Herbert Wilk
Herbert Wilk (1905–1977) was a German stage, television and film actor. He emerged as a screen actor during the Nazi era, appearing in war films such as '' U-Boote westwärts'' (1941).Kreimeier p.312 However the bulk of his career came after the Second World War. After initially appearing in films made by the East German studio DEFA, he largely worked in West German television for the remainder of his career. Selected filmography * '' The Desert Song'' (1939) * '' Commissioner Eyck'' (1940) * '' The Rothschilds'' (1940) * '' U-Boote westwärts'' (1941) * '' Stukas'' (1941) * '' Free Land'' (1946) * ''The Beaver Coat'' (1949) * '' The Girl from the South Seas'' (1950) * '' Woe to Him Who Loves'' (1951) * '' Canaris'' (1954) * '' The Mosquito'' (1954) * ''Stresemann'' (1957) * '' The Unexcused Hour'' (1957) * ''The Black Chapel ''The Black Chapel'' (German: ''Geheimaktion schwarze Kapelle'') is a 1959 political fiction, political thriller film directed by Ralph Habib and starring ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Gnoien
Gnoien is a small town in the Rostock (district), Rostock district, in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany. It is situated 40 km southeast of Rostock. Famous people * Bernd Olbricht (born 1956), canoeist. * Friedrich Heyser (1857 - 1921), German portrait, landscape, and history painter. References Cities and towns in Mecklenburg Populated places established in the 13th century 1290s establishments in the Holy Roman Empire 1290 establishments in Europe {{LandkreisRostock-geo-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Free Land (film)
''Free Land'' () is a 1946 German drama film directed by Milo Harbich and starring Ursula Voß, Fritz Wagner and Herbert Wilk. The film was a work of propaganda made by DEFA in the Soviet occupation zone which later became East Germany. It uses a neorealist style to portray the effects of land reforms brought in by the Soviet authorities. It proved to be very unsuccessful on its release.Noack p. 256 Cast * Ursula Voß as Frau Jeruscheit * Fritz Wagner as Neubauer Jeruscheit * Herbert Wilk as Bürgermeister Siebold * Hans Sternberg as Altbauer Strunk * Aribert Grimmer as Altbauer Melzig * Peter Marx as Altbauer Schulzke * Oskar Höcker as Neubauer Kubinski * Elfie Dugal as Küchenmädchen * Kurt Mikulski as Siedler * Karl Platen Karl Platen (6 March 1877 – 4 July 1952) was a German actor and cinematographer of the Silent film, silent era and later the sound era and known for ''Girl in the Moon (film), Girl in the Moon'' (1929) and ''M (1931 film), M'' (1931). Biogr . ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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People From The Grand Duchy Of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
The term "the people" refers to the public or Common people, common mass of people of a polity. As such it is a concept of human rights law, international law as well as constitutional law, particularly used for claims of popular sovereignty. In contrast, a people is any plurality of Person, persons considered as a whole. Used in politics and law, the term "a people" refers to the collective or community of an ethnic group or nation. Concepts Legal Chapter One, Article One of the Charter of the United Nations states that "peoples" have the right to self-determination. Though the mere status as peoples and the right to self-determination, as for example in the case of Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous peoples (''peoples'', as in all groups of indigenous people, not merely all indigenous persons as in ''indigenous people''), does not automatically provide for independence, independent sovereignty and therefore secession. Indeed, judge Ivor Jennings i ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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People From Rostock (district)
The term "the people" refers to the public or common mass of people of a polity. As such it is a concept of human rights law, international law as well as constitutional law, particularly used for claims of popular sovereignty. In contrast, a people is any plurality of persons considered as a whole. Used in politics and law, the term "a people" refers to the collective or community of an ethnic group or nation. Concepts Legal Chapter One, Article One of the Charter of the United Nations states that "peoples" have the right to self-determination. Though the mere status as peoples and the right to self-determination, as for example in the case of Indigenous peoples (''peoples'', as in all groups of indigenous people, not merely all indigenous persons as in ''indigenous people''), does not automatically provide for independent sovereignty and therefore secession. Indeed, judge Ivor Jennings identified the inherent problems in the right of "peoples" to self-determination, as i ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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1977 Deaths
Events January * January 8 – Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenia Armenia, officially the Republic of Armenia, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of West Asia. It is a part of the Caucasus region and is bordered by Turkey to the west, Georgia (country), Georgia to the north and Azerbaijan to ...n separatist group. * January 10 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in eastern Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo). * January 17 – 49 marines from the and are killed as a result of a collision in Barcelona harbour, Spain. * January 18 ** Scientists identify a previously unknown Bacteria, bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires' disease. ** Australia's worst Granville rail disaster, railway disaster at Granville, a suburb of Sydney, leaves 83 people dead. ** SFR Yugoslavia Prime minister Džemal Bijedić, his wife and 6 others are killed in a plane crash in Bosnia and ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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1905 Births
As the second year of the massive Russo-Japanese War begins, more than 100,000 die in the largest world battles of that era, and the war chaos leads to the 1905 Russian Revolution against Nicholas II of Russia (Dmitri Shostakovich, Shostakovich's Symphony No. 11 (Shostakovich), 11th Symphony is subtitled ''The Year 1905'' to commemorate this) and the start of Revolution in the Kingdom of Poland (1905–07), Revolution in the Kingdom of Poland. Canada and the U.S. expand west, with the Alberta and Saskatchewan provinces and the founding of Las Vegas. 1905 is also the year in which Albert Einstein, at this time resident in Bern, publishes his four Annus Mirabilis papers, ''Annus Mirabilis'' papers in ''Annalen der Physik'' (Leipzig) (March 18, May 11, June 30 and September 27), laying the foundations for more than a century's study of theoretical physics. Events January * January 1 – In a major defeat in the Russo-Japanese War, Russian General Anatoly Stessel su ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Blind Justice (1961 Film)
''Blind Justice'' or ''Excluded to the Public'' (German: ''Unter Ausschluß der Öffentlichkeit'') is a 1961 West German crime drama film directed by Harald Philipp and starring Peter van Eyck, Marianne Koch and Eva Bartok.Bock & Bergfelder p.34 It was shot at the Spandau Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Otto Erdmann and Hans Jürgen Kiebach. Synopsis While prosecuting a wealthy businessmen accused of murdering his wife so he could marry his younger girlfriend, the state prosecutor is forced to examine the evidence more closely after claims the accused is innocent and his wife committed suicide. Cast * Peter van Eyck as Staatsanwalt Dr. Robert Kessler * Marianne Koch as Ingrid Hansen * Eva Bartok as Laura Beaumont * Claus Holm as Dr. Werner Rüttgen * Wolfgang Reichmann as Alexander Lamas * Werner Peters as François Lacroix * Susanne Cramer as Helga Dahms * Alfred Balthoff as Generalstaatsanwalt Wilhelm Hansen * Leon Askin as Strafverte ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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The Black Chapel
''The Black Chapel'' (German: ''Geheimaktion schwarze Kapelle'') is a 1959 political fiction, political thriller film directed by Ralph Habib and starring Dawn Addams, Peter van Eyck and Ernst Schröder (actor), Ernst Schröder. It is based on the novel ''Die schwarze Kapelle'' by Olav Herfeldt. It is a co-production between West Germany, Italy (where the film is known as ''I sicari di Hitler'') and France (where it was released with the title ''R.P.Z. appelle Berlin''). It was shot at the Spandau Studios in Berlin with location shooting in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Otto Erdmann (art director), Otto Erdmann and Beni Montresor. Plot Europe, in the spring of 1940. After the lightning victory over Poland, Hitler's Wehrmacht drew up plans of attack for the overthrow of Western and Northern Europe. Several high-ranking officers fear that Hitler's excessive policy of conquest will ultimately plunge Germany into the abyss and therefore intend to contact ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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The Unexcused Hour (1957 Film)
''The Unexcused Hour'' (German: ''Die unentschuldigte Stunde'') is a 1957 Austrian-West German comedy film directed by Willi Forst and starring Adrian Hoven, Erika Remberg and Hans Moser. It is a remake of the 1937 film of the same title. Von Dassanowsky p.181 It was shot at the Sievering Studios in Vienna. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Karl-Hermann Joksch, Isabella Schlichting and Werner Schlichting. Cast * Adrian Hoven as Dr. Hans Weiringk * Erika Remberg as Biggi Jäger * Hans Moser as Schuldiener Aichinger * Rudolf Forster as Prof. Dr. Weiringk * Chariklia Baxevanos as Elfriede Dolleschal * Josef Meinrad as Fabian * Alma Seidler as Resi * Erik Frey as Prof. Adamek * Elisabeth Epp as Frau Prof. Altringer * Ursula Herking as Frau Moritz * Elisabeth Markus as Schuldirektorin * Senta Berger as Charge als Gymnasialschülerin * Lotte Brackebusch as Frau Direktor Kandler * Peter Frank as Richard, Cousin von Hans * Uwe Friedrichsen as Hans Oblat ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Stresemann (film)
''Stresemann'' is a 1957 West German drama film directed by Alfred Braun and starring Ernst Schroder, Leonard Steckel and Anouk Aimée.Hake p. 191 It portrays the career of the German Minister for Foreign Affairs Gustav Stresemann in the 1920s. The film's art direction was by Otto Erdmann and Wilhelm Vorwerg. Cast * Ernst Schröder as Dr. Gustav Stresemann * Leonard Steckel as Aristide Briand * Anouk Aimée as Annette Stein * Wolfgang Preiss as Heinz Becker * Susanne von Almassy as Käte Stresemann * Jürgen Wölffer as Wolfgang Stresemann * Wolf Harnisch as Bernhard, Stresemann's secretary * Siegfried Schürenberg as Lord d'Abernon * Paul Dahlke as President Friedrich Ebert * Wolfgang Kühne as Haguenin * Paul Wagner as Winkelmann * Ernst Stahl-Nachbaur as Stresemann's Doctor * Erwin Kalser as Raymond Poincaré * O.A. Buck as Hesnard * Fritz Eberth * Hans Emons * Gerhard Haselbach as Löbe * Rolf Kestin * Tilly Lauenstein * Stanislav Ledinek as Monsieur Leger * Art ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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The Mosquito (film)
''The Mosquito'' () is a 1954 West German drama film directed by Walter Reisch and starring Hilde Krahl, Margot Hielscher and Gustav Knuth.Reimer & Reimer p.177 It was entered into the 1955 Cannes Film Festival. It was shot at the Tempelhof Studios in West Berlin and the Wansbek Studios in Haburg. The film's sets were designed by the art director Rolf Zehetbauer. Plot Cast * Hilde Krahl as Vilma * Margot Hielscher as Jeanette * Gustav Knuth as Karrari * Bernhard Wicki as Hugo * Walter Janssen as Lotsch * Herbert Wilk as Sekretär * Blandine Ebinger as Frau von Felde * Isolde Hinz as Mimi * Ingeborg Christiansen as Ertha * Carl Voscherau as Fremdenführer * Axel Monjé * Charlotte Ander Charlotte Ander (born Charlotte Andersch, 14 August 1902 – 5 August 1969) was a German actress. She was born in Berlin, the daughter of German stage/film couple and . Ander was trained at the Berliner Staatstheater. Ander was a star in the ... References Bibliography * Reimer ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Canaris (film)
''Canaris'' is a 1954 Cinema of Germany, West German drama film directed by Alfred Weidenmann and starring O. E. Hasse, Barbara Rütting and Adrian Hoven. It portrays real events during the Second World War when Wilhelm Canaris, the head of Abwehr, German military intelligence, was arrested and executed for his involvement with the 20 July Plot to overthrow Adolf Hitler. The film was a major success at the German box office, possibly because it allowed audiences to identify with a heroic German figure disassociated from Nazism. Released in the UK as ''Canaris Master Spy'', and in the US as ''Deadly Decision''—it is also known by the alternative title ''Canaris: Master Spy''. It was shot at the Tempelhof Studios in Berlin. Main cast Music The soundtrack features music from ''Lohengrin (opera), Lohengrin'', composed by Richard Wagner. Release ''Canaris'' opened in Hanover on 30 December 1954. The distributor played down any political significance to the film, and marketed it ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |