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Klaus Emmerich (director)
Klaus Emmerich (born 10 August 1943) is a German film director and screenwriter. His 1979 film ''The First Polka'' was entered into the 29th Berlin International Film Festival. His 1981 film ''Trokadero'' was entered into the 12th Moscow International Film Festival. Selected filmography * ''Florian'' (1973, TV film) * ''Heiratskandidaten'' (1975, TV film) — (based on a play by Gabriele Wohmann) * ''Erziehung durch Dienstmädchen'' (1975, TV film) — (based on a novel by Robert Wolfgang Schnell) * ''Kreutzer'' (1977) * ' (1978, TV film) — (biographical film about Heinrich Heine) * ''The First Polka'' (1979) — (based on a novel by Horst Bienek) * ''Trokadero'' (1981) — (screenplay by Jörg Graser) * ''Rote Erde (TV series), Rote Erde'' (1983, TV miniseries) — (screenplay by Peter Stripp) * ''Tatort: '' (1986, TV series episode) * ''Reporter (TV series), Reporter'' (1989, TV series) * ' (1989, TV miniseries) * Rote Erde (TV series), ''Rote Erde'', second season (1990, TV ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saxony
Saxony, officially the Free State of Saxony, is a landlocked state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, and Bavaria, as well as the countries of Poland and the Czech Republic. Its capital is Dresden, and its largest city is Leipzig. Saxony is the List of German states by area, tenth largest of Germany's sixteen states, with an area of , and the List of German states by population, sixth most populous, with more than 4 million inhabitants. The term Saxony (other), Saxony has been in use for more than a millennium. It was used for the medieval Duchy of Saxony, the Electorate of Saxony of the Holy Roman Empire, the Kingdom of Saxony, and twice for a republic. The first Free State of Saxony was established in 1918 as a constituent state of the Weimar Republic. After World War II, it was under Soviet occupation before it became part of communist East Germany and was abolished by the government in 1952. Following German reunificat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horst Bienek
Horst Bienek (7 May 1930 in Gleiwitz – 7 December 1990 in Munich) was a German novelist and poet. Life Born in Gleiwitz, Upper Silesia, Germany (today Gliwice, Poland), Bienek was forced to leave there in 1945 when Germans were expelled from Silesia. He resettled in the eastern part of Germany. For a time, he was a student of Bertolt Brecht. In 1951, he was arrested by NKVD and sentenced in a show trial to 25 years of labour for "anti-Soviet incitement" and alleged espionage on behalf of the United States, and sent to the Rechlag Gulag labor camp in Vorkuta and later to construction works in Sverdlovsk, Russia. When he was released as the result of an amnesty in 1955, he settled in West Germany. Much of his writing addressed the theme of his uprooting from his Upper Silesian homeland Although he was homosexual, his autobiographical writings never discussed openly his own homosexuality, and his novels only on occasion allude gently to homosexual attraction. Bienek died in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1943 Births
Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 1 – WWII: The Soviet Union announces that 22 German divisions have been encircled at Stalingrad, with 175,000 killed and 137,650 captured. * January 4 – WWII: Greek-Polish athlete and saboteur Jerzy Iwanow-Szajnowicz is executed by the Germans at Kaisariani. * January 10 – WWII: Guadalcanal campaign, Guadalcanal Campaign: American forces of the 2nd Marine Division and the 25th Infantry Division (United States), 25th Infantry Division begin their assaults on the Battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horse, and the Sea Horse#Galloping Horse, Galloping Horse and Sea Horse on Guadalcanal. Meanwhile, the Japanese Seventeenth Army (Japan), 17th Army makes plans to abandon the island and after fierce resistance withdraws to the west coast of Guadalcanal. * January 11 ** The United States and United Kingdom revise previously unequal treaty relationships with the Republic of China (1912–194 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernd Schroeder
Bernd Schroeder (6 June 1944 – 18 June 2023) was a German writer who authored books, television plays, film scripts, and audio plays. He also directed audio plays. He co-authored the bestseller novel '' Alte Liebe'' with Elke Heidenreich, and received several awards including the Grimme-Preis. Life and career Schroeder was born in Aussig, Reichsgau Sudetenland, when his parents fled during World War II. He grew up in Fürholzen near Neufahrn, Upper Bavaria. He attended the and finished with the Abitur.Camerloher-Gymnasium Freising He studied theatre science, German studies and ethnology at the University of Munich from 1966. Schroeder first worked, already during his studies, as assistant director for the broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR). He wrote film scripts from 1968, including for Wolfgang Petersen. He directed audio plays, both his own and of others. In 1986, he was awarded the Grimme-Preis for ', together with Hans-Werner Schmidt. In 1992, he received the Ger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reporter (TV Series)
''Reporter'' is a German television series. See also *List of German television series External links * Television series about journalism 1989 German television series debuts 1989 German television series endings German-language television shows Das Erste original programming Grimme-Preis for fiction winners {{Germany-tv-prog-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tatort
("Crime Scene") is a German-language police procedural television series that has been running continuously since 1970 with 30 feature-length episodes per year, making it the longest-running German TV drama. Developed by the German public-service broadcasting organization ARD for their channel Das Erste, it is unique in its approach in that it is jointly produced by all of the organization's regional members as well as its partnering Austrian and Swiss national public-service broadcasters, whereby every regional station contributes several episodes to a common pool. As a result of this, Tatort is a collection of different police stories where different police teams solve crimes in their own cities, with uniqueness in architecture, customs, and dialects of the cities being a distinctive part of the series. Often, the city, not the police force, is the real main character of an episode. The fact that local stations each produce a small number of episodes per year has enabled ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Stripp
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Rote Erde (TV Series)
''Rote Erde'' (German for "Red Earth") is a West German television series consisting of 13 episodes (total playing time about 15 hours), the 1983 (first season: Red Earth, 9 parts) and 1989 (second season: Red Earth II, 4 parts), all directed by Klaus Emmerich. The camera was led by Joseph Vilsmaier and Theo Bierkens. The title music was composed by Irmin Schmidt. The German premiere was on (ARD) channel at 23 October 1983. The last episode was screened on 4 March 1990. The subject of the series is the story of a fictional family of miners in the Ruhr area over a period of about 70 years between the end of the 19th and the mid 20th century, against the background of the history of the German Empire from the Empire to the Weimar Republic to the end of the Nazi dictatorship . The shooting took place in the studios and on the grounds of the Bavaria-Film am Geiselgasteig near Munich. The elaborately designed exterior backdrops stood until 1996. In 1984, Peter Stripp (writer),Alf Ludt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jörg Graser
Jörg Graser (born 30 December 1951) is a German film director and screenwriter. His film ''Abraham's Gold'' was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival. Filmography * '' Trokadero'' (dir. Klaus Emmerich, 1981) * ' (1981) * '' Magdalena'' (1983, TV film) — (based on a play by Ludwig Thoma) * ''Via Mala'' (dir. Tom Toelle, 1985, TV miniseries) — (based on ''Via Mala'' by John Knittel) * '' Storms in May'' (dir. Xaver Schwarzenberger, 1987, TV film) — (based on '' Storms in May'' by Ludwig Ganghofer) * ''Abraham's Gold ''Abraham's Gold'' () is a 1990 German drama film directed by Jörg Graser. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival. Cast * Hanna Schygulla – Barbara "Bärbel" Hunzinger * – Karl Lechner * Daniela ...'' (1990) * '' Ich schenk dir die Sterne'' (1991) * '' Drei Sekunden Ewigkeit'' (1995, TV film) References External links * 1951 births Living people Film people fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heinrich Heine
Christian Johann Heinrich Heine (; ; born Harry Heine; 13 December 1797 – 17 February 1856) was an outstanding poet, writer, and literary criticism, literary critic of 19th-century German Romanticism. He is best known outside Germany for his early lyric poetry, which was set to music in the form of ''Lieder'' (art songs) by composers such as Robert Schumann and Franz Schubert. Heine's later verse and prose are distinguished by their satirical wit and irony. He is considered a member of the Young Germany movement. His radical political views led to many of his works being Censorship in Germany, banned by German authorities—which, however, only added to his fame. He spent the last 25 years of his life as an expatriate in Paris. Heine's early works, such as ''Letters from Berlin'' (1826) and ''Germany. A Winter's Tale'' (1828), gained widespread attention for their poetic expression, profound exploration of love, and satirical commentary on social phenomena. As a member of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Director
A film director or filmmaker is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfillment of that Goal, vision. The director has a key role in choosing the Casting (performing arts), cast members, production design and all the creative aspects of filmmaking in cooperation with the Film producer, producer. The film director gives direction to the cast and crew and creates an overall vision through which a film eventually becomes realized or noticed. Directors need to be able to mediate differences in creative visions and stay within the budget. There are many pathways to becoming a film director. Some film directors started as screenwriters, cinematographers, Film producer, producers, Film editing, film editors or actors. Other film directors have attended film school. Directors use different approaches. Some Outline (list), outline a general plotline and let the actors impro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Wolfgang Schnell
Robert Wolfgang Schnell (March 8, 1916 – August 1, 1986) was a German writer. Life Robert Wolfgang Schnell was born in Barmen, Germany, into a middle-class family; his father was a bank clerk. He studied music and taught himself painting. The Nazis refused him admission as a painter in the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts. During Nazi rule, he worked as a laborer, then as a laboratory technician and was conscripted into the tax office in the city of Mülheim an der Ruhr. Activities as a stage manager at the theater in Schneidemühl and as an opera director in The Hague followed. A four-month period as a soldier ended in January 1945 by his desertion. After the end of World War II Schnell was working as a part-time actor. He founded and directed the "Ruhrkammerspiele", a theater group, and was director at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin. In the following years, he worked in various activities, among other things he was a member of the satirical magazine " Ulenspiegel". In 1959 h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
