the title might also be a reference to the James Bond film ''Octopussy'' have been denied by Loriot. Synopsis Paul Winkelmann runs the family's furniture and decoration business. Despite his age (he is 56 years old), he is still single and maintains a close relationship with his mother, who cooks for him and cannot understand that he now has his own apartment. When he meets Margarethe Tietze, a practicing psychologist, the two attempt to join their expertise to better serve the potential furniture customers who have psychological troubles. After an afternoon of coffee and pastr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deadpan
Deadpan, dry humour, or dry-wit humour is the deliberate display of emotional neutrality or no emotion, commonly as a form of Comedy, comedic delivery to contrast with the ridiculousness or absurdity of the subject matter. The delivery is meant to be blunt, ironic, Laconic phrase, laconic, or apparently unintentional. Etymology The term ''deadpan'' first emerged early in the 20th century, as a compound word (sometimes spelled as two words) combining "dead" and "pan" (a slang term for the face). It appeared in print as early as 1915, in an article about a former baseball player named Gene Woodburn written by his former manager Roger Bresnahan. Bresnahan described how Woodburn used his skill as a ventriloquist to make his manager and others think they were being heckled from the stands. Woodburn, wrote Bresnahan, "had a trick of what the actors call 'the dead pan.' He never cracked a smile and would be the last man you would suspect was working a trick." George M. Cohan, in a 1908 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Englische Ansage
"" (German for "English Announcement") is a one-person Sketch comedy, comedy sketch written by German humorist Loriot. It shows a continuity announcer who summarizes the plot of an English crime series, but fails because of the hard-to-pronounce names. Alternative titles of the sketch are "Inhaltsangabe" (Synopsis) and "" (The English Synopsis). The sketch was first aired in November 1977 in the fourth episode of the TV series . The announcer was played by Evelyn Hamann. A text version of the sketch first appeared in 1981 and has since been included in several anthologies of Loriot. Plot The sketch shows a woman announcing the eighth episode of the 16-part English TV crime series (''The Two Cousins''). Before the start of the episode, the announcer wants to summarize the plot of the first seven episodes. This plot is highly absurd, contains numerous trivialities and is characterized by English names of people and places that are complicated to articulate for Germans. Examples ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
